Polish socialist speaks about new party -NR 1+ ZRYW
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SOCIALIST ACTION JANUARY 1987 11 bureaucratic-totalitarianism and the pseudoparliamentarian, anti-democratic regime of imperialism. We reject systems that are based on exploiting the workers and regimes that rule over society on the basis of usurped power.
We stand firmly for a democracy based on self-management, for a people's power, for the right of society to make decisions for itself-both in the framework of democratic institutions of self-management as well as in a system of political democracy.
We reject the illusory belief in the possibility of evolutionary change or reform of the Stalinist system or the capitalist sytem. The conflicts of interest between the working people and the bureaucratic or bourgeois power elites are too powerful to be capable of solution through evolution or reform. The only road by which society can win its right to build socialism, the only road to overthrow the dictatorship of the degenerated party and state apparatus is revolution.
Revolutionary internationalism Our struggle cannot develop in separation from the struggle of the workers of the entire world against exploitation by private capital. Our ally can only be the world =x (0 api n:100 N0.: titoh, kierye rart LA agad igrani DEKLARACJA IDEOWO POLITYCZNA RPRS lobetataooj 1 arod garotaos eklereey rY NC LASOTE • ua!! Polenio] ii The following is an interview with Kryki, a member of the executive committee of the Workers Opposition Alliance Solidarnosc (POR-S) and one of the founders of the Workers Party of the Self-Managed Republic (RPRS), the Polish section of the Fourth International.
Kryki was one of the main leaders of the Union of Workers Councils of the Polish people's power that we confront.
Answer: That is true. Palace revolu -tions or political cosmetics will change nothing in our bureaucratized regime.
Question: How then do you explain the aversion many activists have to forming parties?
Answer: 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 conscious -ness that there is a single, supposedly infallible party.
It presents every attempt to form another party as a betrayal of the homeland, as a This often creates a strong block.
Question: What sort of new party do we need?
Answer: 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 society.
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