A RISE in the Chinese consumption of alcohol is explained by the celeoranons al the fall of "Gang of Four', according to the official Peking news agency. But according to other reports in recent have 38430 1 other uses those empty bottles.
hysterically blown up reports of ant covernment violence moa "Civil War in China'. The reality is Most reliable reports indicate riots in Paoting, near Peking, which seem to have spread to the southern provinces, centring parficularly on the towns on the main railway network. *Propaganda groups' of the People's Liberation Army have been drafted into the trouble spots.
PEDDLED Chinese agency and radio reports have predictably peddled reports of murder and rape by the dissidents. Equally predictably, the "Gang of Four' have been blamed disturbances. And still more predictably, the British press has echoed these sentiments exactly.
After his death, Mao was praised by no less a trend of ine working class than Edward Heath having China. The Western press is now concerned to tend us support E0 Hua Kuo-feng in his efforts to play me same roie.
Nothing Is more Trigntening E0 the bureaucracy and its Western apologists than the prospect of the Chinese masses moving BSTe evicence is that there have similar disturbances dating April after the purge of the capitalist roader leng Hsiao-ping. There are now indications that Teng is to be rehabilitated.
FACTION It is not clear at present whether these latest demonstrations are tied to any baracular faction of the such as the Ching group. It is unlikely after Cultural Enem repression Revolution and block on rises in 1972 that the 'radicals have many friends among #lasses Only two tnings are certain. Ine "radical" faction, which is not genuinely a left alternative to the present ruling group, can provide no eatersno or me cowine mass movement. Secondly, however confused the present demands of me mass movement, s mere pres found Coffee is already up by another 1p this week.
couple of months.
Milk has gone up, and Labour's abolition of dairy subsidies means that butter and cheese will rise by about 4p a pound this month.
soaring. An 8oz jar has risen from about £1.05 six months ago to £1.36 today. Bread also continues to rise, and goes Flour rises by 1p a pound and beef prices are expected to rise by 10 per cent in the next Gas bills will rise by up to 10 per cent in 200 - Feb 1976=100 UK BUTTER INSTANT COFFEE COD FILLETS RUMPSTEAK with trade union bureaucrats.
restrictions, for a sliding scale of wages working people would mean that trade unionists would not be held in thrall to Cabinet deals It is a way forward for the New Year: no pay
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DENIS HEALEY'S New Year message was that the Labour Government is 'getting it right'. Obviously the pantomime season lingers. Because for the working people of this country the New Year heralds in a massive leap in the prices of everyday necessities: