[We have translated the following article from the June 10 issue of Rood, the weekly paper of the Revolutionaire Arbeiders Liga (Revolutionary Workers League, the Belgian section of the Fourth International):]
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The diplomacy of the Chinese People's Republic in recent months has been marked by an "opening." First there was the ping-pong affair and then Mao's invitation to Nixon to visit China. Today, Rumania's top bureaucrat, Nicolae
Ceausescu, was given a triumphal reception.
China wants to break out of its isolation. That is very correct and no one can object to it. This isolation is a serious drag on the economic development of the country and thus to the progress of the workers and peasants. A partial breakthrough has been achieved. U.S. imperialism has suffered heavy blows in Vietnam and it has to settle its accounts with two other imperialisms, Japan and the Common Market. So, it has to pull its horns in a little now.
There is a great deal of turmoil in American capitalist circles, and it is • very likely that American policy will shift in the coming months. Nixon has lifted the embargo on selling a number of products to China that were
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goods. This is all to the advantage of the People's Republic of China.
And now China has turned to an East European country. This is a continuation of its new policy of "overtures." Some years past, Mao branded the Soviet Union and the other East European countries as "social imperialist" states where capitalism had been restored. Sometimes even the word "fascist" was used. This also seems to be coming to an end.
Previously, according to Mao, there were two "socialist" countries - China and Albania. Now there is one more - Rumania. Thus, whether or not a country is socialist can change, de pending on shifts in the wind and the whims of one individual.
The very same Ceausescu who greeted Nixon with open arms in 1969- and had the children of the workers wave American flags-has now be come a socialist brother.
As socialists, we cannot object when a country where a socialist revolution has been carried out makes diplomatic or economic agreements with imperialist countries. At times a revolutionary state needs a breathing space in order to gather strength for a re doubled offensive.
Such agreements, however, must not be made at the expense of the workers' struggle in other countries. And the Chinese CP, which claims to be the leadership of the Chinese workers and peasants, is doing just that. At the same time it seeks a rapprochement with the USA, it is betraying the strug gle of the Pakistani and Ceylonese masses, who are supposed to bow to their governments' decisions.
As a "statesman," Lenin also made agreements with imperialism, but at the same time he was doing this the Bolsheviks also called on the German workers to overthrow capitalism in their own country. Lenin definitely never sent any congratulatory messages pledging his support to dietators.
But that is what Chou En-lai does (see his telegrams to dictator Yahya Khan of Pakistan and Mrs. Bandaranaike of Ceylon).
In recent years China's Communist party has been able to exercise an attraction on many youth sick of Moscow's betrayals and petrified methods. Encouraged by the prestige of its revolution and by its left critique of Moscow, they saw a new hope in China. But now it has become very clear that we can no longer place any hopes in Peking. The Chinese CP, just like the Russian, represents a bureaucratic caste which values its interests higher than those of the world proletariat. Such an attitude can never lead to socialism.
And an increasing number of worker militants are coming to realize this. Today they are joining the ranks of revolutionary organizations complete ly independent of any bureaucratic group, organizations that want to fight for the socialist revolution.
the historic interests of the workers in the highly industrialized capitalist countries, of socialist workers' democracy in the workers states, and of the masses in the underdeveloped and colonialized countries. From Berlin to New York and from Bengal to Prague, demy of Fine Arts in Santiago in the province of Santiago del Estero. She gave many short lecture course and collaborated with literary magazines as an illustrator. She is the mother of three children.
The dictatorship singled her out, not only because of her activities in be half of the revolution but because it wanted her as a hostage in reprisal for the consistent, unflinching role played by her husband, and companion in struggle, as a leader of the PRT. The dictatorship is at present conducting a manhunt for him.
It is for this particular reason that her situation is becoming more precarious— not only her liberty but even her life is at stake.
Her fate must be of concern to all revolutionists; action must be taken to stay the hand of the dictatorship.
We revolutionists of Bolivia, along with the sectors that believe in democracy, must speak out, demanding that the Argentine dictatorship release her, since her only crime is to have struggled for national liberation and to have helped in improving things for the poor of her country.