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Political party in Poland
Polish Labour Party - August 80 Polska Partia Pracy – Sierpień 80
Polish Labour Party logo
First leaderDaniel Podrzycki (2001-2005)
Last leaderBogusław Ziętek (2005-2017)
Founded11 November 2001
Dissolved24 January 2017
Headquartersul. Wyzwolenia 18, 00-570 Warsaw
IdeologySocialism
Anti-capitalism
Hard Euroscepticism
Marxism
Trotskyism
Political positionLeft-wing to far-left
European affiliationEuropean Anti-Capitalist Left
ColoursRed
Website
www.partiapracy.pl

The Polish Labour Party - August 80 (Polish: Polska Partia Pracy-Sierpień 80, PPP) was a minor left-wing to far-left political party in Poland, describing itself as socialist. It was created on 11 November 2001 as the Alternative – Labour Party (Alternatywa – Partia Pracy) and acquired its new name of Polish Labour Party (Polska Partia Pracy) in 2004, before adding the suffix -August 80 (Sierpień 80) on 20 November 2009. The party was affiliated with the Free Trade Union "August 80" [pl].

Positions

The party was opposed to privatisation of state assets resulting from the post-communist reforms of the 1990s and supported increased state expenditure. It was opposed to Polish involvement in the European Union and supported increased cooperation with Poland's eastern neighbours, free education and health care, free (state funded) contraception and abortions, recognition of same-sex civil unions, the withdrawal of Polish troops from Iraq, the elimination of conscription and the introduction of a professional military, and the introduction of a 35-hour working week. It opposed the introduction of a flat tax and the introduction of capital punishment. The PPP also advocated a withdrawal from the concordat between the Polish state and the Catholic Church.

History

The Party's candidate in the 2005 Polish presidential election, Daniel Podrzycki, died in a car accident on September 24, 2005, one day prior to the parliamentary elections. The party achieved 91,266 votes or 0.77% in the 2005 elections, In the 2007 parliamentary elections the party won 0.99% of the popular vote and no seats in the Sejm and the Senate of Poland.

On 14 September 2015, the PPP joined the United Left (ZL) electoral alliance which was formed as a response for the poor performance of the Polish Left in the 2015 presidential election. The alliance received 7.6% of the vote in the 2015 parliamentary election below the 8% electoral threshold leaving it with no parliamentary representation.

See also

References

  1. ^ Krzyszczyk, Kamil (2024). "Post-transformation Politics, Socio-Economic Cleavages and Populism in Central and Eastern Europe" (PDF). Analysis and Policy in Economics. Paris School of Economics: 77.
  2. ^ Walecka-Rynduch, Agnieszka (2013). "Some Aspects of Political Public relations Strategy based on the Example of Polish extra-Parliamentary Left-Wing Parties. The First Decade of the 21st Century" (PDF). Przegląd Politologiczny (3): 132–135. ISSN 1426-8876.
  3. ^ Pankowski, Rafał (2010). The Populist Radical Right in Poland: The Patriots. Routledge. p. 81. ISBN 978-0-203-85656-7. Former members of the KPN have dispersed across the political spectrum: from the League of Polish Families, to Law and Justice and the Civic Platform, to the far-left Polish Labour Party (Polska Partia Pracy, PPP).
  4. Where Does the Left Come From?. International Viewpoint, 14 January 2006. - Retrieved 1/01/13
  5. "Do Zjednoczonej Lewicy dołączył nowy koalicjant". Interia (in Polish). 14 September 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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