A party is indispensable"
right of creative thinkers to propagate their independent opinions; the right of parties, organizations, groupings, function, mean the right to socialism.
industry, territorial, social and political self-management can guarantee socialism. Without self-management there is no socialism.
The experience of the working-class uprisings in 1956, 1970, 1976 and 1980-81 shows that the socialist
POLAND
"KRYKI" was one of the main leaders of the Union of Workers reforms that have been
Councils of the Polish Resistance Movement (ZRP-PRO) in Upper in the course of such upsurges cannot
Siliesia. Today he is a member of the Executive Committee of the work of the present ossified system.
Workers' Opposition Alliance - Solidarnose (POR-S) and one of the
The notion that the creators of this founders of the Workers' Party of the Self-Managed Republic (RPRS).
system, the party and state apparatchturn over power to the
The following interview was published in Wolny Robotnik, No.
society in accordance with the prin-
38, June 1986, the periodical of the POR-S of Upper Silesia.
ciples of socialism, carry through democratic changes or regain national independence, or that they could play any part in all this, is pure utopianism.
The regime has several times already to pay a price in the blood of the Polish workers even for small concessions.
power is possible only by the road of time will be a revolution for same national independence.
There is revolution without no organization.
opposition force to
As regime, Solidarosc has proved inadequate to carry through such a revolution. The spontaneous social have been channelled by upsurges the partisans of a self-limiting revolution or a revolution within framework of the system. We need a revolution carried through to the end, that will overthrow and destroy this ossified system, generate structural changes and prevent a counterrevolution. Therefore, what is needed is a vanguard revolutionary organization conscious of its objectives and tasks, one that has a clearly defined program and ideology and which is based on the aspirations and support of society.
We have to be democratic revolutionary socialists, organized internationally to fight for the genuine principles of socialism.
For the moment, we base ourselves on the ten general political principles set forth in the draft platform
Workers' Opposition of the
Alliance - Solidarnose (POR-S), until they are futher developed. On this basis, we have made the following decisions:
To begin conscious organized work to build the Workers' Party of the Self-Managed Republic (RPRS).
• To this end, to form a provisional coordinating body, the Provisional Organizing Committee.
It is clear from your and statements that you are convinced that in order to carry through to its conclusion the social struggle against the pseudopeople's power that we confront a political party is necessary.
That is true. I think that a party is an indispensable instrument to carry through the fight for power to a successful conclusion. That is precisely what any party is for. Palace revolutions or political cosmetics will change nothing in our bureaucratized
Only a workers' and revolution will make it possible to and guarantee that they will be lasting.
A party means above all disciplined cadres but also it means a program, a definition of who are its allies and
It is a concrete political
Q. How then do you explain the aversion many activists have to forming parties?
A. The penalties are more severe for belonging to a party, but that probably isn't the essential thing. The regime has impressed strongly on the social consciousness that there is a single, supposedly infallible party. It presents every attempt to form another party as a betrayal of the homeland, as a preparation for a coup d'etat, and so on. This often creates a strong block. But that is a negation of political culture, not just political culture but world political culture.
Q. What sort of new party do we need?
A. We need above all a workers' party, not just in name but by its nature and by the orientation of the changes this party seeks to direct. It must also be a socialist and democratic party, one that accepts political pluralism and which - and this is fundamental in my opinion - gives expression to the aspirations of the society, both in its activity and in the character of the process of changes that it directs.
Q. The party of the regime, the United Polish Workers Party (PZPR), claims to be just such a party.
1. As you say, the PZPR claims.
ind only claims to be that. l am thinking about a party that needs the workers and which they themselves will build around a program. Otherwise, it would be useless.
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Title page of the pamphlet with Trotsky's article from January 1935, "Where is the Stalinist Bureaucracy Leading the USSR?" published at the Olof Palme underground printshop by the Political Group of the POR-S in North Praga, Warsaw
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