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By John Spencer

Workers Press no. 840, 12 August 1972 · scan pages 3, 4

Topics: China, Ceylon and South Asia

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taken, Mahgoub was executed. last year.

Addressing celebration given in his honour by businessmen, he accused the communists of laving "subverted both the public and private sectors'.

Earlier he told a delegation of railway trade unionists that they were main targets of communist subversion.

The communists, he said, had made numerous attempts to control the railway union since independence steadfastness but had been foiled and firmness' on the part of the people. In fact, several communist members of the railway union executive are in prisons and concentration camps and at least one has lost his sight as a result of torture.

Numeiry's renewed witch-hunt does not impede his good relations with the Stalinist states, particularly China and Yugoslavia, which he praised for the assistance to the Sudan. But he attacked the other East European countries for putting pressure on their Sudanese students to become communists.

Those students who were now studying in Eastern Europe had *gone out of the government's hand and yours', , he told the business audience. The audience had good reason for celebrating. Numeiry announced a sweeping denationalization programme which would hand back small businesses to private owners.

The government had formed a committee to study the situation of minor businesses taken over by the public sector, he said.

It is unbecoming of the government to sell cloth by the metre or run shops,' the presiChina to veto Bangla Desh CHINA has threatened to veto application fr Bangla Desh membership of United Nations.

At the Security Council meeting on Thursday, Chinese representative Huang Hua said Bangla Desh was not qualified for enury into the UN because it had failed to implement resolutions adopted by the organization during the war with Pakistan last December.

Over Chinese objections, the issue has now been reterred to a security council committee, but it must come before the council again, and China has threatened to use its power of veto.

The Chinese wholeheartedly supported Pakistan's Yahya Khan regime in its bloody attempts to suppress the Bengali people last year.

Peking has yet to recognize the new state, though even the imperialist powers weighed Chilean Allende recently dwellers against left'.

has stepped Communist his troops capable of doing so. The private because it would "build up the country'.

But businessmen must start training their personnel in a bid to improve their performance, he said. The Numiery regime has entered into agreements with British and American firms to exploit the cotton and sugar crops. One contract, with a British-American group, is worth £240m.

Numeiry's anti - communist purge, modelled on the 1964 massacres in Indonesia, was prehave mostly extended recognition after some delay.

Ihe Chinese objection is extremely revealing.

Peking was admitted to the UN only at the end of last year. The United States, which had previously blocked all Chinese applications, suddenly withdrew its objections as the prospects of a detente with Maoism grew.

The Peking government applied for admission despite the history of its relations with the UN, which actually organized the Korean war directed against the Chinese revolution. Entry to the UN was INTERNATIONAL media have in on the side of President Salvador whose police shot down slumin a witch-hunt he so-called ultraup his in July entry into UN Stalinist media weigh in behind Allende a means of making its peace with imperialism.

Bangla Desh was created by the sacrifice and struggle of the Bengali workers and peasants who died in their hundreds of thousands to shake off the Pakistani yoke.

Apart from the Yahya Khan government, its most vicious opponents were the Chinese Stalinists and the Nixon administration in the US.

The United Nations, of course, is a thoroughly reactionary organization, the lineal successor to the League of Nations deAllende's coalition of social-demicras has and Radicals tried without success to find a compromise with the Christian Democrats.

Now it turns against the poor peasants of the Santiago slums in a bloody hunt Over 4,000 communists and prisons and camps. The leaders were executed summarily or after farcical mock trials.

This regime still has economic ties with the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and other East European countries. Its relations with • the Maoists in China and the Tito government of Yugoslavia are particularly cordial.

And the Sudanese employers, together with the imperialists, are now reaping the benefits of the treachery of the Stalinists in the Kremlin and Peking.

Ascribed • by Lenın as 'thieves' kitchen' But Bangla 1 Desh certainly has every bit as much right to join it as the Peking government.

The Chinese Stalinists, however, are objecting to Bangla Desh precisely because it is the result of a mass, armed revolutionary Thus, the chief objection raised by the Chinese security council member is that the Bengalis have not yet released the Pakistan war prisoners captured after Yahya Khan's defeat in December.

Nor, China complains, directed against left-wing militants who have criticized Allende's concessions to the extreme right on Moscow Radio yesterday attacked the MIR ('Left Revolutionary Movement') Ninth Czech trial jails four women EIGHT PEOPLE have been jailed for up to four years on 'subversion' charges in Brno, Czechoslovakia, according to a local newspaper. The highest sentence went to Vlastimila Tesarova.

It was the ninth trial of opponents of Pact occupation since the current series began on July 19. has the Indian army completely quitted Bangla Desh.

The Bengalis, then, had no right to call for Indian aid to drive out the Pakistan troops, though the Koreans, for example, had every right to Chinese assistance against the United Nations in 1951.

Nothing could better demonstrate how far the Chinese leaders have come from their own revolutionary past.

They are now openly aligned with the forces of counter-revolution at the heart of the 'thieves' kitchen'.

which pose coalition.

It said: "The real patriots in Chile are the who are trying to increase production, the skilful of successful work. They it is who are increasingly winning the Forty been trials.

affection of not those air tremble revolutional who with t actions are cause with reactionary country.' ULSTER SUPREMO William Whitelaw and the Social Democratic and Labour Party yesterday resumed secret talks begun earlier this week.

Yesterday's discussions were the third get-together between the Secretary of State and the SDLP in the last few days since the latter broke their boycott of talks with the government.

Whitelaw was due to return to Belfast yesterday for the meeting once more at a secret venue.

He will also remain in Northern Ireland over the weekend for the annual Loyalist Apprentice Boys' parade through Derry.

Spokesman for the Rev lan Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party has already insisted that the parade will go ahead, even though leaders of the Apprentice Boys have agreed to stop it.

For the past three years, this Loyalist parade through the antiLoyalist city of Derry has been the scene of wholesale riots throughout the province and there have been numerous attempts to stop it during that time.

THE FIRST direct full-container service between Singapore and the United States will be launched next January, Peter Albert, a senior shipping execu tive said in Singapore yesterday.

Albert, vice-president (marketing) of American President Lines, said APL's first all-container ship, the 30,200-ton 'President Jefferson', would start the service.

The ship was one of six container vessels which would be put into APL's Singapore-US service by the end of next year, he added.

the Warsaw of frame-ups six people have now convicted in Among the latest batch of defendents was Anna Sabatova, daughter of former Central Committee member Jaroslav Sabata.

She was sentenced to 3} years' jail. Her father is serving a 6tyear term imposed earlier this Four of the eight defendants at the Brno trial were women.

They appear to have been accused of circulating 'inflamatory and subversive leaflets.

Similar charges were levelled against Sabata and most of the other accused so far.

Two men sentenced at a previous trial in Prague yesterday appealed against their conviction.

They are Jaromir Litera and Josef Stehlik. Litera, sentenced to 2} years' jail on July 20, is a former Frague secretary of the CP. Josef Stehlik was sentenced to two years' jail at the same trial.

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