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Kiangsi Provincial Reyolutionary rA Gommittee Formed ln Excellemt $ituation

4 New Ero With Moo Tse-tung's Thougllt As lts Greot Bonner Accloimed

Peking forum of workers, peosonts, soldiers ond Red A Guords on the excellent world situotion. Soviet Revisionists' Plot to Csll ,{L Counter-Revol utionory I nterndtional Meetfng Can Only Speed Their Own Doom

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: In every place or unit where power rnust be seized, it is necessarJi to carry out the poliey af the revolu.tionary "three-in- one" combination in establishlng a provisional organ of power which is revoluticnary and representative and enjoys proletarian authority. This otgan of power should preferably be called the Bevolutionary Cornmittee.

Irreccncilable dornestie and international contradictions, like a volcano, menace U.S. imperialisrn every day. U.S. is sitting on this volcano.

The Fresent Situatian and, Our foslcs (December 194?)

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Our greot teocher, greot leoder, greot supreme commonder ond greot helmsmon l[iangsi ProyEnoial Hevolutiomary Gommittee Fsrqlled in Exeellent $ituation

Grond Rolly of 200,000 P.L.A. Men ond People Wish the Greot Lesder Choirmon Moo o Long, Long Life

TIIE Revolutionary Committee of Iiiangsi Province and developed the Chingkang spirit of steadfast and -a rvas set up on January 5, at a tirne when the na- thoroughgoing rerzolution Tlrey exposed the handful of tion's revolutionary masses in their hundreds of millions capitalist roaders, including Fang Chih-chun, seized the are tvinning all-round victory in the great proletarian polver they had usurped and kept it firm in the hands . of the proletarian revolutionaries, thereby opening a new Kiangsi Province is in east China. It was here that chapter in the glorious history of the Red revolutionary in 1927 the great leader Chairman Mao established a base area. revolutionary base area in the Chingkang Mountains, At the crucial moment of the struggle, the Chinese the first of its kind in China. People's Liberation Army, foliowing the great leader In Nanchang, of the province, a grand raliy Chairman Mao's instruction to "help the broad masses to celebrate the birth of the committee r',.as aitended by of the Left," gave most resolute support to the prole- over 200,000 proletarian revolutionaries, revolutionary tarian revolutionaries and made outstanding contribu- people and commanders and fighters of the Chinese tions in helping the Left, helping industry and agricul- People's Liberation Army. ture, exercising military controll and giving military and political training. Carlying huge portraits of Chairman lvlao and rvaving tl'reir bright red copies of Quotations From Comrade Cheng Shih-ching, Chairman of the CLtairman l\[ao Tse-tung, they cheer:ed again and again: Kiangsi Provincial Revolutionary Committee, addressing "Long live the victory of the invincibtre thought of Mao the rally, said: "'Sailing the seas depends on the Tse-tungl" "Long live the victory of Chairman Mao's helmsman, making revolution depends cn Mao revolutionary line!" and "Long live Chai"rman Mao! A Tse-tung's thought.' In winning the struggle to seize long, long life to him!" power, the Kiangsi proletarian revolutionaries relied on the great helmsrtran Mao ai-rd invincibie Chairman Mao, the red sun in our hearts, has always Chairman the thcught &Iao maintaining and ex- sho'uvn great soiicitlrde for the movement of the great of Tse-tung." In ercising power ahead would proletarian cultural revoltition in Ifiangsi Province. Last this well in the days they also rely the great helmsman Chairman Mao and the year he went there during his tour oI inspection and on Tse-tung, he added. gave brilliant instructions. His solicitude gave the local invineible thought of Mao people immense encouragement, education and strength. He pointed out that the fundamental task now was Holding high the great red banner oi llao Tse-tung's to carr-v the rvords of Chairman Mao to the people of thought, they have creatively studied and applied ilIao the rvhole provilce, to achieve all-round implementation Tse-tung's thought, closely follolved Chairman Mao's of Chalrman &Iao's latest instructions, to carry out on great strategic plan and held to Chairman &Iao's pro- a $/ider scale and more thoroughly the great mass move- letarian revolutionary line. They have also been relent- ment of creatively studying and applying Mao Tse-tung's lessly repudiating the counter-revolutionary revisionist thought, and by putting Mao Tse*tung's thought in line pursued by China's I{hrushchov and hts agents in command, to do a good job of revolutionizing people's Kiangsi and steadily developing and consolidating the ideo).ogy, so as to win all-round victory in the great pro- revolutionary great alliance and revolutionary "three- letarian cultural revolution-politicaily, ideologically, and to carry the in-one" combinations. AII this has add-ed up io decisive economically and organizationally - victory in the province's great proletarian culiural rev- great proletarian cultural revolution through to the end. olution. Chairman Mao, he said, is our great teacher, great Establishment of the I{iangsi Provincial Revolution- Ieader, great supreme commander and great helmsman, ary Committee proclaimed the complete bankruptcy of the never-setting red sun in our hearts. Chairman Mao the plots for a capitalist restoration hatched by a hand- has inherited, defended and developed -Lenin- ful of capitalist roaders in the Party, including Fang ism with geni.us, creatively and comprehensively, and Chih-chun, the agent of China's Khrushchov in has raised it to a cornpletely new stage. The great Kiangsi. thought of }vlao Tse-tung is Marxism-Leninlsm of the Our great leader Chairman Mao himself kindled the present era. flarne of the great proletarian cul'uural r'evolution. The sons and daughters of the Chingkang Moun- Gui.ded by Chairman Mao's proletarian revoLutlonary tains, Comrade Cheng Shih-ching said, deeply under- line, the people of Kiangsi, 1c1-a1 to hiiu. have inherited stood that armed with Mao Tse-tung's thought, they

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would always advance trium- phantly and victoriously storm iii::t;:r aii positions. They pledged to be ahvays loyal to Chairman . :l::: r::n:::i:: Mao, to the thought of Mao :!:::;ii::t:t::lti Tse-tung and to Chairman h{ao's proletarian revolutionary line. With the greatest en- thusiasm, determination and swiftness they would do their utmost to disseminate, study, implement and translate inio action every instrtr-ction of Chairman Mao's. They \ ierre determined to foIlor,,, the exam- pie of Comrade Li Wen-chung, a model in "heiping the Left and cherishing the people," whose motto was: "We 1o\re what Chairman l\llao loves, we Mao support what Chairman The Chinese People's Liberation Army has madle outstantling contributions to the supports, we act according to great cultural in lfiangsl Provioce. fts members eheer at the rally: "Long Chairman Nfao's inskuctions, tive the victory"e.rolution of chairman lttao's revolutionary une!" "Long live chairman Mac!" we advance as Chairman Mao and direcLs," he declared. guard against arrogance and rastrness, work liard aim high to bring prosperity to the country, carry on proletarian revolu- Cheng Shih-ching called on the the revolution for ever and make steacly progress. They tionaries and the revolutionary masses throughout the must promote the Chinese revolution and the u'orld province to raise still higher the great red banner of revolution, turn the first Red revolutionary base area Mao Mao Tse-tung's thought, creatively study and apply created by Chairman Mao into a great red school of Tse-tung's thought, study and apply well Chairman Mao Tse-tung's thought, spread throughout the world Mao's Iatest series of extremely important instruclions the flame which Chairman Mao had himself kindled in concerning the great proletarian cultural revolution. the Chingkang Mountains and let the invincibie thought Taking "fight self-interest repudiate " as of Mao Tse-tung shine ail over the globe, he concluded. the key link, they were asked to do a really good jcb in of running all types of classes i.o the study of Mao Also speaking at the rally r,vere representatives units in Kiangsi, Tse-tung's thought, eliminate self-interest and promote the Chinese People's Liberation Army Great Alliance devotion to the public interest, remould their w'orld of the Preparatory Committee for the rvork- outlook, utterly repudiate revisionism, continue with of Proletarian Revolutionaries in Kiangsi and of peasants and . the deep-going campaign of revolutionary mass criticism ers, poor and lower-middle greeted the birtll and repudiation so as to promote and consoiici*te the With revoiutionary enthusiasm they revolutionary great alliance and revolutionary "three- of the revolutionary committee. in-one" combinations, and carry out well the tasks of They expressed their determination to be ahvays struggle-criticism-transformation. They were also loyal to the great leader Chairman NIao and the great called upon to consolidate the Party organizations and thought of Mao Tse-tung and to hold siill higher the strengthen Party building, further impleraent Chairrnan great red banner of Mao Tse-tung's thought. They Mao's great call to 'usupport the army and cherish the piedged that in ail cireumstances they would strictly act peoplg" make big efforts to strengthen the unity be- in accord-ance vrith Chair,ran Mao's instructions. tween P.L.A. men and people, strengthen and con- An:icl thuntierous applause and cheers, the ra1ly solidate the dictatorship of the , heighien adopted. a message of salute to tire most respected and their revolutionary vigilance, and grasp revolution and beloved great leader Chairman l\{ao. promote produetion and other work, promote prepara- The message said: "With indescribable joy and ex- tions against war, and achieve stil1 better results in all citem,ent, we, sons and daughters of the Chingkang fields. Mountains, report to you, the red sun that shines most Chairman Mao, Vice-Chairman Lin Piao and the brightly in our hearts that, nurtured by your brilliant Party's highly evaluated the great thought, the Kiangsi Provincial Revolutionar;, Corn- proletarian cultural revolution in Kiangsi Protince and mittee has trlumphantly arisen amidst the storms of placed great hopes on it, Cheng Shih-ching said. The class struEJgle. sons and daughters of the Chingkang Mountains must "This is yet another brilliant victory for your pro- carry forward the revolutionary tradition and gain still Ietarian revolutionar), line! Ii is yet another great greater glory. They must be modest and prudent, victor;r of your illustrious thought in this old revolu- o Pet*ing ReoLew, No. 2 tionary base area! It is yet another glorious contribu- era in which your thought is the great banner. ?he tion made. by the Chinese People's Liberation Army, revoiuiionary roaci of the Chingkang lVlountains ,*,hich personally created and led by you, in helping the Left, you opened up now leads to aii parts of the world. The helping industry and agliculture, exerci.sing military great truth 'poiitical poxver grow,s out of the barrel of control and giving rniLitary and poLitical training!,, a gun' is being grasped by revolutionary people "Respected and beloved great leader Chairman througi-rout the worid. Tire thunder of the guns on ('\tre Mao," the message continued, sons an<1 daughters Huangyangchieh is reverberating through Asia, Africa of the Chingkang Mountains are closely fol1or',zing you and Latin America. The fiame of revolutionary armed in rvinning all-round vlctory for the great proletarian struggie is spreading ali over the fi're continents an

