In the 1970s Poland's government raised food prices while wages were stagnant. This and other stresses led to protests in 1976 and a subsequent government crackdown on dissent. The 展开

In 2017, Solidarity backed a proposal to implement blue laws to prohibit Sunday shopping, a move supported by Polish bishops. A 2018 new Polish law banning almost all trade on … 展开

Although Leszek Kołakowski's works were officially banned in Poland, and he lived outside the country from the late 1960s, his philosophical ideas nonetheless exerted an influence on the Solidarity movement. Underground copies of his books and essays … 展开

• Lech Wałęsa (1980–1991)
• Marian Krzaklewski (1991–2002)
• Janusz Śniadek (2002–2010)
• Piotr Duda [pl] (2010–present) 展开

In the year leading up to martial law, Reagan Administration policies supported the Solidarity movement, waging a public relations campaign to deter what the Carter administration had … 展开

The survival of Solidarity was an unprecedented event not only in Poland, a satellite state of the USSR ruled in practice by a one-party Communist state, but the whole of the 展开

The union was officially founded on 17 September 1980, the union's supreme powers were vested in a legislative body, the Convention of … 展开