In all, these measures threaten to provoke a maJOr controntation Solidarity. This would be reinforced il the government postpones the local clections scheduled for February next year.
The ruling party fears that independent candidates supported by Solidarity could unscat the Communist Party didates. The Warsaw branch of Solidarity has syndicalist character.
activists are increasingly discussing the for ERCTT own political party to fight for the interests of the workers and small farmers. Prize Such perspective combined the development of the movement is a clear alterLICIELVO BIO CL favoured by Lech Walesa Jacek Kuron and his supporters in the Solidarity leadership. They have spent the last month discussing the idea of a government of na1101191 accord" Ene Catholic Church and the For the authorities and the Church hierarchy such protect has drawing the independent LEILOEE HHOVCLCHLHEHLU-CUresponsibility for the crisis. It wants Solidarity to discipline its members and force them to pay for the economic crisis.
Divisions within Solidarity have intensified over these talks with the ZOVCTIICT leadership strike cluding VELCTAE leader Andrjez Gwiazda resigned COTOESI Walesa's *conciliationism' There is no doubt that the government held out prospect power sharing as the prize to be gained through moderation, while secretly prepar ing for a new crackdown.
On Monday the SCHOEEL firetighters training school where 380 cadets had beer on strike for a week. The cadets had demanded the 'demilitarisation' of the service, namely guarantees Inal Iney would nol De us cd against striking workers and students as in the past Meanwhile 100,000 students at 71 of the coun try's 91 colleges are still on strike protesing appointment polytechnic rector Radom and over educa tional reform Bus and tram drivers in Krakow southern are threatenn, December in strike on support of the students Another confrontation between the authorities and the Polish workers seems likely in the coming weeks. Each confronta more sharply the need for working class solution to the Policcrisis.
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Lech Walesa meets Edmund Maire, leader of the French socialist union on his recent trip to France