FROM 1985, the publications of the Fourth International and its sections reported on the actions and statements of a Polish grouping of trade-union and political revolutionary action groups acting under the name of the "Workers' Opposition Alliance-Solidarnosc" (POR-S).
In October/November 1986, International Viewpoint and Inprecor, the English and French language publications of the International, followed by Polish Inprekor in February 1987, reported on the creation of an "organizing committee" of the "Workers Party for the Self-Managed Republic" (RPRS) applying for the title of section of the Fourth International. The statement of the foundation of the RPRS published in its organ Zryw, was reproduced in our press. [See IV 107, October 27, 1986.]
Since then, an investigation by our international organization, on the basis of information coming from Polish revolutionary activists who participated in the activities of the POR-S and the constitution of the RPRS, made it possible to establish the following facts: the group which presented itself as the major component of the POR-S and RPRS and playing, on this basis, a predominant role in these two organizations, turned out to have largely fabricated the reality of their group. The leaders of this group, emerging from the "Union of Workers' Councils-Polish Resistance Movement" (ZRP-PRO) which published the journal Wolny Robotnik in Upper Silesia, requested aid for trade union and political activity that was largely fictional. The group functioned with criteria which had nothing in common with those of a workers' political organization.
Our comrades in Poland, like ourselves, were victims of this dupery. As soon as they realized this, in early 1987, they withdrew from the POR-S and RPRS and broke off all their relations with the Upper Silesia group. The Fourth International also states that it no longer has any relations with the said group. It continues its efforts to help the emergence of a revolutionary Marxist organization in Poland, in the perspective of the anti-bureaucratic revolution.
We think it is our duty to warn the different tendencies of the Polish and international workers' movement, which could be the object of a new approach from the group in Upper Silesia. That is the purpose of this communiqué.