MAO Tse-tung's widow;
uttered her first words in the trial of China's Gang of Four last week when in reply to the numerous Charges against her she declared: 'I don't know.' These sentiments must be shared by many socialists in the West who can only gaze in amazement at the example. of revolutionary justice' now being handed out in Peking.
It is all too reminiscent of Stalin's purges he sover Union in the 1930s, although unlike then it is difficult to feel much sympathy with the victims of the Chinese purge.
The leading four. dants Chungiao Wang and Yao Wenyun - nave all wielded considerable power in the past and in many ways they are the victims of the very conspiratorial methods that they themse ver against political opponents. defenZhang may very huge From top: Zhang Chungiao, and Jiang Qing. work hard, to build socialism octer. 1ms went nane-ma-nano with the Great Leap Forward ive Leapes a huge o ductivity drive, agriculture and industry, aimed at driving forward the process China's agricultural productivity.
The both with stimulation of ended, in productivity was the mobilisation by the methods and injustices. within the Chinese over these still the arbitrary the party_ bosses lonall still 1959 the conference. Peng Teh Was rapidiy between the factions manipu ated sections ends ral Commitopponents, The bureaucrats They agreed powerful, called in to lead the whiplieutenant was awash with the and But when The bombard the head'bombard fectively Revolution to a hạlt. not the outright winner, Cultural points: Thousands 1966 threw Students, normality bureaucratic gradually
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