~.. PANAMACITY (PL) — The Execu-
“tive Council of the University of
Panama has lifted a ban that kept
- Communist leader Cesar de Leon from
teaching there for the past 28 years. A
mber of the People’s Party of Pana-
-Mna, De Leon 2 professor of history and
_ Philosophy , was ousted from the univer-
_Sityin 1952 when his party was banned.
He told the press his reinstatement
_ Teflects economic, social, cultural and
“political changes Panama is under-

_ British press misleads
~_ LONDON — British Labor MP

- Bob Literland is considering court ac-

- tion against certain British newspapers

for misleading readers into believing.
_ the tank he and a fellow MP had been

“pictured standing in front of in Kabul,

_ Afghanistan, during a recent visit was a

~ “Russian invasion tank’’.

“Tn fact,” Litherland said, ‘‘itisona
“concrete block and has been there for
‘9-and one-half years to commemio-
fate the firing of the first shot at the start
of the Afghan revolution.”

_. MPs Litherland, Brown. and Allan
Roberts were on a fact-finding visit to
Afghanistan last month.
‘Global Shield ’81°
- WASHINGTON — In an unpre-
5-cédented. 20-day test, hundreds: of
+ manned bombers and-a Minuteman
“Missile are: being used to test the U,S-
‘Military so-called response to a nuclear.
vattack, the Strategic Air Command
~(SAC):confirmed Jan. 23, 0
There are 800 SAC B52 and FBII1.
‘bombers involved in the military man-:
uiVvers. At least one Minuteman mis-°
le, capable of hitting a Soviet target,
‘will be launched from. Vandenberg Air

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~ SOLIDARITY WITH EL SALVADOR

GEORGETOWN — Guyanese demonstrated outside the U.S. embassy here Jan. | ° .
47 against U.S. military aid to the Salvadoran Junta. The Committee in Solidarity |,”
Med »gwith the Peoples of El Salvador sent cables of protest to Honduras and Guatemala
calling for those countries to cease their interference in El Salvador’s affairs. |,
Simultaneous rallies were held: at the University of Guyana and in the towns of
Enterprise, Metenmeerzorg and Demerara. The Guyana Agricultural & General

Workers Union, contributed $1,000 (U.S.) to the liberation forces.

Solidarity charged with |

_ sabotaging Polish economy

By FILS DELISLE
Tribune Berlin Correspondent
BERLIN — In the socialist capitals of
Moscow, Budapest, Prague, Berlin and
elsewhere, authoritative organs of

government, party and public opinion —
_have expressed their concern at an at-

tempt to destabilize Poland with the ul-
timate aim of an anti-socialist counter-
revolution.

That strongly-expressed view was but-
tressed by Polish communist leader
Stanislav Kania’s statement, quoted by
Warsaw Radio. That Solidarity was not
developing as a trade union centre, as
originally claimed, ‘‘but in the direction
of an opposition party’’, a second power
centre. A Soviet TASS statement, fol-
lowing warnings in Pravda and Izvestia
about the anti-socialist course the lead-
ers of Solidarity were following, declared
that Solidarity’s leaders were acting to
thwart every attempt to normalize the
situation in Poland.

Rude Pravo, newspaper of the
Czechoslovak Communist Party, at-
tacked what it described as the anti-
socialist activities of Solidarity and its
allies in the organization KOR. The
paper declared: ‘‘Illegal organizations,
hostile to the state, could not exist and
work in Poland if they were not a part of
the structure of the anti-communist

- centres in the West.*' In a further article,

Rude Pravo said the leaders of Solidarity
were pursuing a program of diversion,
disorder and counter-revolution.

In. Budapest, Nepszabadsag, news-
paper of the Hungarian Communist Par-
ty, condemned the hostile activities of
Solidarity’s leaders which were aimed at
the disruption of life in Poland. Those
organizing the strikes in Poland, it said,
“were pushing the country into chaos.”

In Berlin, Neues Deutschland, news-
paper of the Socialist Unity Party, pub-
lished a report from its correspondent in
Warsaw that ‘‘counter-revolution’’ was
now the program of the Solidarity and
KOR leaders there.:

The report summarized the current

' situation in Poland as follows: ‘‘Whoever

analyzes the developments of the last
few days.here in Warsaw can only come
to one conclusion: the tensions in the
country have sharpened to a dangerous
degree. The situation has worsened

-_catastrophically. The leaders of Solidar-

ity are deliberately provoking chaos and
anarchy, day in and day out. What has
long been clear here has now come out
into the open in more drastic form. These
people (Solidarity’s leaders), in alliance
with the ringleaders of the anti-socialist
grouping KOR, have inscribed counter-

revolution on their banners.”’

