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Lawrence Corbett Goodwyn (July 16, 1928 – September 29, 2013) was an American historian of democratic movements, journalist and political theorist known for his study of American populism. He served as a professor at Duke University from 1971 to 2003.
Solidarity's name was originally in part an homage to Solidarność — a US-backed labor union in Communist Poland which, in Solidarity's view, had challenged the Soviet Union from the left. [ citation needed ] As of its 2011 convention, Solidarity is a sympathizing organization of the official Fourth International .
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 American Solidarity Party (ASP) is a Christian democratic political party in the United States. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 8 ] It was founded in 2011 and officially incorporated in 2016. The party has a Solidarity National Committee (SNC) and has numerous active state and local chapters.
The Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, based in Washington, D.C., is a national activist organization with chapters in various cities in the United States. CISPES supports the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) and the progressive social movement in El Salvador .
The trial resulted in 53 executions of the Cuban, American, and British crewmen. The executions provoked outrage among the American public applying pressure on Grant to enter the war. Rather than enter the war however, Grant made several demands to the Spanish government.
The name of the social philosophy to which Edward Bellamy, author of the American utopian novel Looking Backward, adhered, and which Bellamy sometimes referenced as the Religion of Solidarity. [ 8 ] A member of the American Solidarity Party , a minor Christian Democratic party in the United States, is often referred to as a "Solidarist".
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