We are going to remember Marcel as an uncompromising activist, who always put the interests of workers and the union members over his own. He was often repressed for his activity and in 2009 he was fined by the court in Poznan. We are going to remember his passionate speeches, his unbelievable sense of humor, the fact that he always offered a helping hand. When Workers’ Initiative activists from Poznan were distributing leaflets in front of the factories in the area, we were sometimes called „the Marcel people”. Today, in the face of his death, we are sure that it was an honor to know him and fight for a better world with him, and we are proud of being called after him.

Marcel visited Rozbrat many times. He strongly supported our struggle and many of us had the luck to be his friends. Together we took part in countless rallies and demonstrations, where he was always on the front line, regardless of the consequences. Marcel was with us on the demonstration on the 9th of May where he made another beautiful speech, where he emphasized our long and fruitful cooperation. We were there together with Marcel and his comrades on the memorable demonstration in October 2009 in defense of the Cegielski fired workers. Unfortunately, Marcel couldn’t be there with us on the demonstration on the 20th of March, but we were walking next to the hospital where was and we made a speech about his amazing struggle for workers’ rights and loudly shouted his name – later we found out that all the people in the hospital could hear us, maybe even Marcel could have heard us…

In 2007 Marcel he was diagnosed with leukemia. Being ill, he was still struggling as a union activist. In December 2009 the doctors said the disease had reversed. Unfortunately, not for long. In late February 2010 he was back in the hospital, where in the last days of his passionate life, he got involved in the struggle in defence of the nurses of the hospital. Two weeks ago, his condition drastically worsened.

Marcel orphaned a 8-year-old son. This year he would have been 46 years old.

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The demonstrators first gathered on the premises of the factory and then moved towards the Provincial Office. The bloc of Workers’ Initiative and Sierpien ‘80 together with the anarchists was chanting slogans such as “Government out to the pavement, paving stones on the government”, “One, two, three, four, stop those damn dismissals”, “A worker dismissed, a boss hanged”, “Capitalism isn’t working! factories under the control of workers” etc. Rhythms of Resistance samba group from Poznan supported the demo with their rhythms. A banner saying “A worker dismissed, a boss hanged” was dropped from one building on the route of the demo.

When the demonstration reached the Provincial Office, the leaders of Solidarnosc trade union (which organized the demonstration) were declaring a radical fight in defence of the workplaces and even “burning the office”, at the same time they were buring car tyres. When the anarchists joined the shipyard workers in the back of the office building clashes with the police broke out, then the shipyard workers retreated as they were told to by their leaders.

After the demonstration had finished, the cops on horses surrounded a group of anarchists and WI activists, also those from Cegielski factory and took their I.D.s. At the same time one of the WI activists interrupted a live TV interview given by the boss of Solidarnosc and said “The members of our union are being nicked over there, and people from Solidarnosc are doing nothing about it, where is your solidarity??!!”. This event was trasmitted live to the public TV news. None of the demonstrators was arrested. Three cops and one unionist got injured and hospitalized.

Here you find a background to the cooperation of Poznan’s anarchists’ with the workers from Cegielski factory.

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