movement. Despite in the Warsaw and Gdansk areas, Elsewhere too drivers jammed their car horns and people hung out oI ol fice and house windows to SHOW defiance against martial law. inakon more than ten thousands people were dispersed bi riot police with water canROOS and another march claimed that 679 people in were arrested leading members They include Jacek Kuron alre Polish authorities released clulivilly or 19o1 buca a resuit I d period of Solidarnoss's ac DONE the court-rooms deserve the highest praise.
1981 gave their lives for freedom.
and its leaders, together with Lech Walesa.
one minute at midday on 13th May.
still and let the sound of car horns be heard.
Temporary Coordinating Committee Zbigniew Bujak (Warsaw Region), Wladyslaw Frasyniuk Wladyslaw Hardek (Krakow Region), Bogdan Lis (Gdańsk Region). TENS OF THOUSANDS of workers in Poland supported last Thursday's 15 minute general strike called by the underground Solidarnosc systematic threats of repression by the military authorities, workers in a significant number of factories, especially downed tools for fifteen minutes at midday on 13 May, five months after the imposition of martial law.
gives the lie to the myth that Solidarnosc was in any way 'responsible for the economic crisis.
This is doubly proved workers have been forced the Hal lal law authorities accept nuge cut their living standards Government is more urgent than ever the To all members of the Five months have passed since the introduction of martial law. Contrary to the calculations of the authorities social resistance is not weakening. The The thousands who have been interned and arrested, who refuse to be broken and bravely voic the idea of Solidarity in the camps, prisons, and they are released, the 13th of each month will be a day of protest against repression and violence, a day of commemoration of those who in December WE CALL FOR all enterprises in the country to stop work between 12.00 and 12.15 on the 13th We ask for freedom for trade union activists WE APPEAL FOR all urban traffic to stop for and buses, cars and pedestrians come to a standThe coordination of action nationwide will b a measure of our solidarity and strength. We call on other Regions to join our protest, at the same time, not giving up any actions planned locally. Socialist Society ULU, Malet St, London WC1 Daniel Singer, Oliver MacDonal Mario Nuti, Monty Johnston Socialist Challenge 21 May 1982
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Independent Selt- Governing Trade Union 'Solidarność', to the Polish people