IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

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Socialist Challenge No. 175, 3 December 1980 · pp. 12-13 of the scan · 252 words

The scan: sc-n175-dec-03-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 12 of the scan

compromise, which lett Mao's faction the white the People's Liberation Army was 'three in committees which LOUK ailing and over power in those areas where the mass movement had wrecked the official party structures.

bureaucrats' compromise, and the use of the ar 1976, my to repress the rebellions, ef- was able to BIC tory.

Mao, ballic crisis ahead on of party been purged by the Cultural Revolution but and : stability and the other returned, many out again in which all the old themes of the dispute were raised. Deng and the "moderates' wanted private land plots and bigger wage differentials. Mao politically inactive, signalled his disapproval and refused to attend the 1975 Congress to discuss these plans.

But with Mao's death in the anti-Maoist faction complete its i VI In April 1976, political riots broke out in T'ien-an-men Square in Peking. The identity these still demonstrations were aimed at Jiang Qing 'radicals' Large sections of the masses broke Paradoxically, the Chinese masses have not been through a perioa of deleat and degenera tion of the revolution like the Union. remain highly class conscious and politically merely •tWO different methods of bureaucratic rule Socialists should oppose the ludicrous purge trial going on in China, not because they support Jiang, because cr tract are totally alien to the practices socialist democracy. Getting rid of these methods will mean getting rid ot all sections of the Chinese bureaucracy.

page 13 of the scan

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