Poland

Press, 3 February 1982, Page 16

Poland

Sir.—lt is clear that James

McAloon (February 1) has failed to grasp the point of my previous letter, that all human societies, slave, feudal, capitalist, are dictatorships of the ruling class; only the proletarian dictatorship is a transition to the classless society. James McAloon has, perhaps unwittingly, hit the nail on the head when he writes: “Are we to conclude from his letter that the Polish people should give thanks to Saint Marx that they are being oppressed in the name of the dictatorship of the proletariat, rather than in the name of the defence of the Free World?” Substitute in that excerpt, “Solidarity” for “the Polish people” and “capitalism” for “the Free World” and that sums up the situation in Poland —Yours, etc., M. CREEL. February 2, 1982.

Sir,—Historically, Poland and Russia have been at loggerheads for centuries; sometimes one wins, sometimes the other. Why should we worry and \vhy should we follow the American line? After all, who is arming and training the Right-wing torturers and murderers in El Salvador? Who tried to bomb Vietnam and Laos back to the stone-age? Whose Government agency was instrumental in toppling a democratically ejected Chilean Government? Whose troops invaded stable, neutral Cambodia? Whose marines toppled an elected Government in Guatemala in 1954? Not Russia, nor the Russians. It is time the hypocritical hysteria about Poland was ended. What about Indonesia’s current murder plans. for East Timor? — Yours, etc., J. SIMMONDS. February 1, 1982.