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In the 1960s two factions formed inside the Polish democratic and Stalinist. The democratic faction was thrown out. In 1970 when there were protests in Gdansk against food prices 1,800 workers were murdered as they returned to work though the authorities only admitted to 76.

Massacre

It was none other than Jaruzelski who instructed this massacre. It was Jaruzelski again who led the Polish army into Czechoslovakia in 1968. Today Jaruzelski is again leading ACCOMPANIED by constant barrage of jeers and heckling, Communist Party ''theoretician" Monty Johnstone attempted to address a public meeting on Poland organised by the Glasgow Committee of the Communist Party (CP) on Friday "Monty CIA Johnstone as numerous members of an audience dominated by the CP Stalinist hardliners referred to him, pointed to the "inadequacies"

of the Polish political system: over-concentration of power in the hands of a bureaucratic elite, lack of socialist democracy and political pluralism, the puppet-like nature of the official trade unions, etc.

Such comments produced repeated bouts of enraged barracking from the hard-line Stalinists.

And when Johnstone went the repression of Polish workers. All the large factories are militarised. Barbed wire fences divide the factories into sections, so that workers cannot mingle and the fences are patrolled by the military.

Soldiers armed with machine guns parade up and down the tracks. Jaruzelski now has 49 camps and is holding 100,000 workers. The price rises mean that a loaf of bread costs about one-tenth of a day's wages. That means the equivalent wages in Britain would be on to make some favourable comments about Solidarity, their anger reached the point of apoplexy.

But Johnstone persevered only to find his speech drowned out by the hard-liners after referring to martial law being imposed under Russian pressure.

The hard-liners demanded to know how much the CIA was paying him for his speech. Where did he get his information from, some of them asked. From Radio Free Europe. others obligingly replied.

Charitably

What followed could not be described even charitably as discussion from the floor. Solidarnosc, thet. hardliners claimed, was led by reactionary anti-socialist elements, financed by the rnosc £3.50 a day.

Despite all this, the Polish workers refuse to give in and Koslowski said the policy of non-cooperation 1s having a tremendous impact.

In the Ursus tractor plant and the FIAT car plant, production is estimated to be 2.3% to 2.5% of full production. In the tractor plant they only produce one tractor a week and in the car plant they produce virtually no cars because the workers carefully produce all the parts a little too large. CIA, riddled with antiSemitism, under the ideological tutelage of the Catholic Church (itself led by a CIA agent), and cracking down on Solidarnose was the best thing for Johnstone In one steel plant the workers had "missed" the mould when they poured the iron ore and it had flowed down the waste pipes and has now got to be dynamited out.

The protests, too, are not confined to workers. Kozlowski had information that 80% of soldiers had refused to take orders at one time.

Stan since October 1917.

But surely, the Burocommunists asked, not all the workers killed in Poland since 1945 could have been the agents of counter-revolution? The hard-liners thought otherwise. In fact, they thought there hadn't been enough executions: they were openly demanding the immediate shooting of all members of Gierek's and Kania's government now in prison.

The Eurocommunists were clearly somewhat aggrieved at workers being murdered on the streets by Jaruzelski's thugs.

doesn't quite fit in with their ideas about broad democratic alliances.

historic compromises, and progressive forces.

But it would be dangerous to have any illusions in the Euro-Stalinists. In no way was Johnstone calling With a history i of repression and struggle against the Stalinist bureaur cracy, one might wonder if the Polish people might not look to the relative freedom of Western capitalist states, but Kozlowski said:

"We do not want capitalism. We had that before 1939. What we want is democratic socialism."