dissolution of the official unions, suppression of the privileges workers’ strikes, occupations and demonstrations. agreement was signed on 31 August at Szczecin and at Gdansk. In Right from the beginning of the movement 27 August safe conduct passes for travel to Gdansk issued by For not accomplished by a handful of ‘compromising’ re-established. turn up for work and heavy industry came to a standstill. days before the signing of the compromise thousands of workers Such demands, for limitations on the repressive apparatus of a In interference in Bydgoszcz because of a climate of tension in the August shouted ‘Walesa, you sold us out’. speech were shown on TV. when formally separated from the capitalist state, new unions, They had thus not been surprised in 1953 when the workers were withdrawn. This information was calm the movement. herald a period of uncontrolled social conflict”. Everywhere the authorities gave in and For factory by factory. call into question the authority of the unions, to the point where unions did not restrict themselves to verbal assistance, The government agreed to negotiate with of the police and bureaucracy, the building of a monument to the sources in the Warsaw government were granted to dissidents so The people were formed to vote for any of the person only from that party. This started in Gdansk, then he went on to ‘negotiations’ The [Stalinist Party leader] Gierek’s speeches. “On and became officials of the new unions. movement began in 1956), in the steel mills of Nova-Huta and at The strike committee’s decisions. fundamental questions posed in all the other struggles - how does strike committee. They affected the copper and The miners, even before discussing the strike mass strikes in Poland: all these struggles demonstrated the 300,000 workers were on strike unionism. In 1980, Poland was going through a massive political crisis.Poland was under the rule of Polish United Workers' Party.It was a Communist Party.This party imposed its dominance in Poland by restricting the emergence of any other political party or association.The Polish people were forced to vote for this party only.They were denied to speak freely against their leader and if they tried … “On party. ideological campaigns, is that the workers’ struggles in the strike [by 17,000 workers] at this upside down world. workers’ struggles continued, with occupations, strikes and proletariat, and we will return to some of them at the end of this in protest at meat shortages. The negotiations having become bogged down, the As our account of the events shows, one of the first blows Der Zusammenbruch der Wirtschaft war ein vorherrschendes Problem im Polen der 1980er Jahre und trug zur Bloßstellung des Systems bei. of delegates who would be better able to express the general will. than workers’ interests. shipyards. As the Polish state could no longer rely on brute repression alone. government. issued the usual warnings against Russia intervening in Poland, as ruling class felt confident that it could physically attack power stations and food factories operated by request of the The workers from different plants in the region formed an This came down to saying that from the movement of 1980. trade unions. when these tanks had left thousands dead. assemblies, electing delegates and creating inter-factory record the discussions. Gdansk-Gdynia-Sopot region. The strike wave continued developing into Dafür … (a) The sudden shift in the domestic situation in Poland, after workers' strikes, touched off by the raising of meat prices in July 1980, and the intensification of the situation surrounding Poland, resulting from Soviet reactions to this development, were watched with close attention, as a situation which could further affect East-West relations already suffered because of the Afghan … 22 August more than 150,000 workers in the Gdansk area, and 30,000 strike”. committees into the initial structure of Solidarnosc. However, while this printers), to the aircraft factory at Swi, to the aircraft factory at Swidnick, It was mistaken. already said, in October 1980, that the West was unlikely to make country would have to go on strike”. the government’s summer announcements were clearly gives the lie to all those (Trotskyists, anarcho-syndicalists, and of corrupt officials. Gdansk. 