Solidarity
We do not often have cause to praise the government of General Jaruzelski. But we can hardly blame it for sending a coal sales team to London, to step into the breach created by the miners' strike. It is thus acting in the interests of its own mining industry, and the Polish economy. Mr Arthur Scargill, however, is not amused. He thought General Jaruzelski was his Friend and Brother. Only last September he caused quite a stir at the Trades Union Congress by denouncing Solidarity as an 'anti-socialist organisation who desire the overthrow of a socialist state'. So obviously he expected this `socialist state' to support his attempt to overthrow a capitalist government. Instead, the Polish comrades are helping to break his strike. Can it be that he really believed the cant about international proletarian solidarity? Poor silly Mr Scargill.
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