Lech Wałęsa, the former president of Poland, spoke to a full auditorium in Rackham Amphitheatre on Tuesday about the ongoing crisis in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion, his role in leading the ...

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 ...

Memorial events were held in Poland on Sunday to pay tribute to Jerzy Popiełuszko, a Roman Catholic priest who was killed by ...

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 ...

Warsaw artist Jarek Kubicki has designed posters for the hundreds of thousands protesting against the restriction of abortion ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Polish police say they are looking for suspects who broke the law by placing the world-famous Solidarity emblem over the equally famous gate of the Gdansk Shipyard, where the ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Dariusz Stola began working with Poland’s anti-communist Solidarity movement in 1983. He was just 19 but already appalled by the way the regime imposed its harsh censorship, not ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish police say a car crash has knocked down a historic wall that unemployed electrician Lech Walesa jumped over in 1980 to lead a Gdansk shipyard strike that grew into the ...

As the world marks the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, The Associated Press is releasing a new memoir chronicling Poland’s historic stand for freedom against the ...

WARSAW (Reuters) - The son of a carpenter, Donald Tusk came of political age in the cauldron of Poland's "Solidarity" movement, which presaged the fall of communism a quarter of a century ago. His ...

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 ...