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in GRANADA TV performed a real, if unintended, service to the socialist cause last week by clearing its peak viewing hours for Three Days in Szczecin, an authentic account of the Polish shipyard workers' struggle against the bureaucratic dictatorship in 1971.

Ine bulk of te programme consisted of a re-enactment of the historic confrontation between Gierek, the new boss of the Polish United Workers Party, and the shipyard workers during the night of 25 January 1971. A tape of that meeting made by the shipyard's broadcasting studio - which was being operated by the workers during the strike sequently smuggled out of Poland, and Granada's re-enactment kept strictly to the words translated from (another edited version of this tape was published in New Left Review 72):

Ine dramansation or inis meenng was interspersed with flashbacks to the incidents which had taken place during the ЛЕСС previous days workers' occupation-strike. These incidents had been mainly reconstructed from the memories of Edmund Baluka, the chairman of the Szczecin strike comwas subtheir demands. tape shipyard Member. MO