The Latest Breaking News from Solidarity

Welcome to the first edition of our new On the Picket Line newsletter, where we take a deeper look at the biggest trade union stories of the week.

Solidarity Youth Movement held a meeting in Palakkad to express support for Palestine. Speakers raised slogans against "bulldozer Hindutva and apartheid Zionism". C.T. Suhaib, State president, said attempts were being made to resist divisive policies of those in power. Mohammad Makram Balawi, director general of League of Parliamentarians for Al…

Europe’s turn to the right now looks reversible, while Donald Tusk’s victory leaves Viktor Orbán politically isolated, says political scientist and author Ivan Krastev

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Hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered in Warsaw on Sunday, the 34th anniversary of Poland's first postwar democratic election, for a march the liberal opposition has billed as a test of its ability to end nearly eight years of nationalist rule later this year.

AFTER nearly four months of counter-protests by anti-racist activists - a celebration was had as no-one from a fascist group appeared at the MGM…

Spectacular architecture, art and wilderness feature among our readers’ favourite encounters with Poland

Those walking out on strike today can be in no doubt that their city is behind them

Slovakia’s coalition government has fallen after losing a parliamentary no-confidence vote