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Nixon talks with Chou AS CHINESE leaders welcomed US President Nixon and his wife to Peking, six waves of American B-52 bombers launched saturation raids against alleged National Liberation Front bases in S Vietnam.

The NLF has not commented on Nixon's visit, but as the wheels of the Presidential Boeing 707 touched down at Peking airport, guerrillas unleashed rocket attacks on three large US bases near Saigon and shot down two US helicopters.

Ignoring the eight-day visit, N Vietnam News Agency quoted Soviet sources condemning Nixon's eight-point peace plan for S Vietnam and urged the nation to persist in its 'struggle for final victory'.

BISHOP WANTS NEW BISHOP Abel Muzorewa, leader of the African National Council, has called for fresh talks on a new settlement between Britain and Rhodesia it the present terms are rejected.

Speaking on his arrival in Salisbury from an intensive tour of London and New York, he said: 'Everyone I saw seemed to indicate that if there was a rejection there was hope that we could start new negotiations'.

Asked whether his attitude to the proposals had changed as a result of his trip, the Bishop said: 'My answer to the proposals is still "No". • But I do see more positive alternatives to the proposals which suggest assurances of security for both the minority and the majority in Rhodesia.' The welcome for the ANC leader was the biggest African demonstration seen at Salisbury airport for years and at one stage police used canes to beat back a crowd of Africans on the airport's main concourse.

Nixon aims to ease his budget and payments crisis by bargaining for a Chinese sell-out of the war in Indo-China.

He has already turned his back on Taiwan (Chiang Kai-shek has also ignored the visit) Japan and India as first steps in the new courtship welcomed with equal enthusiasm by the Chinese leaders as a means of smashing through the crippling economic development ceiling imposed by their 'isolation'.

With a lengthening record of collaboration with imperialism in Africa, Ceylon and Bangla Desh, China is said to be worried that N. Vietnam will openly condemn Nixon's visit and in a bid to forestall any hostile criticism the Foreign Ministry has attacked US bombing in Vietnam.

Meanwhile talks between the so called implacable enemies opened yesterday at Peking's Great Hall of the People, where state banquet was given last night in Nixon's honour.

Earlier he stepped out ITALY'S CPers SEEK POPULAR ITALIAN Communist Party leader Luigi Longo has called for a coalition with the Socialist Party and leftwing' Catholics as the only way to solve Italy's gov. ernment crisis.

The 71-year-old leaders' remarks in an interview with the Stalinist newspaper 'L'Unita' were regarded as the unofficial start of the Communist Party campaign in what are almost certain to be premature general elections this spring.

He said the 80-year-old centre-left alliance of the Socialist Party and the Christian Democrats was dead for all time and reiterated the CP's long-standing call for 'an opening to the left'.

The Italian Communist Party has long sought a Popular Front-type government in alliance with the social-democrats and the left wing of the capitalist parties.

The Party's policy is thoroughly reformist, based on the conception of "structural reforms' of Italian capitalism. In pursuit of this treacherous goal, the Stalinist leaders have continually restrained and discouraged the militancy of the workers and encouraged a series of protest actions rather than a struggle for power.

Faced with the gravest crisis to hit Italy since the defeat of fascism, Longo is now offering his services to the employing class to head his proposed Popular-Front coalition. aircraft 'Spirit of 76' and was greeted by Premier Chou En-lai and about 20 Chinese government officials backed by a 200strong guard of honour and a brass band.

Apart from the 100 newsmen, there were no crowds at the airport or along the 18-mile route to Peking where the city's 7 million people were conspicuously absent from the streets as the 20-car motorcade passed by.

Soviet state newspaper 'Pravda' made no comment on the visit— the first by an American head of state since 1949—but Moscow Radio accused Peking of 'splitting the world communist movement'.

Despite Soviet fears of America and China ganging up on her, Nixon's visit marks a decisive phase in the move to collaboration between imperialism and Stalinism already well in hand in Russia and E Europe and now begun in earnest in China and SE Asia. JAPANESE CASH FOR SIBERIAN OIL PROBE SOVIET officials are holding talks in Tokyo to negotiate long-term Japanese commercial bank loans for development of the Tyumen oil field in E Siberia.

A 45 - member delegation headed • by First Deputy Foreign Trade Minister SemichastCOURTROOM ATTACK ON 'WAR CRIMINAL' HUSSEIN A PLEA for four Palestinians accused of killing Jordanian premier Wasfi Tell turned into a courtroom attack on King Hussein of Jordan in Cairo yesterday.

