Bounced from Nestor #1

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> escribió:
> A couple of miles from the Gdansk shipyard lives
> Anna Walentynowicz, ... ignited the movement that
> brought down Communism
> in Europe.

...

> "We wanted better money, improved work safety, a
> free trade union and my
> job back," Walentynowicz, now 70, recalls. "Nobody
> wanted a revolution. And
> when I see what the so-called revolution has brought
> ? mass poverty,
> homelessness, self-styled capitalists selling off
> our plants and pocketing
> the money ? I think we were right."

I have heard from an eyewitness more or less the same
story. The history of Solidarnosc is still to be
written. The upheaval of the Gdynia workers was real
and was not directed _against_ socialism. What
happened later, is a different (though not
unrelated)thing.

Nestor.


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