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'Morning Star' backs counter-revolution Polish workers expose world Stalinism

By John Spencer

Workers Press no. 335, 23 December 1970 · scan page 2

Topics: Eastern Europe, Communist Party and Stalinism

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THE HEROIC battles of Polish workers against Oxford car the guns and tanks of their bureaucratic oppresmen back sors have ripped the mask of hypocrisy from the Polish counter-revolutionary face of world Stalinism. CARWORKERS in the ter seen than in the Transport and General Workers' Union 5/55 reaction of the British (Oxford) branch passed a Communist Party and resolution on Monday conits newspaper the blood. demning the repressive measures used against the 'Morning Star'. Polish working class by the Stalinist government in the recent strikes and demonPoland's 'This was the case in" Hunstrations. to the disaster: Edward Gierek, "The branch fully supports the demands of the Polish working class for a higher standard of living and a socialist society free from bureaucratic dictatorship?

A copy of the resolution has been sent to the Polish embassy and the union's executive.

GAS price rises of 94 per cent were announced yesterday by the Northern Gas Board. The increases begin in January and the Board will also stop giving a discount for prompt payments.

ITV advertisements produced total net revenue £10,200,268 last month, against £10,094,085 in November last year, the Independent Television Companies Association said yesterday.

FRENCH government has dispatched 14 H-33 Sikorsky helicopters, armed with 20-mm rapid-firing cannon, to the Sahara republic of Chad to be used against liberation forces. ANNOAL CENERAL MEETING celenine East India Hall Nowhere is this bet- Stalinism.

in every case, backed their counterparts in power in E counter-revolutionary policies Europe when they drowned of Stalinism, based on peace.,. that workers' democracy in ful co-existence with imperial‹ ism in the interests of a privileged minority of paraDenounced sitic functionaries and upstart Taking takenise chief of Aureaucrats. Poland, pole Star oblems, is gary in. 1956, when the 'Daily Worker' denounced the Buda 'the operation and extension pest workers' councils as of socialist democracy'. Just as it did over E Ger- fascist agencies. maso Czechuslovakia two years This is the first big lie of It was the ' case under yesterday's 'Star' editorial. Gomulka, when the British ago, the British Communist Communist Party spoke not a There has never been any single word against the roots bloody "integration' of the workers' 'socialist democracy' in E clashes in Poland: the Europe, except in the course councils established after the national - reformist and of revolutionary working- 1956 Poznan uprising.

columns of the 'Star' in vain for any xplanatio of fomulka's sudden remova dent leaders.

denioesa yo for has wonde against And the British Stalinists, Readers will search the and the jailing of stu at the ethe Sof bit not consulted Rudi Dutschke arriving yesterday for the final day of the Tribunal hearing his appeal to stay in Britain. He will have to wait until after Christmas to hear the verdict.

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