TIte Red FIsg of the Chingkcng Mountcins Will \Vsve Throrsgt? All The Gemerstiorss to Coffi?e - Founding of Kicngsi Provincial Reyo!utionnry Committee wormly occioimed

TNSPIRING nervs of the establishment of a plovincial. the colour of this oid Eed base area. But the r.evolu- r revolutionary committee has come from Kiangsi, the tionar-r- people of Kieng-ci, loyal io Chairman Mao, have first Red base area in China which was founded per- s,aged a hemic tit-for-tat struggle against this handful sonally by Chairman Mao. This comes in the midst of class enemies to defend Chairman Mao's proletarian of the song of triumph of the great proletarian cultural revoluiionar5r line. Keeping to Chairman ly'Iao's gi'eat revolution, which is echoing to the skies, and at the strategic plan in the course of the great proletarian outset of the glorious year of 1968. cultural revolution, they have broken through one and braved storm and wave to Forty years ago when our great leader Chairman obstacle after another, great victory. Mao hoisted the red flag of revolution on the Ching- win a kang Mountains, he opened up the brilliant revolu- Chairman Mao teaches us: "?he universal truth tionary road of encircling the cities from the country- of Marxism-Leninisrn, which reflects the practice oI side and seizing political power by armed force. Since proletariao struggle throughout the world, beeomes an then, the heroic sons anci daughters of the Chingkang invincible weapon for the Chinese people lvhen it is Mountains have closely followed our great supreme integrated with the cohcrete praetice of the revolution- commander Chairman Mao and, guided by the inrrinci- ary struggle of the Chiness proletariat and people." I ble thought of Mao Tse-tung, have dedicatedly carried forward the revolution, writing an epic page in the Chairman Mao also teaches us: "Once the masses hisiory of the Chinese revolution. know the truth-and have a common aim, they will work together with one heatt." . . . and, "whe,n the masses China's Khrushchov and his agent Fang Chih-chun are of one heart, everything becomes easy." and iheir iike in Kiangsi, for a long time, frantically opposed Mao Tse-tung's thought and pushed a counter- The most important thing of all is to put Mao revolutionary revisionist iine in an attempt to change Tse-tung's thoughl into practice. Once the great teach-

Januarg 72, 1968 GREilI.GULTUNffi REW€BB.EBYESffi TH PM(}&RE$$

The Arnny and People Pledge to Fulfil the M ilitant Tasks for 1958

THE new, militant call issued by the pro).etarian head- issued a notice ealling on the revolutionary masses r quarters headed by Chairman Maq "Ushering in throughout the city to do a really good job of run- the Al}-Round Victory of the Great Proletarian Cultural ning the various types of Mao Tse-tung's thougllt study Revolution," reached'the whole Party, the whole army, classes, and to launch a still more widespread and deep- tJre proletarian revolutionar:ies and al1 the Chinese peo- er-going mass movement for creatively studying and ple through lhe Renmin Ri,bao, Hongqi and Jiefangjun applying Chairman Mao's works. In Shanghai, Kwei- Boo editorial for New Year's Day 1968. chow, Kwangtung, Hunan and elsewhere, meetings rvith of The publication of this important editorial rn'as a attendances ranging from thousands to tens great encouragement and inspiration to the proletarian thousands of people have been held, calling on the revolutionaries and the revolutionary masses through- broad revolutionary masses to immediately set going a out the country. Everyone resolved to hold stili big mass campaign for studying and imptrementing to higirer the great red banner of Mao Tse-tung's thought, the fuii tire latest instructions of Chairman Mao, and implement the series of Chairman Mao's latest instruc- to carry them out to the letter. tions new year in the to achieve all-round i.deological, Conscientiously studying the New Year editorial, political, economic organizational and victory in the revolutionary masses everywhere realized profoundly gteat proletarian cultural revolution. that the great thought of I/Iao Tse-tung has been the Swiftly, an upsurge for studying, propagating and basic guarantee for all their victories. A11-round im- implementing the latest direetives of Chairman Mao plementation of Chairman lMao's latest instructions, srvept the country. Revolutionary comriiitees and pre- they said, means all-round victory for the great prole- paratory groups for rerrolutionary ccmi-,rittees ancl tarian culttiral revolution. In this new year, they are revolutionary mass organizations in many piaces held determined to carry for'*ard the revolutionary style of meetings and passed resolutions to publicize tite Net, study advocated by Chairman Mao, be models in reso- Year's Day editorial among the broad reroiuiionar--,- liitel.v study'ing. implementing, propagandizing and masses. The Peking Municipai Revolutionary Committee deienCing Chairi:-ran l\,Iao's latest instructions, and win

lngs of Chairman 1\1[ao's go directly to the masses and "three-in-one" combination and establish the province's are grasped by them, they will be translated into the revolutionary committee. This is the most important and conscious rerrolutionary action of the people in their fundamental experience gained in the successful mil.iions and generate inexhaustible strength. development o{ the great proletarian cultural revolu- tion I{iangsi Provinee" The proletarian revolutionaries in Kiangsi Prorrince in and the locally stationed P.L.A. units have been ex- "We love u'hat Chairman Mao loves, we support emplary in carrying out the great teachings of Chair- rvhat Chairman &Iao supports, we act according to man Mao in the mighty proletarian cultural revolution. Chairman &Iao's instructions, w.e advance as Chairman All through, they have put the study, implementation, Mao directs!" Holding high the great red banner of propagation and defence of Chairraan l\{ao's great In{ao Tse-tung's thought and taking a firm, clear-cut teachings in the forefront of all their work. They stand, the eommanders and fighters of the Chinese have organized many propaganda groups to spr-ead the People's Liberation Army units in Kiangsi Province, invincible thought of Mao Tse-tung among the masses have given fuil support to the proletarian revolu- so as to organize and arrn thern. By various means they tionaries and the revolutionary masses, defended them carried the voice of Chairman Mao into the midst of andtmade in:mense contributions in the work of help- the masses so that his words are knolvn to evei:;r family ing the Left, helping industry and agricultur"e, exercis- and enter deep into the hearts of the peop).e. The prole- ing military control and giving military and political tarian revolutionaries and P.L.A. units have fu1ly im- training. Outstanding P.L.A. units and individuals plemented Chairman l\{ao's latest instructicns ar:d cor- such as the heroic 4th Platoon and Comrade Li rectly handled the contradictions among the people. lVen-chung, who are rnodels in helping the Left and Thus. they have been able to forge a province-u,ide rev- cherishing the people, have come forward to set bril- olutionary great alliance, promote t,Le revolutionary liant examples, for armymen and civilians al1 over the

