“A revolution can be led to defeat in two ways – by being crushed or by being betrayed. The tragedy of the Polish Revolution of 1980-81 is that it lost twice over. It was first of all crushed, then betrayed. It was betrayed by those who among today’s political elites, claim as theirs August 1980 and their ’genealogy of solidarity’. By restoring capitalism they have betrayed the social interests of which this revolution was the expression and they have turned their backs on all these aspirations.” That is what I wrote in Robotnik Âlàski on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of August 1980 [1].

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“No one asks whether there is a continuity between the Solidarnosç that appeared following August 1980 and the Solidarnosç of today. However there is nothing obvious about that. There is a form of continuity, but also a glaring discontinuity. The essential question is, what is dominant? And the answer is discontinuity. That is why the Solidarnosç of today on the one hand lays claim to its genealogy and on the other is totally incapable of presenting the real history of the Solidarnosç of 1980-81, and falsifies this history.

That is why the commemorative ceremonies of the 25th anniversary of August, which the media are pushing so hard, are taking place with so few participants, why the overwhelming majority of the militants of Solidarnosç of that period are not taking part in them and why the overwhelming majority of the working class is indifferent to them. That is why those trade unionists and the solidarity committees with Solidarnosç in Western Europe, who during the state of siege [3] came to help it, risking their own security, driven by class and internationalist, and not anti-communist, motives, are not taking part.”

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And so the torture continues.

The inmates cannot see beyond the jail except for the piped images of the world of plenty that the jailer provide.

Recently they have received vistors from this world. A mixture of curiousity and perverse desires to enjoy themselves in the prison drive them.

The crazy ones moan that they have created the bars of the blockade for themselves, they turn on those who still insist that they must find away to remove the bars.

None of them suspect the truth that is even worse. Beyond the bars is the dungeon.

The mathematics: The United States uses five times its fair share of the planets resources. Europe uses three times its fair share of the planets resources. How many planets would it take for everyone to live at the same standard of living as those in the United States? And how many planets for a global equivalent standard of living for Europe?

“Five planets” says a child who can still count and “Three planets”.

But there is only one.

That is the dungeon. Beyond the bars. Beyond the blockade.

Yes my friend. Change must come.