memory of the events was preserved by the participants and members of opposition. After the Gdańsk Agreement in 1980, the Solidarity movement, as one of its first actions decided to raise a monument in memory of the Poznań June 1956 events. Many historians consider the Poznań 1956 protests to be an important milestone in modern history of Poland, and one of the events that precipitated the fall of communism in Poland. Nonetheless, the protests of 1956 were not motivated by anti-communist ideology; the workers' demands were mostly of an economic nature, centering around better work conditions rather than any political objectives. The workers sang "The Internationale" and their banners read "We demand bread." It was the government's consistent failure to fulfil the first demand which eventually led to the demands for political change, but even during the history of Solidarity few demanded wide political reforms. Commemoration On 21 June 2006, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the events, the Polish parliament Sejm declared 28 June to be a national holiday in Poland; the Day of Remembrance of the Poznań June 1956. See also Poznań '56, a 1996 film Plzeň uprising of 1953, violent protest of workers in Czechoslovakia Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Polish 1970 protests References Further reading Curp, T. David. "The Revolution Betrayed? The Poznan Revolt and the Polish Road to Nationalist Socialism." The Polish Review 51.3/4 (2006): 307–324. online Kemp-Welch, Tony. "Dethroning Stalin: Poland 1956 and its legacy." Europe-Asia Studies 58.8 (2006): 1261–1284. Online Kramer, Mark. "The Soviet Union and the 1956 Crises in Hungary and Poland: Reassessments and New Findings." Journal of Contemporary History 33.2 (1998): 163–214. Machcewicz, Paweł. Rebellious Satellite: Poland, 1956 (Stanford University Press, 2009). "Poznan Workers' Riots: Poland 1956" in Neil Schlager, ed. St. James encyclopedia of labor history worldwide (2 vol, 2004) 2:144–147. In Polish Piotr Grzelczak, Poznański Czerwiec 1956. Walka o pamięć w latach 1956-1989 [Poznań June 1956. Struggle for memory, 1956-1989], Poznań 2016 Stanisław Jankowiak, Paweł Machcewicz, Agnieszka Rogulska, "Zranione miasto : Poznań w czerwcu 1956 r.", Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, 2003 Łukasz Jastrząb, "Rozstrzelano moje serce w Poznaniu. Poznański Czerwiec 1956 r. – straty osobowe i ich analiza", Wydawnictwo Comandor, Warszawa 2006, Norbert Wójtowicz, Ofiary "Poznańskiego Czerwca", Rok 1956 na Węgrzech i w Polsce. Materiały z węgiersko–polskiego seminarium. Wrocław październik 1996, ed. Łukasz Andrzej Kamiński, Wrocław 1996, p. 32–41. External links Poznań – Budapest – 1956 (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of