The SOYMB recently posted an article from the Independent newspaper about a planned strike of Polish migrant workers. The blog repeated
the statement made by George’ Byczynski who opposed the intended strike action.
We received in the comments section of the post further
information which is worth making as separate post in itself.
“An item in the 8th August issue of The Independent cites
Jerzy Byzczynski – or ‘George’ Byczynski, as he appears to call himself at the
moment – calling upon Polish workers in the UK to donate “Polish blood” instead
of participating in a planned migrant workers’ strike. Your journalist lauds
this as a “protest of a more positive kind”.
Byczynski is a spokesperson for Patriae Fidelis (“loyal to
the fatherland”), a UK based front organisation for the National Movement,
which is a coalition of Polish far right and neo-fascist groups such as the
All-Polish Youth and National-Radical Camp (ONR). Although Patriae Fidelis
often presents itself as an innocuous support group for Poles living in the UK,
a slogan on its website gives you an inkling as to which way the wind blows: “I
am Polish, therefore I have Polish duties” – a quotation from Roman Dmowski,
chief ideologue of the pre-war National-Democratic Party, which was violently
hostile to Jews and the workers’ movement.
It should come as no surprise, then, that Jerzy Byczynski
and his latest front group, the British Poles Initiative, are no fans of strike
action and would rather donate some “Polish blood”. Polish migrant workers
should ignore Byczynski’s scab call and instead participate in the migrant
strike, which will hopefully be joined by workers of other nationalities.”
Maciej Zurowski
Once more the blog is reminded that nothing is as it seems.
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