IMGpapers 1980–83

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

Solidarnosc reorganises

· Socialist Challenge No. 242, 21 April 1982 · p. 4 of the scan · 464 words

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Led Poland's April. This Warsaw, on underground resistance. when the news comes on trovalore previously. An actor, every night and forced to abandon his role But the WOrKerS moverncil such as Gdansk, Warsaw, including Sk.

published in the factor across the town goes on (KOS) have been set up circulates and soloan, acuons But the repression continues 1o0. paganda and aiding the CIA.

more important Inan ever FOUR MONTHS after martial law was impos outlawed independent union confounded the military authorities with an eight minute 'illegal' radio broadcast calling for resistance from 'Radio Solidarnosc on 12 was followed up a mass 'switch-off' of lights in thousands of homes in urging Solidarnosc's Such spectacular and unorthodox examples of opposition to martial law have been growing over the las month. In Swidnick near Lublin, there are reports of mass defiance in February when hundreds of people put their TV sets in the window with the screen tacing out wards and went out walking to protest against media lies The authorities responded with a 7pm curfew. Now local people all beat their rugs outdoors at exactly 7.30pm And last month over 100 protestors disrupted the Warsaw Opera when Leonard Mroz came on to sing VerVITOL nau bertormice Polish/Soviet friendship society concert a few weeks , Janus Kosinski, who had express. ed support for martial law on i v was booed ott stag important resistance is inside the Solidarnosc has re-established functioning units in the factories and in the main regions Wroclaw, Lodz, Lublin and Krakow. Some kev national tigures continue to evade ar Zbigniew Warsaw, Wladyslaw Frasyniuk in Wroclaw, Bogdan Lis in Gdan There are some 1700 underground bulletins being country. as well as the regular Warsaw bulletin Tygodnik Mazowsze. And resistance cells have heen esianished in ne be actores nige warsaw regor - FSO, URSUS, Huta Warszawa and the Rosa Luvemburg works. There is aiso the flying strike technique. workers in one want our down tacir tools lone cousi to ensure local security forces are called. Then as the police arrive the workers go back on the job and anothe!

Throughout the country Social Resistance Circic each made up of five people:

Everv member of a KOS forms a new one of a turthe five people. Each KOS circulates the underground press.

and organises Jan Rulewski. leader of Bydgoszcz Solidarnose was taken from an in. ternment camo to face a tribunal accused not of unior activities, but of having caused a fatal road accident the previous year! The Stalinists' dirty tricks departmen been working overtime. His trial was ad Miroslaw Krupinski. who led the strike of the Gdansk shipyards against martial law last December is 10 go on trial next week charged with spreading anti-state pro Building support for Solidarnose in this country is

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