8 Peking Reuieu, No. 2 ail-round victory in the great proletarian cultural Recalling their ov",n expei:ience. the workers of Ku'ang- re'",olution. chou, realized that bourge'ois self-interest is completell' opposed proletarian Revolutionary masses are of the opinion that Mao to Chairman Maro's revolutionarv line and Tse-tung's thought study classes provide a good way for that loyalty to Chairrnan Mao should be mea- creatively studying and applying Mao Tse-tung's thought sured by horv one fights setrf-interest, and that the great proletarian and implementing Chairman Mao's latest instructions. cultural revoii-ltion must be carried through In the new year, further efforts must be made to effec- to the end. tively organize and run these classes. In 1967, the Commanders and fighters of the three services of Shanghai No. 3 Steel Mill successively organized the P.L.A. enthusiastically greeted the editorial. They 86 classes for studying Mao Tse-tung's thought, resolved to conscientiously fulfii the fighting tasks set li,ith 12.000 people taking part. The revolutionary staff out in it and do a still better job in their rvork of and rvorkers of the are miil determined in 1968 to run helping the Left. helping industry and agticulture, ex- these classes better and revolutionize more the still ercising military control and giving political and mili.- thinking of the mill's staff and workers. The poor and tary training; be ready at a1i times to stlash the r,var lower'-middie peasants and revolutionary cadres of peo- provocations of U.S. imperialism and its lackeys, and ple's communes, production brigades and teams on the win nerv merit in defending the motherland and the outskirts of Nanchang also expressed their resolve to great proietalian culturai revolution. They pledged run these study classes better and fu1fi1 the militant that they 'uvould carry olrt each and ever)' one of tasks outLined by Chairman Mao for this year and make Chairman Mao's latest instructions to the letter. and these tasks the guide to action for everyone. that they would resolutely act as Chairman Mao in- In studying the New Year editorial proletarian structed to bring the revolutionization and moderniza- revolutionaries, the revolutionary masses and young tion of the army to a higher level. Many battle-tested Red Guards expressed their firm determination to fully veteran Red Armymen went among the fighters in the implement Chairman Mao's latest instructions and companies to repeatedly study and discuss the editorial closely follorv his greai strategic p1an. With the deep with them. Cornrnanders and fighters of the P.L.A. en- class feeling of boundless love for Chairman Mao, they gaged in the rvork of helping the Left, helping industry were determined to be infinitely ioyal to Mao Tse-tung's and agriculture, exercising military control and giving thought, put stress on its application, mercilessly fight political and miiitary training, together with the local self-interest and energetically foster devotion to public proletarian revolutionaries and revolutionary masses, interest. The revolutionary masses of the Kwangsi made the study of the editcrial more profound and Chuang Autonomous Region declared that they would lively by linking it to actual struggies in their areas, dis- alu'ays be loyal to Chairman Mao, to Mao Tse-tung's cussing the current situation and the significance of the thought, and the revolutionary line of Chairman Mao, editorial for their localities anC discussing new tasks. firmly establish devotion to the public interest and Many army units also organized propaganda teams to tholoughly repudiate self-interest arrd rrevisicnjsi-n. publicize tlre editorial in factories anri vilJ.ages.

country, in continuing to make revolution under the tionary great ellia:rce anC the revolutionar,- "three-in- dictatorship of the proletariat. one'' eombination, make a success of revolutionary This victory in the struggle to seize political power mass repudiation and stluggle-criticism-transformation great by the proletarian revolutionaries in Kiangsi Province in each unit and win all-round victory in the politi- was won thanks to Chairman Mao's solicitude and proletarian cultural revolution-ideologicaily, brilliant leadership. It is a great victory for cally, economically and organizationally. the invincible thought of Mao Tse-tung. Follorving We are confident that the heroic daughters and the founding of the Revolutionary Committee, there sons of the Chingkang Mountains will advance under may be thousands of tasks, but the most fundamental the guidance of Chairman Mao's great exhortation one is to make big efforts to run Mao Tse-tung's "carry the revohrtionary tratlition forward, may you thought study classes well and to organize the revolu- gain still greater glory." tionary masses and revolutionary cadres to study and May the red flag of the Chingkang Mountains, apply Chairman Mao's works in a creative way, so as raised by Chairman Mao, fly for ever! to continue to develop the revolutionary style of study (Abndged the ed.itor'wl of which Chairman Mao himself advocates, that is, to link translation of ioint Bao," theory with practice, in other words, study should be "Renmin Ribaa" and, "Jicfangiun combined with application so as to get quick results. JanuarY 7) Along with this, each and every one of Chairman Mao's latest instructions must be implemented in an a1l-rolind CORRECTION way. With these instructions as the guide, it is The date given in the sixih iine foom the bottom, necessary to "fight self-interest and repucliate revi- left-hand column, page 16 of our No. 1 issuq 1968, should be May 196? instead of May 1966. sionism," further consolidate and develop the revclu-

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Revolutionary People of the World Wish a Lomg, Long Life to Chairman Mao ! The all-illuminating thought of Mao Tse-tung tortuous journeys and pass through many hands before lights up all parts of the world. Indeed the continents they reach the Chinese comrades. The ieiters say: "We are infinite and the oceans are profound, but they are very grateful for Chairman Mao's ioving kindness" are not so infinite as Chairman Mao's wisdom and not and "the Chinese people's greatest help to the Viet- so profour-rd asi the love cherished for Chairman Mao narrlese people is Chairman Mao's military thinking." by the revolutionary people world. With one all of the Every wish is a most beautiful song of Praise. A voice and from the bottom of their hearts, they wish British youth sent a Chinese friend of his a New Year's long, life which Chairman Mao a long a wish card with the following words written in a neat hand: expresses their respect and love, their- hope and faith, "Today is the 26th of. December. May Chairman l\llao and also their strength. live a long, long life!" The same night a Pakistan The wish embodies the most profound inter- student studying in Britain put a picture of Chairman nationalist feelings. Comrade Enver Hoxha, the great Mao on the lamp shade and said: "This means thai leader of the Aibanian people and the close friend of for the people Chairman Mao is the source of light." A the Chinese people, has heartily wished "Comrade Mao Bulgarian revolutionary family, all of whose members Tse-tung a long life, as lcng as ihat of our mountains." are diligent readers of Chairman Mao's works, embroid- This conve;,-s the most heartfelt aifeetion cherished by ered a beautiful tablecloth and two handkerehiefs and t.Le Albanian people for Chairman Mao. In heroic wrote a sincere letter of greetings to Chairman Mao. Albania, even small children, w'hen they see a portrait They sent these presents and the letter to Chinese oI Chairman i\{ao, call out aff ectionately "Mao comrades to be forlvarded to "the most lespected and Tse-tung," this most resounding narne. beioved ]eader Chairman Mao." A u,oman worker of an Albanian handicraft co- One day in early autunrn a Yugoslav couple who operative, r,;orking together with some Chinese students were unemployed rvorkers cailed on their Chinese about to go home, enthusiastically embroidered a red friends bringing with them a pot of evergreen to express banner to be presented to Chairman Mao. On the banner their heartfelt love for Chairman Mao. A Nepalese are the gliitering lvords: "Chairman Mao, may you live friend in a letter rvishing "a 1ong, long life to Chair- a 1ong, iong life!" The woman said: "I wish I could man Mao, the greatest, most outstanding and most embroider on this banner our Albanian people's bound- respected and beloved leader in the w'orld," wrote: "As less love for Chairman Mao." there is a red sun in the sky, so there is a Mao Tse-tung Every rvish is a lofty rnilitant salute. A Vietnarnese on earth. Whitre the sun in the sky shines bright, the comrade-i:r-arms fighting at the fcrefront of the anti- stln on earth radiates brilliance." ."vishing U.S. struggle once u,rote a poern Chaii'man Mao When a Greek freighier called at Chankiang port, long "a long, life and the brilliant light of Chairrnan a veteran seaman carne ashore. When he saw Chinese Mao to shine throughout the world." Nguyen Binh, comrades, he gave them a thumbs-up salute and said, another Vietnamese comrade, gave expression fuil to "Chairman Mao is great!" He then unfolCed a piece the profound gratitude of the Vietnamese people for of silk and took out a shining badge r,r,itir a profile of Chairman Mao and IMao Tse-tung's thought when he Chairman Mao. Gripping the hands of the Chinese said: "Like the sun rising in the east, Mao Tse-tung's the Chinese people thought has lit up our hearts, fortified our revolurionary comrades, he said; "Please te1l that people ideology and revclutionary will and boosted our fight- the of Greece and of the whole lvoi:ld all lvish Chairman Mao long, long ing morale in the struggle to thoroughly defeat the U.S, a life!" imperialist aggresso"s and modern revisionists." Ii1- A crew mernber of a foreign freighter which had numerab,l,e letterns from the south (fronr south Viet- just anchored in Tsingtao harbour vrent ashore and nam) to Chinese comrades-in-arms have convey,ed the greeted the Chinese working in the harbour by waving south Vietnamese people's most profound revolutionary a copy of. Quotati.cns From Ch"ai,rman Mao Tse-tung he feelings of love and respect for Chairman Mao Tse-tungr carried rvith him and saying: "This treasured book is Such letters take months, sometimes over a yea"r, make the most important thing for the peopie of the whole

