first struggle East European 1956 a similar movement occurred.
Although Russian Hungary in October of that year, enter events of 24 years ago. On 23 June 1956 several thousand workers from a factory in Poznan met to protest their working conditions. They sent a delegation to Warsaw but nothing came of it.
Strikes broke out. The first anti-bureaucratic revolution in had begun.
On 25 June the militia opened fire on WORKES demonstration locomotive factory. in PozForty-four workers were killed. In the following days. and especially on 28 and 29 June, the whole of the POZ nan working class took to the surcels.
Despite sion, the agitation continued all summer. At the Seventh Plenum of the Communist Party of Poland, Gomulka, eliminated from the leadership 1948, rehabilitated. The workers' revolt in Poland today is not the workers undertaken against bureaucratic leaders: in troops marched into they did not Poland; the Polish leaders put on 'liberal' face to head off the movement. Below we reprint excerpts from an article from Rouge, the French Trotskyist weekly, on the Polish the was have in Warsaw on 24 October 1956