A nugget on C. D. Jackson

[Magda Hassan]

Solidarity being another of the Colour Revolutions so beloved by the CIA

Solidarity was a movement I thought was a good idea and still do.

Not quite. A movement fomented and supported by outside interests. The US used the transport worker's union in Chile to bring about the 1973 coup there.

Plans to destabilise the socialist

Soviet Union and its allies were
devised by the intelligence agencies
of the two imperialist powers and
the new Pope's Polish connections
suited these plans to a tee.
Poland had become a particularly
vulnerable member of the socialist
community of nations. Its ruling
party had become detached from
the Polish people and racked up a
series of grave errors. Corruption
was prevalent and the people so
disoriented that Lech Walesa, a
misogynist wearing images of the
Virgin Mary and a US flag and
who proudly claimed never to have
read a book, became the head of the
Solidarność trade union opposition

movement.
The diplomatic bags going to
the Papal Nuncio (or ambassador)
in Warsaw were stuffed with advice,
dollars and other resources for the
anti-government forces in Poland.
They came with the blessings of
the intelligence agencies of the
US, the UK and the Vatican itself.
Solidarność got Poland's very first
fax machine via these channels. The
Pope's trips to his homeland served
to fan the flames of discontent that
were taking on an increasingly
nationalist and anti-Soviet character.
The crisis in Poland was of great
assistance in the full court press
being organised against socialism
by the most confrontational sections
of the international capitalist ruling
class. The fact that conditions
for working people in Poland
have continued to slide since the
restoration of capitalism was of
little concern to John Paul II and
even less to his allies in high places.

Poles, except for the %1.01 that voted for him, can't stand Walesa and what he did to their country. The Gdansk shipyards are now privatized and all workers who followed Solidarity trade union were sacked. But the western media strangely quiet about post socialist Poland and Solidarity is no longer of any use to them. Though the legend lives on in the west it bares no relationship to reality.