Chairman Hua for chop?

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When will Hua Kuofeng be arrested?' is a very reasonable question to be asking in Peking, as the "demaoisation' of the Chinese leadership gathers pace.

The position of Hua, who rose to the top through the Cultural Revolution, was formerly a close ally of the 'gang of four" and was groomed as his successor by Mao himself, is being seriously undermined by the most recent shifts:

*the appearance of wall posters in Peking attacking Mao Tse Tung.

*the, rehabilitation of Peng Chen, former Mayor of Peking and one of the early victims of the Cultural *the arrest and probable execution of former Red Guard leaders. These include Miss Nieh Yuantzu, the Peking philosophy lecturer whose "big character' poster (sponsored and welcomed by Mao) unleashed the pogrom against academics 1966.

*the complete reversal of verdict' on the Cultural campaigns against intellectuals now described as a form of 'fascist ideological dictatorship' *The broad hint that the 'fake trials' and 'erroneous verdicts' were the responsibility of 'a certain higher leader' (i.e. Mao!)

The rehabilitation, and the new purges, by Teng Hsiao-ping's faction of the leadership are-like Kruschev's 'destalinisation' -all being prepared secretly from on top.

Settle accounts

The mass of Chinese workers, who would welcome the opportunity to settle accounts with the careerist tyrants of the Cultural Revolution, andno doubt-with many of their more recent successors are being strictly excluded.

But the pace of the political reverses' reveals the extreme pressures acting on the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. Friendless here embracing Tito Eanes' visit to Britain was shown in the way he was prepared to leave Portugal when the government crisis was still unresolved.

Even during the short period of his stay, new threats to his bonapartist rule erupted.

The Portuguese Communist Party has needed all its resources to hold back the latest upsurge from the workers and peasants they claim to lead.

Despite their efforts, peasants in the Alentejo region have mobilised to resist the para-military forces sent in by the government to smash their cooperatives and restore the land ARGENTINA AN OPEN CONFERENCE on Argentina, under the general title 'Building Solidarity' has been called for Saturday Docember 2 by the British Argentina Committee.

The Conference, which will be held in the Student Union building, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool, will discuss the adoption of Argentinian political prisoners and ways in which the British working class can aid the struggle against the Videla dietatorship.

Details from: BAC, 52, Acre Lane, London SW2. Credentials to participate in the imperialist ploy to intensify the divide between the rival Stalinist bureaucracies and build up the military strength of the Peking ruling caste against the threat of Soviet invasion.

Callaghan may claim that in consorting with such counter-revolutionary forces he is only meeting 'good friends' not cementing political alliances.

Workers who have already experienced the vicious attacks of his government in Britain, will have a more realistic assessment of what is at stake in these cosy chats and private deals.

Argentinian dictator Videla

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CIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 22 November, 1978