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    'More girls, fewer skinheads': Poland's far right wrestles with changing image

    March for Independence may signal not a surge in support for far right but the seeping of its ideas into the mainstream
    by Christian Davies in Warsaw Nov 18, 2017 3 minutes
    People gather in Warsaw for the Independence Day march. The event attracted hardliners but also thousands of people with little to no affiliation to far-right groups. Photograph: Jacek Turczyk/EPA

    The presence of Islamophobic, homophobic, antisemitic and white supremacist chants and banners at last weekend’s March of Independence in Warsaw raised fears about the rise of the far right in Poland.

    But interviews with nationalist and far-right leaders and their opponents reveal a more nuanced picture of a relatively marginal movement wrestling with its public image while hoping to seize the opportunities afforded to it by the success of the ruling rightwing Law and Justice party (PiS) and popular opposition to immigration from Muslim-majority countries.

    Far-right insiders described

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