I’m not alone in wanting to show solidarity, and taking this step has become a global symbol of unity, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins
Languages rise and fall with history, in nations and university language departments alike. In 1980, when Roman Koropeckyj stepped into his classroom at Harvard to teach Polish, he was “gobsmacked” by the dozens of students awaiting him. The Polish trade unionists of the Solidarity movement, who were defying Soviet oppression