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With us! With us!
Your solidarity - Our Liberty
Shock
The 13th of December 1981. A state of siege is declared in the Polish People's Republic. Officially, the decree instituting martial law was a reaction to the difficult economic situation, the threat to the country's energy security and, above all, the probable military intervention in Poland by the Soviet Union. The Communist regime feared the loss of power in the face of the growing role of the Solidarność trade union.
Interview with Anne Estreicher
Entretien avec Anne Estreicher mené par Renata Latała, le 21 Juin 2020, Genève.
interview with François Rosset
Entretien avec François Rosset mené par Renata Latała, 25 Juin 2020, Ecublens.
Call to the World
À tous les parlements, gouvernements, à toutes les nations et aux hommes de bonne volonté qui chérissent la démocratie, la liberté et les droits des travailleurs.
Au risque de notre vie et de notre liberté, au mépris des dispositions draconiennes de la loi martiale, en dépit de la tentative de nous paralyser par la peur, des centaines de milliers d’ouvriers et de patriotes polonais se sont mis en grève et exigent la levée de l’état de siège, la libération de toutes les personnes arrêtées, la restitution de tous les droits syndicaux et démocratiques, arrachées par notre peuple depuis août 1980.
Appuyez-nous dans notre lutte par des protestations massives et par votre soutien moral. Ne restez pas les bras croisés à regarder la tentative d’écraser les débuts d’une démocratie en plein cœur de l’Europe. Soyez avec nous en ces moments difficiles.
La Pologne vit encore.
15 décembre 1981
Grévistes de Solidarność du port de Szczecin
Bern, 19 December 1981: 10,000 people demonstrated to express their solidarity with the Polish people and the Solidarność movement and to defend trade union freedom in Poland. This demonstration against the imposition of martial law in Poland was organised by all five major Swiss trade union centres: the Swiss Trade Union Confederation (USS), the Confederation of Swiss Christian Trade Unions (CSC), the Union fédérative du personnel des administrations et des entreprises publiques, the Federation of Swiss Employee Societies (FSE) and the Swiss Association of Evangelical Employees (ASSE), joined by Swiss politicians and intellectuals, Polish nationals, as well as Solidarność activists and supporters from abroad.
On this chilly evening of 19 December, thousands of people are gathered in Parliament Square in Bern to witness the tragic events unfolding in Poland... Calls for solidarity are resounding...
Ruth Dreifuss, General Secretary of the Union Syndicale Suisse, took the floor to express the support of Swiss trade unionists for the cause of Solidarność and their identification with the social and political ideas embodied by the Polish movement. What did this movement mean to them? Looking back over those years, Ruth Dreyfuss highlights its significance:
Entretien avec Ruth Dreifuss, mené par Renata Latała, 23 Novembre 2020, Genève.
Messages of freedom and hope are conveyed through the lyrics of Paul Eluard and the Polish bard Kaczmarski, and the old Polish anthem of the 19th century is sung by the Polish singere Marek Mogilewicz soared to the sound of his guitar on Parliament Square, where the huge crowd listened in silence.
Marsz, Marsz Polonia
Marsz, marsz Polonia…, chanson du XIXe siècle
In a climate of uncertainty and high geopolitical tensions, news flashes about Poland multiplied from 13 December 1981 and over the following months, whether in television news bulletins, programmes broadcast on national channels or press releases and articles published in the daily press. The first images of tanks in the Polish streets that appeared on TV screens or in the press were strangely reminiscent of the Soviet interventions in Budapest in 1956 or Prague in 1968, and awakened collective awareness of the seriousness of the situation. We fear the worst...
Let Poland be Poland
‘Let Poland be Poland’ is a documentary produced by the US Communications Agency and the Department of State.
Broadcast on 31 January 1982, the programme brought together a number of personalities from the political world (including Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Arnaldo Forlani, François Mitterrand, Zenkō Suzuki, ...), as well as the cultural world (Bob Hope, Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Kirk Douglas, Frank Sinatra, Henry Fonda, Paul McCartney, Orson Welles, Max von Sydow, Glenda Jackson, Paul McCartney, Czeslaw Miłosz).
All united to denounce the imposition of the martial state in Poland, they brought together 185 million people in front of their television sets. The programme was also broadcast on the radio in 39 different languages!
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Vancouver
Association romande d’aide humanitaire aux hôpitaux polonais
«Inis sunt endebitio vit quatem fuga ut mosandis autat equae volumenime audaerrumque»
Paul Ardnuk
Entretien de xxxxx
Sa sim quame sunt hicat as modipsant vellore rferro omnis nos ullab iusda voluptatet etus dolorrore quidi consedi temperum excepudae. Um res acerferuntur aut vent pel maximus et lab ipit venite vel molupie ndanten ihillupic tet volenda essumet offici uta.
