The biggest class battles of the last ten years have recently taken place in Poland. We must learn as much as we can from the advances and limitations of these struggles. The first lesson is that the ...

Niagara Falls lit in white and red, the colors of Poland’s flag. A digital display on the NASDAQ building in New York’s Times Square. White and red animations with the Solidarity logo on the buildings ...

Poland: A Changing Nation is a TV documentary on Poland's labor crisis, produced and narrated by Mary Nissenson, that aired on NBC from August 29 to October 3, 1980.

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 Poland in ...

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 Mehring ...

During the season of its first flower­ing, at the outset of this decade, Halina Bortnowska, one of the foremost theorists of Polish Soli­darity, characterized the move­ment as an expression of the ...

One day in the late 1980s, a woman showed up to the art gallery that Brian and Teresa McMahon ran on the main floor of their Brooklyn rowhouse. Throughout the ’80s, the McMahons’ home gallery had ...

At the start of the 1950s, the then-secretary of the International Secretariat of the Fourth International, Michel Pablo, with the support of Ernest Mandel, developed the perspective that the ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- The man who confessed to killing the husband and mother of U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow left his native Poland in the early 1980s after he was denied an apartment and job ...

A law banning most abortions set off Poland’s biggest demonstrations since the fall of communism. Although the law is delayed indefinitely, that hasn’t satisfied protesters. By Monika Pronczuk In the ...