When October Breakdown in Together, the outgoing leaders announced that we will shortly find out what they plan to do if they do not join the fresh Left. It wasn't just about recognizable policy: Magdalena BiejatAnna Górska, Dorothy Olko, Joanna Wicha, Daria Gosek-Popiołek, but about the ranks of activists and activists who decided to follow them. On Saturday 11 January everything became clear: a fresh association with a political profile was established, which will besides carry out analytical, research, education and social activities. The president was Daria Gosek-Popiołek, Vice president of Warsaw Councillor Martyna Jałoszyńska.
The “Common Tomorrow” Association is open and shared values include concern, ambition, community, solidarity, work and change. What's gonna change? It is primarily about moving distant from individualism and competition, glorified by liberalism, to the benefit of the community and cooperation.
"We want a country where work, as a origin of prosperity, is peculiarly protected. Countries that combine solidarity with rewards for industriousness. 1 that gives a actual choice of its way of life and ensures stableness and security" - says the thought declaration on the Association website.
End of left hand latte
The key to the community is not to make drop-off platforms, but a solid state whose aim is to care for the interests of citizens and citizens. This is nothing fresh – the left has been talking about strong public services, education, wellness care. But now, as it seems, there is simply a shift in the accent from “worldview” to lifestyle” – which was understood by conservatives just liberally, as an affirmation of utmost individualism – towards community. The shift was already seen in the parliamentary campaign, erstwhile Left talked about family, caring for younger and older people, presented a task of housing for inexpensive rental, just as it aimed at the needs of young families. Recently, besides with a view to the community, Magdalena Biejat appeared with The thought of a free Christmas Eve.
How do we get to this strong and united state? It is already known that at the minute only tiny steps are possible, and if you want to be in politics alternatively than on the barricade, you request to learn patience – specified conviction came from the speeches of the debaters Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk, Krzysztof Gawkowski and Magdalena Biejat. The main issues of the debate were housing, nursery and working time and conditions, i.e. topics, which were in mainstream Thanks to the consistent voice of the left. The slogan "landing by law not by commodity" repeated by Donald Tusk, little and little support for the thought of "credit of 0%", pilot projects of housing for rent or a 35-hour week of working in local governments governed by the left – these were specifics that seemed unthinkable a fewer years ago.
The subject of the second beginning debate on the "Common Tomorrow" is even more clear about what many and many have been waiting for, that is, the voice of the left on economical issues. The debate was invited Dr Janina Petelczyc, a social safety expert whose enthusiasm for the Social safety Office has kidnapped the full area for spontaneous applause for this oldest Polish institution, and Prof. Zofia Grabniewska, co-chair of the board of the Polish Economics Network and the PSE associate and the manager at the investment home of Xelion Hubert Stojanowski.
If the politicians are able to convert to simple political messages what came from the discussion, that is, that we have a chance, is better than we think, we have a choice, we are not doomed to anything, and surely not to be a debt slave for 30 years, then they have a chance to convince people that the state has meaning, and democracy is not yet a task that has exhausted itself. The criticism of GDP and the story of the "green island", the future of pensions and the issue of retirement age, the impact of capital accumulation on democracy – if it is given immediately, there will be arguments that will hit due to the fact that they have 3 crucial elements: appreciation of the work that Poles have already put in, a sense of reality and a imagination of perpetuity.
This is besides a set of arguments that should be repeated at least as frequently as liberals say that the wave of populism is to blame for the "cultural war" allegedly conducted by the left. No, it is not a "cultural war", but increasing inequality is simply a fundamental problem.
Running to May and beyond
Not only did the Left realize that in the face of an anxious, uncertain future, people request first not to be alone, secondly they would look after caring institutions. For the Law and Justice, as in the last 8 years, specified an institution will be the Church. Pumping it in exchange for access to all the ambon did not halt at all – on the last weekend the nun on Jasna Góra allowed Nawrock to give a sermon to the fans.
The Confederate may be tempted by a imagination of a strong hand of government, or a centrally controlled economy, which was late praised by Krzysztof Bosak. And that doesn't mean anything to their declared free marketplace views? As followers of the “freeness of word” Confederates can say what people want to hear.
The left, which has been talking about a strong state for centuries, will be more coherent and credible, provided that it masters the subject and targets understandable messages in visible fears. Not necessarily promising to deal with banks, or rise taxes, due to the fact that this language will go to a fistful of rebels.
Speaking of economics, the Left has a chance to challenge the Confederacy and fight for its voters. And if he challenges the Confederate, he will skip the reef that Adrian Zandberg is just packing on, repeating the phrase about the necessity of creating an alternate to the PO-PiS struggles. That's what Simon Holovnia says, that's what Modern, Kukiz and Spring said. Left fights for a young electorate with the Confederate. Even with his candidate, he doesn't gotta fight KO.
It is hard not to look at the inauguration of the "Common Tomorrow" outside the context of the presidential election, although, as it turned out, the establishment of the association is now more co-incidence than an component of a coherent strategy. The question so arises whether the fresh initiative will not be read by the structures of the erstwhile SLD as political competition. That would be unfavorable and incomprehensible. For the wider audience, the division into the fresh Left and Together was already unobvious, not only factions, but yet schism in itself. Magdalena Biejat will be seen as a typical of the Left, and the association, whose core are its closest people, should actively participate in the campaign.
