Polish solidarity | Socialist Action 1983

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THE END of Agust will mark the third anniversary of the Gdansk accoras, through which Solidardus was eso sneı! Poland, and the fifteenth anniversarv of the crushing of the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia by Soviet tanks.

Both the Prague Spring and the rise of Solidarnosc were events ooo or e labour movement. They Showed that working people in Eastern Europe continue to struggle for a real democratic socialism, rejecting both the capitalist exploitation of the West and the bureaucratic misrule in the Eastern bloc.

Theirs is a struggle which should also be ours - and which has much to tell us about fighting for a society which genuinely meets the needs of working people.

This struggle continues today throuch Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia and the impressive underground network of Solidarnosc in At the same time, the huge movement against nuclear weapons in the West is also finding an increasing ecao mn basteri Europe. The Polish Soldaritv Committer (Glasgow) proposes to hold a working conference in Glasgow on the weekend of 17/18 September to discuss mese deveio aments.

Proposed sessions inof social organisation in Czechoslovakia 1968 and Poland 1980-81; The Peace Movements in Eastern Europe; The situation of women in Eastern Europe.

Speakers invited include Edward Thompson (END), Oliver MacDonald (Labour Focus on

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Eastern Europe), Marek NOL