Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This time the walkouts were a challenge not only to Poland's Communist government, but to Solidarity, the independent labor union forged during last summer's unrest. The wildcat protests threatened to destroy Solidarity's hard-won unity and shatter the delicate detente between the union and the state. "We must stop all the strikes so that the government can say that Solidarity has the situation under control," warned Union Leader Lech Walesa. "We must concentrate on basic issues. There is a fire in the country...
...Soviet army newspaper Red Star pointedly reprinted a commentary from Warsaw's Trybuna Ludu warning against the "dangerous game" the Solidarity strikers were playing. Prague's Rude Pravo charged that Walesa had received orders from Pope John Paul II to initiate the latest round of labor unrest...
...Salvador's history of political upheaval, rebellion and repression began to pick up a dangerous momentum early in this century. Worker unrest resulted in the creation of a National Guard in 1912, but despite this governmental edict workers' parties only grew in number and strength. It was during this period--ten years after the First World War--that Farabundo Marti formed El Salvador's Communist Party to oppose the ruling oligarchy of foreigners and El Salvadorans willing to aid their interests. In the 50-odd years since then, tension between the workers and the government has increased...
Clearly, many Poles felt that it was high time to cool the country's labor unrest. There was an almost palpable sense of relief when the Polish supreme court postponed a ruling on the right of Poland's 3.2 million private farmers to form their own union, thus defusing a new crisis. The farm leaders were jubilant over the court's apparent readiness to study ways of legalizing a Rural Solidarity movement patterned on Walesa's Solidarity. Only last September the Warsaw district court had ruled that Poland's private farmers were not entitled...
Bloated beyond its architects' intent, welfarism is threatening bankruptcy in some countries. Attempts to curb its excesses are beginning to cause political disruption and even social unrest. In France and Britain, labor unions and other groups have demonstrated against cutbacks in medical and education benefits. In Belgium and The Netherlands, attempts to slash welfare spending have helped trigger Cabinet crises, along with protests involving workers, students, doctors and even pharmacists. In Sweden, long a model of social consensus, unions and employers paralyzed the country last spring with nine days of work stoppages over wage claims that eventually forced...