Crisis in Poland following labor strikes and formation of the Polish trade union Solidarity. Fall of communist party Chief Edward Gierek and his replacement by Stanislaw Kania. Gierek during a television address. Kania during a Parliament Session address. Gierek and Kania arrive in a black Mercedes W123 car and walk inside a building.
Crisis in Poland around time of Martial Law by its Military Government. Polish trade union Solidarity leader Lech Walesa enters a building with other solidarity leaders. Holy cards with images of the Polish Black Madonna of Częstochowa (Our Lady of Częstochowa) are distributed to civilians lined outside the building. Walesa during meeting with a priest. Civilians buy eatables from a shop in the market. Solidarity posters at the shop.
Crisis in Poland after the imposition of Martial Law by its Military Government. Number of civilians enters a factory building. Signboard at the top of the building's entrance. Solidarity flags inside the building and solidarity leaders talk to civilians. Tractors under manufacturing at the factory.
Crisis in Poland around time of imposition of Martial Law by its Military Government. A judge in court during trial of solidarity party people. The judge reads his verdict from his bench. Press photographers take photos of the trials. Lech Walesa and other solidarity leaders talk to each other at the court premises.
Crisis in Poland around time of imposition of Martial Law by its Military Government. Workers call a strike against the martial law imposition. Workers inside a tractor manufacturing factory process tractors. Workers demonstrate outside the factory gates. They wave flags and raise banners. Solidarity leader Lech Walesa addresses a huge crowd of workers. A man walks by fire brigades ready at a fire station. Album photographs of people killed in violence. A woman during the mourning assembly for those died in violence.
Crisis in Poland around time of mposition of Martial Law by its Military Government. Stanislaw Kania replaced by General Wojciech Jaruzelski during an official communist party meeting. Military trucks and cars get fuel from a fuel pump. Kania addresses a parliamentary session and declares his resignation. General Jaruzelski and other leaders during the session. General Jaruzelski presents medals to communist party leaders. He declares martial law in the name of Military Council of National Salvation.