Because his Movement of Solidarity Action ( MAS ) Party gained only 18 of 116 seats in Congress, Serrano entered into a tenuous alliance with the Christian Democrats and the National Union of the Center ( UCN ).

Saakashvili and other Georgian opposition leaders formed a " United People's Alliance " in November 2003 to bring together the United National Movement, the United Democrats, the Union of National Solidarity and the youth movement " Kmara " in a loose alliance against the government of President Eduard Shevardnadze.

After the fall of Shevardnadze, the party joined forces with the United Democrats and the Union of National Solidarity to promote Saakashvili as the principal opposition candidate in the presidential elections of January 4, 2004, which he won by an overwhelming majority.

Persuading Democrats to vote a regular Democratic ticket and then cross over to also vote for the Solidarity candidates for Governor, Lt.

It was founded in February 1996 by merger of the Organization for Popular Democracy-Labour Movement with the National Convention of Progressive Patriots / Social Democratic Party ( CNPP / PSD ), Group of Revolutionary Democrats ( GDR ), Movement for Socialist Democracy ( MDS ), Party of Action for the Liberalism in Solidarity ( PACTILS ), Party for Democracy and Rally ( PDR ), Rally of Independent Social Democrats ( RSI ), Union of Social Democrats ( UDS ), Union of Democrats and Patriots of Burkina ( UDPB ) and factions of the Group of Patriotic Democrats ( GDP ) and the Burkinabè Socialist Bloc ( BSB ).

In 1994 the ruling Christian Democrats were ousted by a coalition known as Participation and Solidarity ( PS ).

Press accounts alleged that between April and September 1973, during what LaRouche called " Operation Mop-Up ," NCLC members began physically attacking members of leftist groups that LaRouche classified as " left-protofascists "; an editorial in LaRouche's New Solidarity said of the Communist Party that the movement " must dispose of this stinking corpse.

LaRouche said the party was funded by members ' dues, other small contributions, and the sale of publications like The Campaigner and New Solidarity – one a theoretical journal, the other a twice-weekly newspaper.

Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität ( BüSo ), or the Civil Rights Movement Solidarity, is a German political party founded by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, wife of U. S. political activist Lyndon LaRouche.

After LaRouche followers had won the Democratic nominations for both Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of State, Stevenson refused to run as the Democratic standard-bearer, and formed the Solidarity Party.

The textbook issue was raised in November 2004, when a group of lawmakers, legislative candidates and supporters of the pro-independence Taiwan Solidarity Union ( TSU ) urged the ROC Ministry of Education to publish Taiwan-centric history and geography textbooks for school children as part of the Taiwanization campaign.

In the summer of 2001, supporters of former ROC president Lee Teng-hui formed the Taiwan Solidarity Union.

* The Solidarity Tendency ( born 2006 ) consists of supporters of the Alliance for Workers Liberty.

The group has international links with the Solidarity Tendency, who are members of the Scottish Socialist Party, Workers ' Liberty Australia and supporters within the Revolutionary Left Current in Poland and Solidarity in the United States.

The Taiwan Solidarity Union is a progressive-centrist party characterised primarily by its Taiwanese nationalism and derives its membership from both the Chinese Nationalist Party's former moderate and Taiwan-oriented fringe and DPP supporters disgruntled by the party's moderation on the question of Taiwanese sovereignty.

The group was founded in the mid-1970s by former supporters of Solidarity.

* 1990: Liberals supporters of the Solidarity Trade Union around Zbigniew Bujak, Władysław Frasyniuk, and Adam Michnik founded the Citizens ' Movement for Democratic Action ( Ruch Obywatelski Akcja Demokratyczna / ROAD ).

The Taiwan Solidarity Union is a progressive centrist party characterised primarily by its Taiwanese nationalism and derives its membership from both the Chinese Nationalist Party's former moderate and Taiwan-oriented fringe and DPP supporters disgruntled by the party's moderation on the question of Taiwanese sovereignty.

Throughout the mid-1980s, Solidarity persisted solely as an underground organization, supported by a wide range of international supporters, from the Roman Catholic Church to the Central Intelligence Agency.

The EFA supplied ten members: two of the Scottish SNP, two of the Welsh Plaid Cymru ( PC ), two of the Flemish VU, one of the Basque PNV, one of Basque Solidarity ( EA ), one of the Andalusian PA, and one of the Galician Nationalist Bloc ( BNG ).

He began his political career in 1980 / 1981 as one of the leaders of the Students ' Solidarity ; he was governor of the Gdańsk Voivodship from August 1990 to July 1996, and was elected to the Sejm ( the lower house of the Polish parliament ) in September 1997.

