Chinese Bureaucrats Prepare New Purge

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Janata leader Desai with Soviet leader Brezhnev in Moscon Hua In elections six months ago, the workers and peasants of India firmly rejected the repressive legislation and anti-working class policies of the Congress Party.

Although the right wing Janata alliance reaped a sweeping victory from this hostility, the ruling coalition now finds itself in as big a crisis as the defeated party.

United solely on this basis of opposition to the Gandhi dictatorship, this reactionary popular front has been unable to fulfil its wild election pledge of democracy in India.

Platitudes

While it continues to thunder liberal platitudes, its economic policies of unA year after the arrest of the "Gang of Four" the dominant group in the Chinese bureaucracy has not been able to consolidate its position.

Desperate attempts are being made to "rectify the style of working in the Party" and to purge hostile elements.

The National People's Congress has been put off government claims to be following 'socialist' methods.

In practice this means encouraging any and every form of capitalist exploitation to develop the economy.

George Fernandes-leader of the Socialist Party and Minister for Industriesmakes constant appeals to the bourgeoisie to 'do their duty by the country and learn to fight for what is right.

He stresses that the Janata will ensure that no kind of ideology will hamper industrial development-or profits, of course!

But 18 months of the emergency slashed wages and since March workers have surged forward in a continuntil next spring to give more time to eliminate opponents who might threaten to disrupt its proceedings.

The pre-Cultural Revolution Party training schools are to re-open, and academic achievement is to • be once again the criterion for entrance to university.

In this way the group round Hua and Teng hope to build throughout the country "cadres" who will fight for uous series of strikes.

At the same time there have been widespread battles between landowners and peasants attempting to occupy the land which legislation has formally granted them.

In this situation the role of the CPs has been predictable. Although the pro-Moscow Communist Party of India supported the Gandhi dictatorship up to and beyond the end, last week in Moscow, prime minister Morarji Desai joined with Brezhney to declare their 'equality of national interests.

At the same time Moscow is seeking a rapprochement with the national Stalinist growth, the reinstatement of material incentives, the rapid modernisation of the army and relaxation on the cultural Although it is claimed that industrial production has increased by 10% in the period January-August this year as compared with 1976, the problems of economic growth loom large.

There is a lot Communist Party of India (Marxist) which opposed Gandhi and gained support at the last elections where the CPI was smashed. The CPI (M) now organises its own popular front government in West Bengal.

The first priority for Indian workers and peasants is to break these popular front alliances between their parties and the Indian bourgeoisie.

This task requires the building of a Trotskyist party fighting on a programme including land nationalisation and expropriation of major ndustries alongside demands to improve and defend living standards and guarantee democratic rights. have official approval, a form of this exists already in the acceptance of credit deposited by foreign companies who export to China.

As part of the reintroduction of incentives, wages have recently increased and differentials have widened.

"Socialist competition" between factories is being encouraged.

Western technology is to be utilised to bring the Chinese army into line with modern warfare requirements and the toleration of western films and music is posed in the launching of a new "let 100 flowers bloom" campaign.

Alongside these domestic changes comes an even more promiscuous approach to foreign policy.

Border dispute Attempts have been made to restart discussions between Thailand and Cambodia on their border dispute.

Visits have been made by members of the leading quartet to the US countries in Europe which The first ever strike in the history of the young workers movement in Greenland is now under way.

During the night of 16/17 October, the Greenlander miners employed in the Lead and Zinc mine in Marmorilik on Greenland's West Coast stopped work to back up their claim for equal pay with the non-Greenlander miners and for an agreement with GAS (the Greenland Workers Union).

The company, Greenex, (a subsidiary of the Canadian giant Cominco) has offered equal pay on condition that the union agrees to the introduction of the Danish labour relations laws, laws foisted upon the workers after the historic defeat of 1889.

Company town

The mine is in a very out of the way place, and the company runs an old fashionrather, camp. town"

They control the only means of transport to and from the area, helicopters, and the communications, such as post, telephone, telex, telegram.

The company own the dwellings, barracks, and also the workers' free time. Anyone not behaving in their free time (such as bother of various forms after drinking) or having guests staying over night can lose his job.

By controlling transport, the company has also hindered effective safety checks by factory inspectors.

Shipped out

Indeed during a strike earlier this year by Danish miners, the firm called in police with dogs, put the strikers into the helicopters and shipped them out of the area and eventually back to Denmark. tions with the capitalist co tries has been accompar by renewed reaction attacks against the USSR being the main war-monge!

The US is denounced o so far as it supplied wh the USSR.

Zig-zags The Soviet Union must kept weak agriculturally : economically, says Teng, that it will not be able launch a war.

The right-wing zig-zags the Chinese bureaucr reflect very much their in ility to deal with the con dictions of a workers' st struggling to develop ec omically in the bureaucra ally imposed confines of Stalinist policy of "social in one country"

It is this which dicta their need to deny all political aspirations of workers and peasants.

The realisation of th aspirations demands political overthrow of bureaucracy under the leac ship of a Trotskyist party. again, the strikers were Fi 39, including the strike It mittee.

The union-which star in 1956-has about 11./ organised out of a populat of 40,000 and has no mos to sustain a strike.

They have therei appealed to the trade un movement in Denme Leaders of the Danish T were all either convenier ill or otherwise indispo when GAS tried to cont them.

Picketing However union locals i work places have begun donate.

It has been reported t the strikers were picketing an attempt to stop the Dan miners from strike-breakin This year the Greenland met the eskimos from Can and Alaska in conferen The first political pa Siumut, was founded ! summer and now has an. in the Danish parame There are also pro-impera forces favouring collaborati with Denmark, and a n "Marxist-Leninist" orga ation calling for class strug against the bourg elements.

Greenland is officially Danish county but has National Council.

Off shore oil

The inhabitants purely by fishing and bu ing until relatively recem Another source of disag ment with Denmark i o oil.

The Greenlanders did want any off-shore bor but it is proceeding. Spill doesn't dissolve in the Ar: waters, and with modest st the seals vanish from scene.

The economic struggle the GAS workers theref: connects completely with i struggle against Dan exoloitation of Greenlant