But market reforms haven't been kind to the historic shipyards of Gdansk, where the Solidarity Union movement began with union leader and future Polish president, Lech Walesa.
Likewise with Lech Walesa and his Solidarity trade union in Eastern Europe.
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Walesa, the shipyard worker who went on to inspire the Solidarity trade union in Poland, was awarded the Nobel Peace Price in 1983.
The trade union Solidarity has put out a statement saying the cancellation of contracts with India will cost thousands of jobs.
At another time in our history, all the money in the world spent by a Walker campaign could not have shaken the solidarity in the union vote.
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The Freedom Union, Solidarity's liberal-minded partner in government, wants nothing to do with Mr Krzaklewski, and his dithering has encouraged several other centre-right candidates to compete for the presidential spot.
He hopes to use the trade union bit of Solidarity that he still runs as his weapon.
He is making an impact because the assorted groups under the Solidarity umbrella and the Freedom Union are in disarray, their coalition having broken up last summer.
Where once it could rely on support from the Soviet Union and pan-Arab solidarity, Syria now has few friends in the world except Iran.
To ensure the fair treatment of all Africans, solidarity should be pursued through the African Union (AU) or the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD).
One reason why the Cypriot bailout debacle matters - perhaps the main reason - is that it shows how far the eurozone is from the kind of solidarity which many believe essential to the currency union's long-term survival.
It was left to the European Union to make the case for some solidarity with trade unionists.
The photos, circulated by the prime minister's office, were both a poke in the eye of the European Union, which recently banned the import of seal products, and a gesture of solidarity with Canada's Inuit, for whom the fishy-tasting meat is a staple.
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The idea is to show solidarity with hunters, on Canada's Atlantic and Arctic coasts, who are enraged at the European Union's recent ban on imports of seal products.
Although the French government frequently called for better balancing fiscal discipline and euro-zone solidarity, Mr. Sarkozy sided with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to make sure all members of the monetary union stuck to a stringent diet.
Mr Smith proposes policies to "create a new spirit and rhetoric of fraternity and national solidarity" - a national care service, a national day or a US-style state of the British union address.
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