Bad Taste: the demands of the Polish workers

by Cormac · Socialist Challenge No. 229, 21 January 1982 · p. 14 of the scan · 147 words

The scan: sc-no229.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

This text was corrected by hand against the scan: the strip at the foot of page 14, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). One of Cormac's Bad Taste strips: the demands of the Polish workers. Note: numbered by year: "Cormac 82/1".

page 14 of the scan

Five-panel cartoon strip: a man reading the demands of the Polish workers thinks the British labour movement could take some of them up — think of the backing from veteran "Solidarity" supporters like Maggie Thatcher; less certain would be support from the current trade-union leadership. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" (numbered 82/1), Socialist Challenge no. 229, 21 January 1982, page 14. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE — Cormac 82/1.

2. "I've just been reading some of the demands of the Polish workers ...."

3. "... Perhaps some of those demands could be taken up by the British labour movement ...."

4. "Think of the backing such demands would receive from veteran 'Solidarity' supporters such as Maggie Thatcher!"

5. "Less certain, however, would be support from the current leadership of the trade union movement!!"

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