Walesa Under -dual Pressure

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'anți-inflationary economic package', • new anti-labour 'Black Bills' have been introduced such as the LECH Walesa returned home on Sunday 14th, 36 hours after his release from internment. He said he wanted a couple of days to think about things:

It does seem that he has retreated from his previous principled position that he wouldn't talk to the government without his full com. mittee. He has now declared Archbishop Glemp: pressure from the Church? that he wants discussions. with Jaruzelski, and he has already had discussions with the Deputy Premied.

It is likely that he is confused after eight months of internment. But most likely he has had pressure put on him by the Church.

The Catholic Church has made an agreement with Jaruzelski that they will not demand the restoration of Solidarity as long as the Pope is allowed to make his trip to Poland next year. Its only concern is that it, the Church, establishes its own place in Polish society.

The Polish. bureaucracy has planned a special session of the Sejm (parliament) on December 13, and it looks as though martial law will be lifted on that day, the anniversary of its introduction. Most of the martial law is now part of the 'normal' This move, and the release of Walesa, are designed to give the appearance of stability and to conjuse the opposition. The bureaucracy feel confidence because of. the reported lack of response to the underground Solidar.ity's call for strikes on November 10.

It is clear that planned strikes are extremely difficult because the bureaucracy is a the o prepare fla chem.

GACK response to these calls are right; it does not represent the real feelings of the masses. The regime is very unstable, and the wave of spontaneous strikes straight after the banning of Solidarity shows that the working class is still combative.

The likelihood is that the release of Walesa will backfire on the bureaucracy, and actually strengthen working class. ec