Scabs who side with Jaruzelski

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READING the Fifteen Points of Polish Solidarity, I noted these facts. Those who support the military action by the Polish junta are seen by Poland's workers as "your enemy" (point 4); "bastards" (point 6); "scabs and collaborators" (point 10).

Solidarity urges Polish workers to avoid such scabs and collaborators in their private relationships. Should we not be thinking of doing the same here in Britain, and showing solidarity with Solidarity?

Whilst Solidarity urges Polish workers to "remain with the workers" (point 1), these scabs and collaborators who infest the ranks of the labour and trade union movement in Britain, side with the so-called Communist bosses who now shoot down, beat, and imprison workers in Eastern Europe and in Russia. They have thus allied themselves with the armed State which oppresses workers, while acting as the caretakers for Big Capital's East European and Russian investments.

It cannot be emphasised too strongly that this is what the bureaucracy in the so-called "presently existing Socialism" is doing. Big Capital has invested scores of millions (billions, even) in the lands that lie on the other side of Checkpoint Charlie. Poland alone received some twenty-five billion dollars from Big Capital. Why? Well they knew the workers in Poland would have lots of surplus value screwed out of them by the Polish boss class.

This boss class use the vast wealth created by the workers' labour power to enrich themselves in Poland, and to create special conditions of privilege for their families. They also export part of the wealth to the West in the shape of interest rates on loans, or commodity products (usually food) which are then sold in Western markets at vast profit.

Comrades?

Is this not exactly the same sort of situation that obtains in Latin America, or South East Asia? Do not corrupt and greedy bureaucrats there enrich themselves as a class, and act as the caretakers for Big Capital's investments, even to the extent of shooting workers, and beating them, and casting them into prison, denying them their democratic rights?

Yet the scabs and collaborators of the self-styled Revolutionary Communist Group, the New Communist Party, and the Straight Lett group inside the Labour Party side with the Polish military junta in such matters against the workers of Can we call such "bastards" (I quote Poland's workers) comrades? Can we in any way collaborate with them as they try to gain positions of power in the Labour and trade union movement in Britain to erect a similar repressive state apparatus?

say no collaboration with the scabs and collaborators of the RCG, NCP and Straight Left Group. Down with them!

"Moscow was our Rome" , said Santiago Carrillo. "That was the period of our infancy. Today we are grown up.

HARRY MULLIN Glasgow a river-shaped