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Polish Labour Party - August 80 Polska Partia Pracy – Sierpień 80
First leader	Daniel Podrzycki(2001–2005)
Last leader	Bogusław Ziętek(2005–2017)
Founded	11 November 2001
Dissolved	24 January 2017
Headquarters	ul. Wyzwolenia 18, 00-570Warsaw
Ideology	Socialism[1] Marxism[2] Anti-capitalism[2] Left-wing nationalism[3]
Political position	Left-wing[4] tofar-left[5]
European affiliation	European Anti-Capitalist Left
Colours	Red
Website
www.partiapracy.pl
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ThePolish Labour Party - August 80(Polish:Polska Partia Pracy-Sierpień 80, PPP) was a minorleft-wing^[4] tofar-left^[5]political party inPoland, describing itself associalist. It was created on 11 November 2001 as theAlternative – Labour Party (Alternatywa – Partia Pracy) and acquired its new name ofPolish Labour Party(Polska Partia Pracy) in 2004, before adding the suffix-August 80(Sierpień 80) on 20 November 2009. The party was affiliated with theFree Trade Union "August 80" [pl].

The party describes itself as a socialist, with anti-liberal and anti-capitalist slogans. It calls for a complete halt to privatisation, advocates free education and health care as well as a welfare state, a 35-hour working week and a minimum wage of 68% of the national average wage. It opposes the introduction of a flat tax, the reinstatement of the death penalty and condemns pro-American and pro-EU policies.^[6] It also calls for abolition of income tax for the poorest and an economic program that would redistribute the national income from the richest to the poorest, arguing that under the capitalist economy, the opposite process takes place, where the rich are getting wealthier at expense of the poor.^[7]

The PPP takes a strict anti-capitalist position, and particularly focuses on opposing privatization. It calls for "strict defence of an independent Poland", and opposes NATO as a "terrorist organization". The party does not cooperate with other Polish left-wing parties, and denounced theDemocratic Left Alliance as an "anti-worker party"; instead, it had ties with the French far-right politicianJean Le Pen, along with the CatholicRadio Maryja. In the 2010s, it started reorienting itself towards a nationalist profile, and moved towards "nationalist-conservative and nationalist-patriotic positions".^[8]

The Party's candidate in the2005 Polish presidential election,Daniel Podrzycki, died in a car accident on September 24, 2005, one day prior to theparliamentary elections. The party achieved 91,266 votes or 0.77% in the 2005 elections,^[9] In the2007 parliamentary elections the party won 0.99% of the popular vote and no seats in theSejm and theSenate of Poland.

On 14 September 2015, the PPP joined theUnited Left (ZL)electoral alliance which was formed as a response for the poor performance of the PolishLeft^[10] in the2015 presidential election. The alliance received 7.6% of the vote in the2015 parliamentary election below the 8% electoral threshold leaving it with no parliamentary representation.

Election	Leader	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Government
2005	Bogusław Ziętek	91,266	0.77 (#11)	0 / 460	New	Extra-parliamentary
2007		160,476	0.99 (#7)	0 / 460	0	Extra-parliamentary
2011		79,086	0.55 (#8)	0 / 460	0	Extra-parliamentary

Election	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Government
2004	32,807	0.54 (#15)	0 / 54	New	Extra-parliamentary
2009	51,872	0.70 (#10)	0 / 50	0	Extra-parliamentary

• Polish Communist Party (2002)
• Socialist Alternative (Poland)
• Workers' Democracy (Poland)
• Young Socialists (Poland)

• Polska Partia Pracy (Official website)
• Where Does the Left Come From?. Interview with Bogusław Ziętek,International Viewpoint, 2006

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