Polish arrests
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-04-21Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 16 →
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1095 WAVE of arrests of Polish underground Solidarnosc activists and the repeated questioning of Lech Walesa have once again thrown the spotlight on the failure of Jaruzelski's regime to reconstruct the old, discredited state-run "unions".
Though the ten million strong Solidarnosc has faced VIcious repression, the country's Stalinist rulers have not crushed the spirit of revolt which animated the whirlwind movement that created the biggest and most democratic union in the world, and struck fear into the hearts of bureaucrats everywhere.
With the visit of the Pope to Poland looming ever closer, Solidarnosc activists plainly hope fo use the event to further their struggles, just as Jaruzelski hoped it would legitimise his regime's suppression of the workers' movement.
It is certain that the Pope