History of Solidarity History of Solidarity The history of Solidarity (, pronounced ), a Polish non-governmental trade union, began on August 14, 1980, at the Lenin Shipyards (now Gdańsk Shipyards) at its founding by Lech Wałęsa and others. In the early 1980s, it became the first independent labor union in a Soviet-bloc country. Solidarity gave rise to a broad, non-violent, anti-communist social movement that, at its height, claimed some 9.4 million members. It is considered to have contributed greatly to the fall of communism. Poland's communist government attempted to destroy the union by instituting martial law in 1981, followed by several years of
Solidarity Front for the People of Indochina 1972, and merged into the Young Communist League of Sweden (marxist-leninists). Solidarity Front for the People of Indochina Solidarity Front for the People of Indochina (in Swedish: "Solidaritetsfronten för Indokinas Folk") was an organization in Sweden, created by KFML(r) to mobilize support for the liberation struggles of the Indochinese people. SFIF was formed following the expulsion/departure of the KFML(r) supporters from the major Vietnam solidarity movement DFFG, which was led by KFML. The pro-KFML(r) fraction within DFFG had argued that DFFG had to take a stand in Swedish class struggle issues simultaneously as supporting the struggles in Indochina. SFIF published