Workers in Poland broke the monolith
The Solidarity (Solidarnosc) social movement saw huge numbers of workers strike and push back against the fake socialism of the Eastern Bloc and their own “...
Obituary: Anna Walentynowicz
Anna Walentynowicz, who was killed in the plane crash last Saturday that also took the lives of Poland's president Lech Kaczynski and 95 others, was one of...
Anna Walentynowicz: 100 Women of the Year
Anna Walentynowicz is one of the leaders, innovators, activists, entertainers, athletes and artists who defined the last century.
Communism | Poland
The birth of Solidarity In the summer of 1980, government-imposed measures caused prices to soar and the growth of wages to slow.
Exhumations of victims in Smolensk air crash open old wounds in Poland
Polish authorities have found that body parts of the victims in the Smolensk air crash in 2010 were mixed up when buried.
"Nazywam się Anna Walentynowicz" w MIK
Była więziona, zwalniana i inwigilowana. Dla wielu stała się legendą, bohaterką Sierpnia 80, inicjatorką Solidarności. Magazyn „Time” nazwał ją „matką polskiej...
Odbyło się spotkanie pt. „Anna Walentynowicz we wspomnieniach i badaniach historycznych” – Gdańsk, 9 kwietnia 2019
W Sali BHP Stoczni Gdańskiej 9 kwietnia odbyło się spotkanie...
Anna Walentynowicz dies at 80; Polish union activist helped lead Solidarity movement
Anna Walentynowicz dies at 80; Polish union activist helped lead Solidarity movement. Anna Walentynowicz's firing from a Gdansk shipyard spurred...
Anna Walentynowicz obituary
Anna Walentynowicz, who died, aged 80, in the recent air crash that killed so many of the Polish leadership past...
Remembering Polish Solidarity icon Anna Walentynowicz - English Section
"She was an extraordinary person because her dream of freedom was so profound that she did not fear repression, interrogations, police searches...
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Shipyard worker and activist whose dismissal in 1980 helped trigger the Gdańsk strikes and the founding of Solidarity; key labor movement figure (deceased).