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20 May 2009
Workers strike at South Hook construction site in Wales
Over 200 workers have gone on strike at the South Hook LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) terminal construction site near Milford Haven in South Wales...
2 September 2008
Poland: Biggest workers' demo since the 1990s
WARSAW CAME to a standstill for many hours as over 50,000 workers demonstrated in torrential rain last Friday (29 August), writes Paul Newbery, GPR (CWI, Poland).
2 July 2008
Poland: Thousands join 'hands off the Labour Code' demo
TWO THOUSAND trade unionists took to the streets of Warsaw, on 20 June, to protest against the government's proposed changes to the Labour Code. Paul Newbery and Florian Nowicki, GPR (CWI, Poland) write from Poland...
13 February 2008
Polish miners gain strike victory due to iron determination
AFTER 46 days on strike the miners of Budryk have won a victory. They have won a 10% wage rise and an equalisation payment for last year. By Florian Nowicki and Wojciech Orowieck, Group for a Workers' Party (GPR - CWI Poland)
6 February 2008
Inspiring victory for Polish workers
FIVE HUNDRED miners who had been occupying the Budryk mine in Poland have reached an agreement with management after spending 46 days 1,000 metres underground (see The Socialist, Issue 516)....
17 January 2008
Biggest miners' underground occupation in Polish history
Solidarity action needed: FIVE HUNDRED coal miners are taking part in an occupation strike 1,000 metres underground in the Polish mine Budryk... By Paul Newberry, GPR (CWI, Poland)
1 November 2007
Poland: Right-wing populist government defeated
'Terrible twins' suffer election defeat: POLAND'S RIGHT-wing populist government headed by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, twin brother of the Polish President, has been ousted following last Sunday's snap parliamentary elections... By Paul Newbery, CWI Poland
1 November 2007
Countering the race to the bottom
Comment: Having been born (1958) and brought up in one of the most cosmopolitan areas of Britain, Crumpsall/Cheetham in Manchester, I have known from an early age never to judge a person by the colour of their skin, religion, spelling... By Colin Trousdale
17 October 2007
Workers' struggle and political instability sends Polish government into meltdown
THE POLISH government has imploded. The ruling Law and Justice Party has decided to end the long drawn out demise of its coalition. Elections are scheduled... By Karl Debbaut, Committee for a Workers' International (CWI)
9 August 2007
Exchanging socialist ideas worldwide
THE COMMITTEE for a Workers' International (CWI) held its annual summer school in Belgium. The socialist gives here some excerpts of the reports given by its sister European sections.
31 May 2007
Socialist Party LGBT meeting: This year sees the fortieth anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of gay sex between men in England and Wales...
22 February 2007
CWI world congress: How will new workers' parties be built?
CWI world congress report (3): ROGER BANNISTER Socialist Party visitor and national secretary of the Campaign for a New Workers' Party reports....
7 February 2007
Rising anger and discontent in Europe
CWI World Congress report: IN THIS second report in the socialist from the recent ninth world congress of the Committee for a Workers' International, Paula Mitchell summarises some of the themes raised in the discussion on Europe....
17 November 2005
Interview with Polish worker in Britain: IN MAY 2004 ten countries joined the European Union - including Poland, Latvia and the Czech Republic...
25 August 2005
Poland 1980: The rise and fall of Solidarnosc
ON 31 August this year, anti-working class capitalist leaders from across Europe were celebrating the recognition 25 years ago of the mass trade union movement called Solidarnosc (Solidarity)...
14 April 2005
Pope John Paul II died on Saturday 2 April - the first ever Polish pope and first non-Italian since 1523...
18 October 2003
Poland: An Explosion Of Class Struggle
IN RECENT months Poland has been swept by a wave of strikes and protests. The most spectacular is the struggle of the Silesian miners. They are protesting against plans by the Social Democratic (SLD) government...
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