THE CREATION of a new political party, the Confederation Independent announced on 1 September dissident rally attended people in Warsaw.
This is a major development: for the first time an opposition group has up the Previous efforts were defined in terms of 'democratisation', ended up in pushing for initiatives from the bureaucracy.
The KPN, on the other hand, is saying in effect: no democratisation without overthrowing MOCZULSKI spoke to a correspondent for the French Trotskyist paper Rouge on the telephone.
Why have you announced a new party?
The existence of political which act openly is the only means of reconstituting and institutionalising political life in Poland. An atomised society is organised power. The always mislead, silence and destroy it. The role of a political party is to prevent that.
But the Social Self-defence. mittee (KSS/KOR) and the Movement to Defend Human and Citizen's Socialist Challenge 27 September 1979 Fage 12 by Rights (ROPCIO), formally about your initiative? power.
which often Line THre that their the bureauLESZEK parties in line with its programme.
against well ideological Malici Com- aim the although "political parties, were in effect playing that role. What is new The KSS/KOR and ROPCIO act of course as political forces. However, at they their 'non-political' character, and the fact aims are primarily the repression, for human rights, for the practical application of legislative texts recognised by the authorities Both have declared that their aim is not to take power. But a political party is something very different. It must on the contrary seek to achieve power in order to transform reality DUL What are the aims of the KPN?
which They are put forward in a 10point declaration. The most important says: "The opportunity to create à new, third Polish republic, independent and democratic, must the not be wasted. The only road to this ending of Soviet domination through the liquidation lof the power of the Polish Unified Workers Party [Polish Communist Party.' other words, want construct a political system excludes the exercise ot power by a single party, whatever its character. The same goes for the hegemony of an exterior factor.
The question of the ownership of the means of production has always been considered an essential element determining the character of a party. What is your programme in regard?
Our party is heterogeneous, hence the name 'confederation'. The first point in our statutes declares: "The KPN is a arty incorporating groups which are politically and WUCU102Ca11 autonomous, including also the of development will take the decision to transform themselves into independent political parties.
Certain groups which are part of KPN, above all Movement of Polish Socialists which is based mainly among the workers in Nowa Huta [an immense steelworks in the Cracow suburbs], | Katowice, Lublin, and more recently to build a real socialist which would thoroughgoing socialisation means of production, system of workers' self-management, or rather the associated producers over the means of production.
Other groups, however, who see contro leading straight to this envisage a large 1 myself start from the facts: today the Polish economy agriculture one wanted to return it to private hands, whom it could be returned. those no social forces, no capital to create a their significant capitalist sector alongside the huge state-owned sector, denationalise.
How has received?
The authorities wanted to prevent us from proclaiming our party. More time, For lne activities. provocateurs been economy as totalitarianism, area of private the government.
apart from because it comes — is state owned. Even if there are no proprietors to for actions • There are ridiculous.
which wouldn't want to your initiative been for gossip!
people were including those who were going to announce our existence. But we had replacement teams, and we were able to go ahead in five centres in Poland noi afraid of this repression: far from weakening us, it strengthens the determination of our At the same however, they are trying to mount a slander campaign against our Rumours that are trying to establish pretext for Soviet intervention have started by Pax Catholic organisation founded Pascist leader in 1947 which supposes a former A second example, more serious from opposition circles whom we respect, is to treat us as parasites who want to take credit led by others. That's We willingly acknowledge the contribution of other movements, and all we want is to be able to carry out our own actions.
The opposition too often wastes its energy in useless quarrels. We're polemics on policy, programme — and we hope that other programmes will be set against ours - but not on the basis of corridor