us last weapon.
workers' revolution by State terrorism.
needs had become evident to everyone.
reform economic these hopes.
'In covernment 'Today the counter-revolution is a reality in Poland. The bureaucratic power, plunged into an unprecedented crisis over the last months, is using The state of war installed by General Jaruzelski against the working class and the whole of society is an attempt to crush the Over the last months the inability of the State and party apparatus to satisfy the most elementary Nevertheless the workers placed their hopes in the based on workers' selfmanagement which was planned to start in early January. The development of social control over the political economy, and the perspective of the first free local elections next spring, reinforced November, the abandonment by the of its own proiect o economic reform, and its decision to concentrate even more economic power into the hands of the bureaucratic apparatus provoked widespread social tension. In numerous enterprises and regions the workers of Solidarity began to prepare for a strike action in rder to exercise control over the means of produ ion and distribution, to install a genuine workers selt-management and to impose an economic reform from below through a mass movement.
'The question of who should hold power - a privileged munority or themselves began Solidarity. directly jicient attention.
'Today, Polish revolution, of the workers, is in danger of being crushed. decided to resist, but they need the determined support of the workers of the world and in the first place from the powerful workers' organisations of Western Europe.
Solidarity would represent their own defeat. What is happening today in Poland is a matter for every Zbigniew Kowalewski, presidium of Lodz Solidarity, 17 December 1981.
the working masses to be discussed within revolutionary situation developed from then on in Poland. It's then that the Polish army hierarchy decided to put into motion the preparations to impose its dictatorship: preparations which had begun a year ago, but to which the leaders of Solidarity had devoted insufrecourse to bayonets is suppressing not only the possibility of workers' socialism and self-management to which the free unions and the Polish working masses aspire, but also the elementary rights of man, of citizens and of workers. The which constitutes one of the most advanced and audacious experiences in the world from the point of view of the emancipation 'The working class and the Polish people have united and The defeat of member of the
Challenge Katowice miners remember those murdered at the Wilek mine by the military authorities Polish coverage in this week's Socialist compiled by Davy Jones night curfew ficials Leading population.
CONT the post. ports, lions THREE WEEKS of martial law and vicious repression have stopped resistance in Poland. Indeed, in many regions a co-ordinated fightback develop. DAVY JONES reports on the facts of the repression and the workers' response.
The effects of martial law are achastaling here sud All phone com ship and all letters opened and and dallic banned tinks mun ine our side world have also been cut.
isolate camate of fear Some local Solidarity of arrested like Kolodziei Gdynia have been drugged Heek fessions and appearing on T denounce Soldaril like Rozplochowski of Silesia search been attacked media as 'degenerates semin campaigns nave ocgur in the press agains! supposed regions by the tiny Jewish and Catholic associations have been shut 'militarises' whole sectors of 'economy buses military telecommunications, radio and TV • power plailly refineries. petrol sta, and workshops for all sion orms of militar the workers beginning to More than one hundred of the 107-person Not Solidarity were ed away 1o Warsaw HQS WCIC documents laken away an( crouds who assembled outside to protest were dispersed police all, . seems that at least 15.000 Solidarity supporers were immealater uniform stunned Snock an 0 disbelief, and desperate for workplace strikes › in virtually town and city and in let blanl the and Szczecin, the Silesian region and Katowice, Lublin WelC massle sautonas The city Radom, centre equipment and am factories was totally sealed off by the army The resistance and repres then followed
POMERANIA
Bydgoszcz PRAGUE up 1o begin again the national and regional leaders of Solidarity escaped ine securly porce.u the Cidansk shipyards a national strike committee established Walesa' • deputies.
Krupinski, well Jal and Anna Walentynowic/ The shipyard, after repeated military attacks was closed down until Monday 4 January and the strike com mittee arrested.
Thursday
Bialystoko Lublir the resistance. Dogs were used 1o break sit-in at Krakow and miners were shot dead ai the wuek mine in suesia ole see works near warsal and Katowice. all the Baltic shipyard Ursus plant pare shut doth binder other year As many as 184 a lories were still on strike on 2 December In all, some 49 internmen camos nave been set up. man thousands have been intern hundreds more arrester