ON TO BLACKPOOL! that the nawks the government and ruling • class are actively softening public opinion for a revision of the constitution. Test Hardly a year has gone by without some government or public figure making a public statement to test public opinion on the question of Japan possess ing nuclear weapons, OI changing the constitution (Article 9). Every year, it is traditional for the Prime Minister to attend Yasukuni shrine, Japan's WW2 officers and unknown soldiels are buried, but this has usually been In a personal capac. ty. In the few years, subtle changes have taker place in this ritual which give it the character or ar official function, leading some Japanese to believe that the government is on the verge of exonerating its role in the second Socialist Challenge The Self-Defen Forces, , it is pointed ou have a lot of equipment cope with the effects nuclear war such as radi tion suits, and also posse many conventior. weapons which could ea ly be converted to nucle The SDF had on ones conducted joint exercis with the US using sea aair forces, but recer.: they have also bei holding joint excercises ground LIC.
Adding all . this togetprovides the basis for emergence of a mass c position movement desp the government's forr position.
main national union fede:
encompassins 3.9m, Hilally WUIKCIS closely unlea witn the Japan socid rarty, ana to a lesser e.e. the Japanese Communist Pa 28 August 1982 page
Castle Square in 22 August Protestors gather around floral cross in Warsaw's trade government called which no taneous near Gdansk. NEXT MONDAY, 31 August, the underground leaders of Solidarnosc are calling for a massive display of defiance against the Polish regime.
cannon and truncheons of the police.
union. On this the agreement.
Food price rises have a way of sparking off rebellions in Poland.
In December 1970 the giant price rises decreed by the party leadership led to riots in which dozens Already there have been riots in the major Polish towns, but especially in the port of Gdansk, the birthplace of Solidarnosc. Last week ten thousand workers demonstrated in Gdansk against martial law and for the release of Lech Walesa, only to be met with the water On 31 August the workers of Poland will be commemorating the Gdansk agreement signed on that day two years ago - the agreement which recognised Solidarnosc and the right of the Polish workers to their own independent anniversary LAWSON describes the events which led to the Free Trade Union, newpaper and management PAUL and its Robotnik Wybrzeza, were subject to constant police harassment.
The group saw the new attempt