Via pracownicza demokracja “The strike movement in Belarus is spreading instantly. Much more bets are on strike now. Some of the protesters were released and the police stopped beating (so far). On strike m. in Minsk Electrical Factory, Belkard in Grodno, Grodno-Nitrogen, Belaruskali in Salihorsk, MTZ tractor factory (here the strike committee was established), MMZ, Kieramin and many more. Once again we see that organized workers and mass strikes are the most powerful weapon in the fight for democracy. Today is the 40th anniversary of the strike in Gdańsk Shipyard. What is happening in Belarus at the moment is also part of our - employee and international - history... and a great example for today for employees and employees in Poland.”
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51