AOL News has a new home! The Huffington Post.
Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!The Polish trade union Solidarity, whose protests in the early 1980s helped precipitate the downfall of Soviet communism, has embraced the cause of Wisconsin's protesting public workers. Piotr Duda, head of the 700,000-member "Solidarnosc" trade union, wrote that on behalf of his organization he wanted to "express our solidarity and support for your struggle against the recent assault on trade unions and trade union rights unleashed by Governor Scott Walker," Wisconsin's budget-cutting Republican executive. "We are witnessing yet another attempt of transferring the costs of the economic ...
Mentioning the campaign against unions by a Republican governor in 2011 in the same breath as the anti-labor repression by Communist authorities in Poland in 1980 is sure to raise eyebrows. Yet as Mark Twain supposedly said, if history doesn't repeat itself, it sometimes rhymes. And there are some striking similarities between that Communist-era episode and the ongoing standoff between Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and the state's public employees. They were not lost on the current president of the Solidarity trade union in Poland, who sent a letter of support for public workers on behalf of ...
The son of the late Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, broke down into tears Monday morning at the National Press Club as he struggled to get through a speech calling for democracy and respect for human rights in his home country. Even as Pahlavi spoke, American news reports detailed continuing attacks by Iranian police against demonstrators in Tehran. ...
Follow Politics Daily
POPULAR
News From Our Partners




Top News
More News
More on Aol
Local News
More Blog/Sites
Sites and Services