Piotr Sapelo, who Now Solidarity wants an inquiry into the Torces following the tions LIC warsaw prosecutor-general s docugovernment has been forced to negotiate on unis acllallu.
makes dramatic reading. It details the development of the opposition then explains the steps taken forces scouilty counter developments. 1 lic measures include:
Strenuous attempts take court action over onerces Wlal mlay Have ucei committed in the course of 'anti-socialist' activities. • Detaining activists beyond the through MILICa ivuire erse did caral Iv arrest techniques.
activists with concerning of printing presses publishing without a permit.
I HC document regional also reveals Lilal police departments ale cutently preparing 15 cases inool ne 'criminal activities' members socialist groups' in 14 cities.
Among wildl il uesuriues 'I'VE SAID on many platforms that of human and civil rights.
We quite rightly protest and organise against the fascist regimes and dictatorships Chile, South Africa, and many other parts of the 'And we make it absolutely clear that irrespective of whether the people who them in the struggle to eliminate fascist and authoritarian tatorships.
'We cannot say with regimes that call themselves socialist or have a socialised base for the economy system, that when oppression takes place in these countries; when the that we and our forefathers have tought for for generations are not in existence;
when people are put hospitals for the terrible and simple crime of speaking out and organising for their political principles, we cannot then remain silent.
We cannot say we must have a blind spot •eROSC they talk socialism.
'I believe in fact that what has hapEast Europe and the •ece n Jnion has put back socialism for generations, only throughout the workers in countries like ours who have fought hard for basic democratic rights by 'revisionist' suggestions in the programmes or lic opposition creation trade independent of the unol. stass the right to strike, ang giving working unified party working severa Dal Lica with each other.
Solidarity desperately printing facilities countries Uruguay, against the coin.
military dicVOU ordinary human rights psychiatric in of Soviet the West bat Particularly Solidarity members were hormtieo ov ne cocmmacul and at the arest of she ite following A The Polish workess are learning that free incompatible IILORS alC Will nuce COverCal controlled security TOrCI undermine hence the calls for an Threat In particular the workers have demandec ALIUW unose responsiolt events whet thousands of workers were and a few died at the hands or lic sccunily lorccs Ine inrea sion by the USSR persists.
November
Pravo, conluls drew a parallel between current events TOCIte 1968, 'after all possibilities had been exhausted there but paci allies. artIcic ila. LUW been Tevanlea m une oovict babei Demand Workers Britain should demand that there is Warsd racl litch youmon in roand BIRMINGHAM engineering workers have endorsed an appeal for closer links with Polish workers and a financial drive for a small press to print the newspaper.
A quarterly meeting of the Birmingham south district AUEW shop stewards last week passed an appeal, which calls for a national solidarity committee • Developing an understanding in the British the problems workers after the strike settlement. • Establishing practical links with Polish workers in the struggle to build their own organisations. • Co-ordinating "twinning' between factories shipyards and other plants in Bri tain and Poland.
ting press to print the new union Solidarity journal.
journal.
clude the the individual capacity:
create free trade unions separate from
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ANOTHER victory has been won Poland's independent trade unions. was forced to release Jan Narozniak and
publishing a secret document on the op- position. after the threat of a general strike by the independent union Solidarity.
socialists cannot have double stan- dards when it comes to the question
are fighting against those regimes are communists or Catholics or just ordinary bourgeois liberal democrats we are with
Last Thursday the Polish government were accused of The government action came
War sar This
needs better Polish solidarity appeal