Word: jacek
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same time, the party also seemed intent on trying to divide the workers from their intellectual backers. The official press last week stepped up its campaign against "antisocialist elements" and specifically denounced KOR, the dissident group that has been advising the strikers. Explained KOR's leader, Sociologist Jacek Kuron: "They want to rid the [independent labor] movement of activists so that they can take over and do what they did with the official trade unions...
...include the introduction of a profit motive. Most experts also believe that the pricing system will have to be made more responsive to supply and demand. However, the Polish workers have resisted that reform ever since 1970. Would Polish workers accept such policies? Some opposition figures, like Dissident Leader Jacek Kuron, respond that the workers will indeed swallow bitter economic medicine-if their sacrifices are rewarded by a genuine liberalization of the political system...
Later that evening, authorities fulfilled another promise made by Jagielski: the release of some 30 dissidents who had been jailed during the crisis. At a press conference shortly after his liberation, Jacek Kuron, spokesman for the Committee for Social Self-Defense (KOR), called the Gdansk agreement "a victory for the workers, but also for the government, which showed a sense of realism...
Many KOR leaders, like Sociologist Jacek Kuron, are former Marxist intellectuals who oppose the present police state and call instead for a more democratic, decentralized brand of socialism. An advocate of organized resistance rather than violence, Kuron nonetheless warned in the West German newspaper Die Welt last week: "The way things are going now, sooner or later there will be an explosion, the consequences of which will be a national tragedy...