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Text includes demands of the striking workers including the right to self-govern.

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Text refers to the demand of Solidarity for the establishment of the farmer branch in 1981.

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Image refers to the establishment of the farmer branch of Solidarity in 1981.

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A poster promoting the farming branch of Solidarity with a satirical drawing of the individual farmer carrying the cross of farming bureaucracy ("contracting", "subsidies", "purchase taxes") on his back.

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A poster announcing a striek of the farming branch of Solidarity dated 2.01.1981.

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Satirical poster depicting a worker "cleaning" his workspace, with a wheelbarrow full of ZOMO police, and political figures such as the then president Wojciech Jaruzelski.

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A "special statement" made by one of the leaders of Solidarnosc and later first freely elected president of Poland Lech Walesa. Issued days before the announcement of martial law in Poland, the statement calls for all cells of Solidarnosc to stop the strike.

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Text refers to a warnign strike in October 1981 with the worker demands including an end to political repressions and improvement in food supply.

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Satirical image and text refer to party bosses who refuse to recognize their working-class origin and side with the workers.

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An anti-censorship poster referring to the history of Poland in the 18th century when it was divided between Austria, Germany, and the Russian Empire, using the heraldry of Russia and Germany.

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Two ersions in red and black of a "Poland Under Construction" poster, likely from the period of Martial Law (1981-1983), when civil liberties were curtailed and travel to and from Poland restricted.

Scope and Contents A poster demanding the release of the members of the Confederation of Independent Poland (KPN; Kondfederacji Polski Niepodleglej), the right wing of the Polish opposition. Founded in 1979, the group seems to have been loosley connected with Solidarnosc, with this poster using the logo of the union. The poster lists the members of KPN who were all detained during the Martial Law including the KPN founder Leszek Moczulski, as well as Tadeusz Jandziszak, Wojsiech Ziembinski, Tadeusz Stanski,...

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Text and image referring to the false promises of the Polish communist party shown as marching in circles.

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An announcement of a 190th anniversary of the constitution of May 3rd 1791. The constitution was in place for only 19 months and was eventually abandoned due to the pressure from the Russian Empire led by Catherine the Great.

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Text refers to the erection and sanctification of a monument for the victims of government violence against protesters in Gdansk in 1970.

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An announcement of a country-wide warning strike to be held on March 27th 1981. This strike, organzied to protest the beatings of Solidarity activists in Bydgoszcz, became the largest strike in the history of the Soviet Block, with an estimated 14 million Poles taking part.