#LaborMovement

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• Solidarity Solidarity (Solidarność) was the Polish independent trade union federation founded in August 1980 at the Gdańsk shipyard under Lech Wałęsa that became the first legal mass opposition movement in the Soviet bloc, sustained in part by covert CIA and Vatican funding channeled in part through the BCCI network, and whose legal suppression under martial law in December 1981 and ultimate success in the 1989 elections contributed to the collapse of communist Poland.