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SOCIALIST ORGANISER believes that the left in the labour movement needs to be organised. We believe money. That's why we launched a that the support for Benn among £2,000 per month fund when Labour Party activists revealed at this Socialist Organiser became a 16 page year's conference needs organising in weekly. We need every penny of that £2,000 to ensure that we bring you each week a paper adequate to the deputy leader and for the NEC show that the struggle for democracy and accountability must be organised and response has been quite encouraging.

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But we must push this figure up be sent to Middle Lane, have the full backing of the PAX movement - a powerful political and economic concern in Poland - a hardline supporter of the Stalinist regime, whose roots go back to the fascist movement before the war.

A premature hardening of government attitudes on workers control would jeopardise any possibility of such a Front coming into existence.

It would also endanger any possibility of the WalesaCatholic Church wing of the union convincing the remaining sectors of Solidarnosc to enter into such a Front.

But the stormy beginnings to the second part of the Congress - would suggest that any such initiative has no chance of success at the moment.

The isolation of the PUWP and the government leading circles is such that even its cops and gendarmes are abandoning it to its own devices.

The baton-wielding thugs of yesterday, under the enormous pressure of the workers' movement who despite 10 years of murders, clubbings and imprisonments refused to be broken, are now rushing to join ranks of the workers.

Zbigniew Dudziak, delegate of the unofficial police union denounced by the government, was warmly received by •the Solidarnosc representatives. He claims that over 40,000 cops have appled to join the new the light of these developments, the government's boastful claim two weeks ago that it had enough police and security forces at its disposal to retake control of the streets sounds a bit hollow.

In the last instance the armed bodies of men would have to come from other Warsaw Pact countries.

As a clear overture to the Kremlin, the KOR (Social Defence Committee), founded in 1976 to protect sacked and victimised workers after the Ursus riots of that year, announced that it was winding up.

Apparently Solidarnose is now sufficiently well organised for KOR's role to be no longer anything but superIluous.

Possibly more than any its leading intellectual, have been the most viitied and denounced by the internatienal Moscow-aligned Stalinist press.

But worries nurtured by Moscow that KOR was an embryo political party competitor to the PUWP linked to a substantial part of the Solidarnosc-organised working class - must now have been laid to rest after KOR has publicly repudiated any such role or ambition.

And yet in the final instance the failure or success of the Polish workers' struggle will be determined by the recreation of genuine workers' parties willing to take the lead in accomplishing revolutionary change. KOR's decision is a step backwards.

In next week's Socialist Organiser: review of Andrzej Wajda's new film 'Man of Iron'

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other organisation in Poland, the KOR and Jacek Kuron,