| 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.
Don't Wait for Instructions: An Interview with Anna Walentynowicz[from: Biuletyn Dolnośląski, no. 1(59) (January 1985)]In its regular series of interviews under the title "What Kind of Poland?" the monthly underground publication "Biuletyn Dolnośląski," which has been appearing in Wrocław since 1979, interviews Anna Walentynowicz. "Biuletyn" is now connected with Fighting Solidarity. Walentynowicz is one of the founders of the Free Trade Unions set up in Gdańsk in 1978. Her dismissal from her job in the Lenin shipyard in Gdańsk, where she was employed as a crane operator, actually sparked off the strike in August 1980, which led to the emergence of Solidarity. Despite poor health (she had cancer some years ago) Walentynowicz has been extremely active in the union movement and has been in and out of jail since the imposition of martial law in December 1981. Lately, she was participating in a hunger strike in a church in Bierzanów, near Kraków, to protest the attacks against the Church.
An Interview with "Konrad"[from: Kontra, no. 83 (20 December 1984)]"Kontra" is published by Solidarity in the Toruń Region, "Konrad" is the chairman of the underground Regional Executive Committee of Solidarity for the area.
An Interview with Kornel Morawiecki[from: Czas, no. 1 (October 1984)]This is an interview with the chairman and founder of the underground Fighting Solidarity Organization formed in Wrocław in June 1982, which today has branches in many Polish cities. "Czas" [Time], a sociopolitical bimonthly, is published by Fighting Solidarity in Poznań. Kornel Morawiecki is a physicist by profession and has been active in the opposition since the late 1970s when he edited "Biuletyn Dolnośląski" [Lower-Silesian Bulletin], one of the oldest underground publications still in circulation. Morawiecki has been in hiding since 13 December 1981. The interview below was conducted in early September 1984.
I Am a Technician of Socialism[from: Most, no. 2 (1985)]This is an interview with an officer of the secret police that was published in a new periodical called "Most" [The Bridge]. The young man being interviewed tells us that he joined the secret police out of stupidity and stays in it because of cupidity and because others would always suspect him of being an informer.
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