HREE MONTHS AGO the Polish authorities loved to smash Solidarnosc and bring an end › the independent workers' movement. DAVY ONES assesses the outcome of the recent entral Committee meeting of the Polish Comunist Party which discussed the next steps of onsolidating the rule of the bureaucrats.
*Stabilisation is setting nues: this neat formula General Jaruzelski hen he met President rezhnev in the Kremlin week. sums up the ate of the contest beteen the bureaucrats and workers in latest efinitely gone the ureaucrats but they know at the outcome of the ght as a whole is still ncertain.
The Polish CP Central ommittee - every shade f opinion, hardline and beral backed martial law and the represSolidarnosc n 25 February. Two CC embers who might have bjected were convenientexpelled Marian trendi from Torun for pposing martial law at a ublic forum, and Jan Malanowski from Warsaw /niversity for retusing to eave Solidarnose.
Plank Purging the party has merged as an important lank of the bureaucrats rategy.
deputy UVOTIONS. nd heads of rural communities have already been acked. Regional and epartmental committees ave been told to end all extra-statutory" norizontal structures and ctivities by the end and hardliners uch as Albin Siwak of the 'olitburo and Kociolek of ne Warsaw party have alled for a 'purge of the arty from top to bottom' The bureaucrats have ried to win over the easantry as a new base of upport. I ne 311reased the maximum perarms from 50 to 250 acres SIZE Or Vale attempt to undernine the solidarity betveen the poor peasants irganised Rural ¡olidarity and the vorkers movement. OFF Badges: 20p + p&p. Bulk rates on From PO Bos oncen Enclose ques peewar order man out Challenge.
The repression has also been noticeably softer on the academics oeral proressions unan on the workers, in an attempt to solit the intelectuals of from Solidarnose.
But the kev lever tor the bureaucrats to complete the DIOCESS of defeating Solidarnose the role of the Church Since the imposition of martial law the Catholic churen nas actea as a con sistent brake on the development of opposition to the repression. It is now putune chormous pressure on the Solidarnose leaders both those interned and those still free, to negotiate a 'compromise with the authorities. Terms The terms of such a compromise were spelt out vice-premier Rakowski's draft proposal on trade union law published two weeks ago.
It envisaged unions which explicitly rejected role, which agreed to the leading role of the party and the Polish constitution, and which were not geographical basis.
had any illusions that this might have resemblance to SolidarJaruzelski's COLL munique after his talks Brezhnev added:
'Any attempt to resume actions aimed at causing economic resumption of anarchy ...
cut resolutely.
Advice The are desperately trying to persuade union leaders heed ch hierarche and see- advice of the Church tions of the intellectuals to accept this "new role' for the unions. Those resisting these pressures, especially those workers building the underground oposition, 2000 copies sold in firs week! Order your copies now of the second edition.
Just 25p or 20p for supporters groups bulk orders. are dealt with ruthlessly. Hundreds of Solidarnosc militants have now beer jailed either for their activities before martial law or since.
The authorities launched a major intimidatory clampdown at the end of last monun. in a two day period they checked shops, 60,000 vehicles and 145,000 peole in an attempt to track down underground Solidarnose Hundreds of people were arrested and charged The authorities have also succeeded in closing down a few of the local Solidarnose bulletins and an underground organisanear Torun. But Solidarnose Warsaw it has launched a weekly paper. Tygodnik Mazowsze.
And Warsaw leader Zbigniew Bujak has issued Repression from the militia was the easy part for the regime: the political next steps will not be so easy.
a new appeal to the Polish workers: Our objective 1s to revive the union activities, to tree ine internees to re-engage the workers who have been sacked and to force the lifting of martial law.
None of this will happen if the bureaucrats get way. General Jaruzelski has reiterated his appeal Soldarnosc ternees to consider permatrom the country: some 15 people are reported to have taken up his offer.
The strategy Polish rulers is therefore clear: no return of Solidarnosc. repression against the workers, establishment of a responsible union, winning back the support of the intellectuals and of the farmers through economic liberalisation.
All this combined with a ruthless purge of the party ranks to stamp out any attempt at going back bureaucrats cannot and will not tolerate dependent mass organisation of the working class which threatens their own power and privileges For Solidarnose porters within Poland the struggle now moves on to a higher political level. the most politicised workers the balance shee of martial law is equally Clear: there can be no. com promise with the bureauWithin Poland itself and outside Solidarnose members are reorganising for the next round of the struggle. The central task for socialists in the West is to organise labour movement support for Solidarnose so that the workers can win the next round and the whole contest. ZBIGNIEW member of Lodz Solidarnosc, Hall Westminster include Eric Heffer, Kowalewski.
French author tour on Poland JEAN-YVES POTEL KOWALEWSKI, presidium will speak at the Labour Party rally on Poland at Central on March Other speakers at the rally which begins at 7.30pm Denis Healey, Joan Lestor and Clive Jenkins. As the Labour Party failed „to publicise and mobilise support for the meeting, socialists in the London labour movement should pull out all the stops to build an audience and * Pluto
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