Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Walesa, co-founder of Poland's Solidarity movement and the country's first postcommunist president, says a new international "solidarity" movement is needed to ...

Poland's former President Lech Walesa said Wednesday that members of Solidarity, the trade union he once led, deserve to be beaten for a disruptive protest they staged last week in Warsaw. ...

Pope John Paul II and Lech Walesa, the guiding forces behind the birth and resurrection of Poland`s Solidarity trade union, linked arms Thursday in a moving celebration of nearly a decade of strugg… ...

Solidarity founder Lech Walesa shunned a couple of the movement's 30th anniversary sessions Monday, saying he is tired and disillusioned with the Polish trade union's current state. ...

Former president of Poland, Lech Walesa, was a founder of the Solidarity trade union group that helped bring about about the downfall of communism in Poland in 1989.

Lech Walesa, Solidarity’s founding leader in Gdansk during the strikes that led to the collapse of Communism in Poland and across Eastern Europe, said the union today “is so different from ...

LECH Walesa was born on Sept. 29, 1943, in Popowo, Poland. He graduated from vocational school and became a car mechanic. He served for two years in the army, rising to the rank of corporal. In 196… ...

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WARSAW, Poland — Solidarity leader Lech Walesa said on Friday that he would support the opening of political negotiations with Communist authorities even though an official proposal for the ...

The heroic period of Lech Walesa’s life coincides with the victory of the Polish trade union Solidarity in Andrzej Wajda’s epic recreation. By THR Staff The controversial figure of Lech Walesa ...

Solidarity founder Lech Walesa shunned several of the movement's 30th anniversary sessions Monday, saying he is tired and disillusioned with the Polish trade union's current state.