10 Peking Reuiew, No. 2 world. Every word in it is truth." Then he opened some middle school students in Warsaw, inspired by the book and read some passages aloud. On the day the spirit of "'rebellion is justified," put up in the centre of his departure from TsingLao, he filled a glass with of a class::oom wail Chainnan l\l[ao's portrait flanked wine and holeiing it up before a portrait of Chairman by two siogans: ".Long live Chairman. Mao!" and Mao said with emotion: "I heartily wish you a long, "Down with Brezhtrev!'' The school authorities were Iong life!" scared stiff they discovered this 4nd immediately "a,hen took dornn Chairman Mao's portiait and the slogans. Every wish is a tremendous encouragennent. The They threatened the students that such thing.wil} revolutionary people of all countries rega::d Chairman "no be allowed to occur in the future." But the next day Mao's excellent health as the greatest happiness and the raciiant words: live Chairman Mao!" again the greatest joy for the people of the wovld. The "Long appeared on th,e side of the stairs in the school building. happy news that Chairman Mao is in excellent health has reached every part of the world and has brought On a mountain in Latin America, a people's guerrilla the greatest encoul'agement to the revolutionary people stood in the morning mist, gazing u,ith deep feelings of the world. A Vietnamese comrerde-in-arms, Anh towards the east and rvaiting for the sun to rise. In Cucng, told his Chinese comrades in a letter: "Amidst one hand, he held a rifle seized from the enemy in f!.erce battles against the ferocious U.S. bandits, I, like batile and in ihe other, he r',,aved the bright red- the rest of the entir-e Vietnarnese people, was infinitely treasuled bock, Qztotatiort-.s From. Chairm.an Mao thriiled when I heard the nern s, because this was the Tse-tung. He opened the page of the book that had greatest happiness for the 31 million fighting Viet- the portrait of the great leader and said aloud: "Mao namese people and the people of the whole world." A Tse-tung!" Raising his head, he sarv the sun rising in centenarian of the Meo nationaiity in the hilly areas of the east. The brilliant iight dispersed the mist over the Laos was so happy that she sang to the melody of an Atlantlc, penetrated the jungles and lit up the faces of ancient folk song: "Chairman llIao, the red sun that his comrades-in-arms. They greeted the rising red sun has risen in China, for ever illurrrines the land under g,ith cheers of "viva" and made ready to go into new the Laotian skies!" Three revolutionaries in Japan battles. wrote a joint letter to their Chi.nese friends: "More live Tse-tung!" This is confidence in than anything else, to the world proletariat and the "Long Mao victory. Indonesian revolutionaries warmly shout this oppressed peoples and nations, the health of Chairman slogan which imbued inexhatrstible strength, Mao is cause for rejoicing. The ha.ppy news gives us is with each time they get copies of the revolutionary treasured added courage in our fight against U.S. imperialism." book Chairman Mao Tse-tung. The happy news was hailed by an old Cuban couBle: Quotations Frorn They- say with conviction: Mao teaches us: "Good! Good! Excellent! This is a big happy event!" "Chairman single spark can start a prairie tire.' The road pointed A Malian student studying in the Scviet Union said: 'a out by him is the only road for the liberation of the "This nerv$ has greatly inspired nre and made rne Indonesian people! Our fellow countrymen. r','ho are elated. This is the best piece of nelvs iu the world." now in the abyss of suffering, will certainly be The revoiutionary p-eople of the \\,orid, in different liberated !" places, languages and lvays, most heartily cheer "long An old Ss.iss rvorker respectf'ully bo.,r-ed to a por- Mao, a 1ong, long life to him!" live Chairman trait of Chairman Mao n'hich he saq,, and burst out "Long live $Iao Tse-tung!" This is a nrilitant pledge. cheering: "Iong live Chairman Mao!" He 6aid: Shouting "Long live lll[ao Tse-tung!" Laotian people's "Chairman Mao is the embodiment of truth and the fighters guarding tb.e Phou Khouth Mountain front saviour of the u,orking class." He and his '*'ife listen rvent into battle. Shouting "Long live Mao Tse-tung!" to Radio Peking every day, sometimes two or three Congoiese (B) youth saluted a statue of Chairman Mao times a day, and they have done so for years. He said: anci expressed their rietermiiration for the revoltttion. "Our rvhole family feels very happy every time we "tfra, Mao Tse-tung!" a Soviet ln'oman shouted and hear the name of Chairman Mao over the radio." Chinese eom::ades in voice, pointing her told a firm to live hlao Tse-tung!" This is the cheer of (the Soviet revisionists) do not allou' us "Long heart: "They happiness. Late one night, a sailor from the Cypriot to shout (Ura. Mao Tse-tung!) but I insist on shouting vessel, Angeliki, which was anchored in a Chinese Shouting Ior ever!" live Mao Tse-tung!" it! it "Long port, suridenly got out of bed and guietly approached American rvorkers shouted in their struggle against the a Chinese on duty and asked his help in reading and U.S. reactionaries. writing the Chinese characters for "long live Chairman "Long live lllao Tse-tung!" This is the source of Mao." "These words express the heartfelt wish of the strength. An old man in the Bulgarian countryside people of the world," he said, "I must learn them." placed an embroidered portrait of Chairman Mao in a Atter sorne practice, he became quite prcficient. When gilded frame and pui it up in the most conspicuous he met Chinese friends, he would put up his thumb place in his room. Every day he took a good look at and proudly shout in Chinese: "Long live Chairman Chairman Mao's portrait for a few moments. He said: Mao!" One day last May, as soon as a foreign vessel "On seeing Chairman Mao I gain such strength that arrived at Tsingtao from Dar-es-Sa1aam, some crew I feel I can overcome all sorts of difficulties." In Poland, members raised their arms and waved the red-covered

Jawuarg 72, 1968 71 Quotations in the direction of Peking and shouted in and a blazing torch. Presenting the picture to the Chinese what they had just learnt, "Long iive Chair- Chinese Embassy, he said: "The red heart in the pic- man Mao!" ture symbolizes the Congolese (B) people's rvholehearted love for ,Chairman Mao and the torch represents the live Mao Tse-tung!" These are woi'ds full 'T,ong burning revolutionary fervour of the Congolese (B) respect and love. In Syria, a blind man asked his of people who, under the guidance of Mao Tse-tung's friend to lead him up to a pcrtrait of Chairman lv1ao thought, are determined to carry the revoluiion through reverence, asked the friend to describe to and, with to the end!" him how the great leader Chairman Mao looked" While Iistening to his friend, tire biind man kept sl-:o-.iting: Dear Chairman Mao, you are the very red sun "China! L{ao Tse-tungl Loilg live lVlao Tse-tungl" A wirich shines mos'u brightly in the hearts of the ret'oiu- friend in "Portuguese" Guir;ea made a Long trip to tionary people of the lvorld. No words can e>lpress all Bamako, capital cf NIaii, to present to the Chinese the ardent love of the pecple of the u,'orld for you, no Embass;z ttrere a r,r,ail rug \r-oven by "Portuguese" songs can express a1l the profound feelings they have Guinean \vomen. He earnestly requested the Cliinese for you. AIl the congratulatory rvishes and songs, im- friends tc forrt'ard the present to Chairman Mao as a bueC *'ith deep affection, are the crystallizat\ort of the token ol "the infinite love of the fighting people of gratitude. respect and faith that the revolutionary peo- 'Por-tuguese' Guinea for Chairman Mao, the great p1e of the rvorld have for you. E.F. Hiil, Chairman of teacher of the revolutionary people of the rvorld." the AustraLian Communist Party (I\farxist-Leninist), Woven on the rug \ /ere 16 glittering slogans in French iras pointed out: "Today revolutionary Marxism- and Portuguese: "Long live Chairman Mao." A young ean be seen in aIl its splendour. New cham- artisan in tl-re Coi-rgo (B) ri,,orked three days anci nights pions are emerging. A whole range of Nlarxist-Leninist to paint a three-foot sq':"rare portrait of Chair:u:an lJao. revohrtionary organizations are taking shape. Tiris is On the right side of the picture, he drew a red heart thanks, above all, to the genius of Mao Tse-tung'"

New ffirm With hAoo Tse-tuttg's Thol"tght As lts GreEt Eoffiner Aeelsimed

Peking forum of workers, peosonts, soldiers ond Red Guords on the excellent world situotion

1[-}N New Year'6 eve, workers, peasantg People's development for ttre revolutionary movements of the \J Liberation Army fighters and Red Guards in Pe- world's people. T?re situation as a whole has never king were invited to a forum on the current world situa- been better. "The Four Seas are rising, clouds and tion.sponsored by the EditoriaL Department of Renmin waters raging, the Five Continents are rocking, w'ind Ribao. The participants discussed at length the world and thunder roaring," wrote Chairman }lao in one of significance of China's great proletarian cultural revolu- his poems. Illuminated by Mao Tse-tung's thought, tion, hailed the great victories rvon by the people of Asia roared, Africa beat its war dttlms, Latin America various countries in their revolutionary struggles and bur-nt with wrath, ancl the struggle of the rvorld's acclaimed the new era with Mao Tse-tung's thought ae people against imperialism and revisionism swept on, its great banner which mankind has entered. Extracts vioiently shaking the "thrones" of imperialism and its from the speeches are given bclow: lackeys and battering fiercely at the old world order. This fine situation in the vrorld today gives additional t967 Sow o Greot Development of the Revolutionory proof of our great leader Chairman Mao's brillia.nt con- Moyements of the People in the World cltrsion: "The U.S. imperialists and all other sueh verrnin have already created their own grave-diggers; the day Ma Chang-lin o! the Peking General Kni,twear Mill of their burial is not far off." and, Kung Pao-chun of the Peking Institute of Geology: The international situation today is exceilent. The Extensive Disseminotion of Moo Tse-tung's Thought East wind, prevails over the West rvind the that is Throughout the World !s the Most lrnportant Sign general trend. 1967 is a year during -.vhich- the invin- Thot lnternotionol ls Excellent cible thought of Mao Tse-tung spr"ead farther and 'ivider the Situotion itr the world and took firm root in the minds of the Chang Shu-chung o{ the Peking tYo. 3 S/eel RoLlLng people. It ia a year of rssouncling victories for China's Mill, Feng Ming-chu of the Peking Starnps Printing great proletarian cultural revolution, a year of great Factory a.nd Tultg Sltwliang of a P.L.A. unit in Peking:

12 Peking Reuieut, No. 2 The most important sign that the world situation is great proletarian cultural revolution, launihed and led excellent is the extensive spreading of Mao Tse-tung's by our great leader Chairman Mao himself, has ushered thought throughout the world and the fact that Mao in a new era in the international communist move- Tse-tung's thought has taken firm root in the minds ment and blazed a brilliant trail for the transition from of the people. Like a radiant beacon light, the great socialism to . This is a most important thought of Mao Tse*tung illuminates the road of advance sign that Marxism-Leninism has developed to the stage for the revolutionary peoptre of the world. Chairman of Mao Tse-tung's thought. Revolutionary people Mao is the red sun shining brightly not only in the throughout the world warmly welcome and cheer hearts of the Chinese people but also in the hearts of China's great proletarian cultural revolution from q'hich revolutionary people in all lands. Mao Tse-tung's they draw inspiration and hope for the future. In con- thought is the powerful ideological weapon not only for trast, the imperialists, modern revisionists and the the Chinese people but for the world's revolutionary reactionaries of all countries who abhor and fear to people as well. In the eyes of the world's revolution- death this cultural revoluiion and the invincible thought ary people, Chairman Mao is the Lenin of our time of Mao Tse-tung whip up one anti-China campaign and their g::eat standard-bearer. From the bottom of after another. This real1y means that the magnificent their hearts, they love and cherish the great leader victories of our great proletarian cultural revolution Chairman Mao . and enthusiastically study his works. have dealt them telling blows. In integrating with hundreds of millions of the revolu- tionary ma6ses, Mao Tse-tung's thought is turning into Morxist-Leninist Ronks Are Exponding an immense material forc.e, No reactionary force on Throughout the World earth can check its dissemination in the five continents. ?so Chun and, Chang Chang-tsai, trom the China- Hou Pi-lung of a P.L.A. uni.t in Peki.ng: When stand- Albania Friendsltip Peogile's Commune: In the struggle ing sentry on Tien An Men Square, we could feel the of the world's Marxist-Leninists and revolutionary peo- profound affection for our great leader Chairman Mao pIe against imperialism and revisionism, the Albanian expressed by revolutionary pqople from all parts of the Party of Labour and the Albanian people hold aloft a world. With placards inscribed with quotations from shining red banner. Under the leadership of Comrade Chairman Mao, they would come to Tien An Men Hoxha, a great Marxist-Leninist, the Albanian people Square, and there, beneath the huge portrait of Chair- have been waging an implacable struggle against im- man Mao, take pictures, recrte Chairman Mao's quota- perialism and its hangers-on and henchmen. By tak- tions, sing songs composed from Chairman Mao's quota- ing a firm stand against the adverse current of modern tions and wish Chairman Mao a long, long life! They revi.sionism, they have defended Marxism-Leninism. would Iinger on and on. And this made us feel that Ma Chang-Iin of the Pekirry General Knituear l\Lill we wer€ not simply guarding Tien An Men Square but and Yang Kai-min oJ the Peking Crane Works: Chair- guarding Chairman Mao himself and the beacon light man Mao said: "If there is to be revolution, there of the . must be a revolutionary party," Revolutionaries of many countries, with Mao Tse-tung's thought as their Mognificent Victories of Chino's Greot Proletorion guide, have effected a break-through in the struggle Culturql Reyolution Are Shoking the World against revisi.onism and have founded Marxist-Icninist Parties or groups. It is only natural that in all places Chou Chien-kung from a department under the P.LA..'s where ret'isionism exists Marxist-Ieninists should have Naoal Headquarters: \Mhen we say that the interna- risen to give battte. Though small in numbers at pres- tional situation has never been so good as it is today, ent, these newly inaugurated parties and gtoups will it means that it is inseparable from the excellent situa- prove invincible because they are new-born forces. It tion obtaining in China's great proletarian cultural is c'ertain that they will grow and expand rapidly in revolution. While the world's revolutionary people revolutionary struggles. rejoice over and acclaim China's cultural revolution, imperialists, revisionists and reactionaries feel panic- Flomes of Armed Struggle of the People in Asicn, stricken and madly curse it. That only indicates its Africon ond Lotin Americon Countries Are Abloze far-reaching influence and great repercussions in the Li.tt, Hsien-pin and Teng Tien-gu Jrom a P.L.A. atr force world. The trremendous successes won by China's cu1- in Peking: Vietnam is the focal point of the pres- tural revolution have greatly inspired the people of unit stluggle against U.S. imperialism. By rvinning the world, who are waging revolutionary strurggles for ent great in their war of resistance against U'S' their own liberation. After this great revolutlon, so- victories national salvation, the Vietnamese cialist China, as the centre of the world revolution, agg::,ession and for people have punctured holes in the paper tiger of U.S. will become stronger still and wili be in a still better setting a shining example to the position to aid the revolutionary cause of the world's imperialism, thus people have done bril- people. worlcl's people. The Vietnamese liantly in the fighting! These great victories have made Teng Tien-yu fron1, a P.L.A. air force unit in Peking: the world's revolutionary people realize stil1 more The proletariat depends on Mao Tse-tung's thought to clea.rly Chairman Mao's blilliant conclusion: ". . . that seize political power as well as to consolidate it. The a nation, big or small, can defeat any enemy, how-

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ever powerful, so long as it fully arouses its people, Americans is forging ahead vlgorously, the people firmly relies on thern and wages a people's war." violently oppose the war of agg:nesion against Viehrarn, and American youth refuse to be pitchforked into Viet- Yang Kai-m.in of the Peking Crane Works and Yang nam as cannon-fodder. Things are real1y getting Hung-ku.an of the Peking Institute of Forestry: Ad- tougher and tougher for the Johnson Administration. hering to Chairman Mao's teaching "Political power T1re in-fighting between U.S. imperialirsm and the other grolss out of the barrel of a gun," the peoples of many imper:ialist countries is gettiig more deadly. As our countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America have taken great leader Chairman IVIao put it: "Irreconcilable up arms one after the other, and a"t'e determined to follow domestic and international eontrad,ictions, like a volcano, the road of the Chinese revolution. In Southeast Asia in menace U.S. imperialism every day. U.S. imperialism particular, the people of Laos, Burma, Thailand, the is sitting on this volcano." Philippines, Malaya, etc. who successfully persisted in arrned struggle have won one victory after another. The Liang Sltu and Tsao Ch,erv-hu,s of the Peking IYo. 3 people of India and Indonesia, too, raised the torch of Steel Rolting MiLt ottd Chang Shou-shan lrom a depart- armed struggle, and have estabtished base areas in the rnent uniler the P.L.A.'s Naoal Headquarters: The countr;rsids, or are in the process of doing so. In Soviet revisionist dique is the accomplice of U.S. im- Africa, the revolutionary armed struggle against im-- perialism, The world's people have come to see still perialism waged by the qeople of the Congo (K) and a more clearly the traitorous features of this band of numb.er of other countries is also forgrng ahead. In revisionists through its many betrayals in the year gone Yankee imperialism's "backyard," Latin America, the by * cn the Vietnam question, in the Middle East number of countries in which the people have taken developments and in the Soviet-U.S. talks at Glassboro. up arms to fight the Yankee imperialists and their The Soviet revisionists now find the magic of their running dogs is increasing. baton less and less effectivq Clashes have occlrrred inside the camp of modern revisicnism. All-round Hsiang Pao-chin of a P.L.A. unit in Peking: The modern restoration of , . which the revisionist clique revisionists have done much harm to the revolutlonary has brought about in the. Soviet Union, has landed the cause of the people in many Asian, African and Latin country in a mess. Things are also getting tougher and American countries by peddling such poison as "peace- tougher for Brezhnev, Kosygin and Co. ful trar:sition" and the "parliamentary road." But the market for such revisionist wares is shrinking. From Kuo Chung-pa of the Peking Stam,ps Priwting Fa.ctorg: their os,n experience in actual struggle, many revolu- Today, the revolutionary people of all countries are tionaris have come to realize more and more that rnore convinoed than ever before that to fight imperial- rrevisionism as True armed struggle is the only sure course for oppressed ism it i,s necessary to fight well distinction nations and pe'oples to win liberaiion. Chairman Mao's Marxist-L€ninists must draW a.sharp line of revisionism whose brilliant military thinking i4 exertij.Ut greater and tvider betr.veen themselves and modern ex- influence in Asia, Africa and Latin Amerrga- centre is the Soviet revisionist clique, thoroughly pose it arrd overthrow it without hesitation. There is no middle eourEe to take. Things Are Getting Tougher ond Tougher for U.S. lmperiolism ond Soviet Revisionism fhe RCoctionurf gduiter-Curient'Csn ' ' Liu Shou-tsai. of Tsu,itsun People's Commune h Chanq- Never Becsme the Moin Current ping County in the ou.tlyirq d,i.stri,cts of Pektng: I Shen Te-hou of the Peking Crane \\iorks and, Hsieh knorv how dirty and vicious ttre imperialists and the Chin-tsai, of the Peking.No. 3 Steel Rolling Mill: Our Chiang Kai-shek reactionaries were, for I had a taste great J.eader Chairman Mao said: "The reactionary of life in the old society. Before liberation, U.S. im- counter-cunent is trying to slvamp the main crirrent perialism lorded it in China and was hated and cursed of natlonal independence and people's democraey, but by the Cninese people. Then under the leadership of it can never become the. rnain current." The main Chairrnan Mao and the Ccmmunist Party the Chlnese current in the world toda;r is the deepening of the rev- people united and overthrew the U.S. impe:ialists and oluticnary movements of the world's people. The the Chiang Kai*shek reactionaries and kicked them out. corinter-revohitionary current stirred up by the im- U.S. imperialism inevitably arouses the viclent opposi- perialists, modern revisionists ai-rd the reactionaries of tion of the peoples, because it rides roughshod every- all countries can in no way check the surging flow of where in the *,or1d. Today, U.S. imperialism is like a ihe rnainstream of revolui,ion. In the past year, the rat scampering in the street which everybody u'ants to imperialists, revisionisis and reactionsries have beat up. Its da-ys are nurnbered. becon-re frentic in therr campaign against China But as Chairman teaches attacked by Wang Hsi.ng-hsueh of the Peking lnstitute of Aero- Mao us: "To be nautics and Hou Fi-tung of a P.L.A. unit in peking: the enerny is not a bad thing but a good thing." The certain are While U.S. imperialism is getting it in the neck in more the enemy optr)oses us, the rnore we that vre are Nc matter how rabidly they oppose different parts of the world, contratlictions between right. China cannot damage one We know the classes at home are sharp,ening r,vith each passing they us little bit. day. Inside the United States; the struggie of Afro- (Continued on p. 27.)

