As Polish strikes spread Threat of invasion
By Robert Black
1970Robert BlackEastern EuropeCommunist Party and StalinismPolice and the courts Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: headlines and words can be misread, and a caption or advert can run into the text. For anything you quote, read the scan.
raunpatalIn /81.1m YS join Free Burgos 16' march in MALE three-deep cordon of Led by the committee of WITH SOVIET tanks and troops massing along the Polish frontier, all the country's main industrial centres are now under military and police occupation.
Frantic attempts to confine the movement to the Baltic have failed dismally.
Neither bribes of higher wages nor brutal military and police repressions could cow the spirit of Gdansk shipyard workers. who defiantly marched on the Stalinist headquarters singing the Internationale'.
Poland's workers are march. ing, striking; highting and dying for socialism, cleansed of Stalinist bureaucracy.
Their ight for socialism and against the bureaucratic traitors to the working class, is an inseparable part of the world struggle for socialism.
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journa Saturdale this sta ist Choosing to ignore exe accounts of women phere was Christmas atmosIn fact, the 'Star' adopts ¿ ess critical attitude than evel the Gdansk Party paper, small section of our youth has must perhaps our criteria of the approach to IN A radio on Saturday German government spokesman Conrad Ablers said 'certain news that the leadership of the E German Communist Party logically concerned, or still is, that the Polish thing (I) could spread to E German territory.
This is confirmation that, as great revolutionary movements, the youth blazing the trail for the rest of the working class struggle to overthrow the bureaucracy.
Despite the clamp-down news, and the total sealing off of the Baltic towns by a ring armour troops. strike wave has broken through to the rest of indus'stay-down miners are trial Poland.
Silesian staging while Warsaw, the para-military "Ormo', anti-labour and police into command, anti - student militia sent factories where workers have begun 'go-slows'.
Work stopped
Work has stopped altogether and the Rosa Luxemburg Pant at the Polski motor works in the capital.
So the movément of wor ing-class revolt against 1