Re: AUT: History of Solidarity UK?

["Bob Miller" <bob.miller@xxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew
I was a member of Solidarity in the late 70s for a couple of years.  If
there's anyhting you or others want to know, I could provide some
information.  During the period I was a member there were round about a
hundred of us at any one time.  We brought out a magazine four times a year
and managed to rotate the editorship around the organisation pretty happily.
There were lots of problems, but they were mostly political  in terms of
widely diverging views.  Anyway, I can say more if anyone wants.
Whatever the problems, it was one of the best organisations that has been
around and in many ways we, in Britain at least, are all descendants of
Solidarity.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Flood" <andrewflood@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <aut-op-sy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: AUT: History of Solidarity UK?


> >A history of Solidarity would be interesting, but I haven't seen one. I
> >would say though that the statement in Andrew's website that it had
> >thousands of members is not accurate - I would be surprized if it even
made
> >it into the hundreds (at any one time).
>
> I've been told by a few people active at that time that Solidarity
> had thousands of members - indeed one the the key problems they pointed
> to what that it was unable to hang onto them.  Cetainly  by
> the 1980's it was no more then a couple of dozen.
>
> Remember the late 60's/early 70's in Britain as elsewhere were
> a very different period from today with a lot more people involved
> in 'revolutionary' organisations.
>
> Anyone else able to comment on this
>
> Andrew
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