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engaged in a 'constitutional conference' at Windhoek, the capital of Namibia to decide the future of the territory. This is to some extent a reflection of the pressure from the Angolan government which is giving a measure of support to the Namibian independence movement.

However; the present talks are part of Vorster's plan to stall. Majority rule and independence is not even on the conference agenda!

Furthermore, SWAPO, the largest liberation movement and the only one mobilising national support throughout Namibia is effectively banned from Vorster recently stated that he "would not interfere if the conference should invite them" (because he knows full well that it will not).

PARTICIPATE

SWAPO will only participate the talks on the basis of: - a rapid transfer to majority rule. - recognition of SWAPO as the legitimate government of Namibia. - The release of all Namibian political prisoners.

Vorster says that:

66 ...the various peoples should work out their own future without any interference from south Atrica, the United Nations or anyone else" because he knows ful well that the local whites will never agree to the SWAPQ basis for talks.

The local whites, with the exception of the German community (Namibia was a German colony up to the First World War) all come from South Africa and are led by a Mr du Plessis of the rightwing HNP South African extreme Nationalist Party.

He enters the Windhoek conferance on an explicit position of: - no modification of apartheid. - DC recognition of SWAPO - only talis.

Vorster is cynically pursuing in Namibia exactly the strategy -prolonged negotiations with rightwing Africans - that, in attempting to put a liberal face to the world, he condemns lan Smith for pursuing in Rhodesia!

There is another analogy with Rhodesia however.

That is the gathering exodus of whites! Considerable numbers of white farmers and businessmen are seling up their properties at rock bottom prices and moving back into South Africa, as the SWAPO guenillas penetrate ever further southwards from the Angolan The political crisis in the Chinese Communist Party has in no way been resolved by the removal of Teng HsiaoPing following the demonstrations at the beginning of April.

Almost exactly a decade since the opening of the 'Cultural Revolution' in 1966, the situation in the top echelons of the Party and state machine is one of unstable balance.

The failing health of Mao Tse-Tung raises the spectre of renewed, and more savage political battles.

Daily attacks continue in the press against the 'handful of capitalist roaders' in the Party whom Teng was allegedly sheltering.

But so far, Teng is the only leading figure to have been publicly disgraced. Others, including education minister Chou YungHsin and Chiang Wei-Ching, first have been tary in ly angi red ace, have disappeared from view.

The press, almost entirely controlled by the left' faction of Chiang Ching (Mao's wife) gives a contradictory picture of the political crisis, reminiscent of the justifications given by Stalin's journalists for the pre-war purges within the Soviet Communist Party.

On the one hand it is claimed that there must necessarily exist powerful capitalist elements within the Party itself, that this situation Fold to Socialism tal ted Co fill communism (ie to an immeasurably higher level of economic and social development).

Seen in this way, the conflict between the working class and the handful of 'capitalist roaders' in the party leadership can even be called the 'principal" contradiction' of modern Chinese society.

On the other hand,. in flat contradiction with this, it is said that the "bourgeois elements' are only a handful who have already been (or are on the very point of being) completely routed, and that the task is to 'concentrate criticism against Teng'.

This must be carried out under the sole direction of the Party committees at every level.

This line, of course, cannot pos "theory' that the 'main enemies' of the working class are capitalist elements controlling by deceit key sections of the Party machine.

But what it reflects is the fear by the bureaucracy that political sections of the Party machine and the bureaucracy may become targets for examination and criticism by the masses and the youth.

It is this that explains the secretive, hypocritical surface of the crisis as it appears through the prism of the presently dominant faction.

Teng has not been brought to trial, and there is no news of his tate, even though, if the official version is to be believed, his activities amounted to treason at the highest level ever since he reappeared on the scene in 1973 (after having been disgraced along with Liu Shao-Chi during the Cultural Revolution).

WALL POSTERS

were reports in the : Liu Shao-chi (centre) announcing that two people had been executed and others sentenced to long terms of imprisonment, foltions in Penro-T eut tee straimmediately denied by the Foreign Ministry.

There are also reports of simultaneous clashes, some of them violent, in many other areas Hunan, Yenan, Kiangsi, and in Nanking.

The crisis of Chinese Stalinism is of the greatest concern to the international workers' movement, not only to the workers and peasants of China and Asia.

For all their denunciations of 'capitalist roaders' at home, the "Maoist' faction have gone out of their way to underline that Teng's removal will not alter the cordial relations they are busy building with some of the most virulent anticommunist politicians in the world.

The recent visit of racialist, Tory New Zealand Prime Minister, Muldoon to Peking was the occasion for a speech by Hua Kuo-Feng.

"capitalist roader" Lin Piao Prime Minister) openly inviting the imperialist powers to a military alliance against the Soviet Union.

British Conservatives on a delegation in May were pleasantly surprised to be greeted as worthy followers of their "great leader" Edward Heath.

And the executions by Mrs Gandhi's dictatorship of Maoists for alleged 'crimes' during peasant struggles for land have been no obstacle to the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between China and India.

Yet these opportunist "alliances' can provide no more than the illusion of security for the Chinese state. It has been for several years a premise of military planning by NATO that an important part of the Soviet Union's land forces will be tied down on the Chinese border.

One of Teng's main 'crimes" is said to have been that he favoured a raprochement with the Soviet Union.

Yet in reality it is Mao's line that the Soviet Union is a 'social fascist" state and the greater danger of the two 'superpowers" that is one of the main factors assisting the military pressures of imperialism on the

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SOCALST PRASS moded a 3od 1976 resume trade moves to suppress US Treasury Secretary William Simon said on a visit to Santiago in early May that the Chilean government's record on human rights was an unfortunate "irritant"

This was because it detracted from the country's impressive economic record.

Last year foreign capital worth S 250 million went to Chile mostly from Italy, Germany and the US (S 50 millions).

Simon had much more to offer Pinochet's brutal dictatorship it only it' would present a cleaner image on human rights so that the US would not be so embarassed in helping it.

Pinochet has responded by a slight reduction in the number of arrests and the release of a few Popular Unity prisoners who are, of course,' kept under constant surveillance. a meeting which the El Mercurio claimed to the resumption economic relations.

REPAY

Such an agreement would presumably have to depend partly on a committment by the Chilean junta to repay the $ 100 million which Allende's government borrowed from the USSR.

The possibility of such development especially combined with the recent revelation of trade between Chile and E. Germany, shows that the working class resistance to the Chilean dictatorship can expect no assistance from the Soviet bureaucracy, and certainly no direction from thi still outlawed Chilean Cominunist Party. Santiago d aily was a prel ude of trade and Photo: USLA reporter. INTERNATIONAL NEWS strikes Chilean soldiers

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conflict will run out of control, as it did during 1967, and that all