In recent years it has been rendered irrelevant due to the loss of its coalition partner Freedom Union and the formation of the Civic Platform as a splinter group. One of its early programs cited a segment of the Catholic Social Teaching of John Paul II, and its leaders often wore black Madonna buttons. It rose directly out of the KOR, while its rural branch was led by Jan Kulaj. It continued as an underground organization after being declared illegal by the Sejm, and after teaming with the PUWP
In recent years it has been rendered irrelevant due to the loss of its coalition partner Freedom Union and the formation of the Civic Platform as a splinter group. One of its early programs cited a segment of the Catholic Social Teaching of John Paul II, and its leaders often wore black Madonna buttons. It rose directly out of the KOR, while its rural branch was led by Jan Kulaj. It continued as an underground organization after being declared illegal by the Sejm, and after teaming with the PUWP, Tadeusz Mazowiecki became his country's first noncommunist premier in forty years. FTP, name this union formed out of a strike at the Gdansk ship yards, which, under Lech Walesa, was able to break Soviet power in Poland.
In recent years it has been rendered irrelevant due to the loss of its coalition partner Freedom Union and the formation of the Civic Platform as a splinter group.
{Solidarity} or {Solidarnosc}