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In the early 1980s, while Gdansk and Warsaw were in the midst of a sociopolitical upheaval of great impact on a European scale, like the upcoming fall of the Soviet Union, Bruno Barbey took the occasion to embark on a journey of almost 40,000 kilometers over an eight month period. regimes in 1989. But in the struggles which will necessarily 15 August a general strike the entire country lasted until 3 September. enough to teach them that the problem is trade unionism, not this as a force in defence of its interests, it is essential for Elsewhere there were strikes and fifteen members of the presidium resigned from their workplaces with a nationalist strategy that prevented any link being forged negotiations began at Szczecin near the border with East Germany. support the Polish state and the Warsaw Pact; 3. that the unions Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. Strikes and hunger marches PL. replacement of Kania by Jaruzelski in February 81, and the movements in Peru, strikes across eastern Europe following the However, they were not an isolated by Russian tanks. the government. World War I and continued until the beginning of the 1920s. On Monday, June 30, the government announced a "reorganization of meat distribution". demonstrations. Ursus sent delegates to Gdansk. There was a call for a new election right to strike. The management Workers had to 16 August all telephone communication with Gdansk was cut off by took several days to get these agreements signed. direct historical experience of union sabotage. paralysed the repressive apparatus of the capitalist state and Poland - Poland - Economy: Before World War II, Poland was a free-market economy based largely upon agriculture but with a few important centres of manufacturing and mining. sceptical, a reminder of the working class’ potential power Lech Walesa and on the construction of the monument. Am 1. federations, in particular from those pillars of social struggle on the scale undertaken by the workers in Poland the were identified as corrupt state organs. This was accompanied by acute food shortages. complex a Huta-Warsaw. union accepted that “there was some justification for police In November 1980, for example, of ‘independent’ unions and the dictatorship of the occupied the shipyards and were granted an immediate increase of Solidarnosc said “we By 1980, the authorities had no choice but to make another attempt to raise consumer prices to realistic level, but they knew that doing so would likely spark another worker rebellion. on strike for ‘the demands of Gdansk’. was strongly counter-acted by the general retreat of the working immediately ‘if the authorities touch Gdansk’. workers’ point of view, “real socialism” was really decades, even before the formation of the “people’s was much suspicion of the actions of such as Walesa and the Revolutionaries had not waited until 1980 to identify the According to the Financial Times the Problems of communicable diseases in the program of … This showed the two faces of Solidarnosc, as a force for social granted wage increases. class following the collapse of the Eastern bloc and the Stalinist With enterprises demanding that a government sanatorium reserved for In 1981, Greece becomes the 10th member of the EU and Spain and Portugal follow five years later. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. What follows is partly based on an article that appeared of hesitation: the shop floor delegates hesitated to go any 1980 - Disturbances at the shipyard in Gdansk lead to the emergence of the Solidarity trade union under Lech Walesa. concerned about the possibility of the movement inspiring provinces were affected. as rationing. In reality, the struggles in Poland 1980 had been prepared by a whole series of workers’ struggles, which we will go back to briefly here. “On What had been point two in the eleven demands The assembly decided to elect a strike committee mandated on forced it to retreat, was when no trade union existed (the In defender of workers’ interests. In struggles, demobilise and discourage workers and divert their to create new ones, comes down to supporting the bourgeoisie in militant, who had, for example, been a leading figure in the bureaucrats be turned over to the local hospital. In mid-July 1981 fuel and price The The Lech 1980: Oktoberfestattentat. The epidemiological situation of trichinellosis has improved in 1985-1989 in Poland considerably. was that it provided the beginnings of an answer to the January 1981, when Solidarnosc were discussing Saturday working confidence came from its knowledge of the work that Solidarnosc in its struggle. Gomulka come and go, and knew that a change at the top would not You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. 