The former chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Ahmed Shukairy, told the State Security Court: 'An end to the present Jordanian regime means an end to all Arab disasters.' He said anyone who practised genocide against the Palestinians must be treated as war criminal, 'even if he is a king'.

Hashemite dynasty to which Hussein belongs was the main reason behind Arab defeats in their wars with Israel, Shukairy said.

A Libyan and a Kuwaiti lawyer joined Shukairy in condemning the Jordanian regime. The defendants have pleaded Tupamaros found THREE TUPAMARC have been jailed after th found on a farm in NW guay with a cache of arms, lunition and explosives. THE GREATEST danger victory would be a growth working class.

The Tories suffered a set-back, but they are not yet defeated. They are not defeated because, at the point at which the government could have been smashed, the miners' executive decided not to push it over the edge. This allows the Tories - even though they have been forced to concede to the miners—time to recuperate:

They will seek to use this time to prepare harsh measures against effective picketing, vigorous implementation of the Industrial Relations Act and sterner measures to halt other wage claims, while inflation eats away at workers' incomes.

In this situation, the line Star' that the Tories are as misleading.

McGahey, Scottish NUM President and a leading Communist Party member, says: 'We have destroyed the credibility of the government's economic policy ... a united trade union movement can defeat any government?

Jock Kane, another Communist Party member and a member of the NUM National Executive from Yorkshire, is quoted in the 'Morning Star' as saying:

'When the working class is united, it can impose its will even on governments. This government is now rocking. Its policy in regard to the trade unions, and particularly on wages, is in ruins.

The task facing the working class is not to impose will on' the Tories, but to bring them down.

The lesson of the 1972 miners' strike is that the determination and enormous solidarity of the working class could have brought the Tories down, but was prevented from doing so. By itself, that was not enough. The Tories are still in office today because they were saved by the trade union leaders.

As long as reformist leaders hold back the working so long will the ruling class be able to recover from the most severe set-backs and resume the offensive.

Historically, this is what happened in Germany in 1919, in Italy in 1922 and in Britain in 1925-1926. In each case the working class, when it could have taken power, was held back by its leaders and paid the price in years ol suffering—in the first two cases it paid the price of fascism.

The victory of the miners does not lessen but intensifies the need for revolutionary leadership. The Right-to-Work marches and the decision of the Socialist Labour League to form a revolutionary party in 1972 are even more important now than when they were first conceived. nov arrived in the Japanese capital on Saturday.

The delegation is holding talks with the powerful Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren) headed by Kogoro Uemura.

The plan for joint development of Siberian oil includes building a pipeline from Tyumen to the guilty, but say their role in the assassination of Wash Tell was that of executioners. When the hearing began they stood in the dock shouting 'Long live Palestine' Libyan ruler Muammer Gaddafi has offered his personal surety AN E GERMAN capitalist and Liberal Democratic member of the People's Chamber is to sell his share in a jointowned weaving factory to the state. Announcing this step, Dr Gottfried Engelmann emphasized that 'private ownership of the means of production in the present phase of development of socialist society was becoming an anachronism and an inhibiting factor' Dr Engelmann's decision to stop being a capitalist-though it tou clear what he will do with the proceeds of the sale —came during the Congress of the Liberal Democratic Party which opened in Weimar last following the miners' of complacency in the being pushed in the 'Morning good as beaten is dangerously class, even port of Japan.

Japanese imperialism has long cast an envious … eye over the mineral riches of Siberia and the Soviet government clearly hopes that schemes like the TAYIIMAT development will satisfy the Japanese - capitalists' increasing thirst for outlets on the Asian mainland. for the release of the four defendants and the court is currently considering his request.

The four men are members of the 'Black September' organization, pledged to revenge the wholesale massacres of Palestinian guerrilla fighters in Jordan.

This is a tame bourgeois party which forms part of the ruling National Front dominated by the Socialist Unity (Communist) Party. It represents private businessmen • who work in cooperation with state enterprise or continue to carry on small independent firms.

Party secretary Dr Manfred Gerlach, a stooge of the regime, welcomed the fact that many capitalists had decided to sell their part in joint-enterprises to the state. He admitted that 'not all members have as yet grasped that the working class is the decisive social force' and spoke of the need to carry on the 'consistent struggle against bourgeois ideology' and for 'the overcoming of backward views and modes of behaviour'.