The Political Significance of the Burma Workers Party
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WX THEN U NU, in order to maintain himself in office last June, accepted the support of the legal Communists, the Burma Workers Party, and the independents in the National United Front, he laid the foundation for the eventual take-over of the Government by the Army. His plan had been to make use of the Communist votes until he could go to the people and win a general election, but this masterpiece of recklessness was doomed from the beginning. Instead, his action resulted in smashing the AFPFL anti-Communist front just when the Burma Communist Party was believed to be on the verge of giving up its long struggle which had cost the country thousands of lives, vast sums of money, and seriously held back plans for Burma's development. The immediate reaction of Than Tun, the leader of the Burma Communist Party, was a much stiffened attitude towards the Government's longstanding offer to accept his surrender and to legalize his party. In the new circumstances, Than Tun saw a possibility of continuing the struggle. Instead of facing a strong, united AFPFL Government which had hounded him almost to defeat, he now had to cope only with a weak U Nu government which was actually kept in power by Communist votes. He therefore decided to hold his hand and to await developments. Meanwhile, the parliamentary Communists increased their pressure upon Nu. Socialist Home Guards were disarmed, Socialist policemen and civil servants were dismissed. In surviving the no-confidence motion in Parliament by only 8 votes, Nu was kept in office by the 26 votes of the admittedly Communist Burma Workers Party. Yet Nu is not a Communist: he is indeed on record as an anti-Communist, although some of his best friends and closest advisers are intellectual Communists (Thein Pe Myint, for example). During the noconfidence debate, he said that he too, like Kyaw Nyein, believed that the Communists in Burma should never be put into power and that so long as he was Prime Minister he would see to it that power did not go to them.