Free Wojciech Jaruzelski

by Kevin Walsh
Editor of NACAZAI

It seems the latest indirect victim of the South Ossetia crisis is retired Polish General Wojciech Jaruzelski, now 85 years old. Just as relations between Poland and Russia have soured, he and seven other former Polish government officials have been charged with "Communist crimes." General Jaruzelski faces up to ten years imprisonment on these ex post facto fabricated charges. The current Polish comprador government is low enough to try to take revenge on Russia by persecuting an old man who was friendly to the Soviet Union and, unlike them, a genuine Polish patriot.

Many people were fooled by the claims of the traitors LechWalesa and Karol Wojtyla in the 1980s that they were struggling for trade-union rights and an independent Poland. General Jaruzelski was not fooled by them. He knew that there is no such thing as comprador national self-determination, and he knew that capitalism is always the enemy of trade-union rights and never the ally of working people. If there is any criticism to be made of General Jaruzelski's conduct in the 1980s, it is that he was far too lenient with these traitors and that he gave up the struggle too easily.

After Lech Walesa became president of Poland with the blessing of Karol Wojtyla, aka John Paul II, the Polish people lost the rights they had enjoyed to employment at a living wage. Poland has become a nation of emigrants. An entire generation of young Polish men have served as cheap labor for the imperialists in western Europe. An entire generation of young Polish women have served as prostitutes in western Europe. Pope John Paul II was the best friend western European pimps ever had and was a disgrace to his own Roman Catholic religion, as well as a traitor to Poland.

Lech Walesa and the current leaders of Poland need to be facing a firing squad. They certainly have no business accusing General Jaruzelski of any crimes. It is not a crime to protect the right of the workers to secure employment at a living wage, the right of young people to education, and the right of women to a dignified life. Only imperialists consider such acts to be criminal.