| Summary: | Extracts from Polish underground publications compiled and translated into English by the RFE Polish Publication Unit for broadcasting purposes. Introductions to most articles are provided by RFE staff, and items are compiled in issues based mainly on theme and date.
What Next?[from: Tygodnik Wojenny, no. 91 (30 August 1984)]"Tygodnik Wojenny" [War Weekly] is one of the major Solidarity underground weeklies in the Warsaw region and has been appearing regularly since 7 January 1982. In this editorial "Tygodnik Wojenny" discusses the release from prison of many Solidarity leaders and activists under the conditional amnesty of July 22 and the effect this will have on the political scene in Poland and on the role of the Solidarity underground.
What Now?[from: Tygodnik Mazowsze, no. 97 (23 August 1984)]The leading weekly of underground Solidarity, which appears in the Warsaw region, discusses the situation following the amnesty and the release from prison of the majority of Solidarity leaders and activists.
First Talks at Liberty: An Interview with Seweryn Jaworski[from: Tygodnik Mazowsze, no. 96 (9 August 1984)]This is the first of a series of interviews conducted by the leading Solidarity publication in the Warsaw region (Mazowsze Weekly) with leaders of the union released from jail after the July 22 amnesty. Seweryn Jaworski is the deputy chairman of the Mazowsze region and a worker in a Warsaw foundry.
First Talks at Liberty: An Interview with Andrzej Gwiazda[from: Tygodnik Mazowsze, no. 97 (23 August 1984)]Andrzej Gwiazda was released from prison on 24 July 1984 under the conditional amnesty of 22 July 1984 having spent two-and-a-half years in prison with no charges preferred against him. Gwiazda is a member of the National Committee of Solidarity and was from September 1980 until September 1981 Deputy Chairman of Solidarity's National Coordination Commission. Before Solidarity was established he had been active in the democratic opposition and was an original member of the Founding Committee for Free Trade Unions formed in Gdańsk in April 1978. During the strike in the Gdańsk Shipyard in August 1980 he was a member of the presidium of the Interfactory Strike Committee and took part in the negotiations with the government delegation. In this interview Gwiazda compares and discusses the different periods of opposition.
A Talk with Jan Rulewski[from: Tygodnik Mazowsze, no. 98 (6 September 1984)]This is another in a series of talks conducted by the leading Solidarity weekly in the Mazowsze [Warsaw] region in which recently released Solidarity activists discuss their prison experiences and their first impressions of life in Poland outside prison walls, as well as their plans and ideas for the future. Jan Rulewski is the chairman of the Bydgoszcz region of Solidarity. He was badly beaten during the police interference in a local People's Council meeting in that city in March 1981; this brought the country to the verge of a general strike.
"This We Won't Abandon": A Talk with Jan Rulewski[from: Tygodnik Wojenny, no. 91 (30 August 1984)]This is another interview with Solidarity's chairman in the Bydgoszcz region. The interview appeared in a nationwide Solidarity underground paper; the final text was not authorized by Rulewski.
"Now I Shall Be Myself": An Interview with Lech Wałęsa[from: Tygodnik Wojenny, no. 91 (30 August 1984)]One of the leading underground weeklies interviewed Solidarity's Chairman following the proclamation of the amnesty in July and asked for his views on the present situation and future developments. Wałesa expressed his usual cautious optimism.
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