The scenario being followed by Sol-
idarity’s leaders, the report said, ‘*was
openly propounded by KOR leader, Ku-
ron, months ago. Its aim is to mercilessly
promote and exploit the crisis in the
country; to create and legalize opposi-
tion organizations ‘‘in the first stage’’; to
see to it that at the same time ‘‘the in-
fluence of the workers’’’ (Communist)
Party is reduced in the various sectors:of
life in the country; the goal in the next
stage is the complete erosion of social-
ism, and especially to achieve the
elimination of the Party from the coun-
try’s social and political life.

People like Kuron, the report con-
tinued, ‘‘openly spread their viewpoint
which is hostile to the state, and aims at
the overthrow of socialism. They even
present their anti-socialist program in
lectures at universities.

‘*Those who pull the strings of the
counter-revolution are working to realize
this conception step by step. That can be
seen, among other things, in the state of
the economy of the country, which,
through the machinations of Solidarity,
threatens to break down.

‘‘Widespread disruption of production
and communications by Solidarity are
now a daily routine and shake the
foundations of the country. Production
in most branches has slumped drastical-
ly.. This makes itself felt ever more
dramatically in the supply system, in the
services for the people and in many other
areas of social life. The ability of the state
to pay its debts is constantly diminished.
Exports to the other socialist countries
are falling. This disturbs the carrying
through of the program of socialist
integration (between the socialist coun-
tries).

‘All that is needed is a look at the
stores to recognize the harmful effects of
the counter-revolutionary activities.
Food shops have sold everything by
noon. That is especially true for butter,
margarine, food oils, milk products and
many other basic foods.

“In the past week, no one worked in
hundreds of industrial plants, and in
many others the rhythm of work is con-
stantly interrupted. Whole regions have
been economically crippled for days on
end. The losses for the country, which
can no longer be made up, according to
official information, can now be counted
in the billions of zlotys.

‘*As a result of the disorganization of
the economy, sections of power plants
have repeatedly had to close down. Now
the danger is that whole plants may simi-
larly have to close down.

‘‘Whoever comes out against the ac-

tivities of the Solidarity leaders and their ©

counter-revolutionary partners in the
name of strengthening and guaranteeing
the socialist order, whoever seeks to bar
the road to the organized spreading of
chaos and anarchy — is threatened in
ever more brutal ways.

“Responsible workers who desire to
do their duty have their names placed on
lists, are defamed, and at times are vio-
lently prevented from working. In many
districts the incidents are increasing in
which party officials, who seek to pre-
vent disaster, are forced out of their func-
tions by massive pressure, although the
party’s statutes say that only the party,
through party elections, can decide who
can exercise various functions in it. This
pressure has also been used to drive state
Officials out of their positions.

‘“‘Typical for the ringleaders of the
counter-revolution is the fact that they
work, everywhere in the country, and
most energetically, to promote tensions
and disorganization, disintegration of the
economy and destruction of all the
people’s achievements. At the same
time, however, they deny any re-
sponsibility for the catastrophic con-
sequences of their actions and seek to
shift the blame onto the leadership of the
party and the government.

‘‘Despite their repeated claims, in ac-
tual fact they consider Solidarity to be a
political party directed against the
Workers’ Party and socialist state pow-
er, and make use of their organization
accordingly. They do not see the law of
the land as valid for themselves.”

The. report emphasizes that more
people are making themselves heard
with the demand ‘‘that they want a re-
tum, at last, to a normal rhythm of work
and living’’.

Connections between these elements
and anti-détente circles, emigrant
organizations and mass media in the
West cannot be overlooked. A particu-
larly active role is played here by numer-
ous foreign correspondents who, along-
side their propaganda work for Solidairty
and KOR, serve as contact men with
counter-revolutionary centres in the
West.

‘The economic and political weaken-
ing of Poland is meant to have the effect
of destabilizing the situation in Europe.
That is why the Polish press has charged
that imperialist circles want to use the
current situation in Poland to disrupt the
process of relaxation of tensions and the
guaranteeing of peace in Europe”’ the
report concludes.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FEB. 13, 1981—Page 7