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Solidarnosc Counterrevolution Checked WfJRltERS ,,1N(JIJI1R' 25¢ No. 295 .:~) X-523 18 December 1981 Solidarnosc Counterrevolution Checked DFCEMBER is-With the imposition "I '-i "state of \"<u" in Poland a cuu;;terrevolutiofiitry grab for pDV.er ha~ heen (hee-ked, JUSl hours befon:: ~ht· pro::!amation ,it' military ;lik, ~iie cL~~·lcJ.l-n(dlor,~11ist l('adc(~hip of Soh, darnos(' ~1nrH.1L1nCt;~(~ it \\'~~j org,Pli7in~; d. nhtic:nal rcfen:fidum on forn1irg rtf; ant1-COiTlmun;st government and breaking the military" aJlianc~ \vith dle SC:v'itt Lnioll ?.ga;mt \Vestern imperial­ ism. The Warsaw regime was re<!dy te take up the chal1enge.fhe actual steps taken go far beyond those usually de"l'i'lbed as martial law, and they seem to have made considerable preparations for the crackdown. So while Reagan and Haig were chasing their Qaddafi wiilo·-thc-wisp. the Polish government, at \\hat aprears to have been the last ros ... ibk' C'-: ~:'en! to !1:ake a m'yve ba~,ed (~n {"'~:'\..~~i. ;...... :.r!~ .. ;;.'~ , ~~ '''In. ... COU,p. The Polish Stalinists managed to pull off an effective coup d'etat in their own country. Contrary to every instinct and appetite cf the ruling bureaucracy, constantly seeking accommodation with imperialism. they were forced to take measures defending historic gains of the proletariat. For it must be recognized that Lech Walesa's Solidar­ nose was moving to overthrow not merely the corrupt and discredited Stalinist regime, but social gains inherit­ SipaiBlack Star ed from the Bolshevik Revolution­ Polish police surround Solidarnosc headquarters In Wroclaw. centrally a collectivized planned economy-which were bureaucratically something like the tenuous social the program of "Western-style ment bodies. Under existing conditions extended to Poland after the Red Army equilibrium which existed in Poland democracy"-that is, capitalist restora­ in Poland, this would have meant liberated the country fromNazi occupa­ before the Gdansk strikes last August­ tion under the guise of parliamentary placing governmental power at the base tion. That is why this Polish "free trade a tacit understanding that if the people government. To underscore their ties to of society in the hands of anti­ union" is supported by the forces of left the government alone, the govern­ the West, Solidarnosc even demanded Communist nationalists such as the neo­ imperialist reaction-from Wall Street ment would leave the people alone­ that Poland join the world bankers' Pilsudskiite and anti-Semitic Confeder­ to the Common Market and the conditions will be opened again for the cartel, the International Monetary ation for an Independent Poland. Vatican-and why Ronald Reagan crystallization of a Leninist-Trotskyist Fund (lMF), and invited to its congress The event which led directly to the declared that the Polish crisis represent­ party. Especially in a country as Lane Kirkland, the hardline Cold crackdown was Solidarity's attempt to ed "the beginning of the· end of historically evolved as Poland, the Warrior head of the American AFL­ organize the firefighter cadets in War­ Communism." proletariat has the capacity to recognize CIO, and notorious CIA operative saw, a group whose legal status (as With such inflammatory statements, its own historic interests, given time and Irving Brown, chief of the AFL-CIO's throughout Europe) is similar to that of the U.S. imperialist chief sought to a relatively open political situation. European operations. the police. This was one remove away provoke a bloodbath in Poland, in order There must be elements-outside Soli­ Certainly the mass of deluded from organizing in the armed forces and to fuel his anti-Soviet war drive to a darnose, within Solidarnosc, in the workers in Solidarnose did not and do militia. The night after police dispersed white heat. It is in the interests of the Communist party-with genuinely so­ not consciously seek the chronic unem­ the cadets' sit-in on December 2, the working class, in Poland and interna­ cialist impulses which have been smoth­ ployment, wage gouging and deteriora­ Solidarnosc leadership met in Radom in tionally, that the present suppression of ered by the particul~r confrontation tion of safety conditions that capitalism a closed meeting where they made plam Solidarity·s counterrevolution remain that has dominated Poland over the last would bring. If the IMF ever got its for a counterrevolutionary seizure of "cold"-that is, without bloodshed. The year. They must be won to the program hands firmly around the neck of the power. The head of the powerful Polish workers must be warned that of defending proletarian state power Polish economy, the workers would Warsaw region, Zbigniew Bujak, de­ strikes, protests and other acts of against the kind of clerical-nationalist soon hanker after the "good old days" clared that "the government should be defiance against the martial law would mobilization that brought Poland to the under Gomulka and Gierek. It