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As we go to press, the Stalinist regime has declared the Lenin Shipvard in Gdansk militarised its workers subject discinline. The next step could WITH formidable have risen in direct ski dictatorship.

shot down for 'mutiny"

The Polish workers, confronting the regime after ten months of repression have weakened Solidarnosc and strengthened the state machine, face terrible odds. They urgently need all supporting action possible from labour movements marin fron taant liko nur MIAIN UVVII.

A vote to make Solidarnosc formally illegal - it was only "suspended' by the martial law last December - was pushed through the Polish parlia nent last Friday, oth The next day a government reshuffle ousted one minister who had expressed doubts about banning the union, and the other minister considered as some sort of liberal. According to the Paris daily Le Monde, "It also seems that sanctions are envisaged against those [few] MPs who did not vote for the law [banning Solidarnosc]..." -The underground Solidarnosc leadership responded with a call for a boycott of the new official 'unions' and a four hour protest strike on November 10. The clampdown, they declared, showed weakness not strength on the part of the martial law regime.

'By this act, the WRON [junta] has recognised that it has suffered a defeat.

"The WRON has not succeeded in breaking up the trade union movement and its attempts to corrupt the best-known leaders have been fruitless.

"Through ten months of martial law, the workers have solidly shown their opposition to the courage, Polish workers revolt against the Jaruzel:

to military be workers general's club-law" Jaruzelski was Michael Foot there alongside -Margaret Thatcher?

Why does Party tolerate a leader who calls himself a n "inveterate peacemonger"; ind then joins the City's jing vistic celebration?

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