Poland: new danger

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From back TASS said the Forum's analysis is based on "Marxist-Leninist positions" Neues Deutschland says the Forum was the only political group which had correctly assessed the present situation in Poland.

The Czech press has said that the Forum represented the : "healthy core" of the Polish CP, and according to the Morning Star, went on to attack certain public figures in Poland for advocating "Trotskyite principles".

Polish strikers Even previously reserved an leadiueship has waghed in with a defence of the Forum.

Solidarity has declared that the statements were a permit for Soviet intervention and likened the way the situation was assessed to that in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968.

The real reason for these attacks on the Polish working class is the continuing development of their anti-bureaucratic struggle, which cannot be stopped by the bureaucracy or their church allies.

This week the Roman Catholic church called on Solidarity not to engage in any more strikes for 30 days as a mark of respect for the dead Polish Primate.

But the Solidarity leadership voted by 22-13 to go ahead with a two hour warning strike in four northern provinces over the fact, that the police who beat up trade union leaders in Bydgoszcz have still not been brought to justice.

This strike will take place just as the two month moratorium on strikes ends. It was decided to have a warning strike instead of a general strike but the pressure is on for more extended action.

Exhausted

A Central Committee meeting of the Party has now been convened to discuss the warning strike and the next moves and deputy premier Rakovsky has said that the ability of the government to compromise has now been exhausted.

Meanwhile four members of the anti-communist Confederation of Independent Poland have been released from jail pending their on June 15.

Even the release of t! hese reactionaries is a blow to • the bureaucracy because challenges their right to imprison people simply for their political views and not for actions against the workers' state.

Workers' court

If they have carried out such acts, then they should be brought before an independent workers' court.

The fact that there are now no unions outside of Solidarity and the collapse of the so-called official unions has been underlined by the fact that it is Lech Walesa and a Solidarity delegation that is representing Poland at the annual IL.O conference in Geneva.

For years leaders of the official unions have been attending, representing no-one but themselves.

Walesa has shown his political weakness in his statements at the conferente.

Although he has said it is not the workers? struggles that have created the economic crisis in Poland, he has suggested that Solidinity mas limit wage demands berause of that crisis victimisation.

2,500 BL workers struck on May 14 to reject a miserable wage offer. They were all sacked for refusing to obey a return-to-work command from management on Reinstatement The workers are demanding an adequate wage and reinstatement of all strikers. A solidarity campaign in support of the BL struggle has been launched by unions, workers' community organisations and youth organisations in Cape Town.* In Britain, the Leyland Action Committee and the 5/293 TGWU Branch at Cowley Assembly plant sent messages of support to their fellow BL workers, and pledged to fight for the maximum possible solidarity action, including blacking and strike action.

This fight has been taken further in the calls for action in a leaflet given out at the Cowley plants and at. an LAC public meeting in Oxford on June 2.

Since. then, Oxford Trades Council has taken up a 5/293 resolution to organise a public meeting with speakers from BL and organisations campaigning in Britain for solidarity.

At a Bl. Combine C'ommittee meeting on June S, an amendment from the (owley • TGWU Shop Stewards Committee was carried, calling for all

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Our French Correspondent Ernie Stubbi the run up to the National Assembly ele ursday 11 June