Poland: another one bites the dust
Socialist Press1981 1981-02-18Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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The departure of yet another Polish Prime Minister has been followed by yet another attempt by the Stalinist bureaucracy and the Solidarity leadership to patch together an uneasy truce.
Solidarity has abandonedor at least postponed-attempts to force the recognition of the farmers' union Rural Solidarity.
Solidarity leader Lech walesa now says that perhaps this is not the right time for registration of a farmers' union:
Meanwhile, as the Communist Party bureaucracy struggles to replace the functionaries and parasites ousted from office by the latest wave of strikes, Solidarity leaders appear willing to offer the new Prime Minister General Jaruzelski, the 90-day truce he has asked for.
One fly in the ointment is the upsurge of militancy amongst students, focussed on the central Polish town of Lodz.
A new unofficial students union has emerged, with scant respect for the old Stalinist "union".
"They turned up here but we told them to go away as they were mostly over 40 and were bureaucrats, not students' one militant told the Washington Post. General Jaruzeli