GDANSK, Poland – Lech Walesa, Poland's former president and legendary founder of the Solidarity freedom movement, insists he never collaborated with the communist secret police in the 1970s and voiced ...

WARSAW, Poland – Poland's former president and Solidarity leader Lech Walesa believes that global solidarity in economic sanctions against Russia would lead President Vladimir Putin to change his ...

For decades, Poland tried to overthrow the communist system that Soviet troops had imposed on Eastern Europe after World War II. And then 25 years ago, out of nowhere, an electrician at the Lenin ...

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Walesa, co-founder of Poland's Solidarity movement and the country's first postcommunist president, says a new international "solidarity" movement is needed to propel ...

Former Polish president and dissident Lech Walesa in a 2009 interview. Former Polish president and dissident Lech Walesa discusses the fall of Communism in Poland, Solidarity, and the political ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Former Polish President Lech Walesa said as turned 80 on Friday that he is supporting opposition leader Donald Tusk's effort to oust Poland's conservative government in the ...

Who knew one of the world’s most famous democracy advocates was a homophobe? Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Walesa sparked widespread outrage in Poland over the weekend when he said gays don’t have ...

The former president of Poland, Lech Walesa, one of the icons of the fall of Communism in his country, granted an interview to the independent Cuban press in which he called on Cubans not to lose ...

The mustachioed Lech Walesa, who led a trade union movement that challenged Poland’s communist government, probably hasn’t registered in the average American’s consciousness since the Polish regime ...