would finally overthrown" and proposed the unly play into the hands of reactionary brink of counterrevolution, while fight­ presage the reunification ofGermany on organization ofa Solidarnose militia for adventurers. Massive violence would ing for a proletarian political revolution a capitalist basis, and set the stage fairly that purpose. Someone turned the tapes lead either to the reimposition of a against the Stalinist bureaucracy. directly for a nuclear Third World War, of this meeting over to the government, Stalinist totalitarian police state, crush­ one way or another. In keeping with the which repeatedly played them on state Solidarnosc Bids for Power ing the workers movement for years, or Catholic spirit of Solidarnosc, one can radio (see "Solidarnosc Counterrevolu­ the victory of capitalist counterrevolu­ At its first national congress, held in say: "Forgive them father, for they tionary Plot Exposed" on page 10). tion, a world-historic defeat for the Gdansk in September, Solidarnosc know not what they do." Many Poles were no doubt shocked, socialist cause. Trotskyists seek above consolidated around a program of open In their own way the Stalinists especially at the duplicity ofthe "moder­ all to maintain a relatively open situa­ counterrevolution. Its appeal for "free recognized that Solidarnosc was bent on ate" Walesa who told his colleagues to tion, so that a process of recrystalliza­ trade unions" in the Soviet bloc, long a a final confrontation, but nonethless keep saying, "we love you socialism," tion can begin to take place to forge a central slogan for Cold War anti­ they temporized. Negotiations between while plotting the government's proletarian and internationalist Communism, was a deliberate provoca­ Jaruzelski and Walesa finally broke overthrow. vanguard. tion to Moscow. Behind its call for "free down centrally over Solidarnosc' de­ With their secret plans exposed, the If the present crackdown restores elections" to the Sejm (parliament) was mand for free elections to local govern- continued on page 10 mounted "Operation Brightstar," ajoint military exercise with the Egyptian army along the Libyan border. In another twist of this complex script, "The Libyans are Coming, Qaddafi, as everyone now knows, has armed himself with the help of "retired" CIA operatives Wilson and Terpil, who have remarkably escaped prosecution by the massive apparatus of the U. S. government (see "The CIA's Libya The Libyans are Coming!" Connection," Workers Vanguard No. 294, 4 December). Ironically, there is considerable evidence that the U. S. Having failed to uncover a made-in­ alarmed at the reports of the assassina­ originally sponsored their current Liby­ Moscow "international terrorist con­ tion squads...." And ABC's Ted Kop­ an bogeyman as an anti-Communist spiracy" in the United States, the pelon "Nightline" remarked how remi­ prop in the Arab world. Reagan regime came up with the Libyan niscent it all was of the 1964 Gulf of The anti-Libya campaign is linked to Plot. A five-man hit squad (or ten-man, Tonkin incident, later proved to be a administration plans tojustify increased if you read the Washington Post) has U.S. government fabrication designed domestic police power for the CIA, a supposedly been sent by Colonel Qad­ to whip up pro-war sentiment. move which even has former Agency dafi of Libya to assassinate the Ameri­ The absurdity of it all is not that director Stansfield Turner worried ("the can president in revenge for stufflike the Qaddafi is incapable of dreaming up ethic of intelligence is to get the job done U.S. shooting down two Libyan aircraft such a plot-he is a messianic Muslim in spite of local laws"). And it's all part over the Gulf of Sidra in August and fundamentalist dictator who has sup­ of the anti-Soviet war drive begun by earlier shutting up Billy Carter. The ported terrorists from the PLO to Idi Carter and rolling ahead full steam Libyan plans involve (take your pick) Amin-but that the imperialist U.S. under Reagan. Qaddafi is no flower "shooting down Air Force One, the government has become fixated on the child, but he's certainly small fry Presidential jet, with a surface-to-air threat of Libya, a country of barely two compared to U. S. imperialism, the most missile, blowing up the President's million. With Washington threatening a monstrously armed terrorist power limousine with a rocket or attacking the naval blockade in the Caribbean and ever, whose nuclear war aims are a clear President at close range with small after its provocation against Libya in and present danger to all the peoples of arms" (New York Times, 4 December). the Mediterranean last August, Rea­ the world. Only revolutionary action by Behind it all, it's now revealed, lurks gan's charges of "unlawfulness" against the international working class can elusive superterrorist "Carlos the Jack­ Qaddafi are like Hitler condemning Al prevent the American imperialists from Capone for brutality.
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