International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Valeo Poland - a first success

NPA Auto Critique — 2026-01-10T13:10:00Z

Valeo workers in Poland have secured pay rises and commitments on working conditions. This initial success demonstrates the effectiveness of collective action and international solidarity.

- IVP612 - January 2026 / France, Poland, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Support the struggle of the Valeo workers in Poland

Collective — 2025-12-07T13:08:35Z

“At a time of rising nationalism with a nauseating undertone, both in France and in Poland, there is no better antidote than this concrete solidarity across borders against the same boss.”

- IVP611 - December 2025 / France, Poland, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Polski Strajk: first strike amongst temporary workers, mainly Polish migrant workers, in AH and Jumbo distribution centres

John Cozijn — 2025-08-02T09:05:00Z

“Precarious and migrant workers constitute an important part of the working class, often difficult to organise. The success of this strike can give a boost to this work. It is therefore essential to organise solidarity to support and strengthen the strike.”

- IVP607 - August 2025 / Netherlands, Poland, Migration, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Evaporating Solidarity: The Response to Displacement Cannot Be Sustained by Empathy Alone

Daria Krivonos — 2024-04-28T09:04:39Z

“What is needed is not only access to international protection for all (including non-European) asylum-seekers but also functioning public institutions that can provide access to decent living conditions, accommodation, healthcare and work. ”

- IV591 - April 2024 / Poland, Ukraine, Solidarity after disasters , Migration

The Women's Strike Continues

Magda Malinowska — 2024-03-30T18:21:10Z

The union has a female face, and this idea is perfectly captured in the documentary by Magda Maria Malinowska, a Polish filmmaker, activist, and member of The Workers' Initiative (Inicjatywa Pracownicza) trade union. Her film The Women's Strike Continues, presented at this year's Filma Festival, weaves together two lines of history: the struggle of female care workers in Poznan and the Black protests against the abortion ban in Poland.

- IV590 - March 2024 / Poland, Women, Trade unions/workplace organizing

The first limits of the democratic government in Poland

Jan Malewski — 2023-12-23T22:30:59Z

Although the conservative right has made progress in most recent elections, the Polish elections of 15 October 2023, with a historic turnout (78%), on the contrary put the conservative government in a minority. What's more, only 40% of voters took part in the racist migration referendums called at the same time, rendering their results invalid.

- IV587 - December 2023 / Poland

At stake in the Polish elections: preserving democracy

Jan Malewski — 2023-10-15T19:07:00Z

Two weeks before the parliamentary elections, between 600,000 and one million people opposed to the populist conservative government of the Law and Justice party (PiS) demonstrated in Warsaw on 1 October.

- IV585 - October 2023 / Poland

Razem: Building a left alternative in Poland

Zofia Malisz — 2023-01-11T12:23:00Z

“We had to first bring back the left and insert left issues into the centre of Polish political debate. We had to bring back social protest and unionising into everyday Polish political practice — and we succeeded. These were our motivations.”

- IV576 - January 2023 / Poland, New parties of the left

Let's get our lives back!

European network for solidarity with Ukraine — 2022-09-24T07:12:24Z

“As a first step we call on feminists around the world to raise prominently solidarity with Ukrainian and Polish women in their mobilizations in defence of abortion and reproductive rights on the occasion of 28 September, International Day for Abortion Rights.”

- IV572 - September 2022 / Poland, Women, Ukraine

Who stands with Ukraine in the long term? On the invisible labour of Ukrainian migrant communities

Daria Krivonos — 2022-07-11T09:58:34Z

“Ukrainian people's labour – both paid and unpaid – risks being neglected once again in Europe's self-congratulatory narratives that only frame Ukrainians as the recipients of help, as happened in other contexts of displacement.”

- IV570 - July 2022 / Poland, Ukraine, Migration