Letter from KOS to Charter 77 pretensions this process has reinforced the bloc-logic instead of overcoming it.
These reservations, together with other minor ones, make it impossible for us to sign your Appeal in its present form.
WE PUBLISH below the response of the Polish Committee of Social
Resistance (KOS) to the Prague Appeal. This organisation produces a weekly journal, Kos (blackbird), which has a circulation of approximately 20,000 copies. This makes it one of the major publications of the underground movement. Although not calling itself socialist, it is seen as representing a left current. One could say that it constitutes the right wing of the Polish left. KOS was the first Polish group to make contact with END.
Dear friends,
We read the text of your Appeal with great interest. Many of the opinions expressed on the actual international situation and the way that this could
We share your ideal of a Europe free from external and internal violence, a Europe of freedom and peace, as we stated in our Perugia Declaration. We explained our standpoint in
However, we think that such controversial matters can be overcome in a dialogue, in which this actual exchange of Views could be the starting point. Such a dialogue is vital to our organisations, both of whom share the same values and are engaged in fighting the same evil.
At the same time we want to assure you of our complete solidarity with you and to express our gratitude for the numerous times you have shown your support for our society's struggle against coercion and Violence, problems that brutally affect life in your society also.
We hope that the dialogue begun here will be a step on the way to be changed according to the aspirations of the peoples of Europe are similar to our own.
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The economic demands of the under ground leadership of Solidarnosc (TKK).
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Debate; Solidarnosc and the Ukrainian
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