SOLIDARITY. Hunger marches: Photo Memories. Lodz/Grudziąc [1981].

Set of 10 photos. Format:9x14cm.

Poor supply of stores, coupled with the government's decision on July 23 to reduce ration cards for meat with a simultaneous increase in food prices, resulted in the organization of so-called hunger marches across the country in late July 1981, coordinated by trade unionists from the Solidarity Trade Union .

Hunger Marches in Poland in 1981 - marches that took place in many Polish cities in late July and early August 1981, an expression of protest against the deteriorating food supply in stores caused by the growing economic crisis in the People's Republic of Poland.