30 years ago today, Lech Walesa took the oath as Poland’s first popularly elected president. Only a decade earlier he had led Polish workers from the Solidarity movement in a two-month strike, demanding–and winning–the unimaginable right to organize independent labor unions in the Communist country. Using the slogan, “I don’t want to, but I’ve got no […]
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30 years ago today, Lech Walesa took the oath as Poland’s first popularly elected president. Only a decade earlier he had led Polish workers from the Solidarity movement in a two-month strike, demanding–and winning–the unimaginable right to organize independent labor unions in the Communist country. Using the slogan, “I don’t want to, but I’ve got no
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