port for Solidarnosc.
and told to clamp demonstrations.
As a result vicious repressive measures were announced. First police made clear that any demonstrations would be forcibly Second, the organisers of demonstrations were threatened with 15 years in jail. And third anyone taking part in a demonstration was threatened with five years inside.
At the same time that these measures were announced, Jaruzelski depuRakowski, Prime Minister in television broadcasts made last Sunday night, implied that if demonstrations did OCCUL form legislation of free trade might be made possible again.
But leaders of Solidarnosc in the underground made the opdown on the 31 August posite assessment - inat repression of Solidarnose would become worse if mass mobilisations were stopped.
In addition to crude threats and cynical lying promises, te oureaucrats once again were doubtless pleased to see the Church one rusting its aid once Archbishop Glemp . to the authorities Solidarnose leader Lech Walesa - while the same time urging the workers not to attend the Solidarity demonstrations! The Church leaders are trying to balance between the bureaucracy and the working class in order maintain their own position and keep their own following.
Despite these measures to crush Solidarnose and streets to show that the bureaucracy could not intimdate the working class. The leaders of Solidarnosc had been proved right, the mass molisatons snowed that the fight for free and independent trade unions was still going on.
For months the Polish authorities have been promising that Lech Walesa will be released 'soon' effect Walesa is being held hostage. The fact that he has not been released is testimony to the fact that Jaruzelski and his friends in the Soviet Union know that capitulated, and could not Walesa has 310 T be used as a compliant compromiser bureaucratic rule.
The release of Lech Walesa and the other imprisoned leaders of Solidarnose central objective of should be the IHUYCLIECIEL solidarity Solidarnose in the West. Len Murray has ap pealed to the authorities allow sponsorship Challenge Walesa to attend this year's TUC.
This excellent proposal will granted by the Polish ureaucrats. But it can be taken up throughout the labour movement.
Jaruselski has had nine months to show what his forms for the Socialist version of 'normalisation' amounts to. It means in union tivists, harsh discipline in tive in raising Challenge, the factories, brutality on the streets. The time has come step up our solidarity. funds for Socialist why not follow the lead of
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sk agreement, which recognised the right of the Polish workers to their own independent Recognising that the anniversary is a crucial test, Poland's bureaucratic rulers have taken draconian measures in order to try to prevent any effective demonstration of the mass sup- Party boss Jaruzelski was hastily summon- ed to the Soviet Union prior to the anniversary
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