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ROBERT GRIFFITHS reports from a recent meeting in Beijing between the Chinese trade union movement and Western communist parties
An Jianhua, head of the international department of the All China Federation of Trades Unions (ACFTU), is open and relaxed as he talks to Communist Party leaders from six Western countries.
At very short notice, he had come along to outline the work of the ACFTU and answer a series of searching questions.
The ACFTU was established on May Day 1925, on the initiative of the Communist Party of China (CPC), after four years of preparation in the most unfavourable and repressive conditions.
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