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Article: Many aren't rallying to Solidarity this time
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 25, 1988
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GDANSK, Poland "Come with us!" shouted the young workers as they
marched through the Lenin shipyard here this week, waving a
red-and-white Polish flag and urging their colleagues to come out on
strike. It was a shout that went up at the same shipyard in 1970 and
1980, and changed the course of Polish history.
On this occasion, however, many workers did not respond to the
rallying cry that toppled Communist Party leaders Wladyslaw Gomulka
and Edward Gierek.
For a reporter who witnessed the beginning of the great strike
of August, 1980, that gave birth to the Solidarity movement, the
contrasts between then and now are startling. In a way, they sum up
how Poland has changed in eight years ...