Poland
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 Anti...
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 fo...
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, includi...
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.
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
November 7, 2008
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Eastern European economies face bankruptcy
By Niall Green, October 23, 2008
The economies of central and eastern Europe are being rocked by the crisis of world capitalism, compounded by the corrupt and pro-big business policies of their local elites.
Social crisis in Poland at the breaking point
By Brigitte Fehlau, October 13, 1999
Widespread protests have sprung up as a result of drastic cuts in social services, by means of which the Polish government seeks to meet the conditions for joining the European Union. Farmers, miners,...
