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REACTIONS Nine days later, the Beijing free unionists issued their first resolutions. The authorities immediately arrested three of the leaders.
The workers hoped to win the sympathy of a section of the state controlled union movement, Leung explained. They wanted independent unions that could really represent the workers and were indignant about the growing corruption and the widening gap between the living standards of the workers and the leaders, the lack of security for the workers and the absence of democracy in the workplaces. But they declared that they did not want to go outside the law.
However, in a speech on TV a few days before the massacre, Premier Li Peng officially declared the idea of independent organizations counter-revolutionary. On June 12, a week after the massacre, the TV showed leaders of the Shanghai independent union who had obviously been beaten. Leung called on the metal workers representatives to get their unions to protest against the repression in China and to campaign to save the lives of those arrested.
She also appealed to them to "go to the foreign firms that operate in China and make sure that they respect the workers' rights." *
Moscow
People's
Front
condemns
massacre DURING a rally devoted mainly to discussing the course of the Congress of People's Deputies, a resolution was adopted on the events in China. In particular, it said: "THE participants in the rally are shocked by reports from Beijing about an attack by the armed forces on demonstrators resulting in thousands of deaths. We consider that this tragedy is not simply the result of the development of events within the country but a sequel to the Tbilisi precedent [where MVD troops attacked Georgian nationalist demonstrators with poison gas and sharpened shovels, killing at least 20]....
"In connection with this, we make the following proposals to democratically inclined deputies: 1) to condemn the
repressive actions of the Chinese authorities aimed at crushing the centers of the people's democratic revolution and which resulted in bloody clashes between the army and police and the demonstrators in Beijing. 2) To declare the support of the people's deputies of the USSR for the just demands of the students, intelligentsia and workers of China. 3) To outlaw the use of armed force against peaceful demonstrations in our country, thereby setting an example for other countries."
Unfortunately, this appeal got no response from the deputies participating in the Congress, including the progressive group. In the Congress, a "neutral" resolution proposed by the Presidium, was adopted. *
"A rule of
terror"
IN AN EDITORIAL on June 15, October Review, a magazine published in Hong Kong by sympathizers of the Fourth International, made the following comment on the repression of the democracy movement in China: THE ROLE of the students as the vanguard in awakening the masses has been fulfilled: from this point of view, the students movement has succeeded! However, it suffered bloody repression at a time when the students movement had developed into a revolutionary movement involving all layers of the masses fighting for democracy, but before the working class could rise up in time to act as the central force in the struggle. People's blood has been split! The red blood wakes up the people....
"The massacre tragedy revealed that the entire bureaucracy is the slaughterer, that the massacre was meticulously planned. From the very beginning the regime refused to have a dialogue with the students....The repression was carried out only after the majority of the top and middle leaders of the bureaucracy expressed support for the central bureaucracy....
"After the June 6 massacre, the entire bureaucracy continues to hunt down and kill the democratic vanguard and is carrying out a rule of terror. This further indicates that the people cannot depend on the armed forces of one faction of the bureaucracy to strike at, or contain another faction. The only way out is through the struggle of the people as the central force and winning over the good elements quit-
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REACTIONS ting the Party and the soldiers to support the struggle of the people....
To show the political prospect and the aim of the struggle, viz., to overthrow the rule of the bureaucracy, it is necessary to tell the facts to the people everywhere and to the army, to draw the lessons from the Beijing massacre, especially the nature of the rule of the bureaucracy and its irre-
The revolutionary struggle of the people to overthrow the rule of the bureaucracy has made an important stride. overthrow the rule of the Chinese bureaucracy, to realize the rule of the people as master, struggle to the very end! *