Poland: Kremlin pressure makes its mark
Socialist Press1981 1981-07-09Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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With Soviet party leader Brezhnev slipping away to the Black Sea for a few weeks' holiday and friendly visits from Kremlin foreign secretary Gromyko, Poland no longer hangs under imminent threat of invasion.
The threats and pressure brought to bear on Polish Communist Party members in the last few months by Moscow have had their desired effect.
Almost the whole of the present Stalinist leadership has secured re-election as delegates to the party congress in ten days' time.
Militants who looked set to secure a majority of delegates at the conference have failed to win elections in the key. Katowice and Warsaw districts. And even hardliner Stefan Olszowski has been re-elected, while lending support to the new ultraStalinist weekly Rzeczy. wistose.
But the conflict between the workers and the bureaucrats is postponed rather than cancelled: in the long run the Stalinists cannot coexist with a genuinely independent trade union movement. of the Israeli's defence forces and of the settlements including the Jordan Valley including the area to the North-West of the Dead Sea, the Etzion bloc, the surroundings of Jerusalem and the Southern Gaza strip, will be included in the sovereign territory of Israel."
The harsh reality of the above article is that it denies a further 40% of the West Bank and Gaza and it contains around 90% of the arable land and nearly all the water and other natural resources.
Bankruptcy
These policies show the bankruptey of the iLP manifesto and its total failure to represent any viable alternative to Begin.
Of course it was never intended to do so-such intentions only breathe life in the mythology of groups such as the Labour Friends of Isract backed by Wilson, Heffer and Benn.
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Last month, the workers and youth in South Africa commemorated the fifth anniversary of the Soweto rebellion.
Inevitably, there has had By Jim Farnh:
This involves the use of the police against strikers, the establishment of a list of scabs, and attempts to foster the growth of TUCSA unions at the expense of SAAWU (to which all the leadership which can take their struggle torward, must go the struggle to build supporting strike and blacking action to strengthen the Wilson-Rowntree strike.
SAAWU leaders, who