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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 ...
1980: The Constant Factor: Krzysztof Zanussi: Won the Jury Prize at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival: The Moth: Tomasz Zygadło: Entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival: Olympics 40: Andrzej Kotkowski: The Orchestra Conductor: Andrzej Wajda: John Gielgud, Andrzej Seweryn: Seweryn won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at Berlin: 1981 ...
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.
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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.