The Polish Stalinist bureaucrats who run this largest industrial country in the world. struggle deserves the full support of working people in this country.
As the second half of Solidarity's first national COLLICOS assembles, the ruling Polish Communist Partv is keeping up a barrage of slanders against it.
Solidarity is accused of being 'anti-socialist', even ment has never called for a return to cabilalsil.
There very real danger in the next few days of a new initiative from the Polish bureaucrats and THeM MaSter Kremlin aimed at undermıning the power and uniYour Bank..
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...... REVOLUTION - that's what is happening in workers are leading thorough-going political revolution against the eleventh Their ty of Solidarity.
Soviet Union starving the Corsiucille Polish people into submission withholding vital goods and services.
And the threat of military intervention ever-present.
But the most dangerous suggestion under consideration the Polish TUCS for major covernmen I his would bring represenand Solidarity into military-led government of emergency, repression union Mutalls and the outlawing of strikes.
Such a radical move may appear in the Stalinist textbooks but it could be the last political card the bureaucrats have to play to hang on to their rule. it could dangeroust divide Solidarity between lls radical and moderate wings, and seriously compromise the hard-won independence of the The achievements of the Polish workers in the last year have been mense. They have gained independent and ucHO cratic trade unions. They have established councils for workers' self-management in 14,000 enterprises, the majority of the coun try's factories and they have forced the ment to drastically reduce censorship of the media. challenging the right of a Increasingly they non-elected privileged bureaucracy to exercise its dictatorial rule in every sphere of Polish life. In LABOUR CONFERENCE short they are beginning to counterpose real workers' power to the sham 'communism' of the Stalinists.
The Solidarity congress has already offered support to the workers of Eastern Europe their struggle to form independent unions. It is high time that the labour movement in this country extended its full support to the Polish workers.
The second half of the Solidarit congress this week will debate union's programme. . Central to this will be discussion over the economic crisis which continues to deteriorate.
It is estimated by the government itself that most Poles now spend an TO introduce Socialist Challenge to new average of four hours dav in queues tor sions, and the authorities nave dome a cree in malnutrition The Soviets and Polish bureaucrats will nervously watch the congress, remembering a popular Solidarity slogan: 'A hungry people eats its government.
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