Until the 7th of February 2011 three members of the Workers' Initiative were fired from Baltic Spinning factory. All of them are going to the labor court and demand the withdrawal of the dismissals and re-employment. For the Workers' Initiative the behavior of the Baltic Spinning management is an outrageous attack on the freedom of association in the workplace. The Workers' Initiative is going to monitor the case and inform about workers' rights violations in the Kostrzyn-Slubice Special Economic Zone.

During the night shift on Februar 5, 2011, the management of Baltic Spinning factory in Goleniów Industrial Park (part of the Kostrzyn-Słubice SEZ) attempted to fire Adam Z., a member of the founding committee of the Workers' Initiative in the plant. Adam did not accept the notice. He informed the manager and the member of the board, Anna Rafal, that he was protected by trade union law.

This article strives to reinterpret the history of the Polish workers' movement of the last few decades. This attempt comes with a conviction about the sociological significance of historical and historiosophic analysis, especially in view of the presently fashionable thesis of the "end of history": a thesis, formulated in 1989 by Francis Fukuyama, according to which the final victory of capitalism has already taken place. My analysis endeavours to prove that the year 1989 had not marked a turning point in the history of the contemporary workers' movement. In my view, to explain the problems relating to the work­ers' movement in a suitable fashion, one needs to analyse much older trends. I shall begin my analysis from the year 1970.

For more than two years the management of the Statistical Office in Opole, Poland, has violated a number of workers' rights and harassed their employees because of their affiliation with Workers' Initiative.

Marcel Szary, an activist of Workers' Initiative Trade Union in Cegielski factory, died today morning. He was  one of the founders of the union. It is a huge loss for the syndicalist and workers' movement in Poland.