its prestige has made it of interest to all of Solidarity speak of the Strike Committee (MKZ) with great admiration and respect.
International's journal INPRECOR. The Torun MKZ militants took him to the Towimor industrial region, 'the soul of the movement'. It What happened in the Communist Party within the factory?
It began with the strike. Most party militants in our factory, were for the strike. Some were on the strike committee. Stanichevsky was our delegate to Gdansk. After une suike we soon reauser that Solidarity was safeguard for the people.
Later we had to split from Solidarity because the constitution Solidarity says that people who noid party posts callnot hold responsibilities in Soloan is nol bossi ble to have two major positions and to do them both well. Despite all that, e did ever in trades our comrades members of Solidarity. because stil We saw, very quickly, that the changes we had instigated in our party in the factorv were insutticient. Thus we sought contacts with likeminded members quickest response came from the party at the University.
Now have orcasanous mo me commission. It has no leader.
Each time somebody else chairs to avoid one person dominating. All documents drawn up by the commission are circularised in the rank and file parthey are disaated to see it organisations they meet with approval.
We are workers, diplomats, do words in the Hiccules. When we think someone is a inier or a gangster we say so.
The people who do not supporters throughout Torun Inter-Factory Pierre Caen went to Torun for the Fourth manoeuvres three months later and still • it is true that по терту the commission must have o so work to exoc ouci militants who are bigger fish than me!
Today the party control commission is coming discuss my case (laughter). It is a ploy to win time because this comreverse the decisionine is reverse the decision. playing for time. I am doing nothing else. Just continuing my work.
How can VOU impose democratic elections at all levels before the congress?
In the present party rules there several polts August began.
ticular he spoke to Zbigniew which are undemocratic and we want them changeci The number of candidates is limited - that cannot continue. Votes can be manipulated because everybody is not a delegate.
Here, in our discus. sions, we have gone still further. We think that the authorities at evels should be elected by direct suffrage.
For example, in a party meeting to elect a secretary there would be several candidates, each outlines their programme and finally there is a knowledgeable vote. Everybody, by voting for his or her candidate, would feel responwas in a factory which makes machinery for the naval dockyards that the strikes last A strike committee was set up. For once Communist Party militants were in the lead. Then the wind of Solidarity blew through the party. Pierre Caen met CP militants inside the party offices in their Towimor factory. In parthe best-known opposition militant of the CP.
sible for the candidate of her or his choice.
Also have Coll sidered the role of the parU ty. Until now our party has played a role that it should not have: it doubles with the functions of the state (administration, police).
This is whv we think tha this duplication of apparatus in all fields the party apparatus this bureaucracy, l has to disap peaVe must also consider the role of the CP in the factory and what it should be. It must be a force making positive proposals on all the problems and not an instrument of government. I would inke a party like that in our country. this pally should wait a year or two in order to show what you can do, to get some quality not quantity.
You have spoken about self management in the factories but how do you envisage it in society as a whole so that the workers really decide?
Now, you say that the factories belong to us. true They are in the hands government. government is led by a very limited group all the political bureau of the party - but only a few of them It is they who decide.
Society has no influence and it bears the conse •ences or mier accisions That is why we want make this reform as quickly as possible. How achieve this reform? To clean up Poland ....
I think that the factories must have greater of autonomy and ultimate aim is to let the workers decide. I see that to as a series of councils of all the workers trom all parts of the factory. They could not be bought. Otherwise the one with more money would will.
The workers would Lech Walesa addresses supporters from the Solidarity HQ in Bydgoszcz the decide how to develop the raines, howto recruit, hat how inings, would be a reform of all the factory administration. Marketing would be developed.
At this moment the interview ends as the party control share mission arrives in the party offices in the factory. The party control commission upheld Ivanow's expulsion from the party.
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