IMGpapers 1980–83

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

Boycott

Socialist Challenge No. 274, 17 December 1982 · p. 3 of the scan · 217 words

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How can the junta hope that it has gotten the support of the privileged layers when the actors and managers are continuing the systematic bovcott ot the TV they started in the wake of the Decembe crackdown? This sort of protest, which few people expected to last more than few weeks, should be pointed out.

Not only does it involve very serious material loss for those conducting it but it shows that the junta has succeeded breaking the aulance Derween the workers and the intellectuals that wasone of the bulwarks of the Polish revolution tollowing the August 1980 strikes.

How, moreover, can the military claim dominate the situation when the new unions they been able to get together the 15 candidates required to set up an organizing committee. firings, it cannot be said that the rebellious mood of the Polish workers has receded notably.

The fact that the arrests and roughing up of priests who support the ac tions of the underground union. lightminded way, as they saw it, that the Provisional Coordinating Committee of Solidarnose (the TKK, the underground leaderLech Walesa was released.

The problem is then not so much whether the resistance movement has may be contribute to the forma tion of such a leadership.

What is certain is that the underground move-

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