the Catholic Church hierarchy has again shown its true colours.
Glemp echoed the accusation of the military apparatus demonstrations were 'manipulators' and troublemakers. We reprint an article by Cyril Smuga from a recent Internationa/ Viewpoint on the current situation in Almost months after the military crackdowe in Poland led bureaucracs fro the siation T;
"The TEMELY COmMECaICO are still very far from elebratin VISIOEY ould still find ourselve faced with things, OrCHILS, phenomena that we can't even imagine just now. Comrades, anything is still possible. Comrades what you say is terriying.
LEIS CALIELEOLLUHES recording of a meeting between the military comand television and the party members wno work there. TRUTCE testimony than any long explanation to the disarray of the military junta which 1ook on December. The same commissar continued: -InE state of war will continue in Poland anti the marty is renewed. 1 am not talking about the O1 TeaneTAE which can come back quite fast, but the big enterprises.
The party, the essential the society, has bee! disastrously weakened Since August 1980, it has lost more than two-thirds OT 1s members. Last weekend Archbishop that the recent mass May Day the work of plants, it is more and more imited to manageria. perSORTe REE BEOCKs Today, its mass base is increasingiy concentrated in the state apparatus.
The attempt to rebuild SOME OrEn SLOnS HnAC the boot of the bureaucracy has got The Commissions, established in the enterprises to tulli what the bureaucracy considers are the functions of ETEOE distribute potatocs dav camps have been unanimously boycotted.
потріз то все доtivists elected to the workers workers that although gone down, they are now going to get a voice in the mied mne, have also vall HEUERETERU ed. The burcaucracy салnot there are more gond are more goods In the shons now. Alter a 300 per cent price rise, the workers cannot afford to CV MECN. BuEArOdCHOn has tallen to cata topral levels. Central Statistics Office reports that the big enterprises have oniv reached 4010 45 per cent of the projected This is partly owSO-CES ing LO the passive 50 per cent of the workers have followed the union instructions DODOLOEC production. But this drop in production is also Tosa or me asorganisasione restritions alany siege enterprises are closed two out of every three days DeLause the necessary parts materials.
This nability to normalise' the situation has increased differences within the bureaucracy These differences stem the contradiction which has CASILL SUTCE December berween the old and the new Wwa Bbl uw HNIE SIELCALTC have been paralleled by military structures. There have been conflicts between the old state and parapparatus, to hold to their privileges; and the military apparatus who see the opportunity get functions. paratus has succeeded in The old party establishing armed groups under the name *Political - PUWP: which are independent trom the paratus of the military efromt of ihe pollical forefront of political SOLUC hecomine demoralised. Desertions are growing soldiers who are in ther third year of service and for whom the end is not yel in sight. Al Elblag a deserter opened fire police. It teok two hour: for a battalion of police to overcome him.
barkcd on work among the Miner leanleis are widely distributed, calling on the soldiers to retuse to carey out oreers tnat tne. signilicant, bulletins of the report the ton oi intormal erouD! within army units.
Solidarnosc, which WES CISOTE BETSC the first wave of represthe enterprises local neighbourhoods.
Socialist Resistanice Circes (KOS), formed by five people who develop others in a pyramid structure, are More LETELE! clandestine journals appear regularly.
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pages growing number. Every month between the 13th (anniversary of the coup) and the 16th (anniversary of the killing of miners at Wujek last December) demonstraBIOES MaKE place throughout the country The roads, factory walls. workrooms are regularly "decorated" slogans hostile to the junta. The militia has formed special to remove mnem every morning.
In other ways Solidartional Commission of Resistance has been formco, so tnat prociamanons kne now signed by licent regions. Provisional regional leaderships have BECE forme other regions. The results of thi have not taken long to come. On 13 April the call stop widely.
TUBIE followed Ina0 Icast regions, DISCSS On R StraTe and organisation for the EVY CHCE SETEI-T moved beyond the regional level. which has contributed much to the denth oi the discussion. Warsaw last week Scenes from the Solidarnosc demonstrations in
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AS THE Polish workers prepare a 15 minute general strike across the country on Thursday,