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Lodz Solidarnosc leader Zbigniew Kowalewski told a rally of CGT trade unionists in Paris recently what Solidarnosc really is THE PROPAGANDA of the PUWP asserts that Solidarnose is a counter-revolutionary organisation whose aim was to overthrow the socialist regime in Poland. It is a lie.

Who are the real representatives of the counterrevolution in Poland? Those who have oppressed the people for 36 years? Those who have destroyed the national heritage created by the workers?

Or Solidarnosc, which was created because the workers went into struggle for their rights and for their democratic liberties?

Who are the counter-revolutionaries?

A small group of bureaucrats who reap their privileges and impose a dietatorship? Or the members of Solirlarnose who struggle for the socialisation of the means of production, for self-management in the factories, for the rights of the workers, for them to benefit from the fruits of their labour?

Who are the counter-revolutionaries?

Those who use tanks, the army, and the police against ten million workers, and deport thousands of workers to concentration camps? Or those who resist?

Today Poland is governed by the same leaders who massacred the workers in 1956 at Poznan and in December 1970 on the Baltic coast, and who beat and tortured workers at Radom and Ursus in 1976.

Their coup d'etat on December 13 is a purely counter-revolutionary act.

By Keith White solidarity with their brothers and sisters.

The Coventry Polish The Polish authorities do not wapt a real socialism to be created in our country, a working-class, democratic, self-management socialism, the sort of socialism the Polish working class is fighting for.

At first we boped that we would only be a trade union organisation. Life forced us also to be a social movement which sets its aim as realising the demands of the workers and of the whole society.

Solidarnose is today the only independent organisation in this totalitarian state.

Starting from the wish to improve the living conditions of the workers, it has moved to demand working class self-management in the whole economy and the holding of free elections in Poland.

We were forced to struggle against the economic crisis in a situation where the authorities did nothing to save the country from poverty and hunger.

And it was not because 'extremist groups' ordered us to do so that we undertook this struggle! It was the workers in the big factories who were most militant,. most radical, and most determined.

It was they who said to the Solidarnose leaders, 'Forward! Forward!' And that drive was the result of the suffering, the oppression and the exploitation of the working class. It was the result of the oppression of the whole society by a state which had no mandate from the people.

ally agreed to act over Poland and accepted a resolution from Eric Heffer condemning the military takeover and urging the British labour movement to retrain tron any' fraternal contact with the PUWP or the official Polish trade unions'.

. A rally or meeting is to be held, probably in late