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The crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border is still going on at best, and there is nothing to indicate that it will end soon. Only from 16 to 22 October, almost 1000 people asked for support – their pleas were sent to activists from Border Group, a grassroots initiative which aims…

I reached Hajnówka at dusk. A column of police cars passes by. One, two, three, four vans, and after a while – a huge military truck with a tarpaulin. The vans flash blue in silence.

The humanitarian crisis on Polish border continues: last weekend the Border Group, a collective of a dozen of human rights organizatiosn, reported about a dozen more people who were found in the forests near Hajnówka. Activists and medics helped them on the spot. Some people were taken to guard posts,…

„The manager hated people. I remember how one boy was fired for going to the checkroom”, „She made fun of obesity, thus leading to the dismissal of an employee” – say former employees of Intermarché in Olsztyn. Since July 14 their voice has finally been heard. Thanks to a local…

The Polish government, led by Mateusz Morawiecki, is heading for a head-on collision with the European Union, alerts Krzysztof Śmiszek, Left MP. The MP points out that the authorities, instead of trying to ease tense relations, are consciously moving to escalate tensions. Let us remind – Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki…

Press conference held on 27th of September run by the Minister of Interior and Administration was shocking. The minister of the government of a European Union member state conducted his speech in a spirit that Alfred Rosenberg would not have been ashamed of. Kaminski had the task of convincing people…

– I believe in socialism. I am convinced that everyone has the right to be happy – this is how Elke Kahr explains her political credo. She has been active in the Communist Party of Austria for nearly thirty years. On September 26, she and her comrades from Graz, the…

On September 11, the streets of Warsaw were filled with health care workers and the patients who support them. According to estimates, between 40 and 50 thousand people attended the protest. On the same day in front of the Prime Minister’s Office appeared White Town 2.0., recalling similar protest organized…

For a more than fortnight, a group of over 30 people has been camping on the Polish-Belarusian border. The situation of the immigrants – who come from Middle Eastern countries – is made more difficult by the fact that they are surrounded from both sides. On the one side by…

Despite pressure from the most powerful countries in the West, President Andrzej Duda has decided to sign an amendment to the Administrative Procedure Code. This ends the subject of wild reprivatisation. He starts a diplomatic war with the US and Israel. „With the signing of the Kpa, the era of…

Some time ago the Polish tenants’ movement, concentrated mainly in the Polish capital, Warsaw, managed, after years of hard political struggle, to pass a bill prohibiting the seizure of properties, mainly older tenements, together with their tenants. On 11th of August, however, another bill was to be voted on, which,…

Polish politicians will earn more: President Duda signed a special regulation regulating the salaries of deputy ministers from the rank of undersecretary of state. This act regulates the salaries of MEPS as well. In short, PiS and oppositional politicians who support this move used a trick not to pass an…

We are excited to launch a new international media initiative – Cross-Border Talks podcast which will be co-hosted by Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat, Strajk’s deputy editor and author of numerous texts on Eastern European politics, and Vladimir Mitev, member of the editorial team of The Barricade and blogger specializing in international affairs.…

For some time now, the former Prime Minister of Poland and later President of the European Council – Donald Tusk – has been signalling his desire to return to Polish politics. This is due to several factors. The first is that the Polish neoliberal right is still losing out to…

Being an independent left-wing portal, we continued our struggle to break through to the mainstream media with information about the left in Poland and the world. We noted with joy that the actions of extreme nationalists in Poland do not go unpunished. For many years, nationalists have gathered annually in…

Last week in Poland was marked by another series of confrontations between the opposition and the ruling coalition for their place on the political scene. The problem for the left is that right-wing parties are the dominant force in this conflict, and that the left voice is . This week,…

The past week has been marked in Poland by the struggle to elect an Ombudsman. The term of the incumbent, Dr Adam Bodnar, expired in October 2020. The Ombudsman, who has denounced the reprehensible, anti-democratic practices of Jarosław Kaczyński’s right-wing Law and Justice government, has been a thorn in the…

Even in Polish politics we can observe a spring revival. The recent Easter holiday in Poland became, as it were traditionally, a political event and not, as elsewhere in the world, primarily a religious one. Polish Easter coincided with the third peak of the pandemic, which in Poland was characterized…

Poles, which are, sadly, one of the most xenophobic nations, were surveyed about their attitudes toward other nations. The results were not surprising: it was no news that Arabs and Roma turned out to be most disliked groups. Just as no one was surprised that Poles are idolatrously obsessed with…

How is it that in today’s Poland when people are protesting in defense of women’s rights, in opposition to turning the country into a right-wing Catholic colony the Polish police usually act violently, citing the epidemic threat? And when football fans, who have many ties to right-wing nationalist organizations that…