be held all major trade union conferences next year in support model by LAW and the Campaign for Labour Party The campaign aims to win enough votes at the next Labour Party conference to overturn any expulsions and reverse the deciSIOn ESTEDISA a register.
Local meetings and conferences are to be held in all major towns early next year in support of policies such as unilateral disarmament and against expulsions, and LAW will seek endorsement of Party corre Ces. regional Labour WEDNESDAY DECEMBER was the closing date of the ballot of CLPD members on whether CLPD should 'register'. Greg Tucker of Vauxhall CLP discusses the see Ta see THE REGISTER of NonGroups ES killed off last month. It even nad an obituary in Labour Weekly.
But the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy OCCIL intent risking breakup over the issue.
It decided to organise a consultative ballot before AGM January decides on the issue Reasonable so far! So imagine the surprise when, receiving the ballot papers and statements for among Victor and against, you find them a statement Schonfield (CLPD Treasurer). This spends two pages abusive ly attacking those who support CLPD for their own tactical reasons, but CLİD EC on to list these members who are declared unfit for reand finally threatens cereary ag the Secretary other (unspecified), if the AGN officers does not vote in favour of registration.
-Solidarnosc one year afterhow to overcome what they call relatively small position to the military junta.
How can the junta boast has re-established order when hundreds of clandestine periodicals continue to appear, testifying the breadth of the resistance movement? SOW can claim that it has silenced the wiel clandestine radio broadcasts are continuing and growing more numerous. despite the seizures radio transmitters that have been announced with a great furor on TV? Tanks batter down the gates of the Gdansk Lenin Shipyard last December. THE PROBLEM of the bureaucrat-generals is disorder.
What they mean by this is continued unrest reflected in constantly occuring strikes, even though these have often been isolated and subjected to severe repression; innumerable street demonstrations, both violent clashes involving groups and impressive mobilisations of several thousand persons; and various sorts of demonstrations of massive opset up to replace Solidarnosc are being massively boycotted by the working class? Not even bribery has been successful.
For example, the Polish railroads offered a aHea week vacation in a socialist country of your choice to anyone who would agree Lesson LO STULL committees for the new unions. They got hardly any takers.
So far only three per cent of the 40,000 enterprises in the country have understanding'? According to the underground HOTC thar political prisoners have been sentenced from three to ten years. Another 5.000 are awaiting trial. That is quite a lot of victims government that boasts of eing the champion of national harmony.
Since the regime has no carrots to orrer it is using the stick. This is the meaning of the moves that are being made on the eve of siege to grant the government special powers enab ing it to proclaim a state of CHICE CHCY if necessary.
One of the lessons of the past year is that the workers are not themselves be intimidated easily. Despite the repression and the thousands of imperialism and the new cold war which 'We don't meet very often We don't care what are, the only thing that matters is your presence As a Gdansk worker said *the situation is dif ficult, perspectives. But these gents who rule us have even less.
In this SILUCO! the workers clearly perceived the Catholic hierarchy's appeal to them on the eve of the planned action not 10 November, as a resun strike ot a deal by the church with the regime at the expense of the resistance movement. 'He dropped many - underground workers leaders said about Monsignor Glemp, the primate of Poland would be wrong, however, o suggest tal priests embrace the views of their superiors. There are many stories of International Viewpoint. over the problems of achieving national understanding represents a disavowal of this and policy confrontation, the French CP pape l'Humanite wrote, for ex ample, on 13 November. Error What role Walesa will actually play in the period opening up remains to be But titude he adopts, it would be a tundamental error to think that the position of a single person even if he is a charismatic leader can determine the whole future of a movement November 1982, strike highlighted the problems that the union is experiencing Without making harsh judgements, many workers expressed their concern about the will appear in the new year edition o But those who are so anxTOUS LO SCC unC enG or tEe resistance movement should chickens before they are hatched. Ten thousands of people came into the streets in the wake of the 10 November setback itself. And just before Lech Walesa was released the Gdansk shipyard workers had started preperations to go November to make up for the 10 November failure. Dead No, the outlawing of Sold noses no he The workers no longer believe in any possibility of a na tional accord, and they expressed this torcelul terms after the delegalization of the union. They are not going to change thei minds overnight because the workers have for such a confrontation is - and that will remain true - the general strike. But in order carry SUL cessfully, the movement first has to be capable of taking on a series of tasks However, the fundamental problem, that is particularly evident SIECE the failure of November, is the problem of leadership. needed able to clive collective leadership closely in touch with the reality of the undergrounc movement and to offer DCLODCU tives and tactical methods that show the workers the road to follow In the coming period, the Interregional Commission to Defend SolidarHOSe includes workers representatives trom lo regions and is working out an action pro-
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