likely to be lifted.
last few days: some commentators would have us go for 'liberalisation'.
tic of workers.
Central to the plans of the herous role if the treacherous role Catholic Church. week Jaruzelski met with Archbishop Glemp. The Church has accepted that there can be no return to legai ally SLaLus Solidarnosc.
Glemp has become more and more bold in his the Polish workers not to participate in demonstrations or proTess catast martial law. LECH WALESA is free and martial law seems That's the news which has been headlined throughout the West over the But these things are not, as believe, the result of any decision by the authorities to They are part of an overall strategy by Jaruzelski and the Polish bureaucrats to combine repression with a tacdividing and demoralising the Polish In order to ensure the visit of the Pope to Poland, the Church is going to step up workers refrain from any disturbance work diligently.
The strike called by the Solidarnosc underground eaten for . November was only very limited succes Although crowds of several thousand people gathered in some towns. the strike by and large was Massive repression against strikers I parucularly difficult for actions anything other than a large majority to go by without mutants veng openca up to victimisation.
still 3,000 people jail who have been sentenced to up to 10 years in prison, and 2,000 people held without trial. In this situation, with an agreement the under its belt. the Jaruzelski team feels inthe Creasmay connectl The release of Walesa and is in this context an utterv cynical move. Walesa is in cannot make contact with the leaders of the Solidarnosc underground, nor play any active part in the union. In this context his statement that the leaders of the Solidarnosc are 'acting according to their of consciences' and that it is. 'not my position to judge their actions will be seen by many Poles as tacit ap. proval of their actions.
The by Solidarnosc are called for December 13-17 to coincide with the anniversary of the introduction Marta defuse this, Jaruzelski has called a meeting of the Polish for December which will formally repeal martial law.
But this will be more Show reality. laws 'public security will be introduced which will allow the authorities to do exactly what they do under martial law.
The difficult situation currently confronting the Solidarnosc leaders should however by interpreted as any slackening of support from the workers. lack of mobilisation on 10 Novenoc represented solely a feeling that the situation was not ripe for an all-out confrontation. waiting for an opportunire The workers to show their strength again. Jaruzelski's 'carrot' OI releasing Walesa and suspending martial law is utterly transparent.
It is still the wielding of the big stick which decisive for the Polish bureaucrats.