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€170 from a Christmas bazaar in Oxford, £48 from Tunbridge Wells, £60 from East London, £35 from Sheffield, £20 from Manchester, and many other contributions from local groups kept our heads above But with the New Year we face many new tasksall costing money. We produced thousands of leaflets We'll be campaigning in next couple of months for the trade union democracy conference we've contributions to Socialist Organiser, THE POLISH working class is continuing its determined resistance to the Martial Law introduced three weeks ago.
Despite the shooting dead of seven miners and many unconfirmed deaths, prison sentences of many years for strike and union leaders, and at least 12,000 people interned, the workers' struggle continues.
Many occupations have been physically defeated. 3,000 Silesian miners came up on Christmas Eve after staying underground for two weeks. But despite the defeat of these major actions, most reports say that workers are continuing to (read: stooges or peop broken by the repression) -perhaps with the idea of reconstituting a sham Solidarnosc controlled by its own people.
The regime knows it is isolated. Even two of its ambassadors (in the US and Japan) have defected. At the moment it is even water last month.
for the Ford mass meetings.
sponsored for March 6 London N8.
So the risk rema of a 'bloodbath' -empt by the bureau eradicate Solidarno: the minds of the class.
Jaruzelski is o quite scared of this he can't make the Law stick, then it that he will look Help us agitate, educate, and ins high an attcracy to sc from working bviously i. But if Martial is clear organise. Send 28 Middle Lane, The best elements, now in prison or working underground, will no doubt be the basis for a new revolutionary party. They may even be joined by some of those now resigning from the Polish CP.
Outside Poland there have been many forms of hostility to the regime.
Demonstrations have taken place worldwide -50,000 in Chicago, 7,000 in Britain. Many of these demonstrations have been led by reactionary anti-communists.
At the demonstration in London there was an alternative labour movement platform. Socialist Organiser is appealing to other organis-
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