1. Age of Extremes 
   The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1994   Published: 1997
   A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
2. At the Lenin Shipyards
   Poland and the Rise of the Solidarity Trade Union
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1981
   A first-hand account of the rise of the Solidarity trade union in Poland.
3. Break Their Haughty Power 
   Resource Type: Website
   Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective.
   
4. Building the Ark - small scale farming in Poland for a green future
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   Poland is the front line for Europe's small scale family farming, under assault from the EU regulations, corporate agribusiness, and a hostile government. A popular campaign is fighting back from its base deep in the Polish countryside, a small organic farm that's developing new green technologies to enhance the sustainability of small farms everywhere.
5. The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I 
   Economic Writings 1
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2013
   This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labour, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
6. Connexions Library: Europe Focus
   Resource Type: Website
   First Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Europe.
7. Embassy Row Online
   Resource Type: Website
   Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
8. Expulsion of Poles by Germany
   Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
   Resource Type: Article
   
9. Fighting fracking in Poland: the farmers resistance movement
   An improverished farming community in Zurawlow is using creative tactics to stop Chevron's shale gas plans
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014
   When Chevron arrived in Zurawlów, a small village in Poland's rural Grabowiec county, it was like a UFO landing in the open wheat fields. In June last year a high-tech surveillance caravan appeared in the village to stake the firm's claim to the shale gas below.
10. Foreword to the Anthology: The Polish Question and the Socialist Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1905
    Luxemburg argues that "the proletariat the Poland can and must fight for the defense of national identity as a cultural legacy, that has its own right to exist and flourish." But she maintains that "our national identity cannot be defended by national separatism; it can only be secured through the struggle to overthrow despotism" throughout the entire country [i.e. Russia, of which Poland was a part].
11. Free To Hate
    The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    
12. The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945
    Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    A thorough portrayal of the plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures of the opposition to Hitler.
13. In Memory of the Proletariat Party
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1903
    
14. The Industrial Development of Poland
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1898
    First published in 1898, under the title Die Industrielle Entwicklung Polens.
15. The Invading Socialist Society
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1947
    History has shown that in moments of great social crisis, its farthest flights fall short of the reality of the proletarian revolution. Never was the proletariat so ready for the revolutionary struggle, never was the need for it so great, never was it more certain that the proletarian upheaval, however long delayed, will only the more certainly take humanity forward in the greatest leap forward it has hitherto made. The periods of retreat, of quiescence, of inevitable defeats are mere episodes in the face of the absolute nature of the crisis.
16. Inventing Reality 
    The Politics of News Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
17. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
18. The Life of Death: An Exchange 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1985
    The really great form of courage and honesty that could be witnessed under the conditions of the Holocaust was when a Pole opposed the opinion or the silence of other Poles, when a Jew opposed other Jews, and when Germans opposed other Germans or Nazism in general. This is the type of courage which we should learn about and emulate.
19. Luxemburg, Rosa - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919).
20. Marx at the Margins 
    On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010   Published: 2016
    Marx’s critique of capital was far broader than is usually supposed. To be sure, he concentrated on the labor-capital relation within Western Europe and North America. But at the same time, he expended considerable time and energy on the analysis of non-Western societies, as well as race, ethnicity, and nationalism.
21. The National Question 
    Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    In her penetrating analysis of nationalism, Rosa Luxemburg argues that the formula of "the right of nations to self-determination" is essentially not a political or programmatic guide to the nationality question, but only a means of avoiding that question.
22. Occupy agriculture! Polish farmers sit in for land and freedom
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    At the heart of Poland's capital, Warsaw, farmers have founded a flourishing encampment known as the 'Green City', writes Julian Rose. It's a focus of protest against the sell-off of their land to agribusiness, the arrival of GMO crops, and the imposition of a failed 'Western' model of farming that's creating huge corporate profits while debasing food and bankrupting small farmers.
23. On the Polish Question
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1848
    It is above all our Germany which ought to congratulate itself on this explosion of democratic passion in Poland. We are, ourselves, on the eve of a democratic revolution. enceforth the German people and the Polish people are irrevocably allied. We have the same enemies, the same oppressors.
24. Our Generation
    Volume 3 Number 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1965
    Special Issue on Unilateralism
25. Our Generation
    Volume 21 Number 1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    
26. Our Generation
    Volume 21 Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
27. A People's History of the World 
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
28. Pilecki, Witold
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A member of the Polish resistance and the only known person to volunteer to be imprisoned at Auschwitz concentration camp. (1901-1948).
29. Poland: 1970-71
    Capitalism and Class Struggle
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    
30. Poland 1980-82
    Class Struggle and the Crisis of Capital
    Resource Type: Book
    Henri Simon captures the drama, the hopes and disappointments of workers' rebellions in Polish industrial cities in the early 1980s. This is a document of politicians practicing their skill at manipulation.
31. The Polish March: students, workers, and 1968
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The first student uprising in 1968, year of millennial hopes and young insurrections, took place in Warsaw. But the west's media commemorations of 1968 - selective, supercilious about such idealism, and yet faintly nervous in case a new generation feels tempted into imitation - overlook Poland entirely.
32. The Polish Question at the International Congress in London
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1896
    
