Given the AKP's size and resources, they would represent a welcome reinforcement of the non-Stalinist revolutionary movement. *
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REACTIONS DENMARK THE DAILY paper of the Danish Communist Party, Land og Folk, wrote in an editorial June 6:
The massacre puts a bloody and shameful end to all the hopes that people could have had in recent weeks for a dialogue between the government and the demonstrators, who never questioned socialism. or the legitimacy of the system. They only wanted to be heard....
The transition from the post-Maoist era, if the students had had their way, could have been carried out according to democratic principles. Instead, we got another one of these internal coups that are generally justified by talking about the "crimes" and "ideological deviations" of others.
It is precisely this form of decision making in a narrow circle of Stalinist bureaucrats that brought hundreds of thousands to demonstrate for democratic reforms.
In the long run the government cannot win a war against its own people. As earlier in the People's Republic's history, a scapegoat will be found. But that will not make any difference if Deng's successors do not involve the people who have given their name to the republic. Our support, therefore,
Editorial from the June issue of Klassekampen FASCIST TERROR IN CHINA The peaceful movement for democracy and against abuse of power and corruption in China was met on Sunday with bloody terror. Thousands of peaceful demonstrators were killed in an outright massacre. A progressive people's movement has been denounced by the rulers as "counterrevolutionary," and the bloody massacre is being called a "victory" for the "Chinese revolution"
In reality, this is fascist terror against the people. A little fascist clique has taken power in the party and the state, and the bloody actions against the people are a betrayal of the Chinese revolution and all oppressed people in the world. The People's Liberation Army has been set against the people, and the rulers are using pure police-state methods to try to prevent the world from finding out about what has happened.
The Chinese students have waged a peaceful struggle for greater democracy, against the misuse of power and corruption. The economic reforms have been necessary to extricate China from poverty. But the reforms have also led to great inequalities among the people and to a greater gap between the people and the leadership, between the people and the party. The development of democracy has lagged. It is a bloody irony that the Soviet Union, which Mao Zedong called a fascist dictatorship of the Hitler type, is opening up a discussion on democracy, while those who hold power in the CCP are responding to democratic expres sions with tascist terror. The Chinese revolution can only be carried torward if those responsible for the terror, who have thrown history back ten years, are overthrown. The potential for this exists in the Chinese people and among the 48 million members of the Chinese Communist Party.
The AKP has broken off relations with the Chinese Communist Party. In this situation, this was the only thing we could do. What is happening in 14 International Viewpoint #166 • June 26, 1989 must be given to those forces whose has been drowned in blood. * demand tor retorms for the moment THE June 5 Morning Star, newspaper of the pro-Moscow traditionalist current in British Stalinism generally known as the "tankies"), baulked at the tanks in Tiananmen
...Coinciding, as it did, with the visit of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the students' action diverted attention from the historic rapprochement between the two largest socialist countries. But it is hard to believe assertions that the students were imbued with hatred of China's socialist system....
The students have not opposed socialism. They have opposed corruption and other negative phenomena associated with the policies of economic liberalization. They have also made clear their view that China's economic progress is bound up with an expansion of democratic rights.
The response of the working people of Beijing to the students' demonstrations in Tiananmen Square showed a great wave of support for their basic demands.... *