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...addition to the strike leaders, Gierek was obviously referring to Poland's active dissident movement, spearheaded by the Committee for Social Self-Defense (known by the acronym KOR). Established after the 1976 riots to defend workers against official harassment, KOR has developed into the strongest dissident group in the Soviet bloc. Taking advantage of a relatively tolerant government attitude, it publishes several underground journals and is a sponsor of the underground "flying university" lecture series...
...significant aspect of the present strike movement, in contrast to earlier protests, has been the success of the dissident intellectuals at forging links with the workers and winning their support even for abstract issues such as freedom of expression and human rights. KOR is believed to be largely responsible for framing the strikers' boldest political demands; it has also provided Western reporters with detailed information on the numbers of workers and factories affected by the strikes...
...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...
...groundwork was laid earlier this year at a Moscow meeting between Sakharov and a member of Poland's major human rights organization, the Committee for Social Self-Defense (KOR). After that, KOR publicly expressed solidarity with Soviet dissidents, and 15 Polish protesters staged a hunger strike on behalf of the Charter 77 organizers before their Prague trial...
Following the trial, Sakharov wrote an open letter to Charter 77 and KOR activists calling for the "unification of our struggle for human rights in Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union...