[DEFEND THE BRADFORD 12! Demonstration, Saturday December 12…]

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DEFEND THE BRADFORD 12! Demonstration, Saturday December 12, from Manningham Park Gate, Bradford.

London Labour Briefing fringe meeting fo London Labour Party conference: 12.30, Saturday December 12, at Camden Town Hall. Speakers: Tony Benn, Ted Knight, Jo Richardson. Adm. 50p. Co-sponsored by Labour Herald and Socialist Organiser. DN Ads for Socialist Organiser events and many campaigns are carried free. Paid ads: 5p per word, £4 per column inch. Send to: Socialist Organiser (What's On), 28 Middle Lane, London N8.

IRELAND Oxfordshire Trades Councils conference on Ireland. Satur. day December 12, 10 to 5 at West Oxford Community Centre, Binsey Lane, Oxford.

Delegates credentials £3, observers £1.50 (unwaged £1) from Marie Campbell, 167 Walton St, Oxford.

Labour Committee on Ireland: Labour Movement Conference.

Saturday February 27, 11an to 6pm, at The Theatre, 309 Regent St. Open to delegates and observers. Details: 1 North End Rd, London W14.

SOLIDARITY The Campaign for Democri tic Rights in Turkey is org anising a conference for Saturday December 12, from 10.30am to 5pm at NUFTO Hall, Jockeys.

Fields, London WC1.

Labour movement organisations are invited to write to ials. Delegate's fee is £3.

International evening against repression. Speakers from Iran, Palestine, Chile, Turkey etc. Friday December 11, from 6.30 at Friends House, near Euston Station. Admiss.

ion £1.

LEFT Campaign for Labour Party Democracy. Annual General Meeting: Saturday December 12, in London. Open to all CLPD supporters: to join send £3 (£3.50 couples) to V.Schonfield, Treasurer, 21 Wallingford Ave, London W10.

Leeds Labour Left meeting. Sunday January 10, 7.30, at Leeds Trades Council club.

London Labour Briefing social: Saturday December 12, Caxton House, St Johns Way, London N19. Hot food, curries, disco, bar. Adm. £1. LEICESTER. Sundays at 7.30, at the Leicester Socialist Centre, High St (above Binckthorn Books).

OXFORD: Wednesdays 8pm, at 44b Princes St. Dec.16: The nuclear threat.

OXFORD Socialist Organise Christmas bazaar, with cakes, tombola, bottle stall, darts, and Father Xmas. Saturday December 19, from 1.30pm, at Northgate Hall, St Michael's St. Entrance 10p.

ISLINGTON: Socialist Organiser meetings every other Tuesday at the 'Florence', • Florence St, near the Town Hall.

Islington Socialist Organiser fundraising social: Sunday December 20, from 7pm. For venue phone 354 1050.

Leeds Socialist Organiser class: The socialist programme'. Sunday January 3, midday at Leeds Trades Council club.

LEIGH. Every other Sunday 7.30 at the White Lion' (opposite the market).

Dec.13: Ireland and the British labour movement.

Jan.10: Organising the Left:

how and why?

Jan.24: Iran - what has happened and what's happening now?

Feb.7: Women's liberation.

Feb.21: Afghanistan and th Soviet invasion.

WOMEN Leeds Women's Figl atback inaugural meetir 1. TI hursda December 17, : 30, Leeds Civic Hall, room MARXISM London Workers' Socialist League classes on basic Marxism: a fortnightly series, alternate Fridays fror January 8. For details of registration and venue, writi to PO Box 135, London N1 ODD.

YOUTH National Left Wing Youth Movement Steering Commit tee meeting. Sunday Decem ber 13, 12 to 4, in Birmingham. (For details phone 01354 1050). OVERFLOWING with people climbing onto window sills, the meeting room in the Hotel Solec was the scene of an angry encounter between Lech Walesa and 2,000 Solidarnosc workers.

Walesa was appealing for moderation - a retreat in the face of the massive police assault on the occupied firefighters training college.

The reply came swift and desperate: We can't retreat. We have nowhere to retreat to' The brutal eviction, the arrest of the trainee fireighters and some of Warsaw's highest-ranking Solidarnose leaders, the tearing down of Solidarnoso's red and white emblem and the hoisting of the Polish national flag. - this miniature battle scene was confirmation, if any were needed, of bureaucracy's contempt for the independent workers' movement.

The thousands of relatives, workers and supporters surrounding the occupation had spat back their venom at the State. The chant of "fascist' was repeatedly hurled at the riot police.

Trams were moved

their drivers to barricade the road, as police helicopters hovered above and 6,000 armed mercenaries of the Stalinists charged the building.

For the first time since August 1980, the Stalinists had dared launch an open military assault against strikers.

Only days before, the Plenum of the Central Committee of the PUWP (Polish CP) declared that the time had finally arrived to settle the accounts of the last 18 months by granting full powers to the government to effectively oppose those that menace the Socialist State'.

General Jaruzelski, head of the military, the government, and the Party, wants the power to suspend the right to strike, and to ban all meetings (apart from those of a religious nature), and to use military courts.

Only the 'softs' around Barcikowski are still convincaction. ed that the policy of co-opt ing Solidarnosc between th twin vices of Party anı Church in a 'national fron of salvation' can work.

The special powers are only one of the laws the Party is trying to ram through the Parliament.

The Trade Union Bi outlaws all political strikt and requires votes befo1 strikes, all the union officia concerned to have agreer and seven days' notice ‹ The intention is clearly to stop the wave of wildcat The Trade Union Bill al: grants the government tl power to ban all strikes f up to two months in the ca of national emergency. T! government declares th oniy when these provisio are breached will the Spec Powers come into effect.

The government is al pushing. through a whr series of 'economic reforn - necessary to enable it satisfy the IMF and World Bank creditors, who are rescheduling the interest for the first nine months of this year on Poland's debt.

The moderate Presidium of Solidarnose has called for a one day general strike on December 17, and said:

The events of the last weeks prove that the State has chosen the road of force and has rejected the possibility of a dialogue with society. The PUP's economic policy, arrived at without the slightest consuitation, signifies that the government wants to perpetuate the existing system of mismanagement and is proceeding simultaneously to a drastic lowering of the standard of living of the population, while the special powers constitute an attempt to liquidate civil rights - the rights the workers acquired in 1980' The question is - where will Solidarnose's leadership go now? Walesa, more than overtures for a national coalition. That option is now closed.

Having dared to defy the Stalinist bureaucracy, stripped it of many of its powers, aroused its anger, launched its revolutionary appeal to the working classes of Eastern Europe, the Polish working class has no place to go now except forward to complete historic task of cleaning out the stinking Augean stables of Stalinism - to tear to shreds the attempts by the bureaucracy to shackle it, and establish its own power.

If not - the bureaucracy's revenge will descend - mercilessly.

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