Solidarność: Trade Unionism or Self-Organisation?
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.
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
1980: Poland mass strikes - Henri Simon
Poznan 1956 and Radom 1976
Gasping from out the Shallows: Reflections on revolution in the early twenty-first century
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