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¡HINA Why does the political crisis the top bodies of the inese Communist Party itinue in a state of festerstalemate? To understand • it is essential to grasp that und the two main factions ads a 'third party', the lions upon millions of inese workers and peasants. Ind both factions - the 'lefts' their main target, the 'capitalist ler' Teng Hsiao-Ping - are nily fearful of the results of wing the masses directly into i political battle.

This is the only reason why Teng Id remain in his posts (as Vicenier and Vice-chairman of the imunist Party) despite the fact • he has been publicly bunced in the press and in huge poster campaigns since the nning of February.

Ind from the other side Teng, tated in his attempt to succeed M-En Lai as Premier at the iet meeting of Party leaders at | end of January, apparently ined his positions but has had keep out of public view and is ble to act against his opponents io have now got explicit backing m Mao Tse-Tung.

The political form of the emics against Teng disguise their content. The whole of the inist bureaucracy in China is ght on the horns of an historical •mma.

Dn the one hand they are based the victory of the international blution against imperialism in and the destruction of italist property relations there. And on the other they exist as a ial caste on that national basis, ancing between the interests of Chinese people and the interional working class - and imperThe policy of 'socialism in one Tm. intry' - a contradiction in terms, ich for today's Chinese leader• means cynical 'friendship' with most reactionary capitalist iticians, from Franco to Nixon -tures this dilemma in a phrase. d this contradiction is what lies eath the ironies of the present ti-revisionist' campaign in China.

E of the things Teng is accused is putting the class struggle' on i same level as two other 'theses' Chairman Mao - the need for ty and stability, and the need to elop the national economy. The 'left' faction, supported by D, accuse Teng of playing down STALEMATE the importance of the class struggle in the interests of reviving the 'capitalist road' for which he was ousted during the 'Cultural Revolution' In effect the 'left' are resurrecting Stalin's famous 'theory' that the further the building of socialism progresses, the more intense the class struggle becomes in that country.

This was for Stalin the "political' justification for the massacre of thousands upon thousands of Communists and Soviet citizens in the great purges of the 1930's, and for the drive to physically destroy the opposition to Stalinism in the world communist movement.

Mao with friend Nixon In the 1930's the apologists for Stalin made great play with those capitalist newspapers and politicians who gave credence for example - to the 'confessions' of the Moscow Trials.

In China today the left' faction - afraid to bring into play the Chinese masses - also look for support among the most hardened enemies of the revolution. Thus there was the spectacle of the head of Peking university solemnly explaining the importance of the struggle against Teng and the 'capitalist road' to.....Nixon, the man who launched the most savage bombing ever on North Vietnam and who (in public at least) is a pariah even among capitalist politicians!

And in the last fortnight, one of the main audiences for further attacks on • Teng has been the capitalist ambassadors in Peking.

Teng may be attacked every day in People's Daily and on wallposters by activists, but he has the silent support of a massive social layer of party and state functionofficials, and military officers, all of technical and professional whom are privileged relative to the mass of Chinese workers and peasants.

His policy go consolidation and technical advance with higher wages for specialists and with a reform of the higher education system to produce competent functionaries and technologists, rather than to give first place to educating the children of workers and peasants.

His supporters see in this the consolidation of their position, and many of them have only recently returned to office after being attacked for conservatism and privilege during the Cultural The 'lefts' are not, of course, opposed to economic development. But they can feel on their necks the breath of the forces that began to get out of hand during the Cultural Revolution, and they fear that if there not another, similar campaign, a drive by Teng and his supporters to impose too fast a pace of economic development, and to buttress their own privileges will lead to even greater eruptions in the future.

Thus it is seen as an important victory for the 'lefts' that the proTeng Education Minister, Chou Yung-Hsin, appears no longer to be active in his post.

But with the important editorial in People's Daily on March 10th, the 'lefts' have been making unmistakeable attempts to limit their own campaign. The struggle, claimed the paper, must be 'led by the party committees at every level' and it must be on its guard against those who threaten public order and "sabotage the revolution by sabotaging production'.

