“Cause there’s a Polish word called ‘Solidarność, which is solidarity — which we are also proud to share this day with Solidarity Day,” Hudak says.

Most unmissable is the European Solidarity Centre: a hulking, rust-coloured monolith that houses a permanent exhibition about the Solidarność movement, the Polish trade union formed in 1980 that ...

Poland’s former president and leader of the Solidarność movement Lech Wałęsa urges next generations to defend democracy, warning that populists and demagogues will “set the world on fire”.

Former Polish President Lech Wałęsa expresses concern over potential Ukraine peace deal Poland’s former president and leader of the Solidarność movement Lech Wałęsa urges next generations ...

Following Russia's ban from competing in Eurovision in 2022 after the country's invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has ordered the return of Intervision, a Soviet-era singing ...

The exit from communism may however with hindsight appear an easier task. In 1989 the conflicting parties in Poland—the ruling ‘United Workers’ Party’ and the Solidarność trade union leading the ...

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In the end, it does not matter whether there were a million participants or not. The opposition march in Warsaw on 1 October was a great success. The weather played along and the streets of the Polish ...

Her Solidarność cutout, which was 5 feet high and took three hours to cut, was later displayed at Chicago’s Polish Museum of America.

In the whole history of Poland – including the Solidarność era – the authorities had never faced such a degree of mass opposition. Even some 27% of supporters of the populist, right-wing Law ...

The 1980 Gdańsk Agreement marked a milestone in Poland’s history: it gave workers the right to strike and to form unions independent of the Communist Party. And so the ten-million strong trade union ...