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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.
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.
The 21 demands of MKS (Polish: 21 postulatów MKS) was a list of demands issued on 17 August 1980 by the Interfactory Strike Committee (Międzyzakładowy Komitet Strajkowy, MKS) in Poland. Boards with the 21 demands displayed by the entrance gate to the Lenin Shipyard in August 1980. The first demand was the right to create independent trade ...
Dariusz Stola began working with Poland’s anti-communist Solidarity movement in 1983. A member of his church choir would give him a stack of 200 opposition newspapers with uncensored texts on ...
As Time magazine reported on Monday, February 2, 1981, members of Solidarity and Rural Solidarity occupied "Headquarters of the old official trade union" (in fact, it was The House of the Railroad Worker [12]), where they placed a sign which said: "SOLIDARITY IS MORE THAN JUST A NAME". The united front of both organizations demanded ...
Take a trip back in time with these retro commercials from the 1980s that will give you a serious case of nostalgia. ... spooky king of horror TV and film. He died less than a decade later, so ...