Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Revolt...
Marxists have preached and "prayed" for more than a hundred years that the collapse of capitalist countries in general, and the near capitalist U.S. in particular, would come about by a revolt of the "exploited" working class. Now look at Poland [Sept. 1]. Whose workers in what type of country are revolting...
...were warning that the people's patience was about at an end." Last week Kalb was back in Poland, talking with shipyard workers in Gdansk, coal miners in Silesia, government ministers and party officials, as the Polish regime struggled to cope with the two-month-old workers' revolt...
...economic and political reforms. From its nerve center in Gdansk, the movement quickly swept the Baltic coast, spread southward, and finally reached deep into the coal-mining heartland of Silesia. Before the strikes had ended, some 500,000 workers at over 500 enterprises had joined the peaceful but crippling revolt. The work stoppages had cost hundreds of millions of dollars, pushing the country to the brink of disaster and testing the limits of Soviet patience...
said a prominent Polish émigré in London last week. Indeed, the father of modern Communism would have been astounded by the spectacle: a socialist country whose ports, factories and mills were crippled by an industrial revolt of its own angry workers; a Communist Party leader abjectly confessing his regime's economic failure and dependence on capitalist banking consortiums for lifesaving loans. Most incredible of all to the man who contemptuously dismissed religion as "the opiate of the people" would have...