As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Łódź" id="mwAQ8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Łódź">Łódź</a> to <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_1981_hunger_demonstrations_in_Poland" id="mwARA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Summer 1981 hunger demonstrations in Poland">protest</a> food ration shortages in <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Republic_of_Poland" id="mwARE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="People's Republic of Poland">Communist Poland</a>.