Asians have 90 days to go-Amin

Fear of working class behind slovakia, was sentenced on Tuesday to 64 years' jail on charges of subversion.

Alfred Cerny, a former Central Committee member, was sentenced to three years and five other people were given sentences ranging up to five years on the same charges.

The five men sentenced with Professor Sabata and Cerny were Antonin Rusek, who got five years, Zdenek Prikryl (four years), Karel Cejka (two years), Karel Fridrich (18 months) and Jiri Zaoral (suspended sentence of 18 months).

Ceteka news agency, announcing the sentences, said the sentenced men formed an illegal anti-state group in 1970 which engaged in hostile activities until January 1972. Their aim was to overthrow the socialist state It was the eighth in a series of 'subversion' trials directed against supporters of Alexandr Dubcek, the former Communist Party first secretary. A total of 38 people have now been convicted in the trials. There have been no acquittals so far.

Sabata was a leading member Czech frame-up trials of Dubcek's entourage in 1968 and 1969. He was elected to the Central Committee at the Extraordinary Party Congress held in a factory outside Prague two days after the Warsaw Pact invasion. Cerny was co-opted onto the same committee in September 1968.

Both were later stripped of their posts and expelled from the Party during the purge conducted by the Stalinist Gustav Husak regime on Soviet instructions.

Sabata was arrested in November last year with his two sons, his daughter and his daughter-in-law.

His sons, Jan and Vaclav, have already been sent to prison for 2} and two years respectively. The trial of his daughter and daughter-in-law is rumoured to be scheduled for this week.

Like most of the other defendants brought before the courts since the trials began on July 19, the Sabatas are thought to have been accused of circulating leaflets reminding voters of their constitutional right to abstain in the presidential election.

This charge is a cover for the imprisonment of leading members of the Dubcek tendency UGANDAN president Idi Amin announced yesterday he was going ahead with plans to expel all British Asians from the country. The general also announced that nationals from India, Pakistan and Banga Desh would also be given 90 days to leave the country.

His statement followed talks with the British High Commissioner in Uganda, Richard Slater, the Indian and Pakistani envoys and leaders of the Asian community in Uganda.

General Amin said he had signed a decree yesterday revoking the entry and residence permits of non-citizen Asians in Uganda.

The only exceptions were doctors, dentists, lawyers, owners of agricultural and industrial enterprises and certain other categories of professional people.

About 60,000 people will be affected by General Amin's decision. He said it would be up to those concerned to make their own arrangements to be out of Uganda before the 90-day deadline was up.

Answering questions after making his statement, Amin said if they were not out of the country before the deadline: 'They will be sitting on a fire. They will be sitting very uncomfortably if they stay on.' He declined to say exactly what he meant by this, but told a reporter:

'You wait and see.' At least 20,000 of the people affected by Amin's edict are British citizens, but they are barred from Britain by the Tory government's racialist immigration laws.

AMERICAN bombers carried out an 'extermination' raid yesterday on Hai Duong. Town, about 30 miles east of Hanoi, the North Vietnamese News agency VNA said in a dispatch received in Paris yesterday. The agency said a one mile sector southwest of the town was bombed. It said bombs hit a medical school, a factory, and cafes, killing and wounding a large number of people'. One district of 100 homes was wiped out, the agency added. who have already been deprived ream scrams tat the trias of all their nolitical rights have nothing to do with their opposition to the Warsaw Pact occupation do not bear examinaThe Prague and Brno trials have been under preparation for many months. They were made possible by a ruthless purge first of the Communist Party and then of the trade union organization, in which the workers were formally stripped of all the rights they had gained in 1968.

Before Husak and his Soviet masters could proceed to the stage of court-room frame-ups, they had to overcome the stubborn resistance of the Czechoslovak workers.

It was fear of the political revolution in Czechoslovakia which motivated the Warsaw Pact invasion. The Kremlin leaders and their co-thinkers in East Germany, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria moved in their tanks in order to prevent any independent movement of the working class.

