The World - News from March 9, 1988
Polish youths demanding more academic freedom rallied in Warsaw and clashed with club-swinging police in Krakow on the 20th anniversary of a student protest that triggered a purge of Polish society. Thousands demonstrated peacefully at Warsaw University, the site of the original rallies against censorship and political repression on March 8, 1968. At Krakow’s Jagiellonian University, however, about 700 students tried to march to the city’s Old Town and were blocked by police, an opposition source said. The demonstrations reflected a renewed campaign by student activists urging Communist authorities to legalize the Independent Students Union, outlawed in 1981.
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