There were those who "advised' Solidarnosc adopt a strategy of 'selfMutatiOn of the revolu tion, leaving the basic structures of bureaucratic power intact. These included intellectuals, Communist Party reformers, the Church hierarchy and other orces potential social interest in maintaining the cratic power Sections of the Solidarnosc leaders and membership adopted these Idea. not to defend any material privileges, but as the only apparent way forward given the very real danger or a soviel-backea sion of the country if the movement went too far'.
The strategy was in fact dead wrong and it ideologically disarmed the movement. But given the JEAN-YVES POTEL, and author of the new Pluto Press book The Summer Before the Frost, will be speaking at a series of meetings in Britain next week. Also appearing will be a Solidarnose leader from Lodz region, Zbigniew Kowalewski. Mon 22 March Oxford meeting on Poland at 3pm in Oxford Polytechnic Tue 23 March Birmingham Polish Solidarit Committee Digbeth Civic Halls.
Wed 24 March Glasgow Polish Solidarity Committee meeting, 7.30pm at McLellan Galleries, Sauchiehall St Thur 25 March Manchester Socialist Challenge meeting, 7.30pm at Unicorn pub, Church St, Pic cadilly Fri 26 March Guest speaker at Hackney Socialist Challenge/Revolution meeting on El Salvador, meeting, 7.30pm at Marchmont Community Cen tre, Marchmont St, Kings Cross. 50p entrance.
French Trotskyist meeting, 7pm at Lecture room bOOKsnon/ bIg Flame