All of Us Are Hostages

The December putsch was certainly not aimed at implementing a Communist utopia. It was a classic antiworker counterrevolution, defending the conservative interests of the old regime. Contrary to the contentions of official propaganda, this was by no means a response to an attempt to seize political power. Solidarity had neither a shadow cabinet nor a program for a coup d’état.

The origins of the December chaos start with the fundamentally insoluble conflict between a social movement supported by millions and organized in Solidarity, and the totalitarian structures of a Communist state. The mere fact that an independent and self-administered institution supported by the people existed was in itself unacceptable.

Thus ...