"Beware of the Bomb!": An Account

Abstract

Jerzy Adamczyk’s narrative was recorded in the middle of the last decade in the form of an audio file (currently in the author’s possession) at the request of his family. However, it has been edited to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the death of this witness to history, who was one of the members of Fighting Solidarity and the co-founder of its “Feniks” Independent Workers’ Publishing House. From Adamczyk’s recollections, we can learn a lot about how the introduction of martial law in Wrocław was viewed from the perspective of the socalled intellectual worker; about how great a challenge creating a free trade union from scratch in a non-productive establishment was; and, finally, about how those days were at times ridiculous and other times dramatic. The bitter reflections of Jerzy Adamczyk on the political and economic situation of Poland at the beginning of the twenty-first century appear as a summation of his narrative.

Keywords

• fighting solidarity
• martial law
• “feniks” independent workers’ publishing house