Solidarność: Trade Unionism or Self-Organisation?
Submitted by Internationalis... on May 23 2019 12:25
Political and economic crises led to the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc. The downturn in the post-war accumulation cycle, the Cold War, the USSR’s disastrous intervention in Afghanistan, as well as the popular revolts in Central and Eastern Europe all played a role. But it is the class struggles of 1980s Poland to which we turn our eye here.
"Solidarnosc" erare paŝis: 1989
Kritika artikolo pri la eniris de la sindikato "Solidarnosc" al la Pola Registaro.
Poland: Round II
Libertarian Workers Group picket line leaflet, Polish Embassy, New York City.
Summer in Gdansk - Solidarity
Solidarity booklet produced in late 1980 about the mass strikes in Poland which had just ended in huge victory for the workers who had made a mixture of economic and political demands.
Poland 1980-1982: Class struggle and the crisis of capital - Henri Simon
Submitted by Steven. on Apr 15 2012 13:14
Henri Simon's brilliant and detailed account and analysis of the militant working class struggles in Poland from 1980 to 1982 which were a major contributing factor to the downfall of the USSR.
History of ten years - Encyclopedie des Nuisances
Analysis of the outbreaks of class struggle in Portugal, Spain, Italy and Poland that took place between 1974 and 1984, published by the Encyclopedie des Nuisances in 1985.
1980: Poland mass strikes - Henri Simon
Submitted by Ex-temp on Apr 3 2009 17:22
Henri Simon's account of the successful strike wave which swept Poland in the summer of 1980 when the government raised the price of meat.
Poznan 1956 and Radom 1976
Submitted by Mike Harman on Aug 26 2007 13:51
A background report for Radio Free Europe written in 1981, detailing the workers uprisings in Poznan '56 and Radom '76. Readers should bear in mind that Radio Free Europe was set up and funded by the CIA, however this text contains useful historical information which we reproduce for reference.
Gasping from out the Shallows: Reflections on revolution in the early twenty-first century
Submitted by Mike Harman on Mar 20 2007 11:47
A text by Wayne Spencer giving an overview of struggles in the UK, Poland, South Africa and Italy alongside his reflections on the possibilities for revolution and revolutionary theory in the 21st century.
