Solidarity’s Original Program, 1981Link
Calling for a “new socioeconomic system,” the illegal Polish union Solidarity outlined its economic program at its first national congress in Gdańsk, Poland and called for a system of democratic workers’ co-operatives. Note: This is a different translation than the one cited in the book, as that version is not available online.
Time Magazine’s Man of the Year Profile on Lech Walesa, January 1982Link
This lengthy profile of Lech Walesa discusses the origin of Solidarity and the union’s struggles in the early 1980s.
Leszek Balcerowicz’s Obituary for Milton Friedman, November 2006Link
Leszek Balcerowicz, the former deputy prime minister who oversaw Poland’s transition to capitalism, writes, “I live in a Poland that is now free, and I consider Milton Friedman to be one of the main intellectual architects of our liberty.”
Henry Kissinger, “The Caricature of Deng as a Tyrant is Unfair,” 1989Link
In an opinion piece for the Washington Post, Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger defends Deng Xioping just two months after the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Twenty-Five Years of Solidarity – From Workers Revolution to Capitalism, 2005Link
Polish journalist Przemyslaw Wielgosz traces the history of Solidarity and concludes that the "restoration of capitalism in Poland has created a social wasteland."