Workers against Stalinism - Poland 1980-81
Events in East Germany in 1953, Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968 showed the anti-working class character of Stalinism. But, more importantly, it demonstrated workers' ability to oppose Stalinism. In Hungary in 1956, workers set up factory councils and district-based revolutionary councils to maintain the general strike. Another example of the working class fighting Stalinism was the events in Poland in 1980-81. Poland became a Stalinist state in 1945 like the rest of Eastern Europe after Russian armies drove out the Nazis. Polish workers stood against bureaucracy in 1956 and 1970, in...