Executive Committee of the Fourth International)
The revolutionaries and workers of the entire world mist support the students of Warsaw, Cracow, Poznan, and Gdansk who have courageously demonstrated for basic democratic freedoms. They must support these students who are calling for real enjoyment by all citizens in a workers state, of freedom of opinion for socialist tendencies and of freedom of artistic and literary creation, for the right to exist in a workers state of all political forces opposed to a restoration of capitalism, for respect for rights formally written into the constitution but which has . never been honoured,
The conservative bureaucrats are slandering these students by accusing them of being tools of "Zionism". In this way, they are trying to mobilize against them the anti-Semitic prejudices which persist in a section of the Polish people, The Pourth International, which extends full support to the Arab revolution and denounces the pro-imperialiet, expansionist role of the state of Israel, brands with infemy thie shame-— ful maneuver. This tactic links up the methods of the bureaucratic government in Warsaw with those of all reactionary regimes which have ruled Poland in the past.
No less shameful is the Comilksa-Moczar team's. demagogic attempts by this means to appeal to the workers against the students. This team liquidated the gains the workers made in Octeber 1956. It drained the workers councils of all content. It has held down the workers buying power. It has encouraged a high cost of living, the black market, sperculation, and corruption.
To win socialist democracy in the Polish workers state and to strenethen the bases of the socialized economy, the Polish workers must -—join in the students battle and fight for a transfer of all power to democratically elected and centralized workers councils and for improving the workers standard of living throwgh the abolition of all bureaucratic _ privileges, the reduction of all income inequalities, and by a thoroughgoing reorganization of the nationalized economy, basing this on workers management, which would eliminate buresucratic waste and theft.
The. struggle of the Polish students ia an integral part of-the struggle of the ptadents of Europe, North America, and Japan ageinst authoritarian bourgeois power and the imperialist aggression in Vietnam, It is an integral part of the worldwide upsurge of revolutionary forces which seek to create a new socialist world by coordinating the struggles against imperialiem, capitalism, and the usurpation of power in the workers states by a privileged bureaucracy. It is highly symbolic that the Czech students organized a march against the imperialist aggression in Vietnam which et the same time was directed against the bureaucracy in their own county, ae the Yugoslav students had done before them.
(cont. on page 39)