Katowice Forum

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The Katowice Forum (Polish: Katowickie Forum (Partyjne)) was a group of hardline Polish United Workers Party members affiliated with the PUWP Voivoidship committee in Katowice, that during the 1980-1981 political crisis advocated pro-Soviet views.{{cite book|author=ARTHUR R. RACHWALD|title=IN SEARCH OF POLAND|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v8SOQX-TlOAC&pg=PA12|accessdate=8 October 2012|date=1 October 1990|publisher=Hoover Press|isbn=978-0-8179-8961-3|page=12}} On May 28, 1981 the forum published an attack on Kania's policies, warning of the “effects of Trotskyite-Zionism, nationalism, clericalism and anti-Sovietism”.From Solidarity to Martial Law: The Polish Crisis of 1980-1981 : A Documentary History by Andrzej Paczkowski, Malcolm Byrne. Central European University Press, Budapest 2007. p. xxxix TASS reported positively on the article. The de facto leader of the Forum was Wsiewołod Wołczew.{{cite web |url=http://www.smp.republika.pl/polemiki/Wolczew.htm |title=Wo?czew |website=www.smp.republika.pl |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201233255/http://www.smp.republika.pl/polemiki/Wolczew.htm |archive-date=2014-02-01}}