[8] Formed in May 2014[9] as a political initiative of workers, trade unionists, unemployed, and students in Croatia, it supports anti-clericalism,[1] anti-fascism, antimilitarism, eco-socialism, labour rights, progressivism, and socialist feminism.

[10] Some left-libertarian and Trotskyist (International Socialist Alternative) critics characterize it as left-wing populist in the mold of Podemos and SYRIZA.

Various public statements by the party members, such as that in support of both the Nordic model and the socialism of the 21st century as established in Venezuela, contributed to ambiguousness of its ideological orientation.

[27][28] The party categorically rejects the privatization carried out in Croatia during the 1990s, as it considers the process both incompatible with Croatian laws at the time, as well as a social injustice.

The party's representative in the 10th Sabor, Katarina Peović, asserted that the abolishment of quotas enabled the lowering of the price of labor and thus ensured "slave-like working and living conditions".

[33][27] It supports cooperation with the countries of the former Yugoslavia and has explicitly condemned the HDZ's involvement in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which it describes as "clientelism".

[39] Following this episode, Workers' Front participated in an anticlerical protest in Zagreb,[40] tried to place, but was denied a billboard featuring Ivica Todorić[41] (the richest person in Croatia) and successfully registered for 2015 parliamentary election in three electoral districts.

[43] Soon after that, Workers' Front staged the first organized cutting of the razor wire planted along the Croatia-Slovenia border, together with Slovenian activists in a cross-border demonstration of solidarity.

[44] On 1 February 2016 the Workers' Front held a protest against the new government, particularly Minister of Culture Zlatko Hasanbegović, on St. Mark's Square, Zagreb with over 1000 participants.

In Split election, the Workers' Front-New Left coalition won 4.36% of votes, failing to enter the city council.

The Workers' Front, however, had implemented an article in the document which was signed only by themselves as the other parties found it unappealing for their programmes; it reads as follows: Radical change demands the dismantling of the irreconcilable opposites between the two basic classes - the capitalists (those that hold a monopoly on the means of production - banks, corporations, factories, trade centers, hotels, etc.