[1][2] The group included prominent dissident students such as Seweryn Blumsztajn, Teresa Bogucka, Jan T. Gross, Irena Grudzińska, Irena Lasota, Jan Lityński, Adam Michnik, Henryk Szlajfer, Barbara Toruńczyk, and more.
Also, as time passed, some young academic instructors were included, for example Jakub Karpiński, Jadwiga Staniszkis, and Andrzej Zabłudowski.
The group came into existence at a time when the somewhat older dissidents, Jacek Kuroń and Karol Modzelewski were in prison following their notorious Open Letter.
The name was popular due to the way in which the students interfered and came to control classroom discussions at University of Warsaw on topics which were politically charged from the point of view of standard communist propaganda of the era.
The name was introduced however by an academic instructor who actively opposed the dissident students (as explained in court by Seweryn Blumsztajn during a post-March 68 trial of Blumsztain and Lityński) — ironically, the name was meant to sound derogatory.