A scientific conference devoted to Karl Marx, taking place on 11 May in the seaside Polish town of Pobierowo, become notable for an unusual reason – an appearance of the police. The officers justified their presence by the need to make sure that the event was not “anti-national” in character – as defined by law constituting the IPN (Institute of National Remembrance), or did not aim to propagate a totalitarian ideology in contravention of the Polish constitution.
This form of a police intervention must rise serious doubts and outrage, taking into account that no such actions take place with regards to nationalistic and semi-fascist groupings. It is noteworthy that the ONR marches (ONR – The National Radical Camp – a Polish extreme right, anti-communist, and nationalist political party – Wikipedia;) take place under police protection, have never been banned and the police often states that their [semi-facist and facist] symbols and slogans do not break the law. The same goes for the recent ONR conferences: in the Gdańsk Shipyard , (where the Solidarity movement was born in the 80’s) and in the headquarters of the Polish Journalist’s Association in Warsaw. In both these cases a police intervention would have been completely justified – but none took place.
Source: strajk.eu
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