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Edmund Baluka was recently jailed for five years by the Polish Stalinist regime. They have offered to release him if he is prepared to leave the country, which he will not do. Get your union to send a protest to the Polish Embassy in London, demanding his release. This statement is being circulate Union Working Group, seeking unionists and others WE ARE artists, intellectuals, trade unionists and politicians, active in the progressive movements in the British Isles. Some of us spend much of our time working within the peace movement. It is our profound conviction that intellectual and artistic freedom, the freedom to organise democratic.movements without official interference and to communicate openly are essential if humanity is every to progress to a just and peaceful world.

It is with much disquiet that we hear of plans in your country to put on trial former members of the Workers Defence Council (KOR), as • well as several leaders of the trade union Solidarity. These persons have already served fourteen months in prison camps and prisons without charges being brought against them. They stand for the same principles, of social justice. SOLiDARNOSC EDMUND BALUKA LET'S OUT HIM GAO

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l'ony Benn dis As the Left reconsiders rad. itional 'Britain out' view on the MT: A lot of people on the Left are now coming round to the view that to talk about withdrawal from the EEC is a futile gesture. answerable.

It you 1. ciected a Labour government that introduced exchange controls, planned trade would: do to an elected Labour Government what Denning himself did to Ken Livingstone.

This theory that it's all settled MT: The argument is not like accepting capitalism. It's like accepting that capitalism has developed to the stage of monopolies and multinationals. Our