GELDEREN. From outright with their own membership.
The French CP argues that the balance sheet of my is tervention of the army overall positive' prime events es , WILD 'extremists' side Solidarity. The imposition ot martial law is a process 'normalisation' Although the French CP admits that major errors occurred during the 1970s, and that Polish Merek leaders failed to solve the proPICTS disu al zucs that Solidarity was going beyond seing a trade union. It wanted ¿ create a self-management republic' and crime :.mes - - 'contested the leading aie of the Polish Communist Party But the French CP has by no means carried its supporters When 50,000 people marined December ai the appeal of the pro-Socialist CFDT union federation, many members of the rival CP =ominated union federation CGT, marched as well ilhen the CFDT called for a ine hour's strike, many from se CGT also came out. CGT Since then, dozens of CGT coeraous da brancaes have expressed opposition COT leaderof the ship, which in effect, eadership of the CP. Not since May there been so much opposition to the leader* Even the editor of the COT •ournal has attacked the ficial position, while rank and •de members or the union have up a national CGT Solidarity group.
But the leadership remains unmoved. 'The CGT. it savs. will not appeal for support for every form of trade unionism on ine grounas ll calls itself irade unionism...the enemies socialsin gathered behind Solidarnosc..it is not possible :o say that those imprisoned are irade unionists.' Within the French Communist Party itself, although opposition has been less strong, leading. intellectuals such Jean Ellenstein have openly denounced the party leadership.
opposition there is, generaly gainerca round lnose ympathising Eurocommunists. Joint In contrast, both the Italian and Spanish CPs have openly condemned the military :akeover A joint statement by them called for an end to the use of force Poland, a return to normal civil liberties and the resumption of dialogue between authorities and Solidarity.
The Communist leader, Enrico Berlinguer, went so far as to say that the Warsaw Socialist Challenge The imposition of martial law in Poland has shown the Western European Communist Parties to be at odds with one another, to say the least, argues TESSA VAN condemnation praise, the CPs have also found themselves in conflict Pact countries had 'exhausted their capacity for the renewal of their political life' has been equally forthright. condemned Ene •as 'unacceptable and demanding the strongest con demnation'.
Defence One leader of the Spanish party insisted, way to solve the Dolinca problems Polish society'. Another of 'detence of Solidarity the only institution capable of guaranteeing the rights of trade unionism in Poland'. the for The Soviet Union has been quick "malcontents within its ranks. take A fiercely worded TASS comsaid the majority of sober-minded observers in the West accepted that tervention of the military has save Poland catastrophe. the • Alas it continued, what is clear to the governments and press of manv western coun tries...somehow turns out to be unclear to representatives parties which socialist slogans.' Berlinguer would have liked to see 'a historic compromise in Poland between in ind the party like the 'historic has gone he her illan are He has gone further 1 munist leader. the ending OI the era began with the Russian Revolution. 'Now we have come to the 14 January 1982 point where that phase is closhe said dynamic forces of development faint to a halt, met its point of exlies with 'the ties in the Western world and our countrv. in this new phase Western workers will be able to military help those in towards 'an democratisation political life.
Soviet Union find no place inside the Party, although Gerry Pocock, 'this is not the head OI Inf kind of department of the CPGB, does descade beringuel s called as 'absolutely new and extremeAround the world and influence But the British CP, Tanks and riot nolice launch an attack on the Polish Academv of Sciences in Warsaw on 15 Decembe condemning the these some of the responsibility on the shoulders of Solidarity.
the in- the Morning was been a ban on strikes from the government. compatible with the rights of dependent of the state. On the other, Solidarity did not assist the search for compromise by of its call for a national stoppage carry and demonstrations...
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proach Times leader which spoke of Tories. Two major failures.
important has been the failure He announced the party which seize the torch of retorm and come relate a been see cond tailure. has been tain What he described as 'the discipline.' criticisms authorities, working. class they have criticisms Eastern Europe by ofeletheir their Such biting criticisms of the Star 17 phasis).
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failure of Solidarity to mainown coherence and The CPGB and the Morn. ing Star have made many valid the Polish but throughout tempered such attacks on Solidarity. "Certainly some of the statements and calls made actually been provocative. But this candemocratic rights of the Polish people as a whole.' (Morning December, our emTHE UNITED SECRETARIAT OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL has issued a long statement on Poland. Next week we will publish a summary of the Fourth International's position. Here we reproduce some extracts which comment on the positions taken by the Western European Communist Parties. THE powerful rise of the political revolution in Poland and the setting into notion of the bureaucratic counter-revolution have resulted in a new stage in the crisis of the communist parties which had already been fuelled in most countries by internal developments in the class struggle ...
At one extreme are the positions of the French, Portuguese, Fundamentally they support the establishment of the state of siege which is supposed to have permitted 'Socialist Poland to escape the mortal danger of the counter-revolution' It is an apparent paradox a convergence between the difficulties of the Soviet bureaucracy and its own organisational interests when some of these CPs present the 'exceptional measures taken by Jaruzelski as the best solution to avoid a possible Russian intervention! ...
The bureaucracy of these CPs not only firmly defends the status quo but identifies socialism and the struggle against capitalism with the policy of the ruling bureaucracy and their regimes At the other extreme is the position of the Italian CP. It has vigorously condemned martial law in Poland, called for the freeing of political prisoners and the elimination of measures outlawing trade union activity. It is against the 'blow that the coup (use of military force) represents against the very cause of socialism'.
When it states that it is time West German and Danish CPs.
, but in fact there is "to recognise
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