Polish students confront new leaders

Workers Press no. 353, 15 January 1971 · scan page 3

Topics: Students and youth, Eastern Europe

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POLISH students are speaking out against the country's new Stalinist rulers...In Szczecin, the Baltic port which saw the most bitter clashes between workers and police, they confronted Henryk Huber, the local Party secretary sacked by the new regime earlier this Glerek: Also responsible.

After the routine-and utterly hypocritical—admission that the December strikes were la protest of the working class against the improper solution of economic problems' (measures endorsed by the new regime!), Huber faced a barrage of questions from this audience.

Charges

In what must have been a reference to student charges that the Gierek-Moczar leadership was also responsible for the policies of the Gomulka régime, a Polish radio broadcast said:

"The students also stressed that those guilty of creating a situation in which the working class had to protest were not only persons who had left the Party leadership. The guilty should be sought at all levels of the Party apparatus, the administration nomic management." and ecoThe students did not spare those Stalinist bureaucrats responsible for the slanders against the strikers churned out by the 'mass media':

Terse words 'Many terse [sic|] words were addressed to the press,. radio and television. It was said that silence or omission was creating an intormation gap which was then filled by alien propaganda...' Students are able to speak out in this bold way, because they feel the power of the working-class movement that unleashed itself against the bureaucracy last December.