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Solidarity. The Reconstruction
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Solidarity. The Reconstruction

“Solidarity. The Reconstruction” is a theatre (performance) project based on the transcripts of the 1st National Congress of the Solidarity Delegates, held in Gdańsk in 1981.

As such, the project presents Solidarity as a flat organisation, applying the rules of a direct democracy and being created by its 10 million members across Poland rather than by the union elites and their advisors from Warsaw.

The project also presents the union’s programme declaration – “The Self-Governing Republic”. The declaration was recalling the idea of a political and economic self-governance as well as laying out a different and alternative vision of Poland. It was a vision of a state founded on principles such as self-managed enterprises, equal access to public services, environmental protection and social development through art and education. The project is also a reminder of the fact that the Solidarity actions were part of an international union and political movement demanding autonomy and self-governance in economy, as well as political and social extents. Such a movement was active both in the countries of state socialism and in the capitalist ones, not only in Eastern Europe but across the world. There was a reason behind the Italian workers of Autonomia Operaia shouting “Gdańsk and Szczecin yesterday, Turin and Milan today”, while on strike in 1981. 

“Solidarity. The Reconstruction” is not a historical project though. The goal of its creators is to offer present-day economic and political alternatives. In view of the fall of the neoliberal capitalism, the 2007-2008 financial crisis, the Middle East and North Africa conflicts escalation, the European migration policy crisis and the rise of the right-wing populism, those alternatives might turn into propositions of a systemic change going beyond both the compromised neoliberal capitalism and the poor answers to the negative globalisation effects that nationalism and isolationism are.

Here in the theatre and also far beyond it, it is necessary to evaluate and establish a new, democratic and equal political project. That is at stake now - a project proposing a fair world to all, that might be able to prevent further conflicts and tensions. There is one Polish experience that sets the economic and political objectives quite there – and it is the experience of Solidarity.   

 

 

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