50th Anniversary of the Workers Uprising on the Baltic Coast
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the December 1970 workers’ protests against Poland’s Stalinist regime and the bloody massacre known as “Black Thursday”. Sparked by food and fuel price hikes, the strikes and mass protests quickly turned into a mass workers’ revolt, spreading along the Baltic coast cities of Gdańsk, Gdynia, Szczecin and Elbląg […]
The Fading of the Georgian Dream
ISA: Following the second round of the election at the end of November, the ruling “Georgian Dream” party won 48% of the votes, taking ninety of the one hundred and fifty seats in the Parliament. What is the “Georgian Dream”? MG: The party first came to prominence when it won the election in 2012, defeating […]