That is an uncomfortable reminder of the way group solidarity works in America.

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It is a product of intelligence, resilience, self-organization and group solidarity.

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Cuba's organic example, however, has been a source for inspiration for many outside of the country, such as the UK-based Cuban Organic Solidarity Group (COSG).

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To offset any default, 5 percent of the loan is deposited at a bank as a guarantee, and a solidarity group of five to eight households is formed to share responsibility for the member's loan repayments.

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Knappenberger's film chronicles the rise of Anonymous from a disparate group hanging out in the forums of notorious website 4chan to the day recently when members of the Polish parliament, in protest of a vote they said would restrict Web freedom, donned their own Guy Fawkes masks in solidarity with the group.

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The key group variable is the type of solidarity in the sociological sense.

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The kuagro membership comes with a set of rights and duties towards other group members and entails strong internal solidarity.

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"These workers sew the clothes that earn the country foreign currency, so they deserve better, " said Kalpona Akter, executive director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity, a non-profit group.

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The lack of communal solidarity worries Joyce Guy, who runs an Afro-Caribbean cultural and social group in Redbridge.

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Mr Sheridan then split with the party and formed the rival organisation Solidarity with former SSP MSP Rosemary Byrne, the only person in the SSP parliamentary group who supported him in court.

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