Because the government started implementing austerity measures, and people were self organizing strikes after initial requests to end austerity got people fired from their jobs. The CIA funneled money to the more moderate parts of the Solidarity movement, but there were hundreds of thousands of members wanting more radical action to self organize their production, so much so that frankly the CIA tried to use their moderate members to reign in the radicals as they were doing too much.
The movement already had hundreds of thousands of people in it before there was any money sent to it. After money started, the CIA gave 2 million a year for 5 years. The money was channeled through third parties. The NED funded organizations that promoted Solidarity abroad but had no money links to the organization itself. The AFL was much more direct, and solicited hundreds of thousands from individual union members to send to Solidarity. What was this money spent on? Most of it was spent on paying workers in Poland who got fired for political organizing. The CIA was so paranoid about being found out that they had virtually no contact with solidarity, and quite literally none with the dissidents in the underground, so much so that CIA reports complain about radicals using their money for stuff they didn't want them to. For example, they repeatedly complained internally that there efforts to quell the revolutionary tensions failed, and they were being exacerbated. The money allowed a set of professional organizers to do underground publishing and activism full time, however they acted independently on what to do with that money. Why did they succeed? Because the polish people were so pissed at the government that they went on strike. Now there was a marked difference in the two phases of the union, with the latter being more moderate (due to the funding), compared to the first phase pre martial and shortly after the martial law declarations.
Lol at the Ben Norton article in here, just totally ignores the majority of the movement and the reason it existed.
Because the government started implementing austerity measures, and people were self organizing strikes after initial requests to end austerity got people fired from their jobs. The CIA funneled money to the more moderate parts of the Solidarity movement, but there were hundreds of thousands of members wanting more radical action to self organize their production, so much so that frankly the CIA tried to use their moderate members to reign in the radicals as they were doing too much.
The movement already had hundreds of thousands of people in it before there was any money sent to it. After money started, the CIA gave 2 million a year for 5 years. The money was channeled through third parties. The NED funded organizations that promoted Solidarity abroad but had no money links to the organization itself. The AFL was much more direct, and solicited hundreds of thousands from individual union members to send to Solidarity. What was this money spent on? Most of it was spent on paying workers in Poland who got fired for political organizing. The CIA was so paranoid about being found out that they had virtually no contact with solidarity, and quite literally none with the dissidents in the underground, so much so that CIA reports complain about radicals using their money for stuff they didn't want them to. For example, they repeatedly complained internally that there efforts to quell the revolutionary tensions failed, and they were being exacerbated. The money allowed a set of professional organizers to do underground publishing and activism full time, however they acted independently on what to do with that money. Why did they succeed? Because the polish people were so pissed at the government that they went on strike. Now there was a marked difference in the two phases of the union, with the latter being more moderate (due to the funding), compared to the first phase pre martial and shortly after the martial law declarations.
Lol at the Ben Norton article in here, just totally ignores the majority of the movement and the reason it existed.
do you have a alternative source I can read?
https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article-abstract/11/4/622/5219182
https://online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article-abstract/27/2/125/326/The-Solidarnosc-Spring?redirectedFrom=fulltext
https://libraries.indiana.edu/polish-workers-movement-select-bibliography-english-monographs
Breaking the Barrier: The Rise of Solidarity in Poland by Lawrence Goodwyn (somewhat outdated today)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25779685?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
How do you access the solidarnosc spring pdf?
Copy the doi number and plug it in to Sci hub.
I entered this https://doi.org/10.1016/0967-067X/94/02/0125-10 but it says it does not exist. Did I fuck up?
https://doi.org/10.1016/0967-067X(94)90020-5 This is the right doi. That one got me the article on scihub.