LAST weekend's Communist Party Central Committee set the authorities on a collision course with the Polish workers. strong possibility with Solidarity in the short term.
pressure from the Kremlin the party called for: • a temporarv suspension of the right to strike. • renegotiation OI the Gdansk strike agreements. • postponement demobbing of army conscripts in case of a state of emergency.
General And for the first time the party has a general for leader. Wojciek Jaruzelski, who was elected prime minister in February, became party chief to replace Stanislaw Kania, whose weakness against Solidarity enraged the Kremlin leaders.
the same time l central committee members resigned Solidarity DrOLest against its alleged socialist' development.
The vul caulials are preparing the ground for a confrontation the Polish wolkes. in that context, hard-liner Stefan Olszowski is likely to be brought as the next prime minister. Broad He has called for combination of repression and the creation of "broad' government of national salvation of the army, church, party and Solidarity 'moderates' whip the Polish workers rapanareou. military rule?
There is a of a major confrontation The Polish authorities fear the development of a challenge to their rule over the working class. Since the foundation of Solidarity as an independent union the bureaucrats' monopoly of political power has UCCI Increasing unreal.
GERMI Solidarity's first tional congress called for free elections. eno le censorship, and the devemanagement in the faclones ana enterprises Co-ordinate Already the majority of the major plants have organised workers' councils which have begun to basis. It is the developa more gloriously revolutionary nice day than other comrades...
ment of an alternative workers' power that frightens the bureaucrats, and which means that a showdown between two powers is inevitable.
Socialists in this coun try should be alert to the HUNGARY "It has come to my attention that some comrades are attempting to have THOUSANDS of Greek workers and youth Jaruzelski: Poland has a general as party leader dangers facing the Polish workers. They are fighting for the restoration of capitalism or TOT Catholic state. They are fighting for workers' and SOCIS They deserve democracy. our support.
VADIRK SIN After thirty-six bureaucratic workers say against workers' power.
Polish workers who class struggle throughout that the bureaucracy ween them and socialism.
countles, can between On the other the revolution in Central America, imperialist policy and pillage, tory in France, Eastern European countries.
their Polish frontiers, governments than honsnic of significance ternational has Inprecor.
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tional's Polish Publications Fund.
launches Polish campaign bureaucracy!
years of domination even words have lost their meaning in often hears that they are socialism but for would like to study the experiences of the working come up against not only bureaucratic censorship but also this deceptive barrier has erected bet.
Thanks to the information coming out on the Polish events (despite the way this information is deformed in certain see the historica significance of this life and death strugbureaucracy and socialist democracy which is recreated every day in the struggle of the workers.
hand the Polish workers have the greatest difficulty in getting information about developments on the international class struggle: on , on on the significance of the Left's electoral vic and or bureaucratic struggles in China or the Now, they know well enough that struggle is not confined to the that it disturbs other just the Polish bureaucrats, in brief that it is an integral part of an overall movement and relaforces of liversi It is in order to contribute to breaking this wall of bureaucratic censorship and disinformation that the Fourth Indecided to publish a monthly edition in Polish of its review of international analysis and information:
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