History of trade unions in the United Kingdom TUC General Council. He focused on racial issues. British unions collaborated with the AFL–CIO in the United States on international projects. In the 1980s, worldwide union attention focused on the Solidarity union movement in Poland, which finally succeeded in breaking the communist control of that country. Norman Willis, the general secretary of the TUC, vigorously promoted union support for Solidarity. The nuclear disarmament movement, which played a major role in Labour Party internal politics in the 1980s, was primarily a middle-class movement that had little support in the labour movement. Major strike action by British unions during the 1978–1979 Winter
National Solidarity Movement of Afghanistan safeguarding independence and territorial integrity, ensuring national unity and social justice and the development and progress of the country towards prosperity. The National Solidarity Movement plays an active role in the society as an independent organization. Compliance with the International principals, respect to national culture and traditions and observance of human rights, UN and other international conventions are among the objectives of the movement. National Solidarity Movement of Afghanistan The party known as National Solidarity Movement of Afghanistan (, "Nahzat-e Hambastagi-ye Melli-ye Afghanistan") is led by Sayed Ishaq Gailani. It supported Hamid Karzai in the 2004 presidential election despite its