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all manage lu grre mmm llielelure De gralelul! Ieleneu A particularly helpful way of contributing would be to take out a bankers order making regular contributions to the paper every month. Faced with a massive workers' upsurge that has shaken the country, the Polish government has been forced to beat a major retreat. The deal it signed with Baltic port workers on Sept 1st was a staggering blow to its own bureaucratic rule.
be seen from the fact that it was forced to concede the right of workers to form free trade unions and to strike - two central demands of the MKS (Interfactory Strike Committee).
As Lech Wálesa promina nt strike leader commented: "We've gotten all that's possible in the current situation. It's what we wanted and dreamed of independent trade unions"
FIRST STEP Winning the right to organise in independent unions was not the only concession the repressive regime was forced to make to get the workers back to work.
It was also compelled to pledge to limit censorship, meet many of the strikers' economic demands. allow access to the media by religious groups and release more than two dozen dissidents arrested for supporting the strike wave. What- Freeing well-known antibureaucratle activisis such as Jacek Kuron from jail, the government was forced to agree that "Radio, television, the press and publishing houses will serve to express the multiplicity of thoughts and opinions".
STRIVE WAVE (Lambeth Central CLP)
The extent of this retreat can - the most we' ve got government on July organizing center for strike movement. meat prices announced bt the Ist. It was soon apparant, however, that this was only a spark to the long-smouldering hatred by workers of the repressive regime Strikes began to spread.
Within weeks, Gdansk, a major port of the Baltic sea, was paralysed. More than 50,000 out of the city's 500,000 workforce downed tools, led by the workers at the Lenin shipyard.
Soon after, shipyard workers, bus and streetcar drivers in the unions and the right to strike. Strikers defend gates of Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk. H neighbourir and Sopot sitni By August 18th. there were over 149 workplaces reportedi! closed in these three cities.
Moreover, strikes began to spread to other Baltic ports, to Warsaw and Lodz and most significantly of all - to the coalfields in Silesia (base of Communist Party leader Eduard Giereck.)
STRIKE CTTEES Rejecting the státe-controlled and their right-wing allies in the