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Piotr Szumlewicz (born March 19, 1976, in Warsaw [1] ) is a Polish journalist and publicist, trade union activist.
Szumlewicz graduated in sociology and philosophy from the University of Warsaw. [2] He edited the quarterly "Without Dogma" and the website lewica.pl. [3] [4] His texts have also been published, among others, in "Review", "Electoral Gazette", "Tribune", "Tribune Daily" and the Polish edition of the monthly "Le Monde diplomatique"[ citation needed ].
Author of numerous reports and studies for non-governmental organizations, including the German Heinrich Böll and Rosa Luxemburg foundations. One of the founders of The Political Critique, from which he left in 2003[ citation needed ].
Since April 2010, he has been a journalist for TVP, where he collaborated on the publication of the "Hot topic" programme on TVP2. Then he also worked for Panorama, collaborated with the TVP Polonia news service – Polonia 24 and with the TVP Info portal, for which he conducted interviews with Polish and foreign intellectuals. From May to November 2013, he was a regular columnist for "Tribune Daily", for which he also wrote from December 2019 to March 2020. From October 2012 to April 2016, he co-hosted the programme "I didn't interrupt you" on Superstacja, representing left-wing views. From July 2016 until its closure in November 2017, he was a regular columnist for "Indeed Weekly".
From October 2016 to June 2019, he recorded video columns for the Interia portal. In the years 2016–2019, he published columns in "Daily Legal Newspaper". From May 2017 to May 2020, he published columns on the website strajk.eu. Since April 2019, he has been the editor-in-chief of the economic magazine "Facts". From January to October 2021, he published on the website wtv.pl. From October 2, 2019, to October 28, 2020, he was a journalist for the online radio station Halo.Radio, where he hosted his own program "Audycja Związkowa", which discussed employee issues. Since January 2021, he has been hosting a program on YouTube on the "Citizen Reset" channel on the same topic called "Time for unions" and a program "The week flew by. Boom!" together with Wojciech Krzyżaniak. Since February 2021, he has been writing columns for "Electoral Gazette".
In December 2024, he expressed his willingness to run in the 2025 Polish presidential election. [5]