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	Jacek Kuron dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jacek Kuron, who inspired and tutored generations of Poles to struggle against Communist rule, serving as the ultimately successful godfather of a resistance that coalesced around the Solidarity labor union movement, died yesterday in Warsaw.
		Kuron could be seen at protest marches and demonstrations, often trying to keep the peace and always speaking politely to the police in his characteristic raspy voice.
		Jacek Kuron, one of the intellectual fathers of the Solidarity movement, died on 17 June at the age of 70.
	discuss.agonist.org /yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=20213 (1859 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Jacek Kuron
		Jacek Kuron, who died yesterday aged 70, was the chain-smoking intellectual considered the brains behind the shipyard electrician Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement, which brought down the Polish Communist government.
		Jacek Kuron was born on March 3 1934 at Lvov, Eastern Poland, into a working-class family strongly committed to the cause of the proletariat, which he once described as being akin to a mixture of Poland, socialism, Our Lady of Jasna Gora and the gravestone on which you sharpened your bayonet.
		Jacek Kuron is survived by his second wife Danuta, and his son Maciej, who is Poland's first celebrity chef.
	www.buzztracker.org /2004/06/18/cache/238549.html (980 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Jacek Kuron; his intellect propelled Solidarity; at 70
		Kuron was believed to have played an important role in the founding of Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement, which went on to play a central role on postcommunist Polish governments.
		Kuron played a major role in the 1989 round-table talks between Solidarity and the communist authorities that led to Poland's first free elections and the ouster of communists.
		Kuron, who was almost always clad in jeans and a denim jacket no matter the occasion, served again as labor minister under Solidarity's third government, under Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka, between 1992 and 1993.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/06/18/jacek_kuron_his_intellect_propelled_solidarity_at_70 (571 words)

	Obituary: Jacek Kuron
		Jacek Kuron, who has died aged 70, was one of the serious brains behind the Solidarity trade union in Poland, almost from the moment it was formed in...
		Jacek Kuron, who has died aged 70, was one of the serious brains behind the Solidarity trade union in Poland, almost from the moment it was formed in 1980, emerging, with steadily increasing stature, in the tumultuous years after Lech Walesa became the shipyard workers' leader in Gdansk in 1970.
		The reaction of Kuron, together with Adam Michnik, another formidable intellectual, was to form the Workers' Defence Committee, known as KOR, which campaigned in public, and through the underground newspaper, the Worker, for the release of prisoners and an inquiry into police violence.
	www.buzzle.com /editorials/6-17-2004-55599.asp (554 words)

	Jacek Kuron; Led Defiance Of Poland's Communists (washingtonpost.com)
		Jacek Kuron, 70, who led the struggle against Poland's communist leaders as a dissident in the 1970s and later became a popular government minister, died June 17 at the Warsaw Interior Ministry hospital.
		Kuron was believed to have played an important role in the founding of Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement, which went on to play a central role in post-communist Polish governments.
		Kuron, who was almost always clad in jeans and a denim jacket, served again as labor minister under Solidarity's third government, under Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka, between 1992 and 1993.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A56705-2004Jun20.html (505 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Opinion - Jacek Kuron, Polish Solidarity leader
		JACEK Kuron led the struggle against Poland’s Communist Party leaders as a dissident in the 1970s and later became a key member of the country’s Solidarity movement.
		Kuron was not only revered as a man of compassion, but was also an eccentric figure who played by no-one else’s rules, always dressing in a denim jacket and jeans no matter how formal the occasion.
		Kuron lost a bid for the presidency in 1995 to the current president, Aleksander Kwasniewski, after which his health deteriorated and he retreated from public life.
	news.scotsman.com /opinion.cfm?id=691142004 (782 words)

	Jacek Kuron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jacek Kuroń (March 3, 1934 - June 17, 2004) was a Polish historian, dissident and oppositionleader with the Solidarity movement.
		Jacek Kuroń's first contact with politics began in 1949 when he joined ZwiązekMłodzieży Polskiej (ZMP), the youth organisation closely affiliated with the Polish United Workers Party (PZPR).
		He always wore jeans trousers and a casual jacket, even atofficial functions as a minister, or when he was decorated with honors.
	www.therfcc.org /jacek-kuron-194614.html (472 words)

