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… ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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… ...

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.

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 ...

FILE - In this file photo taken in Gdansk, Poland, April 6, 2016, Poland's former president and legendary Solidarity freedom movement founder Lech Walesa acts with expression as he repeats his ...

Solidarity founder and former Polish President Lech Walesa said Tuesday that 30 years after his trade union movement paved the way for massive democratic reforms that brought communism to its kn ...

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.