IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

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Socialist Challenge No. 6, 21 July 1977 · pp. 9-10 of the scan · 1,021 words

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page 9 of the scan

netite month rule 1 being tair * Price rises 16 per cent. Distiler's Group profits rise asment of the Labour Government. Gloomy of the sustained propacampaign that led to the mccaf the Social Contract impaign maintained that creases lead to inflation i therefore workers, orghrough their trade unions, same for the crisis. yearsof self-imposed wage t by the unlons have since by. What has boe the rament figures show thai Andards fell to their lowest.

TOUCHES A CAC TITSE TIECE of this year, They had Paper at Jower tan al of 1974. of this decline has cocurelase year. The purchasing if take-home pay feir by rcent in the lust qunnier of Dy two percentin the Dest Aug and not oncluis who creste the prop tac test 15 a tal in profitahility. When these Tails become so large thar capitalists stop investing How do they try to orercome the crisis?.

They must increase profitability. But his can only bappen if copitalist industries are reorganisod so that inefficient firms are driven into bankruptcies and the more efficient cabled to inwhom they are in disagreement.*

page 10 of the scan

Chinese Friendship Society.

THE accusation of an assempted soup d'état levelled at the Hour can in no way be considered CERTAIN SEE CLUELE TWO IL I those who have effectively carried out a coup d'état who declare LICT eliminated wanted to seize power by force (--.)

in which the 'criticisms" of the four have been made and are being conducted has methine in common with the teachings of Mao. One cannot Marxist what has been published, merely hbels and slanders, the low level clearly, betrays the mability of the present leadership M The Lee CODUMS HEE (CCP) to critique of the points which modid nave tormed ine poonca line of the four (...)

In the last few months" papers le It in said that Wang Hong de new bootstomac. Funner I D affirmed that the four have clung obstinately to the positions of Landed Traprictors and bourgeoisie, that they are leaders 100 per cent committed to the CHARLES BETTELHEIM, one of the most prominent intellectual supporters of the Chinese Communist Party, explains why he resigned as president of the Francocapitalist road.

They are presented 88 sworn enemies of the CCP, the working class, the entire people and the Chinese nation; they are said to be guilty of contact with foreign powers, servility to foreigners, The import of goods useful to the activities of their secret agents articles. Equally they are said to lave purposcly squandered state ands to harm and to have praised material incentives. They are also presented as Kuomintang agents.

LE SUCH 84U303 ponded to reality, this could only raise the most serious doubts or ENCOMOSIO leadership and Ine viguance ou Mao Tse-ung himself. such conditions one could also today's leadership will one day reveal themselves to be Kuominlang agents capace or poduston 1f, as 1 believe, these accu sationa do not coltipond 1o 1he truth, it is impossible to put any confidence in leaders deceive the people while carrying out the elimination of those with whom they are in disagreement. HE cany anne be boss CUTEST guidance.

for such disagreements, burbs of the CCP resortine to standee LD Dese CondItIons, doU part formulated by Mao Tse-Tung is a smokescreen flage a completely different line.

In fact, a study published in China in the last fea months, together with what ong know of the actual course 01 events there, has led me to the conclusion that it l revisionist line which has carried the day. The critique of Teng has bech abandoned, abound giving primacy to production over revolution KRUL conclude that the fidelity the political line one's opinion, desigoed to camou HELENS conjured away. calls Meo'3 successors are criticised for revising' his politics, but present policy was all tormulated under his * On Discipline and order are praisquestion of tbe right to preserve without speakin of the right and tbe dury to rebe against a bourgeois political Line position or vomen daring the The questions pased by socialist transition are simply no recognised. The struggle against bourgeois rights is practically no of the existence of the bourge oisie in the heart of the party is class struggle is replaced by the call to "strugele against the four SOCIALIST CHALLENGE the international plane the scruggle ngainst the brODressiVelY heen replaced by the struggle against social imperialism alone.

Americaas and their allies in the lives of other peoples are often considered posite Thor, tor example, was how the events in Zaire were treated However, when the two im otber there is no place for any support to one side or the play into the hands of social imperialison. (...)

Experience has shown how the present leadership of the Chinese 21 July 1977 by GUSFAGAN inits official organ Zeril Popullit has for the first time launched a coupocanace onterorcian pol It criticises the Chinese failureto anti-imperialist and revolutionary forces on the one band, and be pro-impenans and reconan fascists' on the other. ' According to this theory', it argues, the people should even unify with reactict ary regimes and forces in the third WISH SHE BE HICHSIR. other words, they are to renounce revolutioo, But the line attacked by the Albanians is not a product of the Chinese leadership Hua Kuo-feng but of the MOST TXUTEMULISEY ESCENDE y the Mainst line, elabore til Teng Haiao-ping after the of Lin Plan, called for an alliance of the third world with the secon dary imperialisms Emope) agalost the super powers But in recent years Maoist policy has shifted towards an open ism against the more dangerous of the super powers, the Soviet - Union.

The explanation for the Albanway Chinese foreign policy con Ricts with the nationat interests of Chinese support the strengthening of NATO, which is a direct threat More recently Lhe Peking reactomaries have called for a build-up calling it a sacred right of France" and praising it as the fruit

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