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ten Rosbergh, Chris Smith, Jim Orp AS WE go to press, the Lenin shipyards in Gdansk are on strike again, demanding the withdrawal of the anti-Solidarnose law and the release of political prisoners. Unconfirmed reports say that the workers Szczecin yards have joined the strike.

On Monday night, supporters of Solidarnosc, the only organisation which represents the Polish workers, built street barricades in Gdansk in fighting with the riot police.

The strike shows once again that Solidarnosc alive and fighting - and that it has the sup. port of the workers.

Last months street demonstra tions on the anniversary Gdansk mobilised hundreds of thousands of people against martial law. In response the Jaruzelski martial law regime has decided to finally outlaw the Solidarnosc union.

The law, passed last wook by the Polish parliament, dissolve 'all praviously existing unions' including the state unions. But the real target is Solidarnosc: the state unions had anyway becorne hollow shalls with no following.

Martial law struck a cruel blow against the many advances which the Polish workers had won since the heady days of the occupation ALVE AND of the Lenin shipyard in 1980. But despite the brutal repression despite the internment without trial many the Polish workers' leaders, including Lech Walesa. Solidarnose refuses to die.

The underground leaders of the union had called for demonstrations on 10 November the anniversary of the official registration of Solidarnosc, as a protest against the banning of the union. Their statement, signed by Zbigniew Bujak (Warsaw), Bogdan Lis (Gdansk) and others, FIGHTING calls on the Polish workers to boycott plant-level unions which the authorities want to set up.

It calls for the creation of secret committees in every fac tory to organise the struggle.

But the Polish workers have not waited. They have decided to act immediately. IL SBOWS HIKEE that the authorities will try to crush the strikes more brutality. But in the words of the statement by the leaders of the 'Solidarnosc AXISTA. will continue to, whether they like it or not