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Walesa laid out the free-union issue at the Tuesday session. Said he: "We don't want to change the socialist ownership of the means of production, but we do want to be the real masters of the factories. We were promised that many times before. We have now decided to demand it by strikes." Jagielski responded with a different concession: a new trade-union law recognizing the right to strike-"as one form of realizing workers' demands when all other possibilities fail." With that, Polish workers had won a legal right unprecedented in any Communist country...
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...
...life." But Gierek continued on a tough and realistic note that evoked the specter of Soviet intervention should the workers push their demands too far. "Any actions aimed at the foundation of the political and social order in Poland cannot and will not be tolerated,'' he said. "Only a socialist Poland can be a free and independent state with inviolable borders. There are certain limits beyond which we must not go." Gierek noted that "only people of ill will fail to see this." Such people, he warned, were "anarchic, antisocialist groups" attempting to use the strikes for political ends...
...threat comes from within his own party. Mugabe's moderate policies have come under bitter attack from radicals like Tekere, who have called for a hard line socialist program and the expropriation of white wealth. There was the potential for a bitter internecine conflict if Mugabe were to allow a white-dominated police and judiciary apparatus to convict Tekere. The fierce, short-tempered nationalist (see box) holds the third high est party rank and commands a loyal following among many of the 25,000 guer rillas who remain in training camps scattered around the country...
...work in Nicaragua as doctors, teachers, engineers and military advisers. Today they total more than 2,000. But Nicaragua does not seem to be turning into a docile Cuban appendage. Says William Baez, director of a private enterprise group: "The government wants to go to some kind of socialist situation, but they don't want another Cuba...