| 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.
Conversations: Wedel. An Interview with a Solidarity Activist at the Wedel Works[from: Wola, no. 34(117) (15 October 1984)]Three years after the introduction of martial law and the subsequent banning of Solidarity, the labor union still has the passive, when not active, support of a large number of Poles. In many factories the Solidarity committees have survived to this day. In its series "Conversations," the Warsaw weekly "Wola" [Will] (also the name of a district of Warsaw) published an interview with a Solidarity activist in the Wedel chocolate and candy factory. Although the factory is officially called "The 22nd of July," the date of setting up the first communist government in 1944, it is popularly still referred to by the name of its original founder and owner, E. Wedel.
Conversations: ZWAE. An Interview with a Solidarity Activist at the ZWAR Radio and Radar Factory[from: Wola, no. 39 (122) (19 November 1984)]In its series of "Conversations," the Warsaw underground weekly "Wola" talks to a Solidarity activist at the ZWAR radio and radar factory in Warsaw. He describes working conditions in his factory and how Solidarity functions at the grassroots. He describes the reaction of his fellow workers to the abduction and murder of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko and discusses the future course the opposition in Poland might take.
About Nowa Huta[from: Tygodnik Mazowsze, no. 99 (20 September 1984)]This account of Solidarity in the southern industrial center of Nowa Huta is based on conversations with representatives of the Nowy Sacz district Interfactory Strike Committee, the Clandestine Steel Workers' Committee, and activists involved in producing the foundry's underground press.
A Signal Stronger than Television: Radio Solidarity in Nowa Huta[from: Tygodnik Mazowsze, no. 96 (9 August 1984)]Since the first months of 1982 Radio Solidarity programs have been broadcast in at least 20 Polish towns and cities by autonomous groups of Solidarity activists and supporters. These broadcasts are usually transmitted on normal radio frequencies, although there have been cases of Radio Solidarity's interrupting television sound with transmissions. Other forms of Radio Solidarity broadcasts include transmissions from hidden loudspeakers in town centers, railway stations, cemeteries, and even from rooftops, in the last case to colleagues jailed at Rakowiecka Street Prison in Warsaw. Radio Solidarity has also broadcast on in-house factory radio networks. Programs consist of Solidarity statements, songs, and news items and last for several minutes. Radio transmissions are most often jammed within minutes, but some broadcasts from hidden loudspeakers have lasted as long as 45 minutes undisturbed. Several Radio Solidarity groups have managed to transmit regular programs over longer periods of time. For example, Radio Solidarity in Bydgoszcz broadcasts a 10-minute program every second Monday, while Radio Fighting Solidarity in Wrocław broadcasts regularly every Sunday. This article in the main Warsaw Solidarity underground weekly describes the work of Radio Solidarity in the southern industrial town of Nowa Huta, home of the Lenin Steel Works and a strong center of Solidarity.
Self-Government of the Rural Population—Yes! / by Mirosław Dzielski[from: 13, no. 4(31) (9 April 1984)]The author believes that it is possible to take advantage of the limited opportunities offered by the law to introduce democracy at the lowest levels of consultative authority, namely, village inhabitants (or in towns, tenants). This optimistic attitude toward the "long march through institutions" remains to be tested in practice. Some cuts have been made in the translation.
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