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[Wing A body called the Katowice Forum has…]

Socialist Press no. 250, 11 June 1981 · scan p. 12 · about 174 words

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Wing A body called the Katowice Forum has issued a statement which has provoked a wave of support from the Soviet attacks from within The Forum has attacked the present leadership within Poland for losing control within the country. It has attacked the leadership of Solidarity and it talks about the emergence of "anti-socialist forces in Poland" saying that the party must not serve the working class but "direct it".

The Forum is under the chairmanship of the new "worker' member of the Political Bureau, Gerard Gabrys.

Ninety out of ninetyseven of the Katowice delegates to the forthcoming Communist Party Congress have disassociated themselves from the Forum's statements.

Condemned

And since even the Polit= ical Bureau of the CP has condemned the documents, the Forum has decided to stop meeting.

But none of this has stopped the press of the other Fast European states latching onto it in order to attack the developments in The Kremlin news agency Cont'd p.2, col. 1 Brechner

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and East European bureaucracies and strong

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