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 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