Protests over food shortages and demands for rights shake the Gierek regime
If Marx were alive to see it, he would not believe his eyes." So
said a prominent Polish émigré in London last week. Indeed, the father of modern Communism would have been astounded by the spectacle: a socialist country whose ports, factories and mills were crippled by an industrial revolt of its own angry workers; a Communist Party leader abjectly confessing his regime's economic failure and dependence on capitalist banking consortiums for lifesaving...