Polish forker defy junta
Socialist Organiser1982 1982-05-06Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 1 →
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IN A startling displa of courage and mili ancy in the face of cor tinued military repress ion, tens of thousand of Polish trade unior ists have taken part i demonstrations an clashed with riot polic over the May Da weekend.
On Monday May - the anniversary ( Poland's revolutionar democratic constitutio of 1791 - riots wer reported in no less tha 14 towns, including th original Solidarnos strongholds of Gdans and Szczecin as well a Warsaw, Lublin Torun, Krakow, Loda Bydgoszcz and Poznan First signs of thi new defiance of Jaru zelski's savage Stalinis junta was the astonish ing 50,000 Solidarnos supporters who turne out in Warsaw t to support a noisy riva march to the officia May Day demonstra tion led by Jaruzelski Thousands mor marched in Gdansk.
By the Monday marches were bein met by violent actio from riot police wit tear oas. water cannon tear gas, water cannon, Continued p.15 col.6 actions of the fleet can be justified in an way. The British labour movement ought to be mounting a campaign to stop war"
REG RACE MP speaks to Socialis Organiser - p.15 A FEW weeks ago a US government official, wearied by the negotiations over the Falklands, voiced his exasperation to the press. The negotiating effort was in vain, he said, because the Tories wanted a battle. Thatcher wanted blood.
It looks like he was right.
Some 350 Argentine sailors -the great majority of them teenage conscripts, aged 17 to 20 -