Poland
Poland: Tusk government begins second term
By Christoph Dreier, October 12, 2011
The ability of the ruling Civic Platform to remain in office—the first Polish government to be re-elected since 1989—has less to do with its own strength, but rather in the complete lack of alternatives and the bankruptcy of the political establishment.
Poland: Outcome uncertain in Sunday’s election
By Christoph Dreier, October 8, 2011
After weeks in which the ruling Civic Platform (PO) led in opinion polls, the outcome of Poland’s parliamentary election on Sunday now seems uncertain.
Polish presidential election: Komorowski’s victory augurs massive social attacks in Poland
By Marius Heuser, July 6, 2010
Bronislaw Komorowski, the candidate of the governing conservative Civic Platform (PO) party was able to win 52.6 percent of the vote in the second round of the Polish presidential election held on Sunday.
Following death of Kaczynski, great powers vie for influence in Poland
By Stefan Steinberg, April 19, 2010
There is an element of the grotesque in both the domestic and international efforts to sanctify the figure of deceased Polish President Lech Kaczynski.
Polish president Lech Kaczynski (1949–2010)—from Solidarity advisor to right-wing politician
By Marius Hauser, April 13, 2010
Poland’s late president Lech Kaczynski, who died Saturday in a plane crash, was a loyal representative of the country’s ruling elite and sought to establish authoritarian forms of rule based on reactionary Polish chauvinism.
Polish President Lech Kaczynski dies in plane crash
By Alex Lantier, April 12, 2010
Polish President Lech Kaczynski and dozens of other government officials died Saturday in a plane crash near Smolensk in western Russia, where they were traveling to a joint commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the World War II Katyn massacre.
Poland: Government escalates privatisation drive
By Peter Kloze, September 18, 2009
Confronted by a ballooning budget deficit, the Polish government has decided to intensify its drive to privatise key sectors of state-owned industry.
Poland: Last shipyards in Gdansk threatened with closure
By Marius Heuser, May 29, 2009
Ceremonies currently taking place marking the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Stalinist regime in Poland have been overshadowed by shipyard workers protests in Gdansk.
Olivier Besancenot in Poland
By Ulrich Rippert, May 23, 2009
Olivier Besancenot’s participation in the European election congress of the Polish Party of Labour (PPP) last weekend makes clear the real aims of his newly founded Anti-Capitalist Party (Parti Anticapitaliste).
Besancenot in Poland
Polish PPP congress marks lurch to the right by the new European left
By Marius Heuser and Tadeusz Sikorski, May 22, 2009
In a speech given in Katowice, Poland, the head of the NPA (New Anti-capitalist Party) justified his alliance with a group that has no connection with socialism and which includes openly right-wing forces.
Poland: 21 die in homeless shelter fire
By Stefan Steinberg, April 17, 2009
A fire at a homeless shelter in Poland last Sunday night killed 21 people and left many other residents badly injured. The three-storey building in Kamien Pomorski, housing 77 homeless people, including women and children, was turned into a charred skeleton.
Polish economy tumbles as global investors take flight
By Marius Heuser, March 4, 2009
Twenty years after the restoration of capitalism, the Polish economy is facing economic collapse as foreign capital flows out of the country.
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