Poland observes Solidarity's 25th anniversary (24min)

Sunday August 14th 1980 was the day the Gdansk shipyard strike started, paving the way for Solidarity, the first independent mass political movement to emerge in the Soviet bloc. Two weeks later, on August 31st, Polish government representatives signed an agreement with striking shipyard workers, authorising the establishment of a new trade union free of communist control. Tim Sebastian, who was the BBC's Warsaw-based correspondent at the time, returns to Poland to assess Solidarity's legacy and interviews Communist Party and Solidarity leaders, including Nobel Peace Prize-winner Lech Walesa. (Clip starts at 04:50; online thru August 20th.)