Lech Walesa | Biography, Solidarity, Nobel Prize, & Facts
Nov 8, 2024 · Lech Wałęsa (born September 29, 1943, Popowo, near Włocławek, Poland) is a labour activist who helped form and led (1980–90) communist Poland’s first independent trade union, Solidarity. The charismatic leader of millions of Polish workers, he went on to become the president of Poland (1990–95).
Lech Wałęsa - Wikipedia
A shipyard electrician by trade, Wałęsa became the leader of the Solidarity movement and led a successful pro-democratic effort, which in 1989 ended Communist rule in Poland and ushered in the end of the Cold War.
Poland’s Solidarity Movement (1980-1989) - ICNC
Starting from the Gdansk shipyard under the leadership of Lech Walesa, a factory electrician, and spreading quickly to other work places, the workers organized a free trade union named Solidarność (“Solidarity”).
Solidarity | Definition, History, & Facts | Britannica
Nov 25, 2024 · Solidarity, Polish trade union that in the early 1980s became the first independent labor union in a country belonging to the Soviet Bloc. Lech Walesa helped found the organization in 1980, and he became its influential leader, eventually serving as president of Poland.
Solidarity and Other Political Movements of 1989 | CES at UNC
In 1980, the Polish Communist government announced a raise in meat prices, causing another round of strikes that summer, which culminated in the formation of Solidarity in August, led by Lech Walesa.
Lech Wałęsa – Biographical - NobelPrize.org
In the years 1980-81 Wałęsa travelled to Italy, Japan, Sweden, France and Switzerland as guest of the International Labour Organisation. In September 1981 he was elected Solidarity Chairman at the First National Solidarity Congress in Gdansk.
Lech Walesa - Encyclopedia.com
May 21, 2018 · Lech Walesa (born 1943), charismatic leader of Solidarity, the independent trade union movement in Poland, was awarded the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize for his valiant struggle to secure workers' rights through negotiation and peaceful means.
Lech Wałęsa – Facts - NobelPrize.org
Sep 29, 2013 · In 1981 the Polish authorities banned Solidarity, alleging that this was the only way of preventing a Soviet invasion. After a couple of years they abandoned that policy, and Poland was gradually liberalized.
Poland: Solidarity -- The Trade Union That Changed The World
Aug 24, 2005 · Some 17,000 workers seized control of the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk to protest, among other things, a recent rise in food prices. Their leader, Lech Walesa, had narrowly avoided arrest by secret...
He Dared to Hope - TIME
Jan 4, 1982 · There was something to that. Like De Gaulle, Lech Walesa was a man guided by faith in himself and his destiny: he had no qualms about speaking for the 10 million members of Solidarity.