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Strikes are sometimes used to [[pressure]] [[governments]] to [[change]] policies. Occasionally, strikes destabilize the rule of a particular political party or ruler; in such cases, strikes are often part of a broader [[social movement]] taking the form of a [[campaign]] of civil resistance. A notable example is the 1980 Gdańsk Shipyard strike led by Lech Wałęsa. This strike was significant in the long campaign of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_resistance civil resistance] for political [[change]] in Poland, and was an important mobilized effort that contributed to the fall of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Curtain Iron Curtain] and the end of communist party rule in eastern Europe.

Strikes are sometimes used to [[pressure]] [[governments]] to [[change]] policies. Occasionally, strikes destabilize the rule of a particular political party or ruler; in such cases, strikes are often part of a broader [[social movement]] taking the form of a [[campaign]] of civil resistance. A notable example is the 1980 Gdańsk Shipyard strike led by Lech Wałęsa. This strike was significant in the long campaign of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_resistance civil resistance] for political [[change]] in Poland, and was an important mobilized effort that contributed to the fall of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Curtain Iron Curtain] and the end of communist party rule in eastern Europe.