[1] The Polish working class had to endure ... Particularly after March 1981, when the confrontations between Solidarity and the government came to a head, various political tendencies which ...

This book traces the historical and social origins, the international context and the unfolding of the struggle of the Polish working class in 1980-81. This book is available for purchase from ...

When I set out to write a book about my experiences as a reporter in 1981 in Poland, as the people rose up against Communism in the Solidarity movement, I never expected the serendipity that would fol ...

Solidarność means Solidarity, but for Poles it stands for so much more. At the height of its worldwide popularity – which came in the years 1981 to 1983 when stan wojenny (Martial Law) was introduced ...

In the 1980s, Poland was under the grip of martial law as the Communist government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski attempted to repress the independent Solidarity trade union. In Western Europe ...

that created a special calendar in the Polish pursuit for truth, freedom, democracy, social justice and equality. Posters of Solidarity from 1980 to 1989 still draw the viewer’s attention and arouse ...

"The Sister of Job," a play produced by public broadcaster Polish Radio, has been shortlisted for this year’s BBC Audio Drama ...

The uprising in Egypt carried echoes of another protest movement 30 years earlier — Poland’s Solidarity movement, which helped pave the way for the fall of the Iron Curtain and resulted in the ...