IMGpapers 1980–83

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

WE WILL HOLD OUT!!!

Socialist Challenge No. 170, 30 October 1980 · p. 9 of the scan · 451 words

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page 9 of the scan

And fighting for their rights in this world ejoice!' en we look and there Aktualaie How did you become involved in the strikes?

anae been on noneav lo Czechosiovakia. been on for went to the shipyard to see now lt was colne it made a great impression while I was outside the and I felt I ought to be especially wa. terested relating women I met a friend who worked inside and asked if I could nc as i all a Quick typist.

Besides increased materIL T and rettrement the demands women, and the When days.

me demanes and cartel were was workplaces.

worry about.

STOCZNIA GDANSKA IM. LENINA Workers of the Three Cities!!!

Regarding the mass 'disinformation', we're giving you information on the real state of the strike. The Strikes go on!

At the moment workers of about 400 factories in the Three Cities are on strike, occupying their plants. An Interfactory Strike Committee has been formed with its headquarters at the Lenin shipyards, Gdansk, and it is our sole representative in negotiations with the government.

The Factory Strike Committees are maintaining order in the Rest assured that everything is in order and there is nothing to Interfactory Strike Committee THE leaflet above was decisive in the outcome of the August strike wave. The Polish bureaucrats spread rumours that the strikes had been called off. leaflet corrected this 'information' and kept the strike solid. The three cities referred to are Gdansk, Gdynia, and Sopot on the Baltic Coast.

This is right.

How do Ho do you feel about now thusiastic and optimistic as I was curne une sunke is no more in the shops now than there was afraid that government inave done ll greets, have deal, con't expec any more itKitti the basic problems still remain example, for people with the right connections to arrange things like avoidance or mintary serTo corrupt people is easy, to repair the damag lakes longe. and is much Everyone living hope things will imOne main thing the consciousless Ine wall berween ine wirec tor and the workers is much lower.

Do most women un tre When started work woman represented or the olica umon waica amon waiter to ol 'The new of course, I said. She replied that she felt as if she was strike nothing to do Walesa said to us that strikes solve nothing.

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War you must wait t while wearing a bit thin now The people who • Or Шe nothing them. selves Socialist Challenge 30 October 1980 Page 9

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