	Jacek Kuron -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		During his (Click link for more info and facts about political career) political career he was well known for his sensitivity to social issues.
		Jacek Kuroń's first contact with politics began in 1949 when he joined Związek Młodzieży Polskiej (ZMP), the youth organisation closely affiliated with the (Click link for more info and facts about Polish United Workers Party) Polish United Workers Party (PZPR).
		He always wore ((usually plural) close-fitting pants of heavy denim for casual wear) jeans ((usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately) trousers and a casual (A short coat) jacket, even at official functions as a minister, or when he was decorated with honors.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/jacek_kuron.htm (642 words)

	Socialist Review
		As a theoretician and energetic organiser Jacek Kuron was probably the most able oppositionist in Poland before the collapse of Stalinism in 1989.
		Kuron was also a vehement opponent of the occupation of Iraq, which he called a 'shameful adventure'.
		So in 1980 Kuron's flat became the nerve centre for workers around the country, informing them that strikes were winning and that it paid to strike.
	www.socialistreview.org.uk /article.php?articlenumber=8974 (809 words)

	Jacek Kuron \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Jacek Kuron, who led the struggle against Poland's communist leaders as a dissident in the 1970s and later became a popular government minister, died Thursday.
		Kuron died at the Warsaw Interior Ministry hospital after a long illness, hospital spokesman Zdzislaw Kruszynski said.
		Kuron took on a leading role in organizing student and worker demonstrations and other pro-democracy agitation.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040620/news_1m20kuron.html (524 words)

	A Force More Powerful: Poland 1980 - Dissidents and Self-Organization
		In 1964 Kuron was ejected from the party; the next year he was arrested and sentenced to prison.
		Kuron was out of jail in time to organize rallies in March 1968, only to find himself under lock and key again in just two days.
		But Kuron and Michnik believed something else could be done: Rather than trying to change the government, opponents of the regime could change Polish society - by resisting the party's propensity to control every corner of social life.
	www.pbs.org /weta/forcemorepowerful/poland/organization.html (1100 words)

	Jacek Kuron (1934-2004) -- News & Letters, July 2004
		Jacek Kuron, a lifelong Polish dissident who was once a revolutionary activist, died on June l7 at age 70.
		At this point, Kuron, who by this time had abandoned Marxism and feared a Russian army attack, advocated a "self-limiting revolution." Kuron was again imprisoned.
		Kuron became labor minister, and now as part of the ruling bureaucracy opposed strikes by the workers and farmers who protested the privatization imposed by the government.
	www.newsandletters.org /Issues/2004/July/Kuron_July2004.htm (341 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Obituaries \| Jacek Kuron
		Under the martial law regime imposed by General Wojciech Jaruzelski in December 1980, Kuron was consistently keen to avoid what he insisted would be unnecessary strike action, though he was willing to concede the implicit support for the people's cause in the visits of the Polish-born Pope John Paul II.
		In 1980, Kuron became a member of Solidarity's national committee, and remained a member of Walesa's inner circle, joining the talks to reach an understanding with the Jaruzelski government in 1988-89.
		In the 1989 elections, held at a time when regimes throughout eastern Europe were experiencing political subsidence, Kuron was elected to the Polish parliament, the Sejm, as a Solidarity candidate.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,1241458,00.html (776 words)

	Jacek Kuron -- godfather of the Polish resistance to Communists
		Jacek Kuron -- godfather of the Polish resistance to Communists
		Jacek Kuron, who inspired and tutored generations of Poles to struggle against Communist rule, serving as the ultimately successful godfather of a resistance that coalesced around the Solidarity labor union movement, died Thursday in Warsaw.
		Kuron was expelled from the party and sentenced to 3 1/2 in prison.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/06/19/BAG0M78V431.DTL (610 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Obituaries in the news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Jacek Kuron, who led the struggle against Poland's communist leaders as a dissident in the 1970s and later became a popular government minister, died Thursday.
		Kuron died after a long illness, hospital spokesman Zdzislaw Kruszynski said.
		While Walesa was the popular leader of the Solidarity movement, Kuron was widely seen as the intellectual driving force behind its founding in 1980.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/06/17/obituaries_in_the_news (462 words)

	Jacek Kuron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jacek Kuro (de marcha 3 la 1934-June 17 2004) era historiador, un disidente y un líder de oposición polacos con el movimiento de la solidaridad.
		Jacek que Kuro primero hace contacto con con política comenzó en 1949 cuando él ensambló Zwizek Modziey Polskiej (ZMP), la organización de la juventud de cerca afiliada con el partido unido polaco de los trabajadores (PZPR).
		Jacek Kuro era famoso por su disdain para las reglas sociales.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ja/Jacek%20Kuron.htm (541 words)

