“Mrs Taive cpposithon to the legtiumacy of the fytiem…”
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Socialist Republic1983Church, state and civil libertiesInternationalism and other strugglesInternment, repression and the courtsChurch, state and civil libertiesInternationalism and other strugglesInternment, repression and the courts
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Mrs Taive cpposithon to the legtiumacy of the fytiem In Poland you have the question = What dows « rotuim bo Gerry men.
in @ totalitarian regime? The Soviet Unborn uy the peat year hae mot fed crtial law. Wit repression anny best total in the Sowiet Union than: it was in Poland? 01 coune net. Sa the lifting of martial lav tn-Polared hes a cloarly formal character, and thera (2 much inst possibility of deceiving people, a6 happened in the North of Ireland when internment Was dropped, In international Viewpoint Ne 1 iDeoember 982) va qublished the transeript of an internal report given to Igacters of the Polish United Workers’ Party (PUP - the Polish Carmmunist Party) in Wroclaw, Tadeuse Porgbski, a member of the PLP’:
polltical bureau, explained that : “in raising or susBending the stata of war we will give special powers to the government I’m thinking for exampl: of the militarigation of the enterprises a a way of strangthening the discipling of the workers, proclaiming 4 fate of emergency in certain areas throughout the COuUFErY, 1. but formally, the state of war will be lifted,”
It's ala-claar from this transcript that the PLP intended to lift martial law on the first anniversary of Itt intraduetion - last Gec-. ember (3th (9&2, Ther thm deal, to re-establish social peace. That maans sacrifice ing the mass mrverent to oie extent The Church « Prepared to de that, Father ane we Queckchy Toreal, | mepect, becouse the Pope noes that thi: Chunch attitude well kown in Poland, |t is widely discuss ed, particularly anvong the Solidarity-laaders. To state $0 beldiy that Lech Walesa would have to be sacrificed, even before Walesa himcelt could decide if that was his eva wilsh, or before he could justify such a move to hig rank and file, weouiel hau Crested an instant scandal. The Church's rafationship with both the uindergreund movament arc the maises would have hann undermanned.
The Catholle Church institution in Poland and Ireland have differing sacial Structures. lin lrehand tt is part and parcel of tha nuling class. [8 pertonnel comes from the privileged classes, In Poland the Chunch has | nesocal neote, te traditiqe nal social-base in the aristotracy and bounecisle was destroyed when the count: rf became a deformed Workers state after World War If. Se the Church's: Institutional raots are vary shallow, Peaple tend to! took to the Church as an alternative to the totalitarian regime. |, at lmast, is a litte bit human, It hes some felationship with the magses of people that depends an mutual ms pact and next foros, terror dnd Vis.
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC Paper of PEOPLES’ DEMOCRACS