North America
Association romande d’aide humanitaire aux hôpitaux polonais
«Inis sunt endebitio vit quatem fuga ut mosandis autat equae volumenime audaerrumque»
Paul Ardnuk
Entretien de xxxxx
Sa sim quame sunt hicat as modipsant vellore rferro omnis nos ullab iusda voluptatet etus dolorrore quidi consedi temperum excepudae. Um res acerferuntur aut vent pel maximus et lab ipit venite vel molupie ndanten ihillupic tet volenda essumet offici uta.
South America
Association romande d’aide humanitaire aux hôpitaux polonais
Evelest, que sendi optas incia dita pro evendi aute excestrum quiae cum fugit officae ctiisitis comnis audam fuga. Ilicid maximolorpos veresto consequatur sus aut ulla dolorro vendelist, ut ad magnis conesciet faccum aceped est, corerovit.
Evelest, que sendi optas incia dita pro evendi aute excestrum quiae cum fugit officae ctiisitis comnis audam fuga. Ilicid maximolorpos veresto consequatur sus aut ulla dolorro vendelist, ut ad magnis conesciet faccum aceped est, corerovit.
Grande-Bretagne
Association romande d’aide humanitaire aux hôpitaux polonais
«Inis sunt endebitio vit quatem fuga ut mosandis autat equae volumenime audaerrumque»
Paul Ardnuk
Entretien de xxxxx
Sa sim quame sunt hicat as modipsant vellore rferro omnis nos ullab iusda voluptatet etus dolorrore quidi consedi temperum excepudae. Um res acerferuntur aut vent pel maximus et lab ipit venite vel molupie ndanten ihillupic tet volenda essumet offici uta.
France
Association romande d’aide humanitaire aux hôpitaux polonais
«Inis sunt endebitio vit quatem fuga ut mosandis autat equae volumenime audaerrumque»
Paul Ardnuk
Entretien de xxxxx
Sa sim quame sunt hicat as modipsant vellore rferro omnis nos ullab iusda voluptatet etus dolorrore quidi consedi temperum excepudae. Um res acerferuntur aut vent pel maximus et lab ipit venite vel molupie ndanten ihillupic tet volenda essumet offici uta.
Allemagne
Association romande d’aide humanitaire aux hôpitaux polonais
«Inis sunt endebitio vit quatem fuga ut mosandis autat equae volumenime audaerrumque»
Paul Ardnuk
Entretien de xxxxx
Sa sim quame sunt hicat as modipsant vellore rferro omnis nos ullab iusda voluptatet etus dolorrore quidi consedi temperum excepudae. Um res acerferuntur aut vent pel maximus et lab ipit venite vel molupie ndanten ihillupic tet volenda essumet offici uta.
Italy
Association romande d’aide humanitaire aux hôpitaux polonais
«Inis sunt endebitio vit quatem fuga ut mosandis autat equae volumenime audaerrumque»
Paul Ardnuk
Entretien de xxxxx
Sa sim quame sunt hicat as modipsant vellore rferro omnis nos ullab iusda voluptatet etus dolorrore quidi consedi temperum excepudae. Um res acerferuntur aut vent pel maximus et lab ipit venite vel molupie ndanten ihillupic tet volenda essumet offici uta.
Scandinavia
Association romande d’aide humanitaire aux hôpitaux polonais
«Inis sunt endebitio vit quatem fuga ut mosandis autat equae volumenime audaerrumque»
Paul Ardnuk
Entretien de xxxxx
Sa sim quame sunt hicat as modipsant vellore rferro omnis nos ullab iusda voluptatet etus dolorrore quidi consedi temperum excepudae. Um res acerferuntur aut vent pel maximus et lab ipit venite vel molupie ndanten ihillupic tet volenda essumet offici uta.
Japan
Association romande d’aide humanitaire aux hôpitaux polonais
«Inis sunt endebitio vit quatem fuga ut mosandis autat equae volumenime audaerrumque»
Paul Ardnuk
Entretien de xxxxx
Sa sim quame sunt hicat as modipsant vellore rferro omnis nos ullab iusda voluptatet etus dolorrore quidi consedi temperum excepudae. Um res acerferuntur aut vent pel maximus et lab ipit venite vel molupie ndanten ihillupic tet volenda essumet offici uta.
Australia
Association romande d’aide humanitaire aux hôpitaux polonais
«Inis sunt endebitio vit quatem fuga ut mosandis autat equae volumenime audaerrumque»
Paul Ardnuk
Entretien de xxxxx
Sa sim quame sunt hicat as modipsant vellore rferro omnis nos ullab iusda voluptatet etus dolorrore quidi consedi temperum excepudae. Um res acerferuntur aut vent pel maximus et lab ipit venite vel molupie ndanten ihillupic tet volenda essumet offici uta.
