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Poland Articles

Defeating the hate: migrants’ strike and #polishblood

We read in the media that on 20 August thousands of Polish workers in the United Kingdom will walk out of work to strike against the anti-migrant rhetoric that has been on the rise in the last few years. As I am a Polish migrant and chair of Labour Friends of Poland,...
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Fall of the Berlin Wall: would Poland suffer, again?

On 9 November 1989 as senior international officer of the Labour party I was in Warsaw as a member of a delegation of about 10 members of the Socialist International Disarmament Advisory Committee led by Kalevi Sorsa, the former foreign minister and later prime...
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Letter from … Wrocław

After the fall of communism, central and eastern European states faced the challenge of building pluralist party systems, requiring authoritarian communist parties to adapt. Most underwent a reorientation towards social democracy and in time became the strongest...
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Getting the Labour message to Poles in the UK

With over half a million Poles living in the United Kingdom according to the 2011 census, and with a heritage in the country of the more than 200,000 Poles who moved here following the second world war, the Polish community is one that Labour can and must engage with....
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