Krzysztof ?ab?d?, is a leader of the Free Trade Union "Sierpie? 80” in the mine "KWK Budryk". His sacking in 2005, when we was Chairperson of the union’s Factory Commission, provoked an international outcry.
The first round of the local elections took place against a backdrop of widespread creeping fascism in France and comes after a brutal offensive by the far right, during which the traditional ‘Republican’ right has decisively broken from much of its historical framework and values.