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Socialist Challenge No. 228, 14 January 1982 · p. 8 of the scan · 359 words

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Wing in the major cities.

Polish workers is also building AS POLAND enters its second month of martial law the workers' resistance continues. Latest reports speak of the underground Solidarnosc putting out a twice daily bulletin, a weekly journal, and of clandestine co-ordination growInternational solidarity with the ир.

Solidarnosc representatives in Europe have called for an international day of action on 30 January.

thousands have been to prison resistance.

symbol of Solidarnosc. TRY UNAL PERCOW 1 240NZIE But the repression against Solidarnosc within Poland is severe. Tens of sacked from their jobs, thousands more are interned and hundreds have been sentenced terms for We reprint on these pages two accounts of the resistance at the Lenin shipyards in Gdansk, birthplace and NARODOWN RONt allows the for the crowd, which has also grown since yesterday, applauds incessantly lifting of the state of war, the release do it.' of all the prisoners whose names are read out. have heard that region after region, the whole of Poland, is standing together in opposition, and that a triumphant Lech Walesa making his shipyard. It's far from being the case But this monotony of communiques serves as an antidote to the hammering away of the radio and television since six o'clock on Sunday morning Tween two pieces of classical music, a voice like an automaton weighs down From the other side of the gate, the repeated demands for the immediate They would have liked to something else to hear around way to the over cards, draw Every hour like clockwork in betTanks crash through the famous shipyard gates on Poland: 'As previously announc Military Council for Natior Salvation has been constituted und the leadership of General Wojcie Jaruzelski...

And each time the voice drones for twenty minutes: 'It is forbidden Forbidden meet, to mo authorisation, stick up posters, to circulate leafle to loiter in public places, L0 20 between 10pm and 6am, for anyo 13 to out without ident forbidden to buy petrol, more unan 10,000 zlotys fro one's bank account, to wear badge to send parcels, to make collection to organise sporting activities, to sto in border areas, to carry knives

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