Workers' Front (Croatia)
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| Leader | Collective leadership |
| Founded | 9 May 2014 |
| Ideology | Democratic socialism Eco-socialism Socialist feminism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| Colours | Red |
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Workers' Front (Croatian: Radnička fronta or RF) is a far-left political party,[1] formed in May 2014[2] as a political initiative of public sector employees, trade unionists, unemployed and students in Croatia.
Workers' Front aims to become a broad progressive front, dedicated to radical change of political, economic and social relations, while fighting for the rights of working people and all the oppressed.
Workers' Front is trying to coordinate various progressive struggles – struggle for workers' rights and economic democracy, anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, struggle for women's and LGBT rights, ecology etc.[3][4][5]
Workers' Front has been compared to Spanish Podemos and Greek SYRIZA by the local and regional media.[5][6][7][8]
On October 3, 2015 it was announced on the Worker's Front web site that the party has been disbanded after an attempted purge by a prominent member of the party.[9][10] However, Workers' Front remained an officially registered party[11] and went on with its activities, issuing a statement that it's web site was taken over by a group trying to disband the party.[12] Two weeks later this version of events, namely that the party still exists and that the web site was in control of a group of dissidents, was confirmed by a member of the dissident group.[13]
Following this episode, Workers' Front participated in an anticlerical protest in Zagreb,[14] tried to place, but was denied a billboard featuring Ivica Todorić[15] (one of the richest people in Croatia) and successfully registered for 2015 parliamentary election in three electoral districts.[16]
References[edit]
- ^ "Radnička fronta i službeno registrirana kao politička stranka" (in Croatian).
- ^ "Osnovana inicijativa za stvaranje radničke partije" (in Croatian).
- ^ "The left is rising again in Croatia: an interview with Demian Vokši". LeftEast.
- ^ "Workers Front - About".
- ^ a b "The formation of the Workers’ Front (Croatia): "Revolution, if necessary"". LeftEast.
- ^ "I mi možemo!" [And we can!] (in Croatian). Novi List.
- ^ "Radnička fronta - Radnička fronta – tko konta, konta" [Worker's front - who understands - understands] (in Croatian). Novi List.
- ^ "Damir Pilić: SYRIZA, Podemos, Radnička fronta" (in Croatian). Slobodna Dalmacija.
- ^ "Priopćenje o raspuštanju Radničke fronte". 3 October 2015.
- ^ "Radnička fronta više ne postoji". 3 October 2015.
- ^ "Registar političkih stranaka u Republici Hrvatskoj" (in Croatian).
- ^ "Radnička fronta: Ne raspadamo se, hakirala su nas četvorica članova" [Workers' Front: We're not falling appart, we got hacked by four members] (in Croatian). Slobodna Dalmacija.
- ^ "U Radničkoj fronti došlo je do čistke, stiže nova stranka" (in Croatian).
- ^ "Stotinjak građana prosvjedovalo protiv Vatikanskih ugovora" (in Croatian).
- ^ "Radnička fronta: Cenzuriran nam je plakat s Todorićem!" (in Croatian).
- ^ "IZBORI ZA ZASTUPNIKE U HRVATSKI SABOR 2015. - KANDIDATURA" [CROATIAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION, 2015 - CANDIDACY] (in Croatian).
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Facebook page
- "SYRIZA, Podemos, Workers’ Front", English translation from Slobodna Dalmacija
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