MACIEJ GUZ is convenor of the militant breakaway Solidarnose '80 union at Warsaw's FSO car plant, which organises around 1,000 of the employees at the city's biggest workplace.
He is also a supporter of the Fourth International, intro detaince in the torture chamOCTa of the Jaruzelski regime. After his release, he edited the underground Solidarity newspaper Workers Unity.
Solidarnosc "80 was. formed who rejected the 1989 round-table agreement which brought Solidarity into a coalition government with the stalinists, Guz explains "Politically, thesplit occurred during marnat law, between the mainstream of Solidarity and the more radical Fighting Solidarity wing. But operationally, the split came after the When the bureaucracy chose the pro-capitalist way of development, they looked to the peaceful for the Solidarty took te form the situation and historic Social democracy in western countries, a current or cont promise.
Solidarnose '80 now has 250,00 members nattonally and is the largest union in one has support inside it.
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clericalnationalist", wants to expel him, him of beins a and a 'security agent. But the F50 factory committee voted 15-2 against the move. to draw both Solidarity and the former state union OZZ into a abolition of the old workers' committee at the state-owned 80 is or ganising an unofficial replace ment. known as the Workers Committee for People of • LabourIhe programme is based on the transitional programme and the first programme of Solidarity - and that's not a contradiction. For instance, struggle against the privatisa tion of state factories under the logan captation,no the best elements from OPZZ, which has been forced to act as a genuine union in order to justily its existence under the new political conditions in the country.
Guz warns that the end of stalinism capitalist restoration and a rightist dictatorship. The reper cussions of the Soviet coup will and direct presidential rule b Walesa or even renewed marin law are hath noisin It depends or the situation and the arguments used to in toduce dictatorship. Part of society still supports Walesa. Dictatorship may be intro duced under the slogan of decommunisation, says Guz.
Despite its small size, the tionary Left Current) circulate almost 3,000 copies of their monthly paper Dalej! (For and have recently printed and distributed 10,000 copies trotsky s book 'Revolution Betrayed' general election on Oc • the organisation critically supporting the OPZZ Warsaw WIZZ (Warsaw Agreement of Trade Unions).
Their election programme is based on our proposals. Initialby we were koms to tur nter-union campaign, but Solidarity refused to take par and we thought WPZZ would only use Solidarose "80's name for propaganda purposes.
Guz is critical of the Solidarnosc Pracy (Labour Solidarity) slate being organised around senator Karol Modzelewski, which has won support from Polish socialist in the West. Its while pontics, 8OC808 democratic, are explicitly pro-market.
While the class consciousness of Polish workers is very weak -a legacy of four decades ol Stalinism - Cuz argues that under the attacks they will face restoration, they will be forced to defend themselves. This opens up the possibility o building a revolutionary move ment. LEADERS of the powerful South African workers' movement are once again under attack Jay Naldoo, General Secretary of the COSATU union federation and Moses Mayekiso, leader of the miners' union, were recently arrested. undercover police agent. The police spy was found outside the COSATU SERBIA'S attempts to hold together what was Yugoslavia by force are looking increasingly untenable, as Bosnia declared de facto inde pendence. Belgrade. At the same time. Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic was signing the ninth peace deal in recent weeks in Moscow. But Gorbachers interverson was no more effective than the increasingly farcical offorts of the EC, broakThe potential for reforming the Yugoslav federation looks increasingly amal. Orly Serbia and Montenegro are now prepared to be part of L. The to Independence for Yugoslavia's nations i - not the EC or Moscow. of troops, bombarded Kurdish vilages in iraq with napalm.
Three civilans were killed and more than 30 wounded. The Kurdish Workers Party (PKK). of its fighters were hit. But it did cause an exodus of refugees from the UN security zone, and destroyed housing recently buit by UN workors. aign by Turkish Prime Minister Turgut Ozal. But it also seome to signal the the Ankara government. These attempts conficted with the PKK's guerilla campaign against the Turkish state. to profect ragi Kurds. But they look no action. I has been suggested that the aggressor's membership of NATO could be part of the explanation for this.
South Africa - workers' leaders threatened The union leaders have been convicted of kidnapping and assauling an headquarters in the aftermath of a spate of bombings aimed at the union's of.
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