“Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration in the oppression of others, and from the deep recognition of our most expansive...
Poland 1980 With major uprisings in 1956, 1968, 1970, and 1976 and the presence of a socially conscious Roman Catholic Church, Poland was the most restive of the Soviet satellites during the cold war. Faced with a drastically declining standard of...
Solidarity (Polish: Solidarność (help·info); full name: Independent Self-governing Trade Union "Solidarity" — Niezależny Samorządny Związek Zawodowy "Solidarność") is a Polish trade union federation founded in September 1980 at the then Lenin...
THE PROMISE that Solidarity embodied when it became the communist world's first independent trade union touches the labor unrest in Poland. So far the protests are nowhere near achieving the critical mass that brought Solidarity its successive days of glory and official retribution early...
Independently of each other, at times even antagonistically so, the Polish government and the outlawed Solidarity have been edging closer and closer to each other's positions in recent months. It is a movement that has been obscured by events, but that is now exposed...
Question: When will San Francisco and Los Angeles look like North Korea? Answer: On Oct. 20, when lights are expected to go out in both cities, leaving them as dark as the benighted regions of the Democratic People's Republic.The goal of Lights Out is to...
This should be a time for Solidarity veterans to savor.Eighteen years after the collapse of Polish communism, two of their own are perched at the pinnacle of power: Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, identical twins who once advised Solidarity founder Lech Walesa.But instead of relishing their...
