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In 2005, the trade union Solidarity – The Union for British Workers was created by the far-right British National Party in honour of the original Polish union. During the late 1980s, Solidarity had attempted to establish connections with the internal resistance to apartheid in South Africa. However, according to Wałęsa, attempts to develop ...
A political arm of the Solidarity movement, Solidarity Electoral Action (AWS), was founded in 1996 and would win the 1997 Polish parliamentary election, only to lose the subsequent 2001 Polish parliamentary election. Thereafter, Solidarity had little influence as a political party, though it became the largest trade union in Poland.
The widespread strikes of 1980 were far from being the first clashes between the ruling party and the working class in Poland after World War II. Despite having a "socialist" government, the elite of the Polish ruling class averaged an income twenty times that of the blue-collar worker. This elite ruling class owned or largely controlled the ...
Man of Iron (Polish: Człowiek z żelaza) is a 1981 film directed by Andrzej Wajda.It depicts the Solidarity labour movement and its first success in persuading the Polish government to recognize workers' right to an independent union.
In summer 1980, faced with a major economic crisis, the Polish government authorized a rise in food prices, which immediately led to a wave of strikes and factory occupations across the country. On 14 August workers at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk went on strike after the sacking of Anna Walentynowicz , five months before she was to retire.
No End (Polish: Bez końca) is a 1985 film directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski and starring Grażyna Szapołowska, Maria Pakulnis, and Aleksander Bardini. The film is about the state of martial law in Poland after the banning of the trade union Solidarity in 1981. [1] Kieślowski worked with several regular collaborators for the first time on No End.
That day was proclaimed Solidarity Day. The programme was hosted by Charlton Heston . Participants included Romuald Spasowski , Zdzisław Rurarz, Adam Makowicz , Czesław Miłosz , Mstislav Rostropovich , Kirk Douglas , Max von Sydow , James A. Michener , Henry Fonda , Glenda Jackson , Benny Andersson , Agnetha Fältskog , Anni-Frid Lyngstad ...
By mid-July, 1980, some 50,000 local workers from more than 150 enterprises went on strike. [1] These strikes marked the beginning of important socio-political changes in Poland, such as the creation of Solidarity and democratization of the country, [2] heralding a wave of protests later referred to as the August 1980 strikes. [1]