Robotnik

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Robotnik is the generic Czech word for serf or peasant

Robotnik is also the generic Polish word for worker. As such, it was used as the name of a number of leftist publications throughout the 19th and 20th centuries:

• Robotnik (1890–1899), an organ of Social-Democratic Party of Galicia, published in Lwów
• Robotnik (1894–1939), a newspaper of Piłsudski's Polish Socialist Party
• Robotnik Polski (1940–1950), the name of two newspapers published for the Polish workers in France and the United Kingdom
• Robotnik (1942–1945), a biweekly (later weekly) underground magazine of the Socialist Party, published in Warsaw
• Robotnik (1943–1944), a notable underground newspaper (published several times a week) by the PPS-WRN party, issued daily during the Warsaw Uprising
• Robotnik (1944), a short-lived underground newspaper, organ of one of the factions of the communists led by Adam Próchnik and Edward Osóbka-Morawski
• Robotnik (1944–), the organ of the Polish Workers Party, first published in Lublin, then in Lwów. In 1948 it was moved to Warsaw and renamed Trybuna Ludu, which was the main organ of the Polish United Workers Party. Since 1990, the newspaper been named Trybuna
• Robotnik (1950–), emigree newspaper published in London; formed by Adam Ciołkosz as a merger of two previously-existing Robotnik Polski newspapers
• Robotnik (1977–1981), an underground newspaper led by the Komitet Obrony Robotników movement. Led by Jan Lityński, the Robotnik reached a peak circulation of 60,000 in 1980
• Robotnik (1983–1990), an underground newspaper published by the left wing of the Solidarity movement and later by the reborn Polish Socialist Party

Robotnik can also refer to:

• Robotnik, a Nottingham-based textile printing company from 1983 to 1990
• Dr. Ivo Robotnik, also known as Doctor Eggman, the main antagonist of the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series
  • Professor Gerald Robotnik, the grandfather of Doctor Eggman
  • Maria Robotnik, the granddaughter of Gerald Robotnik, and the cousin of Doctor Eggman