The Polish Solidarity Movement

The Polish Solidarity Movement was caused by the tension between the workers and communist parties that eventually led to free elections of government leaders.

The Context of Polish Solidarity was when the Communist party started to take away the right of the worker and they started to rise up. As Communism gives equal everything to everyone, people who were working hard we're not getting any benefits for their work. As a consequence to to communism work, the workers started protesting and eventually striking. Since all this was happening Lech walesa created the strike committee to help keep the workers organized and to make sure that the workers were getting heard. Aside from just being heard the workers just wanted to gain the respect of the Communist party. Subsequently Lech Walesa signed the Gdansk Agreement, an agreement that states the workers have rights to form independent unions as well as the right to strike. This gave to workers more freedom to help them achieve their main goal, Solidarity in Poland.

Poland would have never reached Solidarity with out Lech Walesa. He was the one who originally spoke out against the communist party and started the strike committee. The strike committee helped the workers gain their voice. At this time a …show more content…
The people were working hard to get their jobs done they obviously were not gaining any benefits. As they were doing so they were getting angry so “ Under Walesa's leadership, the various Polish unions joined together as the Solidarity movement”(Document Page: Lech Walesa). Initially the government was totally against all parties joining to create one big force, but later they gained legal rights. As the communist party gave them legal right they believed that they could still keep the workers under their leadership but soon after that thing went awry. This was cause more tension between the leaders of both