It is still very uncertain whether the Government will be able to carry through this repressive maneouvre. In spite of a massive press drive to brand these workers as hooligans, the Gierek regime must be well aware that the majority of people in Poland regard the striking workers, and not the Government, as defending their interests. The trials have simply brought to light in the sharpest way the anti-democratic regime that exists not only in Poland but And this is only one side of Gierek's problems. A number of Polish intellectuals came forward immediately after the upsurge in solidarity with the working class, calling for an end to bureaucratic repression (see Red Weekly, 8 July): And last week saw.the publication of an open letter to Italian CP leader Berlinguer from Jacek Kuron, a Polish socialist who has participated in struggles for socialist democracy for many years and is well known on the left in the West for the Marxist analysis of the bureaucracy which he wrote with another dissident in the mid-1960s.
Risk At considerable personal risk, Kuron brings out the full picture of the repressive drive against the Polish working class. He writes to Berlinguer: 1 turn to vou to ask your help for the Polish workers covered with abuse by the press, radio and television, beaten by the police, thrown in prison, accused of sabotage before the courts, and condemned to long jail sentences."
Kuron continues: In the press, radio and television, ine demonstrations wnien brought the state authorities round to modifying their erroneous policies are defined as the actions of "hooligans", as actions of criminal vandalism. In the cities and the provinces a massive repression has been their homes. But for the multinational such a sum is as trifling as a purple cabbage.
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