Word: gomulkaism
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...Poles, who are noted for their bitter political humor, are asking an ironic riddle these days. What is the difference between Gierek and Gomulka? The answer: there is none-but Gierek does not know...
That is all too harsh a judgment of Edward Gierek, 58, the pragmatic technocrat who took over as party leader after Wladyslaw Gomulka, 66, was forced to resign because of last December's Baltic coast riots. In fact, Gierek has done many things that Gomulka in recent years would not have dared. Last week he made important moves in his overall strategy to ease economic and religious tensions in Poland, and to shunt aside hard-line leaders who also happen to be his rivals for power. Specifically, Gierek: - Introduced a new Five-Year Plan to the party...
...textile workers staged violent demonstrations against the Russian czarist occupiers. Last week Lodz once again showed its rebellious spirit as 10,000 textile workers, most of them women, went on strike. Their action was a warning to the regime of Party Leader Edward Gierek, who succeeded Wladyslaw Gomulka in December after bloody workers' demonstrations against higher food prices and a cut in earnings...
...receive a decisive report card. When the party's 91-man Central Committee assembles, perhaps as early as this week, Gierek must persuade its members to support his plans for economic and political reforms. Since most members owe their jobs to Gierek's predecessor, the ousted Wladyslaw Gomulka, this may prove to be quite a challenge...
...Szczecin Gierek met the workers' committee in an extraordinary session that lasted from early evening until 2 a.m. the next day. Carefully Gierek called the rebels "rodacy" (countrymen) or "stare pierony" (old mates), rather than "towarzysze" (comrades), a word that Gomulka used in addressing nonparty members as well as Communists-an offense to many of the former...