The first release of the Głos Ludu appeared on 9 June 1945, in Fryštát. It firstly appeared weekly, then two times a week, from April 1946 three times a week.
The editorial staff moved from Fryštát to Český Těšín and later to Ostrava, and since 2003, has been housed in Český Těšín again. For 45 years, it was published by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, and since 1991 by the Congress of Poles.