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While Chairman Hua was dancing the 'hora' in earlier this year, Hsiao-ping and his supporters were busy at home laying the basis for a campaign For Hua and party viceWang Tung-hsing both within sections of the apparatus and by the masses as policemen.
It is not a foolish assessment as both men rose to power because of their control over the repressive organs of the Hua was Minister for Wang commanded the detachment deIt was Wang who arrested the "Gang of Four' and put Hua in power. It was also Wang who suppressed the demonstrators at en An Mien Square alter the death of Chou En-lai.
Teng Hsiao-ping is a veteran bureaucrat of the old school.
sacked during the Revolution as *The Number Two Capitalist Roaand was publicly reviled The failure of the Maoists institute a society different what existed before led amongst the Mao was forced to revert to the party and state The rehabilitation of Ten and numerous other top anc middle-level bureaucrats meant ineir re-entry into the party and state apparatus. It was only a of time before they made a bid to purge the entire acadetsi identified with the Cultural However, in order to do this they have, ironically enough, to methods of the Revolution. The wall-poster campaign against Mao and Hua is clearly inspired by sections of the apparatus But already it has taken on its tional where the bureaucracy maintains a total monopoly of all means of information, even the smallest concessions can spark Feng wielas chormous powe in Peking today. However he him Teng Hsiao-ping in 1966 Icy" cy"
Premier Hua Kuo-feng the Fourth Internasays democracy: 30p plus 10p p&p from The Other Bookshop, 328 Upper Street, London N1 2XQ. needs some popular support in order to deliver the final blow against those who were party to his humiliation. The recent events will undoubtedly aid The demonstrations in Peking gather momentum. Nigel Wade, the Peking corresponaent of un Daily Telegraph, reported:
* "Hyde Park" is the pseudonym used by one of the poster writers. But they do no attack Communism itself and they say quite definitely that they want "socialist democra, not "bourgeois democraas in the West.
Meanwhile the latest issues of Chinese Youth were, recenuy suppressed on the orders of the party leadership. After a fierce debate in the party's upper reaches they have just been released.
They reveal a vigorous debate on the theme of "socialist democracy' A Chinese-speaking comrade who has read them told Socialist Challenge that there echoes of the discussion in the Fourth International on this question.
The model that Teng Hsiao-ping has in mind might well be Yugoslavia. Economic "liberalism', close links with the West, anti-Sovietism and peaceful co-existence.
ERUPT But China is not Yugoslavia. It has a population of 800 million people. Unless and until masses find channels control over Chinese society, contradictions the bureaucracy will continue to erupt at regular intervals.
In recent years a number of left-wing observers have stated that Trotsky's demands for a political revolution in the USSR did not apply to China bec. ase of the diverse origins of its revolution. Events havi somewhat contradicted that particular thesis.
The basic contradictions which characterise Soviet society can all be found in China. The latter's specific peculiarities might give the boluca revo luon a citteren form, but its aims will be the same.
Long live socialist democracy! DOWn the bureaucracy!
NEXT WEEK: The debate in China
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328/9 Upper St, London NI. Printed by Goodhead Press Ltd., 25 Murdock Rd, Bicester. •MODERN dictators have developed a new religion to suppress the people and keep them in the dark. A spiritual Great Wall had been built round the country 'Arise, comrades! — Give a final judgment to all -Statement on wall poster in Peking, November