Poland

Even in this hour of defeat when thousands of its militants are held in concentration camps, Solidarity remains the most promising social movement to have arisen in Europe since the Second World War. We live in a dispirited moment, petty in aspiration and bleak in sentiment. Nothing reveals the prevailing smallness of spirit more than the weary sighs with which a good part of the West responded to the crushing of Solidarity. Even if there is little (though surely there is something) we can do...