The Solidarity Movement

Solidarity In the summer of 1980, Communist Poland had experienced an unprecedented labor confusion. The standard of living is still low, the economy is stagnant, rich in food shortages and inflation. The Polish Communist Party faced a national strike and their strategy of buying workers failed because too many people were striked. But when the strike spreads to Lenin shipyard of Gdansk on August 14th, everything will change.

The Solidarity Movement began in Poland in 1980 and involved workers who demanded political liberalization and democracy in Poland. The Communist Party government tried to prevent the rise of the solidarity movement from failing and negotiations between the movement and the government were ongoing. Solidarity will help promote people in other communist countries to demand political reform. The term "big bang", which was used to refer to the sudden deregulation of financial markets, refers to the removal of fixed fee commissions, the distinction between stock brokers and stock brokers on the London Stock Exchange, and measures from undisclosed protests Conversion to screen-based electronic transactions completed by Margaret Thatcher in 1986 that was used to represent

In the 1990s, the influence of solidarity in the political field of Poland weakened. "Solidarity Election" (AWS), founded in 1996, is a political organization of the "Unification Movement", winning in the Polish Parliamentary election in 1997 but then losing in the 2001 election. Ever since, solidarity has little influence as a party, but it certainly is the largest union in Poland. Between the 1970s and the 1980s, the first success of the Solidarity Alliance and the general opposition campaign were all influenced by the serious crisis in the society affected by the Soviet Union. Low morale, deteriorating economic situation (economic shortage), and rising pressure from the Cold War. Following the short-term prosperity since 1975, the Polish government's policy was led by the party's first secretary, Edward Guilk, and the economy fell into a depression as the external debt increased.

On December 13, 1981, Yaruzelski imposed martial law in Poland to crush the unified movement. Solidarity was declared illegal and its leader was arrested. The union was officially dissolved by Sejm (Congress) on October 8, 1982, but it is still an underground organization. In 1988, a wave of new strikes and labor riots occurred in Poland, and the striker's demand highlighted the awareness of solidarity by the government. In April 1989, the government agreed to legalize the solidarity alliance and allowed bilateral Polish parliament to participate in free elections. In the election held in June of the same year, the candidate supported by the Solidarity Alliance won 99 seats out of 100 senators of the newly-established Senate (Senate), 161 seats in total (total of 460 seats). The right to participate in the House (House). House)