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coming and going all told u Polano than a hündred articles in the Western press ::Friends A meeting was arranged in the evening lOTUS Sole people TrON union'. These turned out to include the administrative anc the secretary of Co-ordinating Dascu connentee later explained why we receivtion: ae apor to denion tion: representatives han to the Press We want to have uiscussiuls bul we kno the Western press are not our. menos.
Weak Throughout our Repeatedly Solidarity was at the stage o consolidation riescul memoersal already oerweer ane million in a population of.35 WOIKCIS aetiuss WUIKICSS • co mee the was clearly exposed rrom ycals.
anona Iis owit Deooe turope s mos ustilal WrkCI ul Calisd UnOH including peasants joining a union.
This does not mean the will concede any compromise on the original 21 demands drawn up summer. Last week ther threats call Jalk)
Daltodys The working week at present is 46 On the second day IOUla E Icrence or une deasams unor where the crisis in agriculturs damning the regime's failure after 35 years to fed in one of fertile countries where 45 per cent of the. population live on the land conference by iledging the support of the in in the struggle to register the neasants Non-state employeęs renily forbieden by awe from
Invasion torce When the government signed the 3i Auguse. Gdansk on August; the emergence of a new union inof"
VOlVC mialy muOns members was certain. There was bound to be a division of power in the country between the new union with its mass popular base and the bureaucracy with its Soviet military muscle. The question was how both sides were going to e bie haray divided nto three groups though Lone was properly organised internally coherent: a first oup opposed to the agreeand tavouring HIlediate. confrontațion the new union. They were the sectors whọ felt sure thạt the agreement meant their own certain downfall and they prepared to do almost anything to stay in power:
Au me onier extrene were small number of people within the bureaucracy - like Fişzbach, Grabski and Olszowski - hoping for long-term alliance wiln Solidarność and for fairly in the interests of restoring Darcauclauic rule through Yugoslav-type decentralisation.
The third grouping, led by Kania, lacks any definite programmatic character, wishing firstly to' demonstrate its complete loyalty to Moscow and secondly to attempt manoeuvre against • nosć in the political field to avoid military t nis poncy nas resunica l a series of lurches from one CISS • lO LuC "CX dedos ing small-mindedness furiating the workers various ways without abe to contain the develonment of the new union.
Rival While the more technocratic wing bureaucracy _ has failed harness Solidarnośé to its own project, powerful force has been ing to use or, more accimiev aolse warkers' movement for the Catholic OWIS ueress. hierarchy and the established Catholjc intelligentsia.
The. • hierarchy, sperous and under Stalinist rule, hungrv fluence, does not look kindly • CHIC eCIICc challenger to its own authority. Sotidarność a direct alternative focus working people"s aspirations, to Solidar- • a direct rival to the clergy.
invasion. working. to gain over . ne Solidarność in order to-make inbeing radical the to the latter do its bidding.
more will then Solidarnosć game with the bureaucracy to extract more itself. It will be able to say to the privileges and we will put a stop to this or that nonsense pro- from Solidarność' .comfortable though exteno ls in- • and regime by urging a could become The hierarchy is therefore influence leadership of party' Socialist Challenge London Day School Sat 24 January 10.30-4.30pm Open to Socialist Challenge supporters.Admittance E1. Venue: St. Matthews, Brixton (2 minutes Brixton Tube station)
able I0 use as a pawn in its Sessions for Hculc a ccucul 'Give us minority Mazowiecki, the editor of • the Catholic monthly Wiez La leading adviser to Walesa, has repeatedly tried to prove his usefulness to the.
capitulationist line on the Solidarność wing leadership leadership. First he encourag- tronoe ed the regime in its drive to file. include in the government/uagreement . Ife clause about the 'leading role of the was Kremlin against vanguard.
dent, Then he fought tooth and Octobe one-hour Solidarność strike. -aldlllst the LOvCH• ment's refusal to fully impleLech proposals' Walesa went along with these moves and found himself in a in Solidarność The resulting confrontations with the regime produc ed a considerable radicalisa tion within Solidarność, and December, the concilationist beginning OI soncariose was in serious . 'Will rank and At this point a crucial new turning point came. Against a background of enormous blackmail Poland's borders an alliance between and the papacy the working .class The common interest of both forces lies in preventing the emergence of an indepenworking class political force within Solidarnosć. The Kremlin is happy to see a under the con utou t tl trol of the Church hierarchy. while the hierarchy is evidentarials or these SOLE .dCtivists who have been raising supposedly *irresponsible .If the alliance holds, we can expect to see attempts at driving a wedge into Solidarność through ante arrest political activists within it. If these arrests and subsequen trials are carried out this will mean the TveLCH established its right to decide who can and who cannot raise their VItln Solidarność. This would be but a short SLOD HOTE overt political controls over Solidarność's activity the bourgeoisies have no desire to instability' they want to see the workers put down. There are different preferences as.to how the workers should be put down.
The workers' leaderships in the West have done DICCIOUS to help the :They too are frightened by the spectre of workers power. Socialists ir this country should campaign openly and vigorously against Sorieers ald fore toset trash of the Polish workers and union links between Britain's unions and Solidarnosć Such solidarity is the best way. to strengthen the sociaiist left within the Polish working class. In the inevitable battle. between the bureaucrats and the new-found workers power, international workers' solidarity can play a decisive role.
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