Anatol Lyabedzka, leader of the United Civic Party, an opposition party in Belarus, will attend The Axis of Evil: Belarus--The Missing Link conference being organized by the New Atlantic Initiative (NAI) at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) on Thursday, November 14, 2002.

The author protests the abuse of Anatol Lyabedzka, a leading advocate for democracy in Belarus, by the regime of Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko.

Twenty-five years ago, on August 31, 1980, as waves of strikes spread outward from the Lenin shipyard, Polish Communist authorities signed an agreement with the underground opposition movement, giving workers the right to be represented by a democratically elected trade union. Drawing inspiration from Christianity and democratic socialism, Solidarity’s bloodless...