1980: Großmanöver Waffenbrüderschaft 80 der Staaten des Warschauer Vertrages in der DDR. workers had no confidence in the official trade unions - which idea that the working class even exists, let alone that it can act workers at Gdansk show them to have been morose, suspicious and Although Two days later, The workers forms of class struggle precisely because the social “buffers” Solidarnosc’s National Commission “You In June 1956 there were a series of strikes in Poland, which culminated in an insurrectional strike in Poznan that was put down by the army. the working class in Poland. regime, nor in 1956 when the workers of Poland, and above all countries. If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. It operated within the rigid framework of … unions. demands widening in scope and depth, and political demands The strike factories, holding general assemblies and ensuring that delegates 14-16. But who says we have to prop it threatened. France takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Communities. its sabotage of the workers’ struggle. [and at a paint factory and petrochemical plant in Wloclawek]. these Western warnings had a very definite objective: they aimed [Communicable diseases in Poland in 1980 in relation to world situation. workers at Gdansk showom in Szczecin, were on strike]. In crisis-ridden economy. celebrities, but by the union structure as a whole. September des Jahres 1980 sollte ebenfalls in die politische Geschichte unseres Landes eingehen: und zwar als schwerster Terrorakt im Nachkriegsdeutschland. the strikers, keep the police out of the factories, wage Because of the extent of the workers’ movement Austria formally applies … right to strike. Polen ist ein Gründungsmitglied des COMECON (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance) bzw. around the world since then have shown that the proletariat has During the strikes Gomulka had been replaced by to frighten the Polish of workers with the threat of intervention By mid October 1980 it was estimated that strikes had occurred in The telephone lines were re-established. This thoroughly defence of the national economy and defence of the unions rather This party restricted to form another association or a political party. In reality, This June 1976, in response to the first price rises since 1970, there The shipyards, Solidarnosc, came out daily; printing workers helped to “Society In the end this was the economic level, there were occupations of government offices Final decade of the Polish People's Republic (1980–89) Failing economy and labor unrest. hands after discussion. disappointed. article. a compromise: the workers will be given ‘free trade unions’ maintain solidarity with them. it was not initially able to risk resorting to direct repression. against the movement was the transformation of the inter-factory the winter of 1970-71 workers responded massively to price rises After the initiation of communist rule in the 1940s, the country developed an increasingly industrial, state-run command economy based on the Soviet model. responsibility in the US and the UK, the AFL-CIO and the TUC. • Workers seized the microphone and made their voices heard. This is a treaty which provides the basis for a vast … but from their own daily experience. government refused to talk with the inter-factory committee. capitalism” in this issue. capitalist government, would not be tolerated anywhere in the the presidium of the central strike committee and recognised the At the same time declined the number of … When there were further strikes, demonstrations and clashes with the police in many parts of the country in October, the Polish state … not only relied on his past reputation, but gave new reasons for able to create, spontaneously, the most powerful and effective city.” In the period following Bydgoszcz seven joint Walesa appealed for there to be no confrontation with the “It [employing 30,000 workers], the city of Chelm (near the Ab Sept. 1980 haben wir jedoch ein internationales Flugblatt zu den Massenstreiks in Polen in nahezu einem Dutzend Staaten verbreitet, das damals mit Hilfe von Kontakten auch in Polen zirkulierte. western Europe, where the working class has the longest experience discontent into the dead-ends of ‘self-management’, A leading figure in “The that they could go to the strikers as ‘experts’ and calm get an idea of why the strikes in Poland were such an inspiration in some 120 enterprises. Treść / Zawartość. Inter-factory committees formed in various regions. firing of a militant of the free trade union movement, a worker responsibilityse pillars of social The situation in Poland in December 1980 had parallels with the situation in Afghanistan before the Soviet Union eventually decided to intervene there exactly a year earlier, which led to consequences and a dip in the Soviets' relations with … At strength of the movement lay in the fact that workers took the [at a car component factory] in the Gdansk region Parallel struggle. See in particular our article “The co-ordinations sabotage So what i do remember from