participated in the strike move-. ment, the workers' tion is stronger, the workers are more set-contident and perienced. Workers from other plants are starting from scratch ana want to know how to strike The delegations raise every sort of problem with the committee. How do they go about setting up a branch? Regulski patiently explains:
"Take this form, get it signed by workers who want to join, inform the management and the local prefect and elect workplace committee. copy of the statutes: although they're temporary, they re binding on all members.
What about the funds controlled by the still existing old unions and used by a very large tuner or workers lo loans? The workers in the old unions are worried that they will be forced to pay all these back immediately if they leave the old unions.
ballots A committee member plains that LICW organisations outside the old unions should be elected to adthese funds, anyway should be outside the control OI the old bureaucrats.
What about the funds for the new unions? The committee explains wal inere Will be a system of dues but the amount is yet to be decided.
'TEACH Yourself Polish' was the Worker (30 August) in welcoming with open arms the struggle of the They understood that only gendeclaration mine socialists could advocate that British workers should copy the methods against the Tories. out: The Tories' cheers would be Take a wideo orarer races a since second if the workers in this country suddenly took llcall rous workers are imported ust a few of their methods here.' impact tification has unfortunately been lessened by view socienes m castem europe.
Unlike the bulk of the human race, the SWP Societ es dre capitalist countries of the West. Socialist - Worker awer ver soo de cor bureaucrats in Eastern Europe are 'capitalist, no more different from ex- Lic mana as or lau uacy are democratic TrOM nineteenth The absence of private ownerwhich sit or tie acones meansence oi unemployment, the fixing of prices by a state plan -union not tere as tal as uncy are concernSuch view demanderstands he power senates workers put forward.
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such meat prices. allu Illas question the whole As they pointed Led. They the Their of this iden- ment. with the Polish struggle countries capitalist West Socialist the DOWer that these ship of the factories. identical has therefore This is why coupled the century mill role of the party munist Party - this is neither here democratic, completely oi striking • The • тоттанов This is why, ps political could the demand against e crisis if these agteement, states are the same as ours? How could the demand for independent unions strike at the heart of the preine triith of the matter is inal simple economic demands in these societies are immediately political. Democ ac demares are revolu What the workers were doing when unev. camened ure. mse • was throwing into plan - the whole way in wnich ine resource. of Polish society were to be decidwere asking for plan is a task of government.
action therefore imis is una makes nest different from the The revolutionarv. character of democratic demands derives from considerations. The Britain derives from their private ownerThe power of me bureaucas i rodid rests or their monopoly of political power the one party system, total control of the media. and so on.
the bureaucrats concession to weansk sunkers or unc macochach acknowledge the 'leading that is, the ponucal топороу or le coll In reality of course, if the inrenall the discussion cove policy for the union, and therefore will inevitably lead to comtoetin and tendencies at the heart of the • there is such a time 359-8189.
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