The Polish exiles' magazine Kultura, in its issue of December 9th said that thirteen intellectuals had been expelled from the Polish Workers Party for protesting about the expulsion of Dr. Leszek Kolakowski, the philosopher, earlier this year. The magazine said that the thirteen were among twenty one signatories of a letter to the party's central committee protesting at Dr. Kolakowski's expulsion.
The party had acted against Dr. Kolakowski after he had made a speech to students last October. He was reported to have said that the Polish authorities had failed to fulfil hopes raised by the first flush of de-Stalinisation ten years ago. It was also reported that five students had been suspended from Warsaw University for their behaviour over the Kilakowski affair.