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1917: The View from the Streets #8 - 'The only guarantee of Polish independence is international solidarity'

Blanc, Eric (Selection, translation, and annotation)
http://links.org.au/1917-view-from-the-streets-only-guarantee-of-polish-independence-is-international-solidarity

Publisher:  Links
Date Written:  17/03/2017
Year Published:  2017   First Published:  1917
Resource Type:  Article

One hundred years ago, on March 17 (4) 1917, the following appeal calling on Polish workers to support the Russian Revolution and fight for Polish independence was adopted at a rally of Polish socialist workers in Petrograd.

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After the outbreak of World War One, the bulk of Poland (which had previously been ruled by the Tsarist government) came under German occupation. By 1917, roughly three million Poles -- many of whom had been evacuated from Poland on the eve of the German invasion -- found themselves under Tsarist rule. In response, Polish socialist parties began organizing the large groups of displaced Polish workers in industrial cities like Petrograd and Moscow.

Little is known about the initiators of the following appeal. Given its simultaneous stress on class struggle, internationalism, and Polish independence, the authors were likely members of the revolutionary Marxist Polish Socialist Party-Left and/or the far left wing of the Polish Socialist Party (Revolutionary Fraction).[1] Whereas most Polish nationalists and the moderate leaders of the Polish Socialist Party (Revolutionary Fraction) had throughout the war sought to promote Polish independence through a pact with German or Austrian imperialism, the following appeal makes the case for why national liberation could only be won through the struggle and solidarity of the international working class.
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