Step up wages offensive!

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They have no mandate is in should nave been settle on branches ar Health service and local to test out i authority workers must fake "sociali of their policy has been to set government.

Since 1945 therefore, the ism, the Chinese have been only United States ran the economies too glad to oblige. and foreign policies of a series Determined to pursue their of regimes surrounding China, rivalry with the Soviet Union, including Thailand, South Viet- the Chinese leaders have never South Korea and Taiwan, shown anv compunction in allyGroup.

Far from offering any real alternative to Callaghan, these Tribunites run for cover at the slightest sign of But only four Labour a show-down on basic issues.

But the upheavals of the last week in Parliament has driven Callaghan and Healey Even they did no more deeper into the arms of the reactionary Ulster Unionists And next day they obed- government on Thursday.

These defenders of the Orange ascendancy are giving tactical support to Callaghan for one reason only-the prospect of an increased number of Loyalist MPs following Conspicuously absent Every commentator in the world knows at least one thing about the opening of full diplomatic relations between the USA and the Chinese People's Republic-there is much more involved than a mere matter of protocol.

- For the Chinese Stalinists this step represents nothing new, but an extension of their alliances around the world in opposition to the Soviet Union and other workers states.

For the Americans, however, the abandonment of their puppets in Taiwan, represents a major change in the global strategy of imperialism.

Since the United States after the Second World War took over the role of the chief imperialist power, one of the main aspects Labour's "reform" of the gerrymandered constituencies in the British occupied six counties of Ireland.

Through this unholy alliance, therefore, Callaghan and the Labour cabinet are propping up their wage control policies only at the expense of substantially increasing the proTory element in the next Parliament.

No mandate from the labour movement for these policies, which survive only on the basis of the complete absence of alternative leadership in either the unions or the drops up chains of client states around the workers' states.

nam, sout nored ana aiwan, in which the Chinese nationalists were installed after their defeat by the Red Army in 1949.

However, the victory of anti-imperialist forces in Vietnam and Cambodia and the worldwide consequences of deepening imperialist crisis have necessitated a new policy for the USA.

This policy, initiated by the ultra-reactionary Nixon and directly continued by 'human rights' advocate Carter, has been to curry favour with the Stalinists who run the Chinese NUPE, 700,000 workers is than endl token pro1 "guerrilla' January!

This is claim for minimum 1 November!

While left" MPs refuse to come forward in any challenge to Callaghan, TUC leaders such as Alan Fisher are sabotaging the pay struggle in the public sector.

representing public sector planning no more ss talks, one-day ests and half-cock actions-in mid in pursuit of a £60 per week wage which With this new effort to further the efforts of imperialing with the imperialists.

The real meaning of the latest turn in the policies of the Chinese bureaucracy is thus clear.

However much the masses participate in the political life of China, under the present regime they remain subject to a privileged bureaucracy hell-bent on serving its own interests above those of socialism.

The diplomatic exchanges with the USA and the policies that lie behind them endanger all the gains of the world working class since 1917, including

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