REVOLUTIONARIES IN WEST BERLIN demonstrate in support of Polish students. These young people are representative of the new radical forces that in the past year waged dramatic and effective struggles against authoritarianism in West Germany. One of those holding the portrait of Leon Trotsky is Peter Brandt (right), "wayward" son of Willy Brandt, leader of the class-collaborationist Social Democratic party (SPD) and foreign minister in the Bonn government. Like others of his generation, young Brandt has broken from his elder's procapitalist stand. tightened up at Moscow University. There had been rumors that a group of Soviet dissenters were planning a march in Moscow, concerning their own grievances. But memories of protest demonstrations at the university during the Soviet intervention in Hungary in 1956 must have made the authorities extra sensitive.
Even in quiet Bulgaria the Zhivkov regime called a special meeting of state security and party officials. First Party Secretary Zhivkov told them of "certain matters" of the foreign and internal situation and reminded them of the responsibilities entrusted to them by the party.
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"IT believe Trotsky has very great meaning for the revolutionary youth movement today, because of his idea of permanent revolution," the young man was quoted in the newsweekly Spiegel. The magazine did not say how Willy Brandt felt about his son's views, but a guess may be made from the recent expulsion from the SPD of two leftwing "deputies to the West Berlin parliament -- for participating in a demonstration against the Vietnam war.
Part’ of a banner in the background reads "Against Stalinism in Poland."
Sta INismus in Pole
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‘alinigmusin Pole