ACCORDING to recent estimates, half a million of munist Party party membership cards since last summer.
in March, opposition documents are circulating within the party.
Jacqueline Allio, CP militants at the University of Lodz.
THERE has always been opposition at Lodz University: developed the same ideas in 1968, and was told they were "dangerous"; marked one of the most militant of the group.
'At the time of the last congress in 1978 put forward similar ideas and was dismissed trom the leadership. But now speaking out. The exploLOO big tor the bureaucracy to control, did the JasL through layer after layer of party committees.
'In 1978, for example, we passea a very radical resolution in my college. But by the time it had gone through the higher levels - the board of enrectors. TOCH area committee, regional and so on there was only an amputated resolution left when it reached the offices central leadership.
'But this time we are contomed ova socansl revolution by the working Crass They fighting. for their rights and challenging bureaucracy which has grabbed power pose its dictatorship over the proletariat.
'The party apparatus
has its own goals, its own interests. The reaction of the bureaucrats demonstrates sorgotten why they are that have the Polish Comhave handed back their Some 60 per cent of the working class members of the CP are now members of the Solidarity union movement. And in the run up to the extraordinary congress the French Trotskyist paper Rouge, spoke to several there in the first place.
'Workers are
challenging the socialist ideal; on the contrary against the bureaucrats who have forgotten it 'We are fighting for a system where there are no private cars. but rather a satisfactory public transport network and where everyone lives 'A system without queues, without leges for the families of the bureaucrats.
I asked whether there was rank and tile coor. dination between factory cells as there is in orun and other towns. 'No there is not, but discussions that are tak.
Ing place the ronica document show A DOCUMENT 'What is to be done? burning problems of movement' has been culating within the munist Party in Lodz since last November.
The leader of the CP in the Fonica factory at Lodz, Ragowski, explained that the stakes were whether tatorship of the proletariat was to be a dictatorship over proletariat' 'Little by littleria situation of dual power is developing. added.
The Fonica claims that 'the Polish CP is so compromised that it that are going through a similar process to them. 'When the Fonica document was first writtentee took at cond mittee took up and threw it into the regional committee discussions. entitled recover the society without undergoing The complete change. For that, the our document cir- necessary to create a new parCom- 'the Workers Party'.
Wing on the experience and the traditions of the Polish nation socialist, building a society based upon 'the dicthe collective ownership of the principle means of production the workers, representing the population liv rom saldrica work working class tuals. document Line Fonic: specifies that cannot Would have Discussions are going on throughout the Polish Communist Party The management reacted strongly, wanting know who had written it.
As a result a series of factories in the region held meetings to discuss the document. meetings showed that there was confidence of leading the argues, other Polish Socialist 'Polish, that is to say lean- The that is committed to They that means the and intellecdocument such party 'exercise agreement the demands put forward by the Fonica workers bureaucract which rules in its own interests.
Another militant told me: have already won the tirst round by role within the state not on its own, but jointly with the parties TOO SCHLIC two classes in society: the peasantry and the petty. bourgeoisie'.
document's authors then propose internal party reforms: of the salaried full-timers has to be reduced to the minimum' propose that the full-timers should take part in the discussion of the factory cells.
The document also argues for the immediate democratic election ot delegates to the ex traordinary party prior circulation documents to prepare the congress discussions. forcing the leadership to bring forward the date of the extraordinary hull gress. Some rank and file cells - like here in the University have already elected their delegates to the congress against the wishes of the Strike leader Anna Walentynowicz Socialist Challenge the workers in Solidarity. Resolutions of support for Solidarity should also demand that the regional and national union bodies and the Labou Party national executive Solidarity representatives to Britain to speak to labour move ment meetings.
Already the AUEW has agreed to send minor printing Should y. . Other unions SHOUld pressed follow suit.
should be sent to: Solidarity, MK2: Hotel Morski, Grundwaldska 103, Gdansk, leadership intend • he represented at the 9th congress in March. Will centre our intervention on a radical change in the structures and functioning of the par ty. 29 January 1981
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'A system without queues, without privileges...