The report says that court investigations established that the security forces were directly responsible for the massacre, which was believed to be directed against supporters of the left-wing party, the Patriotic Union. (BNCI)
A left-wing party outside government had, for some time, been calling for the workers to seize factories and, when they found themselves shut out by the closing of firms by management in the Bosses' strike, the workers were prompted to action They seized firms and, having taken them over, set up a cordón in the area. (BNCI)
After the banning of the CPSU these liberal groups decided to form a new left-wing party based not on a new programme but on the liberal and, in essence, social democratic programme of the CPSU. (BNCI)