Kremlin Steps up Pressure on Poland

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Soviet leader •Gromyko IS" to. visit Poland before the July Party C ss. This is yet ther move to pressurise Polish Communist Party members into supporting the existing Stalinist bureaucracy.

The visit follows a series of Soviet newspaper articles referring to a supposed West -German plan to snatch a part of Poland.

Similar articles have appeared in Hungary as well SOUTHERN AFRICA the Hungarian CP about the "counter-revolutionary" developments.

And the Czech CP leadership has sent a letter to the Polish party similar to that sent two weeks ago by the Soviet leadership.

They are clearly hoping to influens: the elections that are taking place to the Congress where the pro-Moscow elements around Grabski are battling it out with the reformist elements.

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In Poznan, a demonstration of 150,000 took place on Sunday to mark the 25th anniversary of the suppres sion of food riots in which 74 people were killed and soldiers who refused to fire on them executed.

Today's mass movement, which is profoundly affect: developments in the previously reliable Communist Party is what disturbs the Soviet bureaucracy.

At the demonstration Tech Walesa said that the "mistake" of the workers in 1956 was to go out on the streets. He spoke of "tactical As the bombing of the Lonic Bp time Party in tra briage a redered threat of a wholesale pogram of dell wing and secular forced, six Iranian opponents of blamic reaction face charges in Britain which could uncan their deportation. ' The Muslim Students Society of Manchester had been holding a peaceful picket of the Iranian mistakes" and reiterated his strong support for Party leader Kania and the necessity for "strong government"

•Walesa is wrong. It is not "tactical mistakes ' which prompt Soviet retaliation but the very existence of a mass movement of workers independent of the The challenge to the state's right to shoot down food rioters is a challenge that threatens all the Eastern European bureaucracies.

It poses the necessity for the working class to organise its own defence militias and to extend the appeal for class solidarity to workers in the other deformed workers' states.

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Iranian students in grave danger