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Friends and relatives of striking workers listen to the news given by Lech Walesa (C) outside the gates of the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, 25 August 1980. The strike in the Gdansk' shipyard lasted from 13th to 31st August along with another strikes which paralyzed the whole country. It finished by an agreement between the Polish government and the strikers' joint comittee which sanctioned free and independent unions with the right to strike, and greater freedom of religious and political expression. The newly-born trade union "Solidarnosc" (solidarity) was an unprecedented working-class revolution directed against the "socialist" state and it quickly developed into a 10-million-strong independent organization. AFP PHOTO/LEHTIKUVA/JORMA PUUSA / AFP PHOTO / LEHTIKUVA / JORMA PUUSA

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created date 1980-08-25

credit EAST NEWS

source AFP

byline JORMA PUUSA

original transmission reference 000_PAR2004050375645

weight 3,02MB

size 29cm x 20cm by 300dpi

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