Polish Stalinists Get One More Chance
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After the warning bells of an impending invasion of Poland had been ringing for a week in the world's capitalist press, the Warsaw Pact summit appears to have given Polish Party leader Stanislaw Kania a brief breathing space to put his own house in order.
The danger of a military An anonymous donation of £300, a pledge of £80 from BL workers' back pay next weekend, £20 from Scottish supporters and a splendid collection of over $212 at the Workers Socialist League 6th Anniversary Rally last weekend helped to push the final figure of our £1,500 Special Fund well over the top to a total of £1,815.
• We know that some futher donations are still in the post to us: they will be added to the Special Fund. We thank all those readers who have lent •their tangible support to our fight for programme and principle in the labour movement, and given so generously to our appeal.
But the work to be done in Published by Folrose Ltd for the Registered as a newspaper at the intervention plainly very But there is no doubt that on all sides such a move would be seen as a last desperate resort -a confession that the Stalinist leaders in Warsaw had lost-all hopes of controlling the militant Polish working class.
For the Kremlin leaders the cost would be dramatic. To subdue a hostile population of 35 million Poles they would the next year demands greater resources.
Speakers at the rally showed from-many angles the necessity for revolutionary leadership:
*challenging the pro-imperialist line of the Labour and union bureaucrats on Ireland. :
*championing the fight against the oppression of women and struggling to draw unemployed women from the isolation of the home into active *organising youth in the struggle against unemployment, racism and army recruitment.
*spelling out a perspective for the political overthrow of the Stalinist regimes in Eastern Europe.
*offering a lead in the fight against hospital closures and public sector cuts.
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