A Country On A Tightrope But a weekend settlement favorable to the strikers could end the crisis.

The article focuses on the Lenin shipyard strike that took place in September 1980 in Gdansk, Poland. It discusses the negotiations between the government and the labor union over a free-trade-union movement outside the Communist Party control. Further, Jan Jacewicz, a technician at the shipyard strike explained the reason for the Lenin strike being more effective than the riotous protests of 1970.