Word: unionizers
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...continuation of Communist Party rule. Acceptance of the scheme has been grudging at best, and its future course is anything but certain. The delicate political balance is threatened by radicals within Solidarity who are itching to leave the opposition benches and lay claim to the popular mandate the trade union won in the June 4 legislative elections, when it captured all 161 seats open to it in the Sejm and 99 out of the 100 Senate seats. The economic experiment also ! faces challenges. Last week, as a monthlong wage-and-price freeze was lifted, prices doubled and even trebled...
...freewheeling conference in Moscow's House of Cinema, the new faction elected a collective leadership and adopted a platform that called for rewriting the Soviet Constitution to make the system safe for pluralism and basic civil rights. In a direct challenge to Leninism, the central dogma of the Soviet Union, the organizers agreed that the power to rule should be taken from the Communist Party and handed to an elected government...
Such a profound alteration of the very foundations of the Soviet system would have been unthinkable even a year ago. But many Soviet citizens are thinking the unthinkable these days. During his years of exile and his reign over the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1924, Lenin formulated prescriptions for every aspect of the nation's political, economic and social conduct. Now even he, like so much else in this changing land, is being questioned...
American experts find such revisionism a dramatic development. With establishment journals publishing criticism of Lenin, says Dimitri Simes of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, "nothing about Communism is sacred any longer in the Soviet Union." Robert Legvold, director of Columbia University's Harriman Institute, does not expect Lenin to go from icon to archvillain. "Lenin will be given an honorary place in Soviet history as the founder of the country," says he. "Yet, just as U.S. historians can show the warts of George Washington, Soviet historians will be able to do the same with Lenin...
Early said topics union leaders planned to discuss at today's meeting included ways of escalating the strike, asking other unions for financial help and volunteers to join picket lines and pressuring NYNEX customers, bankers and outside directors to intercede with the company for concessions...