AS THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY of War' underground resistance movement remains inLach manoeuvring.
munist were realistic enough December's blitzkrieg class had not destroyed Solidarnosc as a mass movement.
During the last year the security. police have been working flat out to weaken the EnG underground activists and workers LIC through using violence against street!
occasions and through wave after wave of arrests.
5,000 resistance activists now in jail, them number of key regional the underground leadership has experiencing growing difficulties Judging the state of opinion in the faczones ane ravine Is sud porters around inBut the has posessed another weapon at least as powerful as its security police, inOWI deed more so. ine great authority amongst the population, including the working which Cathole hierarchy has no basic interest in seeing Solidarnosc's survival independent workers movement. The real secret of Jaruzelski's successes against Solidarnose has been his tacit but of Poland's approaches, Solidarnosc's Its organisation and leadership has still The group of generals and civilian com Party politicians around Jaruzelski to grasp that against the working real and firm alliance with the Church bureaucracy by Archbishop Glemp.
The alliance has not extended down the Catholic laity, of course, nor to many of the parish priests in working class areas. Individual bishops have broken ranks on occasions Glemp himself has faced strong pressure below. But authoritarian structure and ideology which is the equal of any , Communist Party, the Church hierarchy has been able to drive a pe underground mover underground movement and large parts of the population.
Glemp has achieved his results by seeking to suggest that the Church supports Solidarnose while at the same time publicly opposing everything Lial Solidarnose does to strug gie for is nguts. Everv single national protest action by the underground has been deplored by the Church hierarchy as being likely to endanger peace and stir hatred. And Glemp has been able to pursue this course in the LAST WEDNESDAY'S Guardian carried an exknowledge that he was protected attack on the part of Solidarnose by the mantle of religion.
HOR •OOVIOUS ECCSOnS. the Western media have studious. ignored the Church hierarchy's real political role under martial aw. Why destroy the great myth of the Polish events Communist crusade? And Christian it is still possible to find people on the left, even influential people, WIIO SCO Solidarnosc as the pawn of reactionary bishops.
Yet since the law formally banning Solidarnosc issued doubts about the Church leadership's role cannot be seriously Glemp, Communist than his predecessor had in dissimulation and doubletalk.
General Jaruzelski has just declared that the anof the State of War will be marked by the lifting of martial law. was also announced that of the political prisoners those the Warsaw area — will be released.
Solidarnose's ground leadership has said it will disband if all those remaining 600 or so are released. Archbishop Glemp may at this mo ment drafting Christmas speech along SLIC lines that national reconciliation is at hand as the Second Coming of the Pope approaches.
But socialists and the Western labour movement must continue to tace the stubborn facts of life, on earth, in Poland for or dinary workers: their basic have been crushed and there will be no socialism or democracy in unless they are restored General Jaruzelski's Military Council for Na tional Salvation. VROI for Poles Crow. In reality the Polish workers have been facing attack by a Rook, pro tected by a Bishop. LAW
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not been crushed. But General Jaruzelski has been able to gain the initiative through a com- bination of repression and skillful political