	Jacek Kuron, key figure in Poland's anti-communist opposition, dies
		WARSAW (AFP) - Jacek Kuron, one of the key figures in the anti-communist opposition in Poland and a founding member of the Solidarity trade union movement, has died in Warsaw, Polish national radio reported.
		A historian and sociologist, Kuron was one of the first intellectuals to openly criticise the communist regime in the late 1960s, but he always remained a man of the left.
		Co-founder in 1976 of the Committee for the Defence of Workers (KOR), the embryo of the democratic opposition, he was involved in setting up Solidarity, the first free trade union in the Soviet bloc, born out of the strikes in the shipyards on Poland's Baltic coast in the summer of 1980.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/1155189/posts (511 words)

	Jacek Kuroń - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was released due to an amnesty in 1984.
		In 1989 Kuroń took part in Round Table talks.
		This page was last modified 16:21, 18 September 2005.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jacek_Kuron (501 words)

	Jacek Kuron, 70; led struggle against communists in Poland
		Jacek Kuron, 70; led struggle against communists in Poland
		WARSAW, Poland -- Jacek Kuron, who led the struggle against Poland's communist leaders as a dissident in the 1970s and later became a popular government minister, died Thursday.
		Kuron played a major role in the 1989 roundtable talks between Solidarity and the communist authorities that led to Poland's first free elections and the ouster of communists.
	www.suntimes.com /output/obituaries/cst-nws-xkuron18.html (555 words)

	Against Walesa, Any Solidarity?
		The veteran dissident Jacek Kuron ran a distant third, capturing 9 percent of the vote.
		Kuron fell between two stools: The right flank of his own party showed little enthusiasm for his bid, and the rank and file of the Union of Labor rebelled against its leadership and picked another candidate-the ombudsman Tadeusz Zielinski.
		Listening to Kuron, I had the painful impression that, if he did badly, it might spell the end of an era, the political exit of a figure crucial for Polish politics in the last third of this century.
	www.thenation.com /doc/19951127/singer (3031 words)

	Sitting on a Fence
		The life of contemplation leavened with commitment that Hampshire led was not an option for Kuron, born in Poland in 1934.
		Kuron was not as prominent as Reagan; he didn’t have as much power – or, perhaps it would be better to say, he had a rather different sort of power.
		Kuron did not abandon his principles or his struggle for human rights with the fall of Communism.
	j3.blogspot.com /2004_06_13_j3_archive.html (1630 words)

	MORTE DI UN DISSIDENTE. Il Manifesto ricorda Jacek Kuron : Italy imc
		K. Jacek Kuron, che si è spento due giorni fa a Varsavia, è stato uno dei primissimi dissidenti polacchi.
		In Occidente saranno soltanto i trotzkisti a parlarne, ma né Jacek Kuron né Karol Modzelewski avevano a che vedere con Trotzkij.
		Kuron cerca di attutirne gli effetti, con forme di soccorso ai più colpiti e la distribuzione di pasti popolari, crede e assicura che si tratta di traversare un momento difficile ma che le cose miglioreranno.
	italy.indymedia.org /news/2004/06/573306.php (1910 words)

	Events
		Jacek Kuron, key advisor to the Polish trade union Solidarity, was recognized for his contributions to Solidarity's struggle and the democratic cause in Poland.
		Kuron stated that Solidarity's success proves that "the assumption that totalitarianism can be broken only from the outside since there are no internal forces capable of breaking the system is false.
		Self organizing society can overcome totalitarianism from within." Kuron was subsequently elected Minister of Labor in the new Solidarity-led parliament in Poland.
	www.ned.org /events/demaward/demaward1989.html (183 words)

	Warsaw Voice - Death of a Dissident
		After a long illness, Jacek Kuroń died at the age of 70 in Warsaw June 16.
		Even though Kuroń did not take an active part in social life in recent years, primarily due to his illness, he nevertheless occupied top positions in opinion polls concerning politicians that Poles trusted.
		Jacek Kuroń was a holder of the highest distinction in Poland-the Order of the White Eagle.
	www.warsawvoice.pl /view/5897 (483 words)

	Partnership for Poland?
		Zoliborz is a vast district in the north of Warsaw, and Jacek Kuron was running there as a Solidarity candidate for the Sejm.
		Kuron, at 55 a jail-hardened veteran of political struggle, was in full control.
		Kuron, who had a rightish Christian Democratic rival for his seat (which was reserved for nonparty candidates), was naturally asked for his views on the matter.
	www.thenation.com /doc/19890626/singer (2553 words)

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