Solidarity against apartheid

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December 1980 and again December 1981.

The official propaganda of the Polish United Workers Party claims that such events were "exceptional' , 'mistakes' in the exercise of power. My own tinuity of Stalinism and not "mistakes' or 'exceptional situations' in the functioning of the state apparatus. I would reiterate with all the strength of my beliefs that the responsibility for the blood already shed and which people.

As for myself I put forward the following principle: Socialism can be reformed, Stalinism cannot be reformed.

When tanks Jacek Kuron and Modzelewski put forward their view of workers' councils. I quote: "This is why it is necessary for the working class to organise councils in the workplace, to set up in the country as a whole a system of IN A recent statement, Solidarnosc leaders in exile have declared their "fullest solidarity with the black majority workers and their independent trade union, which — like Solidarnosc — constitutes a trade union and a grass roots social movement struggling for the respect of trade union rights, basic human rights and democratic freedoms for society"

The Coordinating Office Abroad of Solidarnose made the statement because it was "perturbed by reports of increased emigration to South Africa by Polish workers as a result of reAdvertisement cruitment campaigns by South African agents in Polish refugee camps in Vienna.

•The Office has approached the Austrian national trade union centre... to carry out information campaigns among Polish refugees outlining the true nature of apartheid, and the fact that emigration to South Africa is tantamount to the denial of livelihood to a black worker and therefore contrary to the basic precepts of trade union solidarity embodied in the very name of Poland's independent, self-governing trade union, Solidarnosc'' WSL, PO Box

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