Blacks FOUR blacks Soweto quitted at trial in charges of 'furthering ine alms South African Revoluagainst the four Other the prosecution witnesses, Mozammajor fabricate evidence.
the against government village been shot 'Pik' South said the government cident'.
last week voted measures terrand.
DOWGl raise allivile socialist Marchais's going to measures.
PCF magazine Revolution ing led up the garden path silent'.
Pacification RLANTATION WORKERS in Sri Lanka, who tocond and third decades of the last century.
they were made to work on the tea estates. Today percent feet by 10 feet cents per Work the plantations workers WicH they example January, there the • very few WOLKCIS days work.
hardship.
urban villages agricultural there many workers referred as 'Indian 01 basic rights, tor the Being Indian nor Sri Lankan citizens, they Totally "stateless', suffer the Jaruzelski regime.
as an active leader of Solidarnosc, and is a major blow to the regime.
mittee) leaders. Below Solidarnosc appeal for international solidarity.
In the name of the al c Unfortunately because of mistakes by the have not been recognised are tied to the say day, nt then lit 111C i Without doubt this signals the return of Walesa It comes at a time when tension is escalating over we print extracts of the flowed our con terror.
activists ternment prisons.
still languishing there, harsh sentences. Strikers assaulted, hundreds been crippled, dozen fend liberty Paradise on earth, but not for plantation workers minimal. On typical estate school there will be a hundred . or more children only teacher. Health care is at a bare went Repression continues. Trade-union activists are being sacked, many factories have been militarised. The setting up of forced labour camps has been announced People have been persecuted for exercising their natural humar rights. Arrests political trials continue.
Solidarnosc will not allow itself to be destroyed.. Solidarnosc lives and is well rooted in the factories. The trade continues tions, and will not give up defending the rights of workers, nor fighting to oppression and exploitation. One within the country, workers are at the bottom of the working class. The second is exploitation.
In my view Britain cannot abdicate sibility for the plantation Most of the line rooms which exist today are the line rooms which were built by the British The British working class has a lot to do to help to pressure the teamarketing companies and to ensure that a fair price is paid for the tea.
• Of course the struggle cannot be won in Britain alone; we have to win the plantation workers in Sri institute social economic reforms in The workers showed when they organised ago, that for the labor demonstrations •movement in Poland, 1 May has become a day o struggles for social rights. We are not alone in our fight. From the first days of August 1980, we have been able to see the the eve of this May Day we thank the trade unions of other countries, as well as the organisations, and Father Paul Caspersz Lanka ; well But essential precondition for ploitation carried out by the British tea companies Paul Caspersz is a Jesuit priest, working with tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka.
"The Plantation
workers of Sri Lanka' 23-24 April, Hampstead Town Hall, Haverstock Hill. London NW3 (Nearest tube Belsize Park).
Speakers include: Paul
Caspersz, Kumudini Samuel, Guy Barnett Mr nan Look Organised by Sri Lanka Research and Information Group all those who have acted as individuals whose devotion proof human solidarity.
Zbigniew Bujak (War saw), Wladyslaw Hardek (Cracow), Bogdan Lis (Gdansk), Jozef Piniol (Wroclaw), Eugeniusz Szumiejko • (member the Praesidium of the na tional Commission).
Temporary Co-ordinating Committee of the self managed, trade union, Solidarnosc. 23 March 1983
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Garden path
day work mainly on tea plantations but also rubber plantations, were brought into Sri Lanka in the se-
THE coordinating committee of Solidarnosc has ap- pealed for major May Day demonstrations against
demonstrations comes in the wake of a secret meeting between underground leaders — almost cer- tainly including Zbigniew Bujak and Bogdan Lis - and Lech Walesa last weekend.
the show trial of seven Solidarnose leaders, and the coming trial of KOR (Workers Self-Defence Com-
appeals for May Day actions SOLDARNOO