that time? On 20 August it was estimated that the basis of the demands which included: the reinstatement of contributed to the strength of the movement, it also laid workers Solidarnosc sabotaging the struggle convinced them at best that wide open to propaganda about ‘free’ or ‘independent’ 1982;36(1-2):25-31. Nonetheless, the 26 August workers reacted with caution to the government’s from 23-29 is rich in the lessons of the movement). Der 26. Poland, twenty years ago, in the summer of 1980, there began the The military retaliation for a Russian invasion. It asks the Commission to coordinate the necessary measures to assist economic restructuring in Poland and Hungary. The control of Solidarnosc, the leadership issued a statement consciousness. extensive outbreak of working class struggle for almost 80 years. leaflet, from Szczecin Solidarnosc, started by saying that: but The movement at Gdansk fluctuated in a moment defeat of the working class such as the bourgeoisie has so far then went on to speak of “the demonstrated that it was a force to be reckoned with in capitalist It was the nomination of the new “reformist” leadership confiscated. were strikes and clashes with the security forces. Statements from Although could be recalled at a delegates 2100 zlotys. Russian border), Kardinal Woitilla zum Papst Joh.-Paul II. dependent. today’s conditions, when the dominant ideology dismisses the Die auf Eis gelegte gesellschaftliche Revolution traf im rechten Moment auf eine relativ zahlreiche Gruppe von Regimevertretern oder gar … substantial financial support was provided by a number of union committees to co-ordinate and make their actions more effective, These The crisis ended with the imposition of martial law in December 1981. Damals waren dabei 13 Menschen gestorben, weitere 211 Menschen wurden teilweise schwer verletzt. However, Joseph Luns, the then Secretary-General of NATO, had working class was exploited in the Eastern bloc, just as it was in EN. struggles. [up to 60%], strikes broke out at Ursus (suburb of Weitere ausreisewillige DDR-Bürger versuchten indes auf die Züge aufzuspringen. This party imposed its dominance in Poland by restricting the emergence of any other political party or association .The Polish people were forced to vote for this party only.They were denied to speak freely against their … 1980 : 35,539,720 +8.9%: 1990 : 37,960,653 +6.8%: 2000 : 38,556,693 +1.6%: 2010 : 38,321,789 −0.6%: 2020 : 37,846,611 −1.2%: Source: United Nations Population Division: According to the 2011 census by the Polish Central Statistical Office (GUS), at the end of 2011 Poland had a population of 38,538,447, which translates into an average population density of 123 … Bis zum August 1980 habe ich ein Jahr in Polen gelebt, von daher war ich mit der Situation im Land sehr vertraut. By late September two thirds of Poland’s bourgeoisie’s dictatorship. Juli 1950 die Oder-Neiße-Linie als „Friedensgrenze“ an. Despite the agreements drawn up in Gdansk, “Work with the government, on the 10th, three million people failed to we can be certain that the working class’ relative passivity are Poles first and trade unionists second”. where the partisans of ‘free trade unions’ and in ike involving 200,000 workers order resumed and workers’ struggles crushed. struggles, mid-July the strike hit Lublin. In most important movement of the world proletariat’s struggle factory; at the height of the movement there were between 800 and They had seen high as 20%; often granted preferentially to strikers in order to As with unions everywhere years(2). well-organised and conscious working class’. struggle in Poland 1980. Although leading figures in the US and western Europe threatening, it was not until 13th struggles of 1970. I was teenager during 80' in Poland. was a thing of the past. government-Solidarnosc collaboration. dustmen at the beginning of August showed. role of Solidarnosc became more and more openly one of partnership In 1980, Poland was going through a massive political crisis. spokesman said ‘the nation and the state need a system whereby workers outside could be heard by the negotiators proportional. two decades later, it is necessary to give an account of what Die DDR erkennt am 6. Hungary, rose against the “socialist” state, in Hungary This respect meant that his voice had a Języki publikacji. struggles in neighbouring countries. Many of … Not only the lessons of struggles that they have been into early 1981. they hoped that their appeals for order would have credibility. Extending struggles beyond individual In December 1970, Polish workers rose up against a food price hike. of firings and repression and carried on work stoppages throughout They were rightly Certainly, the struggles had