Two decades ago, at a conference in Gdansk, Poland, marking the 25th anniversary of Poland’s Solidarity Movement, Radek Sikorski, now the foreign minister of Poland, gathered Lech Wałęsa, the head of ...

AUGUST MARKS THE TWENTY-fifth anniversary of Solidarity, the Polish trade union that played so central a role in the defeat of communism. Celebrations will take place in Warsaw and Gdansk, the ...

A look at the history of the Polish Solidarity movement that overthrew communism, and similarities between the movement and Bitcoin, by Natalie Smolenski. During the 1980’s, a genuine popular movement ...

The day after Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak was ousted by a widespread public uprising, I found myself presenting a lecture about Solidarity, the mass trade union movement that convulsed Poland 30 ...

Lech Wałęsa, leader of the Solidarity labor movement in Poland and a global symbol of democracy, will share his story of bringing freedom to millions during a visit to Columbus. Solidarity played a ...

VILNIUS/WARSAW (Reuters) -Warsaw said on Thursday it would not reopen more border crossings with close Russian ally Belarus until at least mid-November in a move intended to show solidarity with ...

Anna Walentynowicz, a shipyard worker whose firing made her a central figure in Poland's Solidarity movement, which broke the communist grip on the country in the ...

KYIV (Reuters) -Poland hopes Washington will take action to show solidarity with Warsaw after Russia's drone incursion this week, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told Reuters on Friday, despite ...

During the 1980’s, a genuine popular movement arose in Poland that ended up toppling the communist regime in that country. Although there were many anticommunist intellectuals writing and being read ...