Socialist Organiser

The weekly of the fused Workers Socialist League, July 1981 to April 1984

[THE POLISH workers' and to help the families…]

Socialist Organiser no. 71, 4 February 1982 · scan p. 5 · about 181 words

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THE POLISH workers' and to help the families of. struggle for democratic con- those interned, imprisoned trol of industry and the right and killed by the WRON. Evto a free trade union has ery penny donated will go to been attacked many times. Workers have been killed in Posnan in 1956, Gdansk in 1970, Radom in 1976 and now in Silesia in 1981.

Each time the Polish working class has rebuilt its movement even stronger, eventually exploding in the historic Polish August of 1980 and the creation of the 10 million strong NSZZ Solidarnosc.

This appeal for funds for Solidarnosc is going out to the British labour and trade union movement to aid the rebuilding of Solidarnosc AD Solidarnosc. We hope every union branch, every Trades Council, every Labour Party branch will support this appeal with a donation. KEN LIVINGSTONE (GLC)

ERIC HEFFER, MP TONY BENN, MP RON KEATING (NUPE) JEREMY CORBYN ANDY HARRIS (LLP Exec)

- ali in personal capacity. Donations IU. LdUUU! rUI- Nanatiano *n. Ian Onl and Solidarity Fund, c/o Coop Bank, 110 Leman St, London E1.

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