Poland
Sir,—An item, “Walesa backs austerity” (December 11), suggests that for the man who organised strikes in the Gdansk shipyards and the Nowa Huta Steelworks against the.P.U.W.P. Government’s raising of food prices, the chickens are now coming home to roost. One of the monumental follies of the P.U.W.P. Government was to
borrow so heavily from the West. That the Solidarity Government is following the same road signals its policy bankruptcy. What the bemused Polish workers must be thinking of the man who persuaded them to strike against higher food prices and is now asking them to accept a 20 per cent drop in living standards, and a 12 per cent drop in industrial output, can only be guessed. Far from solving Poland’s problems, Solidarity is about to lead the country in “a crash programme to transform Poland’s command economy along Western lines” into the engulfing morass of Third World indebtedness. — Yours, etc.,
M. CREEL. December 11, 1989.
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