33. Polish underground press
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Underground newspaper with a long history of combatting censorship.
34. Post-Modernism Meets the IMF: The Case of Poland
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    The historical experience of Stalinism has delayed by decades, perhaps generations, the maturation of the historical project, first elaborated by Marx, of a positive supercession of the formal juridical universality of "civil", or bourgeois society, and the commodity status of labor power in that society upon which it rests. Nothing illustrates the weight of the albatross of Stalinism better than Polish society in the past decade.
35. The Problem of Nationality and Autonomy 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1908
    Rosa Luxemburg on the national question, federalism, autonomy, and the right of nations to self-determination.
36. Recovering Nonviolent History
    Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Essays showing, in considerable detail, the varied roles played by civil resistance in fifteen liberation struggles in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.
37. Red Rosa 
    A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. Red Rosa gives Luxemburg her due as a radical and human being. In this beautifully drawn work of graphic biography, writer and artist Kate Evans has opened up her subject’s intellectual world to a new audience, grounding Luxemburg’s ideas in the realities of an inspirational and deeply affecting life.
38. The Road to Gdansk
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
    
39. Rosa Luxemburg
    Abridged Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1966   Published: 1969
    A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
    
40. The Rosa Luxemburg Reader 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
41. '68: The Year of the Barricades 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
42. Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A Marxist political party founded in 1893.
43. The Socialist Register 1977
    Volume 14: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    
44. The Socialist Register 1978
    Volume 15: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
    
45. The Socialist Register 1981
    Volume 18: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    
46. Socialist Register 1991
    Volume 27: Communist Regimes the Aftermath
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
    
47. Solidarity (Polish trade union)
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A Polish trade union federation founded in September 1980, the first non-communist party-controlled trade union in a Warsaw Pact country.
48. Solidarnosc (Solidarity)
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Polish trade union.
49. 25 Years After the Gdansk Uprising
    Against The Current vol. 121
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Suzi Weissman interviews David Ost. The occupation of the Gdansk shipyard by Polish workers in 1980, demanding recognition of their independent trade union Solidarnosc, rocked the Eastern bloc and inspired the world. A quarter century later, Communist rule is only a bad memory but the present realities for the Polish working class are a grim choice between neoliberalism and reactionary psedo-populism. The following interview with David Ost, conducted by Suzi Weissman November 28, 2005 for her radio program “Beneath the Surface” on KPFK in Los Angeles (90.7 FM), explores what’s happened to post-Solidarity Poland. It has been edited for publication here.
50. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German occupied Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany's effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to Treblinka extermination camp.
51. The Warsaw rising
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    
52. Warsaw Uprising
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A struggle by the Polish Home Army to liberate Warsaw from Nazi German occupation during World War II.
53. What have the working classes to do with Poland?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1866
    Engels wrote these articles after controversy developed at the 1865 London conference of the International concerning including a demand for Poland's independence in the upcoming Geneva Congress. In order to substantiate the position of the Central Committee on the "nationalities question," it was necessary to deal with 1) the Proudhonists who contended politics and national liberation movements have nothing to do with the working class, indeed, detracted from real working class issues, and 2) reveal the demagogic essence of the so-called "principle of nationalities" that helped the Bonapartists make use of national movements for their own political ends.
54. What is Lost in Poles' Memories
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Trukhachev reflects on Polish attempts to re-write the history of the Second World War.
55. Zwiazek Organizacji Wojskowej
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    An underground resistance organization formed by Witold Pilecki at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940.

Experts on Polen in the Sources Directory

1. European Union
2. International Centre for Migration Policy Development
3. NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
4. United Nations
5. Wikileaks