| 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.
"Tygodnik Mazowsze" Interviews Itself[from: Tygodnik Mazowsze, no. 100 (4 October 1984)]To celebrate its hundredth issue, "Tygodnik Mazowsze," the main underground weekly and semi-official organ of the Solidarity leadership in the Warsaw area, devoted the bulk of the paper to describing its work.
Confessions of an Editor of "TM"[from: Tygodnik Mazowsze, no. 100 (4 October 1984)]This is a personal statement by the editor of one of the leading underground weeklies of the Warsaw region. It provides a brief history of the publications and offers some insight into the rewards and dangers of such work on the occasion of its 100th issue.
An Interview with Przedświt Publishing House[from: Vacat, no. 15 (March 1984)]This is an interview with one of the lesser known but active new underground publishing houses. The name means "before dawn." It describes, with some minor cuts made in translation, the way an underground publisher operates. "Vacat" [Vacancy] is a sociopolitical monthly that has been appearing since December 1982.
Something To Read / by Jan Marcin[from: Solidarność Gdańsk, no. 13(115) (20 August 1984) and Solidarność Gdańsk, no. 14(116) (7 September 1984)]This review of the underground publishing market was printed in two consecutive issues of the underground Solidarity periodical from Gdańsk. Solidarność Gdańsk is the continuation of the paper of the Interfactory Founding Committee of Solidarity; its first issue appeared in the Gdańsk shipyards during the August strikes of 1980, and the paper has been appearing ever since.
An Interview with an Underground Printer[from: KOS, no. 57 (June 1984)]The biweekly Warsaw-based KOS (Komitet Oporu Społecznego), the acronym for the Committee of Social Resistance, has a regular feature entitled "Independent," in which individual activists talk about their underground or clandestine activities. In this issue, in connection with the "Day of the Underground Printer" inaugurated by KOS last year, the paper carries an interview with one of its printers.
The First Underground Comic Book[from: Tygodnik Mazowsze, no.102 (19 October 1984)]The leading Solidarity weekly for the Warsaw region announces the appearance of a history of Solidarity in the form of a comic book.
Solidarity: The First 500 Days[from: The first page of an underground comic book.]This is the first of 20 pages that depict Solidarity's history in comic-book form. The "glossary" to the book is also in the form of drawings and included below is the appropriate one for page 1 of the comic.
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