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
Solidarity (Australia) and oppose Australian military intervention in East Timor, Fiji and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region. They believe the Australian state was founded on the violent dispossession of Aboriginal Australians. In response to the controversy surrounding the Roy Hill EMA, Solidarity published an open letter calling on the union movement to welcome workers employed on 457 visas into the country. Solidarity (Australia) Solidarity is a Trotskyist organisation in Australia, formed in 2008 from a merger between groups emerging from the International Socialist tradition: the International Socialist Organisation (ISO), Socialist Action Group and Solidarity. The group is a member of the