Lech Walesa and the Polish Workers' Revolt

As the first anniversary of the strike at Gdansk approached, I sought out Lech Walesa to make an assessment of how the movement was doing in the initial stage of becoming a full‐blooded trade union. In this report I first offer some comments on the differences between a movement and a trade union. I look at the four stages a movement goes through on the way to becoming a trade union. These are: