Jacek Kuron, who led the struggle against Poland ‘ s communist leaders as a dissident in the 1970s and later became a popular government minister, died Thursday. He was 70. Mr. Kuron died at the ...

Jacek Kuron, who inspired and tutored generations of Poles to struggle against Communist rule, serving as the ultimately successful godfather of a resistance that coalesced around the Solidarity labor ...

WARSAW — Jacek Kuron, one of Poland’s most prominent anti-Communist activists, died Thursday in a Warsaw hospital after a long illness. He was 70. Kuron also assisted shipyard workers in founding the ...

Jacek Kuron at a demonstration on 1 May 1989. Wikimedia/Kippelboy. Public domain. The political ideas of Jacek Kuroń, the Polish opposition leader of the 1960s and ‘70s, without whom Lech Wałęsa’s ...

Jacek Kuron, human rights campaigner and politician: born Lvov, Poland 3 March 1934; Minister of Labour and Social Policy 1989-1991, 1992-93; twice married (one son); died Warsaw 17 June 2004. From ...

Jacek Kuron, who died yesterday aged 70, was the chain-smoking intellectual considered the brains behind the shipyard electrician Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement, which brought down the Polish ...

Jacek Kuron, who has died aged 70, was one of the serious brains behind the Solidarity trade union in Poland, almost from the moment it was formed in 1980, emerging, with steadily increasing stature, ...