14 Pekinq Reuiew, No. 2 :,irili:. ::i::1:i,:ii

Lae*Ee$ Pa*rie&ic Argmed Ferees and Feople fffEm BrillEant Vie*ories in Feople's War rfiO the glorious annals of their revolutionary armed south Vietnara During 1967, the United States sent I struggle against the U.S. imperialists and their to Laos 5,000 of its miiitary personnel and large num- henchmen, the Laotian patriotie armed foroes and people bers of its satellite troops from Thailand and other in 1967 added another year of britriant victories. Giving countries. [I.S. agglessor troops, posing as "adviserg" full play to the might of people's war, they harre de- directly commanded the reactionary Laotian armed feated all the "mopping-up" operations aa.d "nibbiing" forces and satellite troops in the savage attacks attacks on the liberated areas launched by the U.S. Iaunclred against the patriotie armed foroes and people of imperialists and their lacke;'s, scotched the frenzied Laos Pirate planes taking off from t.Le U.S. 7th Fleet U.S. bombing raids and lrwtrated U.S. imperialism's and U.S. rnililsy bases in Tlrailand and south Vietnam attempt to intrude into Cerrtral and Lower Laos with stepped up their savage bombings of the liberated areas its own troops. They have launehed repeated attacks in Laos. By so doing, the U.S. imperialists evidently on their own initiative and wiped out a great many aimed at annihilating the Laotian patriotic armed forces enemy effectives. As a result, the Laotian patriotic and turning Laos into a bridgehead linking up the south armed forces and people have won splendid vietories Vietnam battlefieid with the U.S. military bases in in both the dry and rainy seasons and further con- Thailand. solidated and expanded the liberated areas. But all these aggressive actions of the U.S. im- Chairman Mao Tsq-tung, the great leader of the perialists and their henchmen were repulsed by the world's revolutionary people, has said: "A aation, big long-tempered patriotic armed forces and people of or small, can defeat any enemy, however powerful, so Laos, who, united as one, fought hard and won victory long as it fully arouses its people, firrnly'relies on after victory by relying on people's r,r,'ar. them and wages a people's war." The Laotian people's the course of smaehing all the attacks struggle has once more proved this brilliant thesis of In "nibb1int'' U.S. imperialists and their henchmen Chairman Mao to be an invincible truth. mounted by the during the 1966-6? dry season, the patriotic armed Ttre war of aggression being waged in Laos by the forces and people wiped out over 5,500 enerny troops, U.S. imperialists is second in sc-ope only to the war in further expanded the liberated areas and emancipated

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more than 40,000 people, while the U.S. imperialists own initiative, did their best to concentrate superior and their lackeys sustained more disastrous defeats foroes to fight battles of annihitation, and paid great than in the preceding dry-season "offensive." During attention to night assaults and close-range fighting. As the monsoon operations between June and October a result, the number of battles in which whole enemy 1967, the Laotian patriotic armed forces and people units were completely and thoroughly wiped out in- seored even greater victories. They put out of action creased day by day. With powerful support and as- more than 5,100 enemy troops. This figure approaches sistance from the people, the Laotian patriotic armed the total for the whole seven-month dry season of forces also made bold thrusts into the enemy's rear, 1966-67 and is triple the number of enemy troops an- sprang surprise attacks on enemy command posts, air- nihilated in the rainy season of 1966. The patriotic fields, military b'ases and stronghoids, inflicted heavy armed forces and people of Laos also smashed the casualties upon the enemy effectives and destroyed a much-vaunted U.S. "air superiority" by shooting down large quantity of military equipment. or destroyring 203 U.S. aircraft in 1966 and over 260 in Chairman Mao has said: "Without a people's army the eleven and a half months up to mid December the people have nothing." The reason why the Laotian 1967. In a January 1 broadcast the Pathet Lao Radio people can bring about such an excellent situation is said that, according to incomplete data, the Laotian pa- that they have a people's army the Laotian People's triotic armed forcrcs and people 1967 (up to December in Liberation Army. This people's- army, together with 15) fought 1,300 big and small engagements, put out of the patriotic armed forces of the whole country, has action 12,500 enemy troops and captured over 2,500 made important contributions to the cause of libera- weapons, about 100 tons of ammunition and other war tion of the Laotian people. The Neo Lao Haksat made supplies. further efforts in 1967 to strengthen the building up of AI1 these brilliant victories of the Laotian patriotic this people's army and intensify its political ideological armed forces and people have forcefully exposed the work. As a result of the campaign for pouring out nature of U.S. imperialism as a paper tiger which is grievances (against imperialist oppression and feudal outwardly strong but inwardly weak. exploitation) in many units and education on the peo- Chairman Mao has said: "The revolutionary rvar ple's army, the political consciousness of the cadres and is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mo- fighters has been considerably raised and the relations bilizing the masses and relying on them." The victories betl.een officers and men and betu,een the army and of the Laotian patriotic armed forces and people are the people have become ever more closer. Many army victories of people's war. With the close co-ordination units have become not only a fighting force, but also and support of the broad masses of the peopie, the e working force and a production force. They have main forces, regional troops and guer.rillas of the Lao- gone to the villages to arouse the masses and wage tian patriotic arrqed fur.ees have cast an imm_ense net guerrilla warfare. Many cadres and fighters help the of people's war to encircle, wear down and r,vipe out masses in production at interwals between battles. Many the enemy troops, and have knocked the stuffing out fighters have even braved enemy fire to lelp the local of the enemy. peasants in rice harvesting. For their part, the masses Especially worthy of mention is the fact that mi- in various places have given enthusiastic support to litia guerrillas are organized in every village in many the front by sending grain and vegetables and transport- provinces. They are active both at the front and at ing weapons and ammunition for the army, and have the enemy's rear, carry out extensive raids and am- been active in sending their young people to join the bushes, and constantly co-ordinate with the main forces Liberation Army and guerrillas. Thus, this people's to wipe out the enemy. They also mobilize the masses ariny constantly develops and grows stronger. The Lao- to lay bamboo-spikes and land-mines, set traps and tian People's Liberation Army has also strengthened snipe at the enemy, thus making it difficult for th,em to its work of disintegrating enemy forces and correctly move evelr an inch in many places. Guerrillas and re- carried out the policy towards captives. Under the mii- gional troops have become important forces in defend- itary presiure and political offer,sive of th,e Lib,era- ing and consolidating the vast liberated areas in Laos. tion Army, the morale of the Rightist troops has surnk The Laotian patriotic armed forces have grown lower than ever before. The number of enemy troops ever stronger in the course of the revolutionary war deserting or crossing over has greatly increased. and in 1.967 reached a new level both in strategy and Chairman Mao has said: "ft is imperative for the Jn tactics. They corutantly launched. attacks on their revolutionary ranks to turn the backward villages into