The trials of Dubcek's supporters are intended as a warning to any section of the bureauTokyo makes trade concessions to win Chinese market PREPARATIONS are now well under way for the restoration of full diplomatic relations between Tokyo and Peking. The Japanese ruling Liberal Democratic Party yesterday approved a visit to China • by prime minister Kakuei Tanaka to finalize the exchange of ambassadors.

The new Japanese government has already accepted that its present defence treaty with the Chinese Nationalists on Formosa will become null and void as soon as diplomatic agreement is reached with Peking. Tanaka has moved with extreme rapidity to establish diplomatic ties since he took over as premier a month ago.

He has already received the backing of almost all of Japan's biggest monopolies. The secondlargest motor-car firm, Nissan, and the Ihi shipbuilding company yesterday announced they would accept Peking's conditions for trade ties with China.

The conditions, announced by Chinese Premier Chou En-lai in 1970, bar any Japanese firm from trade with China if it invests in Taiwan or South Korea, assists in the continuation of war in Vietnam, or has close ties with the United States.

Nissan, which has not previously traded with China, said it hoped to send its representatives to Peking.

IHI said the firm's president, Renzo Taguchi, had accepted the Chinese conditions at a meeting this week between leaders of the Mitsui Industrial Group and Sun cracy in Eastern Europe which may be tempted to try 'liberalizing' Stalinism.

The Kremlin feared Dubcek's reformist 'socialism with a human face' because it was a response to an upsurge of working-class hatred against Stalinism.

Dubcek and his supporters occupied a centrist position between the working class and the Kremlin, with a programme of bureaucratic reform.

Until the invasion, they made no real attempt to turn towards the working class, hoping instead to restrain the masses and thus make their reforms acceptable to the Soviet leaders.

The Soviet leaders, however, recognized that Dubcek's regime could only be a transitional stage in the awakening of the Czechoslovak working class which was beginning to form workers' councils and advance the slogans of political revoluSince the occupation, the Dubcek tendency appears to have confined itself largely to moral protests against Stalinist repression.

Dubcekism is in reality blind-alley for the Czechoslovak Ping-hua, visiting deputy si acretary-general of the China-] apan Friendship Association.

Nissan and IHI were the last two major Japanese firms to hold out against the Chinese conditions. Mitsui accepted conditions last June.

Japan's capitalists are not turning towards Peking out of any love for communism. They are driven by the threat that their markets in the capitalist world will undergo a catastrophic reduction, precipitating a deep slump.

At the end of this month, Tanaka meets president Nixon for talks on Japanese-US Yesterday a leading member of Nixon's party, Senator Jacob Javits warned that failure by Japan to take fresh initiatives narrowing its trade surplus with the US would undermine relations between the two countries and could lead to a further revaluation of the yen.

'Prime Minister Tanaka has indicated that such a revaluation is not acceptable to his government, yet we know that exigencies of the market can overtake even the most urgent political pledges.' he told the senate.

The senator warned that USJapanese relations were now in a critical stage', adding: 'Japan today is at the crossroads-one road could lead to ever greater participation and leadership in the world, the other to old and tragic nationalism.

'Let me bluntly state that a $4,000m (£1,600m) deficit on the trade account with Japan is unacceptable in the United States.' working class.

It has no international programme for struggle against the Stalinist bureaucracy in unity with the workers of the capitalist states.

Instead it peddles the empty platitudes of 'polycentrism' elaborated by the right-wing theoreticians of the Italian CP leadership.

The British CP 'supported' Dubcek after the invasion only in order to curry favour with the middle class. Its protests carry minimum weight with the Stalinist puppets in Czechoslovakia who justifiably regard them with contempt.

The foreign Stalinists cannot defend the Prague frame-up victims because they themselves are utterly compromised by their entire past.

The repression in Czechoslovakia is directed against the workers who are next on the list of Husak's victims.

This repression cannot be halted by liberal protests. The struggle for the release of these frame-up victims involves fight for alternative revolutionary leadership against Stalinism throughout the world.