On 17 September 1980, over 20 Inter-factory Founding Committees of free trade unions merged at the congress into one national organization NSZZ Solidarity.

In 1989 they merged into one and took part in forming the first postwar noncommunist government in Poland with the Solidarity grouping, and in 1990 changed its name to PSL.

In the early 1980s, the city was one of main centers of workers ' protests, which resulted in creation of Solidarity ( see: Jastrzebie-Zdroj 1980 strikes ).

These influences led him to write a number of labor oriented poems, one of which became the words for the oft-sung union anthem, " Solidarity Forever ".

The Socialist Workers Party have criticised the SSP for no longer being a broad and open mass party of the left, and cited this as one of their reasons for splitting from the SSP to form Solidarity.

In 2005, he was made the Knight of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity, one of Italy's highest honors, for improving the country's image overseas.

The Syndicalist Workers ' Federation was a syndicalist group in active in post-war Britain, and one of the Solidarity Federation's earliest predecessors.

Solidarity to the Palestinians was expressed through the Lebanese Sunni Muslims but with the aim to change the political system from one of consensus amongst different sects, towards one where their power share would increase.

Throughout the mid-1980s, Solidarity persisted solely as an underground organization, but by the late 1980s was sufficiently strong to frustrate Jaruzelski's attempts at reform, and nationwide strikes in 1988 were one of the factors that forced the government to open a dialogue with Solidarity.

The semi-free June elections brought a victory for the Solidarity movement that took all contested ( 35 %) seats in the Sejm, the Parliament's lower house, and all but one seat in the fully free elected Senat.

They have only once stood in Scotland in one region during the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, where George Galloway stood as the lead candidate on the Glasgow list ( Solidarity agreed not to stand in Glasgow and contested the remaining seven regions ), and have in all other elections urged voters to support the Scottish Socialist Party ( SSP ).

On 19 June 2007 he was renamed Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and Solidarity in Fillon's second government after the first one handed in its resignation the day before for rehandling after government no. 2 Alain Juppé, Minister of Ecology and Development and only ' Ministre d ' État ' ( Senior Minister ), resigned after having lost in the legislative race to deputy of Bordeaux.

Andrzej Gwiazda ( born on 14 April 1935 in Pińczów ) is an engineer and prominent opposition leader, who participated in Polish March 1968 Events and December 1970 Events ; one of the founders of Free Trade Unions, Member of the Presiding Committee of the Strike at Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk in August 1980, Vice President of the Founding Committee of Solidarity, then Vice President of Solidarity in 1980 and 1981 ; in December 1981 interned and next imprisoned with six other Solidarność leaders ( see Martial Law in Poland ).

In 1986-1989, Gwiazda was one of leaders of Working Group of National Commission of Solidarity.

Andrzej Gwiazda, who was one of the leaders of the so-called First Solidarity ( August 1980 – December 1981 ), claims that the Round Table Agreement and the negotiations that took place before it at a Communist government's Ministry of the Interior and Administration ( Poland ) conference center ( late 1988 and early 1989 ) in the village of Magdalenka had been arranged by Moscow.

Late in his life, after he had become a voice opposing ( State ) Communists in the labor movement, Chaplin wrote an article, “ Why I wrote Solidarity Forever ,” in which he denounced the “ not-so-needy, not-so-worthy, so-called ‘ industrial unions ’ spawned by an era of compulsory unionism .” He wrote that among Wobblies “ there is no one who does not look with a rather jaundiced eye upon the ‘ success ’ of ‘ Solidarity Forever .’" " I didn't write ' Solidarity Forever ' for ambitious politicians or for job-hungry labor fakirs seeking a ride on the gravy train.

He also organised settlements for people with HIV or ill with AIDS, starting another association Solidarni Plus ( Solidarity Plus ).

Another period of internal crisis beginning in 2001 led to a loss of members and a further split in 2003 when another grouping of members around former leader Ian Rintoul left to form a group known as Solidarity.

Although the party itself failed to win any seats since it was formed, the SDA did manage to win one seat at Potong Pasir, with Chiam See Tong of the Singapore People's Party as Member of Parliament and have another ( Steve Chia of the National Solidarity Party ) in parliament through the Non-Constituency Member of Parliament ( NCMP ) scheme.

In another act of international terrorism, a group calling themselves the Polish Revolutionary Home Army seized the Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland, taking several diplomats hostage in 1982, in an apparent provocation of the Polish secret services aimed to discredit the Solidarity movement.