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![[Soldarnosc flag]](../images/p/pl}solid.gif)
image by Antonio Martins, 11 May 1999
Solidarność: Lech Walesa's party which struggled for liberty: Polish
flag with the Solidarność signature on the white stripe.
Luc Baronian, 18 May 1999
"Solidarnosc" ("Solidarity") is not the party, but trade union. The
full name is: Niezalezny Samorzadny Zwiazek Zawodowy "Solidarnosc"
(Independent Self-Governing Trade Union "Solidarity"). Created 1980.
Flag of "Solidarity" is plain white with the signature. White-red bicolor
with signature on white stripe might be used during
anti-communist demonstrations in 1980-es, but was never official flag
of "Solidarity".
Grzegorz Skrukwa, 2 Aug 2001
![[Solidarnosz other flag]](../images/p/pl}soli2.gif)
image by Adam Kromer, from his
website.
![[Polish Federation of Labour Unions flag]](../images/p/pl}opzz.gif)
image by Adam Kromer, from his
website.
![[PZPR flag]](../images/p/pl}pzpr.gif)
image by Grzegorz Skrukwa, 6 Apr 2002
Flags of political parties under communist regime in Poland 1948-1989
Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza, PZPR (Polish United Workerś
Party, i.e. communist party) had plain red flag. Called "workerś movement
flag" or "international workerś movement flag".
Grzegorz Skrukwa, 6 Apr 2002
![[Silesian Autonomy Movement]](../images/p/pl}sam.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 28 Aug 2002
Ruch Autonomii Śląska (Czech: Hnutí autonomie Slezska;
English: Silesian Autonomy Movement)
The homepage of this party was
last updated in 2001, just before the 2001 elections in Poland, where it
presented four candidates as Members of Parliament. The movement wants
the reunion of all Silesias in Poland, Germany and Czechia (8 million inhabitants
on 44.000 km2.)
On its page
with photographs are several flags:
- hor NRW 1:2:1 (probably students union)
- hor YB with Coat of Arms in the center (Coat of Arms, probably yellow Silesian eagle
on blue, hardly visible) - Landmannschaft's Fahne?
- Blue field with yellow capitals RUCH AUTONOMII ŚLĄSKA.
- Blue field with yellow sun; flying through the sun a black swallow.
(that's also the party's logo)
Jarig Bakker, 28 Aug 2002
An article
about the autonomy of this region of Poland.
Can anyone identify the two flags? I don't recognize the exact eagle
design on the yellow/blue flag.
Johnny Andersson, 20 May 2008
The flags pictured are of Lower Silesia (Dolny Slask-Niederschlesien)
-white over yellow - and Upper Silesia (Górny Slask-Oberschlesien) -yellow
over blue, with or without respective arms.
The gold eagle on blue shield with the scythe and the coal minerś
tools is a traditional emblem of Upper Silesia.
The article is about the demonstration in Warsaw by the Silesian Autonomy
Movement (Ruch Autonomii Slaska) in support of the autonomy for Silesia
and also about the Silesian autonomy question in general.
The Silesian Autonomy Movement's flag is shown above.
Wikipedia presents a very good articles on Silesia and Silesian Autonomy
Movement here and here.
It should be stressed it is not a separatist movement, rather for the
re-establishment of the autonomy that Polish part of Upper Silesia enjoyed
in the inter-war years. The movement is relatively small, although growing,
and with the member of the minority at the helm of the government in Poland
now (Donald Tusk - a Kashubian) with
prospects for the better understanding in Warsaw.
The gold eagle alone on the blue shield is a symbol of the Silesian
Voivodship (Województwo Śląskie) in Poland and, presumably, also
a symbol of all Silesia envisioned as a autonomous territory by the Silesian
Autonomous Movement and including entire Opole Voivodship and the lion
part of the Silesian Voivodship up to Czestochowa.
Chrystian Kretowicz, 21 May 2008
![[New Left party flag]](../images/p/pl}nl.gif)
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 13 Jul 2009
New Left (Polish: Nowa Lewica), founded in 2003, is an alter-globalist
Socialist party [1]. Its flag, as shown at the party website [2] and a
gallery of photos from 01-05-2008 demonstrations [3], has party name inscribed
in two rows in white, all letters lowercase, on red field.
The typeface used is Arial Black. The flag can also be seen at websites
of numerous other parties and organizations which frequently co-operate
with the New Left (the cited sources are only those related to the party
itself).
Sources:
[1] Wikipedia
page about the New Left (in Polish).
[2] New Left website.
[3] 01-05-2008 demonstrations photo
gallery.
Tomislav Todorovic, 13 Jul 2009
![[ZSL flag]](../images/p/pl}zsl.gif)
image by Grzegorz Skrukwa, 6 Apr 2002
Two other parties were de facto puppets.
Zjednoczone Stronnictwo Ludowe, ZSL (United Peasantś Party)
had plain green flag. Seen rarely.
Stronnictwo Demokratyczne, SD (Democratic Party) didn't have
own flag.
Grzegorz Skrukwa, 6 Apr 2002
![[UPR flag]](../images/p/pl}upr.gif)
image by Antonio Martins, 8 Jul 1999
UPR is Unia Polityki Realnej, a Conservative Liberal Party in
Poland. Its flag is at this
URL:
Jarig Bakker, 5 Jun 1999
![[UPR flag]](../images/p/pl}cdd.gif)
image by Jens Pattke, 24 Dec 2015
The Committee for the Defence of Democracy (Polish: Komitet Obrony Demokracji, KOD) is a Polish citizens' organization founded in November 2015.
Mateusz Kijowski is the founder of the organization, which gained more than 75,000 supporters on Facebook in the first month of its existence. KOD follows the tradition of the former anti-communist Workers' Defence Committee (Polish: Komitet Obrony Robotników, KOR), established in 1976, a precursor of the Solidarity movement that led to the downfall of the communist regime. The Committee is not affiliated with any political party; its members come from a broad range of the political spectrum, with the exception of the PiS and Kukiz'15 parties as well as the extreme right wing groups.
KOD was formed in opposition to actions taken by the governing party, Law and Justice (Polish: Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS), which in October 2015 became the first party in post-communist Polish history to control an absolute majority of the seats in the Polish Parliament and the Presidency at the same time. ...
The flag is white with the logo of KOD.
Jens Pattke, 24 Dec 2015