GDANSK - Poland's Solidarity trade union threatened yesterday to take revenge for the collapse this week of the Gdansk shipyard.
The union, which blames the co-ruling ex-communists for the fall of the place where Solidarity was born in the early 1980s, said it would gather evidence that the collapse was caused by political decisions and take appropriate action.
"These documents will be used in the electoral campaign and if we win the elections, consequences will be drawn," said Mr Marian Krzaklewski, head of the union and of a right-leaning political alliance it has formed.
The union leads a bloc of more than 30 small right-wing, parties, which aims to challenge the four-year-old ruling coalition of ex-communist Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) and the Peasant Party (PSL) in polls this autumn.