August Agreements
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The August Agreements was a set of four accords reached between the government of the Polish People's Republic and the striking shipyard workers in Poland following the 1980 Polish strikes. The accord
Gdańsk Shipyard's gate during the strike of 1980; Lech Wałęsa speaks
Lenin Shipyard employees on strike in August 1980
Citizens of Gdańsk gathered outside the gate to the Lenin Shipyard during the strike in August 1980
Government delegates: Mieczysław Jagielski and Tadeusz Fiszbach and Klemens Gniech (Lenin Shipyard manager) arriving for negotiations with MKS, 21 August 1980
Polish United Workers' Party
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The Polish United Workers' Party was the communist party which ruled the Polish People's Republic as a one-party state from 1948 to 1989. The PZPR had led two other legally permitted subordinate minor
Statute of the Polish United Workers' Party, 1956 edition
Crowds gathered in front of the main building of Warsaw University of Technology for the Unification Congress of the Polish Workers' Party and Polish Socialist Party (15 to 21 December 1948)
Bolesław Gebert addresses the Unification Congress of the PPR and PPS, December 1948
Władysław Gomułka, at the height of his popularity, on 24 October 1956, addressing hundreds of thousands of people in Warsaw, asked for an end to demonstrations and a return to work. "United with the working class and the nation", he concluded, "the Party will lead Poland along a new way of socialism".