Polish and Ukrainian people do not want to be a cheap labour force!
There can be no effective international trade union cooperation without an exchange of experience. Such an exchange took place during...
Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat
Cross-Border Talks co-founder and co-coordinator. Poland-based journalist reporting on political life and social changes in Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on labour movements. Examining peripheral capitalism and people's self-organisation. Digging out forgotten history of Polish (and East-European) workers' struggles. Her texts were published by Dziennik Trybuna in Poland, Left.it in Italy, Avgi in Greece and other progressive outlets.
George Katrougalos: Greece’s fate was to discourage others from breaking with neoliberal politics [SEE VIDEO]
By the end of August 2022, the EU's „enhanced surveillance” over Greek finance was finally lifted. But is the crisis...
Katarzyna Duda: The multinationals do not create jobs in Central Europe. They STEAL them
Katarzyna Duda, expert on social politics working for the All-Poland Trade Union Confederation (OPZZ) and member of Razem (Together) party,...
Sanna Marin: what has she REALLY achieved?
We invited the director of Left Forum Finland to discuss not the Finnish Prime Minister's dance, but her political actions....
How to restore employment in Ukraine: an alternative proposal to the government’s neoliberal reconstruction plan
Although the war in Ukraine continues, it is necessary to have a vision of possible reconstruction scenarios. With this goal,...
Turkey is OK with both European and non-European Western Balkans
Vladimir MItev, Malgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat Cross-border Talks invited Marian Karagyozov - a Balkanologist from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, for a...
Eastern Europe is disillusioned. Can it also be non-nationalist?
The former Eastern bloc societies have already learned very well that market fundamentalism is not working. The support of the...
Why Russia’s political capitalists went to war – and how the war could end their rule
- Russia’s political capitalists waged war in order to survive as a class, to continue accumulating wealth through the exploitation...
We must open our arms to people in need. There is no reason to be afraid of refugees
- The common European policy of migration and asylum must be based on international law and the value of solidarity....
Bus drivers’ revolt shakes a Polish city, and more strikes are to come
On 24 June tram and bus drivers in Bydgoszcz, a city in northern Poland, stopped their vehicles and blocked the...
