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Subscribe today and get a free pamphlet or book! 8 SOCIALIST ACTION SUPPLEMENT Zbigniew Kowalewski brought the message of Solidarnosc and Polish workers' self-management to eight cities during the first leg of his month-long U.S. tour. [See calendar for events in remaining cities.] • In Boston, Kowalewski's four days (Oct. 13-16) were packed with meetings and interviews. He spoke at three Socialist Action-sponsored campus meetings (Suffolk Univ., U. of Mass., and Tufts) to audiences ranging from 20 to 40 students. He also spoke at a citywide Socialist Action forum that drew close to 60 people.

While Kowalewski was in Boston, Rubén Zamora, a leader of El Salvador's Democratic Revolutionary Front, addressed a public meeting sponsored by the Democratic Socialists of America and the Central American Solidarity Association. Kowalewski was invited to give greetings to the gathering of 300. [See greetings on this page.] Kowalewski's remarks were received with great enthusiasm. While on stage, Zamora walked over to him, shook his hand, and referred to him as "compañero."

During his stay, Kowalewski was interviewed by the Lynn Daily Item, a Bostonarea daily paper with a large Polish-American readership, and Tufts University Radio.

• In New York, on Oct. 15, Kowalewski spoke at a rally of 100 people commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Fourth International sponsored by the Fourth Internationalist Tendency and the Fourth Internationalist Caucus of Solidarity. This was the culminating event of a weekend of activities. Other rally speakers included Rosario Ibarra, Charlie Van Gelderen, Susan Caldwell, John McAnulty, Mahmud Hawari, Lloyd D'Aguilar, Jake Cooper, Alan Wald, Paul LeBlanc, Gerry Foley, Esteban Volkov (Leon Trotsky's grandson), and Claudio Mangani.

• In Detroit, on Oct. 19, Kowalewski spoke at Wayne State University to a group of 40 people that included several Poles and other Eastern Europeans. The student paper, The South End, ran an extensive interview with Kowalewski as well as a front-page article on the meeting.

• In Cincinnati, on Oct. 20, Kowalewski spoke to a meeting of 20 students at the University of Cincinnati and to several informal gatherings of student and union activists. He was also interviewed by the campus newspaper, The News Record.

• In Youngstown, Ohio, on Oct. 23, he addressed a meeting of 60 people, mainly trade unionists, sponsored by the Youngstown Workers' Solidarity Club and Solidarity USA, a militant group of steelworker retirees:

When Kowalewski concluded his remarks by saying, "I think my ideas are very close to your ideas, so I'm very happy to be with you," the audience responded with enthusiastic applause. The informal discussion, in which steelworkers raised their problems with the company, the government, and the union bureaucracy, indicated that they also felt there were common lessons to be learned from their experiences and those of the Polish workers.

Kowalewski also spoke at a Socialist Action forum in Cleveland and was interviewed by several Northeast Ohio radio and television stations. The Sunday Warren Times carried an interview.

• In Chicago, on Oct. 25, Kowalewski spoke to a class of 20 students at Roosevelt University and to a forum of 15 students at Northeastern University. A citywide Socialist Action forum at the U.E. headquarters drew 40 people.

• In Minneapolis-St. Paul, on Oct. 26-28, Kowalewski spoke at three Socialist Action campus meetings (Univ. of Minnesota, Carlton College, and Macalester College) with a combined attendance of 110 students. The major daily newspaper in St. Paul ran an extensive interview.

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• In Kansas City, on Oct. 29, Kowalewski spoke to a citywide forum of 35 people organized by friends of Socialist Action. This was the first of three public meetings scheduled in the area. [Next month's Socialist Action will report on the two other events in Kansas City as well as on the events in the remaining four cities of Kowalewski's U.S. tour.] This roundup was compiled from reports filed by our correspondents in each city.

For reasons of space, the reports have been abridged.

Los Angeles:

Fri., Nov. 4, 7:30 p.m., L.A. City College, Holmes Hall, Rm. 6, 855 N. Vermont San Francisco:

Sat., Nov. 5, 3 p.m., "Struggle for socialist democracy in Poland and the Soviet Union."

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of a new society and power without oppression and exploitation.

The tremendous development of mass organizations recently shows that the time of the Salvadoran workers and farmers may not be far away.

The struggles and goals of the Salvadoran people and the Polish working class are deeply similar. But an extremely serious problem is that there exist at the same time very deep mutual misunderstandings. The origin of this is the fact that they have very different immediate enemies and that in both countries many people maintain the negative idea that the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

The day when these misunderstandings will be overcome, the day when the Polish workers from Solidarnose will support the heroic struggle of the Salvadoran workers and farmers, and the day when the Salvadoran popular movement will understand the legitimacy of the struggle of Polish Solidarnosc, will be the day when an enormous step will be made on the road toward the true international socialist democracy.

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Thurs., Nov. 10, 7 p.m., Towson State Univ., Linthicum Hall, Co-sponsored by Prog.

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