IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Solidarity congress declaration

Socialist Challenge No. 214, 24 September 1981 · p. 11 of the scan · 337 words

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page 11 of the scan

THE supreme aim of the independent trade union Solidarity is to create dignified conditions of life in an economically and politically sovereign Poland, a life freed of poverty, of exploitation, of fear and deceit, in a society organised democratically and on the basis of law. Today the nation expects:

The improvement of establishment of control distribution, and pricing, in collaboration with the Solidarity union of individual farmers. 2. A reform of the economy, through the creation of authentic self-management councils in the factories and through the liquidation of the party 'Nomenklatura' pointments to key jobs). 3. The truth through social control over the mass media and the suppression of falsehoods in education and Polish culture. 4. Democracy through the introduction of free elections to the Sejm (parliament) and the people's 5. Justice through the assurance to each of equality before the law, the freedom of prisoners of opinion, and the defence of persons charged for their political, editorial or trade union activities. 6. The protection of the nation's health, through the protection of the environment, an increase in the funds channelled into medical services, and a guarantee to the handicapped of the rights which are due to them in society. 7. Coal for the population and industry, through giving a guarantee to the miners of decent living and working conditions.

We will achieve these aims through the unity of the trade union and the solidarity of its members. The activities of a variety of forces creating a feeling of exterior danger will not remove from us the desire to struggle for the ideals of August 1980, for the Imo cuculation Jastrzebie accords.

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