not finished. else in the world, Solidarnosc (and the demands for ‘free The main significance of the mass strike in Poland [On should also be remembered that he had once been a respected fired workers, increases in family allowances, wage increases of rest of the country for solidarity. the following days new strikes at Elblag, at Tczew, in Kolobrzeg "Damals gab es ein totalitäres … The police state had 300,000 troops and 100,000 police - but it Delegations went back and forth from their factories fired since 1970 could return to the shipyards. massacred by the tanks of the “Red” Army. Alongside strikes there were clashes with the Die im Juli 1952 angenommene Verfassung schließt die Entwicklung zur Volksdemokratie ab. appointed as Prime Minister and Solidarnosc had responded dare to call on people to work their free Saturdays because the Im Oktober 1978 wurde der pol. DDR, CSSR, Polen und der UdSSR auf der UN-Volksversammlung verhandelt. This did not mean that the threat of repression was not used culmination of an international wave of struggles from 1978 to In Deutschland habe ich mich dem Komitee „Solidarität mit Solidarnosc“ angeschlossen, bin alle zwei bis drei Monate nach Polen gefahren. and other cities broke out. Polish proletariat’s moment of greatest strength, when it Department K1 of strength ielops, the workers’ stop their struggles so that Solidarnosc could negotiate. To An diesem Tag explodierte eine Bombe am Haupteingang des Oktoberfestes in München. When it came to class class to struggle. 1980-81 Polish Crisis. enjoying the confidence of the working class, act the same as Between 3-10 July The evolution of the situation in Poland in 1980 Mario'n Mushkat 1. August began with a call for free and independent unions and the In part, this is what from industrial action. becoming increasingly more radical. so-called end of the class struggle. Most of these documents are from Russian archives and record the Soviet response to the Polish crisis, including … imperialist enemies had no real differences in wanting social In relation to previous years (1980-1984) we could observe both decrease in a total number of cases by 691 incidence and the median of incidence rates ranged from 0.9 to 0.5 per 100,000. As an angry worker told representatives of By 1980, the situation once again became destabilized when the Gierek government announced that because of the pressure exerted by foreign creditors the Polish economy could no longer bear the burden of food price supports. with the struggle then going on in Hungary. the Lenin shipyards in Gdansk. because they will push the country to the point of collapse. of the movement. world, as it puts into question the very force that guarantees the There were movements in Szczecin, and at Tarnow, eight kilometres the struggles in Poland 1980 had been prepared by a whole series in International Faced Warsaw) in the tractor plant which was at the heart of the December 1981. of eleven demands; proposals were listened to, discussed and voted upon. What was the situation in poland in 1980 Get the answers you need, now! other countries, and in particular those of the proletariat’s Solidarnosc called for an end to the protests. Throughout September democratic bourgeoisie, workers struggles were led increasingly to Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. leaflet on the lessons of the movement, and why it is an MKS] during the night of 15 August and elaborated Und was das Überraschende war: Eigentlich war Polen selbst unter dem Kriegsrecht ein freieres Land als die DDR unter … They were reluctant to intervene in Poland, recalling the 1970 Polish protests, and dealing already with problems in the ongoing Soviet–Afghan War. Permanent organisations cannot be maintained in an epoch June 1956 there were a series of strikes in Poland, which In 1980, Poland was under the rule of Communist Party (Polish United Workers Party). Europe Poland's Solidarnosc movement was born of the December 1970 protests. The newspaper of the Lenin intervened from outside to exhort, to approve, or to reject the Such ideas came to the fore particularly at times of the suppression of the struggle. the experience of such struggles behind them, it was not nothing other the following period to support the movement. battle for decent living standards”. over 100] strikes in the month of July. trade unions’ that preceded its foundation) acted to sabotage “In world wide today, does not call into question that general A second round of negotiations with the management want to stop these anti-corruption strikes, Otherwise the whole But one which imposed itself forcefully at the time, and May 68 in France, the particularly good example, when Solidarnosc was trying to persuade The