Workers' Defense Committee

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The Workers' Defense Committee was a Polish dissident organization formed in the 1970s to support persecuted workers and became a key precursor to the Solidarity movement and the broader democratic opposition to communist rule in Poland.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf dissident organization
non-governmental organization
opposition organization
country Poland
dissolved late 1970s
fieldOfWork civil liberties
human rights
workers' rights
followedBy Committee for Social Self-Defense KOR NERFINISHED
foundedAfter June 1976 workers' protests
ideology democratic opposition to communism
inception 1976
influenced Committee for Social Self-Defense KOR NERFINISHED
Solidarity NERFINISHED
language Polish
location Warsaw NERFINISHED
movement Polish democratic opposition
Solidarity movement precursor
nativeName Komitet Obrony Robotników NERFINISHED
notableMember Adam Michnik NERFINISHED
Andrzej Celiński NERFINISHED
Aniela Steinsbergowa NERFINISHED
Antoni Macierewicz NERFINISHED
Bogdan Borusewicz NERFINISHED
Henryk Wujec NERFINISHED
Jacek Kuroń NERFINISHED
Jan Józef Lipski NERFINISHED
Józef Śreniowski NERFINISHED
Kaja Godek NERFINISHED
Karol Modzelewski NERFINISHED
Ludwik Dorn NERFINISHED
Piotr Naimski NERFINISHED
Zofia Romaszewska NERFINISHED
operatedInPoliticalSystem Polish People's Republic NERFINISHED
opposedTo Polish United Workers' Party NERFINISHED
communist rule in Poland
precededBy individual dissident initiatives in Poland
purpose defend human rights
provide financial aid to workers
provide legal aid to workers
support persecuted workers
reorganizedAs Committee for Social Self-Defense KOR NERFINISHED
shortName KOR NERFINISHED
significantEvent June 1976 protests in Poland NERFINISHED
usedMethod fundraising
legal defense
public appeals
samizdat
underground publishing

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Jacek Kuroń politicalAffiliation Workers' Defense Committee
Jacek Kuroń coFounded Workers' Defense Committee
Jacek Kuroń memberOf Workers' Defense Committee
Petr Uhl memberOf Workers' Defense Committee
this entity surface form: Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Prosecuted