Suchergebnisse

There is a profound crisis in the relations between workers & trade unionism in Eastern Europe. Trade unionism made great progress there after WWII, but soon a divorce between the Communist (C) conception & that of the unionists became apparent. The C's systematically penetrated the unions, by 1948 all unions were under C control & from 1949 the Stalin conception of trade unionism, complete subordination to Party direction, was to be implanted in the Popular democracies. The right to strike was no longer recognized, joint management seemed incompatible with the centralizing conception of econ life, factory committees became absorbed in trade unions. Though a spirit of reform appeared in the USSR after 1953 & slowly spread to the Satellites, the workers in all Eastern Satellites had lost their confidence in the C Party & in the trade unions subjected to the Party. Today the Trade Unions claim general independence, especially in Hungary & Poland, a trend impossible of fulfilment in a totalitarian state, & the antagonism between wage earners & manag, between Wc bur'cy will play a decisive role in the evolution of the C countries. IPSA.