In the 1980s, Poland was under the grip of martial law as the Communist government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski attempted to repress the independent Solidarity trade union. In Western Europe ...

The letter — signed by Mr. Walesa, the 1980s leader of the Solidarity trade union, and more than 30 prominent former Polish political detainees — was posted on Mr. Walesa’s Facebook page ...

WARSAW - Lech Walesa, the former Polish president and Solidarity trade union leader who played a leading role in the fall of Communism, signed a letter to President Donald Trump expressing "horror ...

Lech Walesa, the former Polish president and Solidarity trade union leader who played a leading role in the fall of Communism, signed a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump expressing "horror" at his ...

Solidarność means Solidarity, but for Poles it stands for so much more ... That’s when the difficult Polish sounds of Ś and Ć were on the lips of the Western establishment, and even Frank Sinatra sang ...

After two months of strikes and demonstrations, Polish workers have wrested far-reaching concessions ... forcing the then-authorities to recognize the communist bloc’s first and only free trade union, ...

WARSAW, (Reuters) – Lech Walesa, the former Polish president and Solidarity trade union leader who played a leading role in the fall of Communism, signed a letter to U.S. President Donald ...