As a follow up to our recent article about Solidarność (see: leftcom.org) we are republishing three of the leaflets that the CWO and Battaglia Comunista distributed in 1980-1 among workers in Britain, ...

The 1980 August Agreements were the breaking point in the contemporary history of Poland and the harbinger of what followed: the downfall of the communist system in Eastern Europe.

In her new book, retired journalist Sonya Zalubowski of Vancouver recounts her time in an Eastern European nation struggling to break free of Russia’s orbit — not present day Ukraine, but ...

Paedophile acts by a Catholic priest in the 1980s were like "torture", a Polish court has said, as it lifted the statute of limitation and ordered compensation to the victim -- an unprecedented ...

Poland 1980-1981: The Solidarity Movement and the Perspective of Political Revolution The Betrayal of the Polish Working Class by the Pabloites Pabloism—35 Years of Betrayal of the Polish Revolution ...

The crisis in Poland in 1980–1981 imposed great demands on the U.S. intelligence community. On the one hand, U.S. intelligence analysts sought to determine whether the Soviet Union might send troops ...

What sets these protests apart? Protests of this scale have not been held in Poland since the Solidarity movement in the 1980s that led to the collapse of the communist government.