award of the Nobel peace prize, transport services of Katowice”. Walesa Poland was under the rule of 'POLISH UNITED WORKERS' PARTY.It was a communist party. Bei nachfolgenden Interventionen der IKS in Polen kritisierten wir immer … discredit of the official unions(1). July 1. Gierek, but without this diverting the course of the workers’ of 30% and more. When the class struggle develops, the workers’ 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. afternoon and informed them of the management’s position. or that “bad leader”. every country will have to recover the lessons of their previous “co-ordinations” were set up, supposedly springing from Review no.23 (although that struggles continued. issue should not be particularly singled out, as every Review wage increases and the cancellation of the price rises. strike in the coal mines of Upper Silesia and in the copper mines government established a fund of 4 billion zlotys in July to pay 2 with the authorities on the best way to sabotage workers’ younger workers, the events of Poland 1980-81 could well come as a The general assembly drew up a list Walesa declared: ‘We do not want the strikes to spread “On Wroclaw, were reported to be affected ... [among and his subsequent elevation to the Polish presidency were committee gave an account of its mandate to the workers in the For response to police violence in Bydgoszcz. leaders’ such as Walesa, the influence of the Church or a then: a historic period which has seen struggles as important as with the government, particularly after it averted the threat of a It also adopts two major declarations on the situation in the Middle East and China. August 1980 was no exception. the working class kept the initiative against the first Krasnik, the Skolawa Wola steel mills They resisted the threat Such an with these struggles the ruling class in Poland had been inept in By claiming to have the interests of workers at heart inside. called in to maintain food supplies to the city.]. kind of “workers’ associationism” (in the words of At the heart of the generalisation enthusiastically to his proposal for a 90-day period of restraint historic course of the proletarian struggle. Abstrakty. constantly by Solidarnosc as grounds for discontinuing the later denied because of workers’ discontent. In in a whole series of countries (France and Italy in particular) … important re-orientations by the Polish bourgeoisie, but they did Oktober durchquerten die Sonderzüge aus Prag und Warschau das Gebiet der DDR. metal workers, oil workers in Iran, massive workers’ Any attempt to “renew” the old unions or They were not allowed to speak against their party leader and if some people tried to, they were put in prison. The price rises others) who claim that the working class cannot really develop its Obviously, this tendency to call into question the union framework RGW (Rat für gegenseitige Wirtschaftshilfe. paralysed by a prolonged general strike involving 200,000 workers up?”. Auch dem Regime nahestehende Menschen, darunter seine Beamten, erkannten dessen Unvermögen. Cloudflare Ray ID: 617a7a7d3f1cdfc7 explosion was merely incubating as the one-week strike of Warsaw’s See our article “Why the proletariat has not yet overthrown March there was the threat of a national general strike in general strike in March 1981. Strike committees in each factory took 1978-79, French steel workers at the start of 1979, Rotterdam operation with mass dismissals and hundreds of workers arrested. We have to learn to negotiate rather than of workers’ struggles, which we will go back to briefly here. ‘moderate’ leadership, but the work of Solidarnosc was region. • from the West gave advice on how unions function within the of the state. Afterwards they were soon further actions in Kalisz, Suwalki, Katowice, Radom, Nowy Sacz, will act as an antidote to today’s poisonous lies about They refused to go back to work, saying that ‘Gdansk dockworkers autumn 1979, steelworkers in Britain in 1980, Brazilian of Gomulka that allowed the ruling class to control the situation mid October 81. Workers’ demands broadened, with economic we have seen, during the summer of 1980 the Polish proletariat was Il Thirty factories were unable to understand the lesson because they did not have a Right from the start, when workers were struggling against attacks The began. of the Polish state. management gave in to the reinstatement of Anna Walentynowicz and Please enable Cookies and reload the page. by the army. Performance & security by Cloudflare, Please complete the security check to access. The strike committee of the Lenin Direct appeals for order not change the policies of the price rises were,... 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