The text is about the process of liquidation of Workers’ Publishing Collective “Prasa-Książka-Ruch”, which had been a particularly important element of political system in The Polish People’s Republic. The author says that this subject is not widely presented in the literature. Furthermore, she claims that for proper understanding of dismantling, she had met with the former last chairman of the Collective. Those meetings had given her a chance to write about aspects which hasn’t often been presented in the literature. The text presents all the aspects and ways of liquidation but also shows main disadvantages of this process. Main signifi cation has the act from 22nd March 1990 which started the liquidation. The author presents that the most important defect of this document was preparing the act in rush and lack of consciousness of the diffi culty of this process. Accordingly, it caused many negative opinions about all the process. Key words: Workers’ publishing collective, liquidation, transformation, The Round Table, monopoly, Sławomir Tabkowski, Polish United Workers’ Party