Lech Walesa, the legendaryfounder of Poland's Solidarity movement, said Tuesday that he has quit the trade union he founded and led. Walesa said he plans to stay away from events marking the 26th ...

Nobel Peace Prize laureate, union leader and former Polish President Lech Wałęsa is still celebrated for his contributions to freedom and democracy.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Mourners on Friday bid a second farewell to Anna Walentynowicz, a legendary figure with Poland’s Solidarity movement whose body was mistakenly buried in the wrong grave after her ...

The port city of Gdansk once led the fight for freedom from Communism in Poland. Now it is showing a new kind of solidarity – with migrants and refugees. “For me, it is all about the moral arguments,” ...

At a recently opened reception centre in Dorohusk, exhausted-looking groups of mostly women and children arrive on convoys of orange buses bringing refugees from Poland’s nearby border crossing with ...

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 ...

Memorial events are scheduled to be held in Poland on Tuesday to pay tribute to Jerzy Popiełuszko, a Roman Catholic priest who was killed by communist secret police in the 1980s. A new monument to ...