"solidarnosc Cannot Be Dissolved"

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£6000 fund union activity, hundreds of ars, the police, and the thousands of workers kept in apparatchiks. The Polish daily terror in the militarised workers have had enough of factories. that sort of "socialism' and Today, Poland is a coun "people's power' problem is distinguished every opportunity on the more by the interest shown international level to make in it by the police than by the military 'gorillas' pay the STAR prize of the week for fund-raising goes to the Leigh SO group. With a tion of the working class. which has been imposed on €42.50 donation this week came news of future plans: they're selling pontoon There must be no misunder- us by the junta for the years cards, organising a social, a Xmas dinner, and a bring and buy sale, and making standing: the military junta to come is nothing but a is not fighting in defence of copy of Pinochet's "model If every group organised fund-raising like this, all our problems would be over! socialism, it is fighting for its in Chile. The complement of Other plans we've heard of are: socials (Birmingham, Edinburgh), Xmas party (Coventry); Xmas dinner (Brent), raffle (Leicester). Leicester are also organising [But| Solidarnosc cannot tion - by means of the law be dissolved, any more than - of all state administration Meanwhile Oxford SO supporters are organising a giant Xmas bazaar, and the Polish working class can into an 'army of overseers', London SO supporters a Xmas jumble sale. be 'dissolved' ... Today, redu- with special rights and privi- • Many supporters are organising for our "buy the paper a Xmas present' appeal: ced to clandestinity, impris- leges, in the image of the if you hold a collection for a Xmas present for SO, we'll write to you and tell you oned, "dissolved' on paper, hierarchical system of the our union is reflected in the Tsarist administration. Thanks to Leicester SO supporters for £200 paper money - one of many groups to respond to our appeals by paying off paper debts. Supporters should take heed and send in the money for papers they've sold regularly, not just when We've had £362 for the fund this week, mainly from individual donations.

Thanks to: Oxford DHSS striker (£1.50), Peter Kenway (£180); Abdul Sheir (£10); Sue Himmelweit (£ 20), M.Starr (£ 20), J.Brown (£5); A.Campbell (£5); a Brentwood reader (£5). Thanks also to Leigh, to supporters from the print unions in Oxford (£23), and to Brent SO group (star group in the London area) for following a recent donation of £85 with £50 this week. ane rousn workers nave nau eruuga os uu ae oy mr......

Published by the Socialist Organiser Alliance, 28 Middle Lane, London N8. Printed by East End Offset (TUJ. Registered as a newspaper at the GPO. Signed articles do not necessarily reflect the views of the SOA, In the run-up to Solidarnosc's one day strike on November 10, the junta arrested union leader Wladyslaw Frasyniuk and 12 others in Wroclaw. Meanwhile Archbishop Glemp met General Jaruzelski and issued a joint statement calling for 'strengthening of peace, the social order, and work'.

But the Polish workers remain defiant, as th appeal to Western union and workers' parties from Warsaw Solidarnosc shows.

IN THIS dramatic moment of our national history, it is the workers' movement organised in Solidarnose which has given proof of political maturity and patience.

The junta, on the contrary, has shown that it is willing to sacrifice anything - the blood of the workers, the economy, national sovereignty - to keep itself in power. As junta spokesperson J. Urban cynically declared: "The government always manages to eat".

It should not be forgotten, either, that during the 16 months of legal activity of Solidarnosc, the most spectacular act of violence from this union of ten milljon members was the expulsion of two (!) bosses ot the old corrupt unions, taken out of their factory on a wheelbarrow.

As for the "prize list' of the junta in the following 10 months, it has been: dozens of workers assassinated, hundreds of people tortured by the police and in the prisons, thousands of others beaten and sacked, thousands jailed and condemned to long sentences for trade try where the trade union debate on the paths to polit- price. ical and economic emancipapower and its privileges. fear-filled eyes of the generals and the apparatchiks.

It is for this reason that it has no use for dialogue with Solidarnosc, today or yesterday. Those who still be reve mat wnat is at stake in Poland is the defence of "people's power' or of social property in the means of production' are - forgive us the expression - hopeless imbeciles.

In Poland, the junta is trying by all means to preserve 'socialism' based on the bludgeon, fear, and corruption, on prisons and the despotism of the factory bosses, the military commissWe hope you will seize The trade union 'model' this model is the transformaWe are convinced that the Western trade union organisations and workers' parties are willing to wage a determined struggle in solidarity for the defence of the nguts ul uIt ruis WurncID. airhta of tha Dalich wnrore We are convinced that you see in support for Solidarnosc a form of defence of the vital interests and the rights of the Western workers.

Support and solidarity today and tomorrow - that

Jaruzelski

is that what we want from you. From you above all.

From us, you can expect one thing: to carry on thẹ struggle against the junta.

Solidarnose is not dead!

Abridged and translated from the French revolutionary weekly Rouge, 29.10.82.

Xmas cards (to be advertised in SO).

La Hundred Club.

what we've bought for the paper.

we're about to go bankrupt! by Harry Sloan