Schlagwort: Solidarity
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Lynn Walsh: Poland: Defeat for workers – but military can’t solve crisis
[Militant No 583, 8 January 1982, p. 9] By Lynn Walsh With brutal efficiency General Jaruzelski’s military council has consolidated the reaction of Poland’s ruling bureaucracy. Thousands of Solidarity leaders have been arrested and interned or thrown into jail. Military trials, for the „crime“ of fighting for trade union rights and political freedoms for the…
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Lynn Walsh: Poland: Military crush workers rights
[Militant No. 582, 18 December 1981, p. 10] Last weekend (12/13 December) the army moved to establish martial law throughout Poland. The government of General Jaruzelski has arrested Solidarity leaders, „suspended“ Solidarity itself, declared strikes illegal „for the time being,“ and in effect clawed back for the bureaucracy all the democratic gains of the last…