The Liberte Foundation, known for attacking the Church and promoting propaganda directed against PiS, will receive a total of nearly PLN 480,000 from the Ministry of Culture by 2028, according to the portal Niezależna.pl. The funds will be granted under the “Magazines 2026” program.
At the end of January, the Ministry of Culture published the results of the call for applications to the “Magazines 2026” program. The published list shows that Liberte will receive PLN 159,840 per year in 2026, 2027, and 2028.
“Responsibility for the quality of the debate”
Information about the program can be found on the Ministry’s website.
“Remembering that an actively operating magazine plays a culture-forming role, we would like the subsidized projects to be distinguished by responsibility for the quality of the debate conducted through them. The program makes it possible to strengthen the voice of communities whose aesthetic or social perspective a given magazine recognizes or represents, while at the same time creating conditions for social dialogue and counteracting the ghettoization and instrumentalization of culture. We also want the subsidized magazines to care about the working environment, ensuring equality between women and men, and respecting the sensitivity and needs of disadvantaged groups.”
The Liberte Foundation publishes a monthly magazine of the same name.
Attacks on PiS and public money
It is worth recalling that the head of the organization is Leszek Jażdżewski, who became widely known in 2019 after a meeting with Donald Tusk at the University of Warsaw. While introducing the guest, Jażdżewski delivered a tirade directed against the Church and Catholics.
For years, Liberte has organized the Freedom Games, which repeatedly become a venue for crude attacks on the Catholic Church and political opponents.
Last year, TV Republika revealed that Liberte may have been involved in the illegal financing of Rafał Trzaskowski’s campaign and, within a single day, spent almost ten times more on advertising than the campaign staff of the Civic Platform candidate. The organization spent PLN 200,000 on political advertisements on the internet.
It is also worth recalling that in 2019, “Gazeta Polska” revealed that the Liberte Foundation rents premises from the Łódź city hall on preferential terms in a very attractive location. The premises house Club 6th District, which is supposed to function as a cultural institution. In practice, it operates as an entertainment venue hosting all-night parties, as well as various political events. These include discussions on feminism and the Church, and in recent years, also meetings about helping illegal migrants at the Polish-Belarusian border.