ABOUT. IMPRISONED POLISH TROTSKYIST
(In our last issue we reported the trial of political oppositionists in Poland whom the government charged with being connected with the cases. of Karol Modzelewski and Jacek Kuron which attracted international. attention last May. Among the defendants in the most recent. trial was an avowed Trotskyist, Ludwig Haas. The February issue of l'Internationale, monthly journal of the Parti Communiste Internationaliste, French section of the Fourth International, carries the following additional information, which we have translated. )
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Ludwig Haas belonged to the Polish Trotskyist organization before the second world war.: When the Soviet troops entered Poland in 1949, he was arrested by the Soviet authorities and Seported to a camp.
He was kept there for seventeen years. According to the testimony of other deportees, he conducted himself very courageously.
Upon returning to Poland, he stated openly that he was a Trotskyist. He belonged to a circle of intellectuals: ‘where he, was: noted for his exceptional intellectual level.
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_ He worked in the history section for the central committee of the Polish trade urions. He published material on the participation of Polish revolutionists in the Paris Commune.
Thus there can be no doubt that the trial that was just held, like the one in which Modzelewski and Kuron were condemned last summer,-were trials -aimed against revolutionists, against Communists struggling against a bureaucratic regime, a regime which in Poland. is vainly seeking: ‘to win the - good graces of the Catholic church, including ' ‘the Vatican.
The fate of Communists victimized in this way by Gomulka is of concern to all revolutionists throughout the world. A man:like ludwig, who spent seventeen years of his life in one of Stalin's camps, cannot be allowed to be locked up again for long years simply because he is a Communist .
oO oRERK MORKERS AND