All reference to 'splits' in the top levels of the party was dropped.

What Nixon's visit - planned by Teng but carried out by his adversaries - made clear is • that neither faction of Chinese Stalinism will carry through the political revolution, to eliminate bureaucratic privilege and unite the Chinese working masses with the international working class.

For this the construction of a new, Trotskyist leadership will be necessary - a leadership which bases itself upon a scientific understanding of Stalinism and brings the masses themselves into the struggle to eradicate it within the workers movement. to fight for timidly asked these reports.

Callaghan, to give any British gove mercenanes, against the Smith has view of the --21. - -"I don't believe in black majority rule ever in Rhodesia - not in a thousand years" said racist premier lan Smith this weekend.

This is the reaction of the white settler regime to the final breakdown of the protracted negotiations with right-wing nationalist Joshua Nkomo.

The collapse of talks has even prompted President Kaunda of Zambia to state that it has now been demonstrated that "nothing can be achieved by peace INTENSIFY Africa, he said, now had no option but to help intensify the armed struggle in Rhodesia "which is now in full swing".

British • Labour MP Gwilym Roberts has revealed allegations of recruitment of British mercenaries Smith's regime. He Callaghan to "probe" however, has refused undertaking that the inment, let alone will not intervene African liberation already said that, in changed situation' 1n souther Allicas white whitra Rhodesia's "best bet is to say to the British you must come in and play a more positive and permanent role" • The British and Rhodesian governments, he demanded, shoula "get together and see if we can solve this problem"

Successive Labour governments since the time of UDI have done nothing to remove Smith's racialist regime. Sanctions, always a fiction have been gradually whittled away.

For example, legal export of ferro-chrome and nickel from Rhodesia to the USA is now possible, and is an indication of the absurdity of hoping for sanctions to be effectively imposed against Rhodesia.

Tory MP Eldon Griffiths, in a press conference in Salisbury last week, expressed admiration for the developments which had occurred in the Rhodesian economy in spite of international sanctions.

PLEASANT

The Financial Times dent pointed out:

"it is almost impossible to overstate how pleasant life still is for most whites, with their groaning dinner tables, full shops, and obedient Black servants"

But it is this 'way of life" now to come to an end.

So far, the war for the liberation of Zimbabwe has been on a small scale: The Rhodesian government claims that since December 1972, eighty-two whites have been killed -including some South African soldiers and eighteen civilians and 748 blacks.

The successful liberation struggles in Mozambique and Angola now threaten Smith with a more serious struggle and an inevitable defeat.

15,000 Cubans are estimated to be in Angola with the MPLA, and the MPLA's leader Dr. Neto met Fidel Castro in Guinea last week to discuss "liberation problems in Angola and in Southern Africa as a whole"

TALKS

The talks - which also included Guinea's President Sekou Toure and Guinea-Bissau's Luiz Cabral were described by Louanda Radio as "an historic encounter which will help increase aid to peoples struggling against apartheid, colonialism and imperialism"

Smith stakes everything on the imperialists being able to help him against that struggle. That is why he now makes statements claiming that the introduction of democratic forms in Rhodesia would lead to Russian intervention.

These demands are completely in line with the statement by Callaghan's junior at the Foreign Office, David Ennals. He has said that: "Britain could become involved in policing operation" , and Callaghan has confirmed that an end to "illegality' (ie. Smith's declaration of UDI) would make British military intervention possible.

EXCUSE

This, he knows, is the kind of excuse the imperialist powers need to back a white regime. Callaghan and Wilson had three meetings with the Russian ambassador in London while the Smith-Nkomo talks were going on, amid Foreign Office briefings on 'British fears' of Soviet or Cuban intervention.

Labour MPs like Gwilym Roberts, who protest at the idea of a few mercenaries going to Rhodesia from Britain must demand that Callaghan promise the Labour movement as a whole that there is no possibility of any British government aid to Smith, and that the Labour government will support all struggles against the racialist "rebel" regime.