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(continued from page 9: “Exiled Chinese students assess key role of workers in national upheaval”) touch with the workers it purports to serve through institutional revolution. Union organizers have a keen sense that they are a threat to the rigid party system."

This story is being repeated throughout China. The mass movement has suddenly leapfrogged as the workers register their own strength and the central role they have played in rescuing the students and generalizing the mobilization into a movement which embraced the entire population and the soldiers in uniform.

"The government is afraid," states Zhao Pinglu, 33, the railroad worker from the Beijing Independent Workers' Union and a member of its standing committee. "They are afraid because the truth is in the hands of the people. ,11 I cannot help recalling the long years of Maoism, when activists in the "radical" movements in the West celebrated the bureaucracy, lauded its leader cult, and hounded all who were not sufficiently and Mao bureaucracy, deified by sycophants everywhere and fawned over by not a few revolutionary pundits.

The workers, as Zhao Pinglu reveals, are providing their own answer, eloquent, impassioned, unrelenting, and confident as the long unfinished Chinese revolution, betrayed cruelly by Stalin in 1927 and derailed for six decades, bursts forth in the Great Square of the People before an impassive, discarded icon of the unmentioned and unheralded ex-chairman Mao. Brooklyn, NY 11240-4830 IMPACT Post Office Box 404830 ISUALS 2-966-9619 Affordable photos, cartoons, caricatures and lustrations for the movement and the progressive press