An abortion demonstration in Poland's second city, Krakow, in October. In fact, students are also protesting in their hometowns due to the Covid-19 lockdown (Photo: Wikimedia)

Nationwide protests reveal awakening of Poland's youth

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by Marta Prochwicz-Jazowska, Warsaw,

What we have been seeing in Poland for the past month has been described in domestic media as a "generational rebellion which sociologists have not yet had the time to analyse".

A strike began on October 22nd, 2020 against a ruling on the near-total ban on abortion by the politicised Constitutional Tribunal.

Ever since, people as young as 14 have been out in the st...

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Marta Prochwicz-Jazowska is programme coordinator in Warsaw of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

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An abortion demonstration in Poland's second city, Krakow, in October. In fact, students are also protesting in their hometowns due to the Covid-19 lockdown (Photo: Wikimedia)