Polish Labour Party - August 80

Polish Labour Party - August 80
Polska Partia Pracy – Sierpień 80
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
Soft Euroscepticism
Marxism
Political positionLeft-wing[1] to far-left[2]
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[1] to far-left[2] 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].

  1. ^ a b 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.
  2. ^ a b 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).