FRENCH YOUTH SOLIDARIZE WITH POLISH STUDENTS
(The following statement was issued by the JCR (Jeunesse Communiste Rév-~ olutionnaire -- Revolutionary Communist Youth) in support of the Polish students who are struggling for democratic and socialist freedoms in their country. The JCR was formed in 1966 by a group of French youth who were expelled from the “official” Communist youth movement, largely because of their criticism of its failure to defend the Vietnamese revolution. A delegation of 300 from the JCR participated in the February 18 rally against the Vietnam war in West Berlin (see World Outlook, March 8, P- 198). This statement was printed in the Paris daily Le Monde of March 15. Since the statement itself was not available to us at press time, it is the Le Monde version that is given here. ]
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The Jeunesse Communiste Révolution-~ naire (JCR) affirms "its solidarity with
the courageous antibureaucratic struggle
being conducted by the Polish students.
Today to the sound of the Internationale
thousands of students in Warsaw and
Cracow are rising up against a Stalinist
system which no longer has anything in
common with Bolshevik tradition. The
struggle of the Polish students is part
of a vast offensive which revolutionary
students throughout Europe are waging
against oppression and reaction.
"The JCR appeals to all who are
fighting to establish a socialist society
based on workers democracy to come to the
aid of the Polish students by sending
petitions and telegrams to the Polish
embassy demanding an immediate end to
the police repression and liberation of
the imprisoned students."
The JCR will distribute thousands
of copies of the "open letter to the Pol-
ish CP by Comrades Modzelewski and Kuron,
who have now again been imprisoned."