16 Peking Reoieu, No. 2 advanced, consolidated base areas, into great military, able to bring about such an excellent situation as we political, economic and cultural bastions of the revolu- have today. Without taking "Lrp arms we would never tion from which to fight their vicious enemies who are be able to overthrow the rule of U.S. imperialism and using the cities for attacks on the rural distridts, and the reactionaries and seize political power. A squad in this way gradually to achieve the complete victory leader- of the Laotian People:s Liberation Army said: of the revolution through protracted fighting." The The successive victories scored by the Laotian people Laotian patriotic armed forces and people have made in their struggle against the U.S. imperialists and their great efforts to build up and consolidate the liberated running dogs have proved Chairman Mao's thesis that areas. Having wiped out in 1967 large numbers of "the U.S. imperialists and reacti'onaries of all countries bandits and spies sent to undermine these areas, they are paper tigers." The Laotian people, he said, are fully mobilized the masses to purify and perfect the basic confident that they will defeat the enemy and win administrations and set up and strengthen various rev- final victory in the Laotian revolution. olutionary organizations, thereby further consolidat- The Laotian patriotic armed forces and people are ing the liberated areas. In response to the cail of the turning Chairman Mao's military thinking into an all- Neo Lao Haksat for relying on their own efforts, in- conqr-tering material force. They study earnestly Chair- creasing production and practising economy, they have rrr&n Mao's theory on people's war and the war of an- with unparalleled heroism overcome the grave difficul- nihilation and apply it in practice. A cadre of a certain ties caused by wanton U.S. bombing and enemy harass- military school of the Liberation Army said: Through ments and strengthened production work while fight- the study of Mao Tse-tung's thought we have come to ing the en,emy bravely. They have adopted double know how to fight a. war of annihilation and have cropping of paddy over large areas, built many wat,er been very successful in practice. Many Laotian Libera- conservancy and other projects and thus reaped good tion Army cadres said: Chairman Mao's principle that harvests in successive years. This has provided power- "injuring all of a man's ten fingers is not as effective chopplng most and absolutely fui backing for their war against U.S. aggression and as off one" is brilliant Mao's works in earn- for national s,alvation. correct. We must study Chairman est and arm our troops with his thought. Only by 'I'he past year was a year of tremendous victories doing so can we b,ecome invincible. for the Laotian people and also one Mao in which By studying Chairman Mao's u'orks, many cadres Tse-tung's thought shone among fighting brightly the and fighters of the Laotian People's Liberation Army Laotian people. Through their practice the in struggle have seen through the reactionar!- nature of U.S. im- I"aotian people have further realized Mao Tse- that perialism and its stooges. The5- sa1-: We must act ac- tung's thought the beacon guides is that their war cording to Chairman Mac's instructions and sharpen against U.S. aggression and for national salvation. They iiur knives when the enemv does so. We should wage love Chairman Mao Mao and Tse-tung's thought and d tit-for-tat struggle against the enemy and abolish study and apply combat. it in unjust war by means of just lvar. This is the sole way Chairman Mao's brilliant thesis that "political for the Laotian people to defeat the U.S. aggressors power grows out of the barrel of a gun" has greatly and their lacke;'s and s.in peace and reunification! encouraged the Laotian patriotic armed forces and peo- They express their determination to respond to the ple in their armed struggle. They hail it as their spirit- recent call of the Neo Lao Haksat and strive for final ual atom bomb for defeating U.S. imperialism and its victory against any difficulties, at the cost of any sacri- lackeys. Many cadres and fighters said: It is because fice and regardless of any frenzied expansion by the we are armed with Mao Tse-tung's thought that we are U.S. imperialists of their war of aggression!

Burmese People's Armed Struggle - a Red Flag for the People's Revolution rftHE Communist Party of Burma headed by Comrade yeals, the Party has accumulatd and developed the I Thakin Than Tun, holding aloft the great red revolutionary forces and dealt a heavy blow at the banner of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Tse-tung's thoiight, reactionary rule of , imperialism and its stooges in has stuck to the revolutirinary road of using the coun- Burma. The history of the armed struggle there is one tryside to surround the cities and seizing political po\Mer which testifies to the triumph of the great thought of by armed force. While leading the Burmese people in Mao Tse-tung, a history which demonstrates that Mao waging a revolutionary armed struggle for nearly 20 Tse.tungis, thought irs the -universal truth, .

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The brilliant victories of the Burrnese people's declared in its resolution: '(Comrade Mao Tse-tung is armed struggle have greatly fortified the high resolve the leader of the world proletariat"; "the thought of I

the revolutionary people and the arrogance Mao Tse-tung is Marxisrn-Leninism of the era in u,hich I of deflated r! of imperialism, modern revisionism and the Burmese imperialism is heading for total collapse, and socialism ,l'' reactionaries. and communism are advaneing to worldwide victory. Mao Tse-tung's thought must be explicitly accepted as The Communist Party of Burma led the Burmese the acme of Marxism-Leninism in our era." The res- people in the war of resistance against Japanese aggres- olution declared: "Mao Tse-tung's thought is the guid- sion and has been leading the revolutionary civil war ing principle for all revolutionary work in Burma. In for nearly 20 years. A sharp struggle between two lines particular, Comrade Mao Tse-tung's theories on the .t has been going on in the Party: to persist on the revo. building of a proletarian party and a proletarian army I Iutionary road of seizing political power by armed foree ,i and on people's war are the beacon light for the victory or to seek transition." The Communist Party "peaceful of revolution in Burma." of Burma headed by Comrade Thakin Than Tun, hold- ing aloft the great red banner of Marxism-Leninism, At the same time, the Comrnunist Party of Burma, Mao Tse-tung's thought, has waged a resolute struggle holding aloft the gteat red banner of Marxi:sm-Leninism, against revisionism in the Party and ensured a decisive Mao Tse-tung's thought, won a great victory in 1967 victory for the proletarian revotrutionary line and the in the thorough criticism and repudiation of the 1955 victorious advance of the Burmese people's revolu- revisionist line and in the smashing of the Sein-Pein tionary armed struggle. revisionist clique. Since the end of World War II, the Communist Under the matehless brilliance of the invincible Party of Burma has waged a resolute struggle interna- thought of Mao Tse-tung, it has pursued a .policy of tionally against Brorvder r:evisionism and the revi- self-reliance, persevered in a protracted revolutionary sionists i:r the Indian Con:munist Party u,ho preached eivil war for nearly 20 years and opened a bright path the "parliamentary road" to socialism. When the Iea

18 Peking Re'uteus, No. 2 the People, ln Memorg of Nortnan Bethune and ?he population in a large-scale anti-hunger struggle. The Foolish Olil Man Who Remorsed, the Mountainsl so that people's armed foree have also rallied the people in all Party rnembers and revolutionary tighters can use a struggle to eliminate traitors and oppose local despots, them as weapons to carry out self-education and to They have carrred out land reform wherever possible. heighten the revolutionization of their ideology. It has Through these struggles, they set up Party nuclei and also called upon the broad masses of Party members mass organizations in various places, armed the masses and fighters to criticize and repudiate the sinister book and established people's political power. on "self-cultivation." The Party also launched a cam- paign in the people's armed forces to "pour out griev- The victorious mass struggles, surging wave upon anc€s" (against the reactionaries) to raise the class wave in the past few years, have provided vigorous consciousness of the revolutionary fighters; it has car: suppor,t for the struggle of the people's armed forces ried out education on "democracy in the three main and resulted in the steady expansion and consolidation fie1ds." It has published "The Three Main Rulea of of the people's armed forcc and revolutionary base Discipline and Eight Points for .A.ttention"* of the areas. At present, the guerrilla bases of the Burmese Chinese People's Liberation Army, formulated per- people's armed forces are set up in all parts of the sonally by Chairman Mao, and called on all fighters in country. The reactionary Ne Win government is now the people's armed forces to strictly abide by them. engulfed by extensive guerrilla warfare.

