Children of the Solidarity revolution
bbc
16-Apr-2009 (one comment)

Twenty years ago, on 17 April, Poland's communists agreed to hold elections and to allow the Solidarity movement to take part. The first democratic elections in the Soviet bloc resulted in the eventual collapse of the communist regime - but for most of the 1980s, Solidarity had been an illegal organisation whose members faced a constant risk of arrest.

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Mehdi Mazloom

Hopefully the same faith will be in Iran

by Mehdi Mazloom on

Lets hope Iran will experience the same type of "solidarity revolution" against the communist version of fundamentalist there.