by Tony Kaye
On August 14, 1980, a feisty young man addressed a crowd from atop a bulldozer at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland. Short, stout, with a bushy mustache, he seemed an unlikely hero, but Lech Walesa had earned the loyalty of a nation of workers. For more than a decade, Walesa had spoken out on behalf of Poland's working class. Now he was about to set off a chain of events that would lead to the formation of Solidarity, the first independent trade union ever founded in a Communist country.
This is his story.
