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Women Workers Fight Back Against Austerity in Poland

  The article was written by Women with Initiative from Inicjatywa Pracownicza (Workers' Initiative), and it was published in Industrial Worker - Issue #1743, March 2012, the official magazine of The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). In 2012, Poland and Ukraine are going to host Euro2012, the European Football…
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Goleniów, SEZ: Attempt to fire an WI activist

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…
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The anatomy of the Polish workers' protests

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…
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Rafał Górski passed away

4 July, after a long-term disease Rafał Górski died. He was an anarchist and an activist of the Worker's Initiative Trade Union and the anarchist movement, a researcher of history of syndicalism and anarchism, an author of numerous articles and books. The Worker's Initiative Trade Union is in mourning after…
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Marcel Szary passed away

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.
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Collar Textil: The next one worker's success

On 05. January 10 Workers' Initiative activists and Collar Textill shop committee representatives visited city office in Opatów. Workers were cheated by employer. They expect support form local government. They fight for they remunerations and other perks which are still not payed. There are also actions to save even some…
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16.11.2009: Wildcat strikes in Poznan and Ostrów.

Two wildcat strikes took place today, first in the Fabryka Pojazdow Szynowych in Poznan, a plant owned by HCP (Cegielski) company, and the second one in the Wagon factory in Ostrow, a railway rolling-stock producer and repairer factory. In both cases, the workers demanded payment of wage arrears. They also…
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Cegielski Factory in crisis

This text is going to describe the historical and present meaning of the Cegielski factory in Poznan for the workers' movement in Poland, and the history of activity of Workers' Initiative in the factory since 2002. We are also going to show the development of the strategy of wildcat strikes…
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Demonstration in defence of Cegielski's fired workers

On 23rd October almost 4,000 workers from different trade unions took part in a demonstration in defence of their workplaces. About 500 people are going to be fired from the Cegielski factory due to the so-called economic crisis. Anarchists and members of anarcho-syndicalist trade union Wokers' Initiative also took part…
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