IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

'The winter is yours, but DEFENI

Socialist Challenge No. 233, 18 February 1982 · p. 12 of the scan · 226 words

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hundred people, by explaining the history of Solidarnosc at the Ursus tractor plant where Piotr was deputy convenor. December to frighten the workers into submission.

the courts throughout the #chorties are ruthlessly = peste oi Solidarnose jail sentences. Hundreds have received terms of hree to ten years for trade union activities, organising opposition to martial law and other 'subversive' activities Wojciech Lasocki, mechanic from the Ursus plant near Warthe plant where Piotr Kozlowski of the Solidarnosc trade union working group in Britain was depu:! convenor, was sentencyears' 1111prisonment for inciting a strike and distributing outlawed documents. camps. This sinister development follows the cynical speeches General Jaruzelski offering to allow those unhappy with the Polish system to leave the country But despite the repression, resistance to martial law is growing. Solidarnosc is regrouping and reorganising for a major against the authorities for a few months' time The most . common grattiti in Poland in the workplaces reads: 'The the spring willer is vours. will be ours, Solidarnosc. The Labour Party has called a rally on Poland for Tuesday 16 March in Central Hall, London 7.30pm. Speakers are not yet decided. Piotr Kozlowski (left) and Marek Garztecki from the Solidarnosc Revolution educational school last weekend in London. trade union working group address They enthralled the conference, which was attended by more than one the Socialist Challenge

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