Church Bid to Rein in Polish Workers

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"Church is Communists' This development brings most valuable asset" • So joy to the Catholic Church.

workers to discover their c read the paradoxical head- material strength throws i line in Monday's Guardian. question their need for Why is it that a regime "spiritual" notions peddled supposedly based on scientific socialism should now require -DEM the services' of the world's most Institutions entrenched bastion of mediaeval bigotry and superstition? This is why Cardinal The answer is of course that Wyszynski has now lent his the stony-faced Stalinist bureau- unambiguous voice to that of crats-who have drawn their Party leader Stanislaw Kania in own privileges from their urging Polish workers to "exerfumbled and high-handed cise restraint" and preserve "the administration of the national- institutions of our State" in the ised economy-have failed to win the mass support of Polish The Catholic Church speaks for world imperialism. US and European capitalists have offered economic and other aid to prop up the Polish Stalinists.

They fear above all a new And they have likewise wave of revolutionary struggles failed to break the hold of the in Europe. And so do the CONFERENCE Catholic Church over the Kremlin leaders. "Ireland and the British" peasantry and the working class. Capitalists and "Commun- A Labour conference Until recently the Stalinist ists" will therefore be saying a organised by Battersea CLP regime compensated by outright common prayer this Christmas: police repression for its own 'Oh Lord, keep the workers in Saturday 17 January 1981 lack of popular support. their place of oppression and 11.30 am-5.00 pm.

But now Polish workers, exploitation, and us in our 177 Lavender Hill, London spuried into struggle by the places of wealth, power and food shortages and poverty line wages that arise from the And if illusions in Workshops, plus speakersbureaucratically distorted econ- Lord won't do it-then ther Jock Stallard MP; Alf Dubs omy, have begun to assert their tanks and guns on the P MP, Geof Bell and others independent strength as a class. border ready to do the job. Credentials from M. Tupper As a result they have begun to challenge the very basis of 177 Lavender Hill, SW11 the police state and of bureaucratic privilege.

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