Solidarność means Solidarity, but for Poles it stands for so much more. At the height of its worldwide popularity – which came in the years 1981 to 1983 when stan wojenny (Martial Law) was introduced ...

Thirty years ago, on 6 February 1989, the Polish government administered by the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) invited opposition groups, among them representatives of the Independent ...

In December 1970, Polish workers rose up against a food price hike. Authorities reacted brutally, killing dozens. These experiences shaped the later Solidarnosc movement, which helped to bring down ...

Last week, the Romney campaign was wrapping itself in the heroism of Lech Walesa and the Polish trade union Solidarnosc which played such a critical role in toppling the Polish Communist Party and, ...

The press - and 1980 Thatcher Government - unfairly criticised the trade union movement over its support for the newly formed Polish Solidarity Trade Union, according to the most detailed analysis of ...

Poland today is a flourishing democracy, a member of NATO, and in line to join the European Union. Relations with Moscow are good. If anyone had predicted 20 years ago that the Poles would be able to ...

ALAN MAASS looks at the revolt of the Polish union Solidarnosc. TWENTY-FIVE years ago, workers in Poland welcomed the new year with the hope that their struggle was creating a better world. The police ...

“With ‘Dockwatchers’, happening alongside the official celebrations of the 25th anniversary of Solidarność, Wyspa targets beyond officially represented history. It asks about oral histories, cracks in ...

The 1980 workers’ uprising in Poland was not the first time the working class there had fought back against state capitalism. ln 1956, 1970 and 1976 workers had taken to the streets when the state had ...

Thirty years ago this week Poland woke up to find tanks in the streets, phone lines cut, and roads blockaded. On the morning of 13 December 1981 General Jaruzelski declared war on his own people, ...

Forty years ago, the independent trade union Solidarnosc was founded in Poland. It paved the way for the end of communism in Europe. But the country is divided on whether Lech Walesa, its leader, was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman stands next to a Solidarity logo in front of the newly open European Solidarity Centre during the 34th anniversary of ...