POLAND'S new free trade union movement last week presented its statutes for official registration. wards three thousand people joined strike leader Walesa for a victory march through the streets of Warsaw.
A historic moment, think. But all but one of Poland's daily papers failed to mention the event The continued suppression of news about the free trade unions is just one of several ways in which the regime is trying to regain the ground it lost during the August wave.
Another is its hold over the official trade union structures. In a move of breathtaking cynicism, the official union federation renamed itself independent self-managed trade union'! response the free trade unions have taken the name (Solidarity).
But that's not the end of the problem. Unions are wholesale from the official federation to Solidarnosc as a manoeuvre to uncermine its etter tiented: These activitst mentco: run by the same people as before — it's a matter of new labels for old bottles.' This theme was taken up last 0,000 workers in the Warsaw arca Spallet Cheer 2990ber 199-2099.22 AfterLech strike has now and In Solidarnosc official union transferring simple comassemblies' deck in a statement by leaders of us the strike leaders are aware that thi
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Gdansk workers in front of crossed-out sign for 'We have noted recently that the old made umon comes are scummy o unions and describing themselves as under orders from higher authority and not through voting by general Kuron, This emphasis on the importance of workers democracy suggests that is their best weapon fol frustrating WA union's advisers in the Social Committee (KOR).
KOR's leaders, was accused last week of calling for the burning of Communist Party headquarters and the hanging of In fact te had merely warned in a TV inte
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