Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Lech Walesa
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August 1980: Lech Walesa, an electrician who some years...
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August 1980
Lech Walesa
, an electrician who some years before this had lost his job at the Gdansk shipyards for trade union activity, led a strike which escalated into a revolution.
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Beaumont, Peter. “Anna Walentynowicz, whose sacking led to the rise of Solidarity”. The Observer, 11 Apr. 2010.