Victory after victory has been recorded for the Following Chairman Mao's teachings: "Through proletarian military tine in the struggle against the guenilla warfare, we shall build up our strength" and bourgeois military line. Chairman Mao's theories on "Make wiping out the enemy's effecfive strength our army-building and on strategy and tactics have mani- main objective," the Burmese people's armed forces fested their power in the people's war in Burma and have been carrying on extensive guerrilla warfare and have brought about the vigorous development of the annihilating an increasing number of enemy troops. In Burmese people's revolutionary armed struggle. 1965 they wiped out 469 enemy soldiers. In the delta's Myaungmya district alone, 107 enemy troops were The Burmese peopleh armed forces have been wiped out in 1966. In 1967 the figure increased con- growing steadily. In 1966 the size of the people's arrned siderably. On January 17. 1967, the Burmese people's forces led by the Communist Party of Burma increased armed forces ambushed the enemy on the Rangoon- by 50 per cent as compared with 1965. while the people's Mandalay Highr*-ay and routed a ?G-man detachment militia was formed a larger in number of districts. of the 5th battalion of Ne Win's reactionary army, wip- Ttre great leader Chairman Mao has said that'armed ing out 29 enemy troops. Again, on the Toungoo- Paukkaung struggle by the takes the Highway on July 11, the people's armed form of peasant war under proletarian leadership" and forces thoroughly smashed a whole platoon of the that "it is imperative for the revolutionary ranks to turn enemy's 55th battalion and captured a large quantity weapons the backward villages into advanceil, consolidated base of and ammunition. areas,' and this gradually achieve the . . . in way to The Burrnese people's forces last year scored bril- complete victory of the revolution through protracted liant victories in repeatedly smashing major "encircle- fighting." In the last ten years or more, the Communist ment and suppression" campaigns launched by the great Party of Burma has made efforts in arousing and reactionary Ne Win government. Today the5r are not the peasants. gone organizing It has all out since 1964 only waging guerrilla warfare in all parts of lower arouse the masses and has unfolded mounting to a Burma, but arre fighting successfully in upper Burma. movement in the rural areas for higher prices in the Everywhere, they ambush the enemy, raid enemy sale of rice by the peasants and against the requisition- strongpoints, cities and railway stations, wreck railways ing of grain. In 1967, it again ied the urban and rural and blow up bridges. The reactionary Ne Win troops are being hit everywhere and are getting panicky. *The Three Main Rules of Discipline are as follows: The great leader Chairman Mao has pointed out: (1) Obey orders in all your actions. united ftont, armed struggle and Party buililing (2) Do not take a single needle or piece of thread from "The the masses. are the Chinese Communist Party's three 'magic weap- (3) Turn in everyttring captured. ons,' its three principal magic weapons for defeating The Eight Points for Attention are as follows: the enerny in the Chinese revolution." The Communist (1) Speak politely. Party of Burrna, while carrying on the armed struggle, (2) Pay fairly for what you buy. has consolidated and developod the with (3) Return everything you borrow. the armed forces of the various minority nationalities (4) Pay for everything you damage. in the country which oppose U.S. imper"ialism and the (5) Do not hit or swear at people. reactionary Ne Win government. In 1959 it set up the (6) Do not damage crops. national-democratic united front with the Karen Na- (7) Do not take liberties with women. tional Unity Party, the New Mon Party, the Kayah Progressive Party and the Chin Supreme Cotn-

Januarg T2, 7968 ,-'" 19 i i mittee. It has intensified co-operation with the revolu- Mao Tse-tung's thought'is the locomotive for the tionary armed forces of other minority nationalities, advance of history. Under the guidance of the invincible strengthened solidarity among the various nationalities thought of Mao Tse-tung, the people's revolutionary in the course of the revolutionary struggle and smashed armed struggle led by the Communist Party of Burma banner the sinister schemes of U.S. imperialism and the reac- is advancing triumphantly and has become a red for the colonial and semi-colonial peoples in waging a tionary Ne Win government to wreck the unity between people's revolutionary war. Holding aloft the great red the Communist Party of Burma and the revolutionary banner of Marxism-kninism, Mao Tse-tung's thought, armed forces of the various minority nationalities. Ttre and adhering to the revolutionary line of "winning the people's armed forces of the Communist Party of Burma war and seizing political power," the Communist Party are fighting shoulder to shoulder with the armed of Burma headed by Comrade Thakin Than Tun will forces of various minority nationalities, supporting undoubtedly lead the Burmese people to overcorne all each other and pounding away at the reactionary rule of difficulties on their road of advance and win complete imperialism and its lackey, the Ne Win military govern- victory in their revolutionary war through protracted menL struggle.

Flames of People's War Raging Lilte a Prairie Fire in Thailand

tftHE flames of the people's war against U.S. imperial- out of the barrel of a gun" is the guide to the revolu- r ism and its flunkey, the traitorous Thanom clique, tionary struggle of the people the world over. are raging like a prairie fire in Thaiiand. The revolu- tionary situation there is excelient. The Communist Party of Thailand has directed its efforts towards building a genuine people's army in Under the leadership of the Communist Party of accordance with Chairman Mao's thinking on arrny- Thailand, the heroic Thai people's armed forces in 1965 building. From the day when the red fiag of armed fired the first shot in their armed struggle in Nakorn struggle was raised over Pu Pan Mountain in north- Phanom Province, northeastern Thailand. In the en- eastern Thailand, the Communist Party of Thailand has suing short span of a little more than two years, the paid special attention to arming the fighters with the people's armed struggle has spr-ead to 28 of the country's great thought of Mao Tse-tung and giving them a class 71 provinces, and base areas have already been es- education, so as to help them raise their political con- tablished in some of the provinces. During this period, sciousness and implant the thoroughgoing revolutionary the Thai people's armed forces have smashed the re- spirit in their minds. As a result, the fighters' morale is peated "encirclement and suppression" operation of the always high, despite tremendous physical hardships. Thai reactionary troops and police who are armed with Taking the Chinese People's Liberation Army founded U.S. weapons, commanded by U.S. officers and directly personaliy by Chairman Mao as a model, the Thai peo- backed by U.S. aggressor troops. More than 1.,200 enemy ple's armed forces maintain strict discipline and at the troops and policen-ren have been wiped out. The brilliant same time practise military democracy. The fighters are victories scored in the tevolutionary armed struggle asked to sum up their fighting experience in accordanee have not only greatly raised the Thai people's morale, with Mao Tse-tung's thought after each battle. This has but given immense inspiration and support to the rev- brought their initiative into full play. olutionary people the world over, especially those in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Chairman Mao has said: "The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing The most important factor in the rapid development the masses and relying on therrl" The Thai people's I of the revolution in Thailand lies in the fact that the armed forces attach importance to mass work and are Communist Party of Thailand, the core teading the rev- closely linked to the peasant masses. Their "armed work olution, has been holding aloft the great red banner of teams" and "armed propaganda teams" are active in the Marxism-Leninism, Mao Tse-tung's thought, and ad- vast rural areas and back the peasants in eliminating hering to the revolutionary road of using the country- traitors and local despots, thus winning the full support side encirele to the eities and seizing political power by oI the masses. armed force. It resolutely opposes Soviet modern revi- sionism and stresses that the brilliant thinking of the The Thai people's armed forces creatively study and great teacher Chairman Mao - "Politieal power grows apply Chairman Mao's strategy and tactics of people's 20 PekinE Reu'lew, No. 2 lllIll]llril[lrllrllllll]lrlralllrrrllllltilllirrlilIHlllfl[ilILrII]lllI[1tril1ilil]tillrrrltilIIllii[[llIl[l[

Atl reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearanee, the reac- tionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful. From a long-term point of view, it is not the reactionaries but the people who are really powerful. MAO TSE.TUNG

war. Therefore, they are able to defeat the enemy which The great leader Chairman Mao teaches us: "AII is superior in both numbers and equipment and wipe out reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reac- more and more enemy effectives while expanding and tionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so strengthening their own ranks. Following the tactic powerful. From a long-term point of view, it is not the "divide our forces to arouse the masses, concentrate our reactionaries but the people who are really powerful." forces to deal with the enemy," the Thai people's armed The great victories of the Thai people's armed forces forces sometimes send their "armed work teams" to against U.S. imperialism and its lackeys in Thailand have operate among the masses and at other times concentrate revealed the U.S. and Thai reactionaries as paper tigers. forces to ambush or attack enemy convoys, patrols and The U.S. Information Service had to admit last October posts. In operations against enemy "encirclement and 16 that U.S. officials were alarmed by the growing suppression" campaigns, they have scored brilliant suc- strength of the Thai people's armed forces. The reac- cesses by applying Chairman Mao's 16-character for- tionary U.S. press has time and again showed its an- mula "the enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy xiety that Thailand might become "a second Vietnam," camps,- we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the. and that the growth of guerrilla war there would upset enemy retreats, we pursue." In August and September the U.S. strategic programme for expanding the war in 1967 they twice ambushed enemy troops in Kuiburi Vietnam and encircling China with Thailand as a mili- district, Prachuab Province in central Thailand, wiping tary base. out whole units of the U.S.-trained police "special force" The development of the revolutionary situation in and capturing all their weapons on both occasions. Thailand, as pointed out by the Central Committee of These two ambushes struck panic into the hearts of t}le Communist Party of Thailand in its recent statement, the traitorous Thanom clique. is: ''The armed struggle has helped the revolutionary The Communist Party of Ttrailand is carrltng out people throughout the c.ountry- see more clearly the extensive united front work and organizing and rallying bright fufure and build up gteater c.onfidence in their increasing numbers of the people around itself in the own strength." The statement firmly proclaimed that the revolutionary struggle. The Thailand Patriotic Front Communist Party of Thailand "is resolved to lead the has played an important role in wide-scale mobiiization people to wage armed struggle, to mobilize the masses of of the people of all strata and nationalities and patriotic the peasants, establish rural base areas, persevere in democrats in the struggle against U.S. aggression and people's war, encircle the cities from the countryside for national salvation. and finally seize state power in the country.'r

Historic Turning Point in the lndian Revolution

N-INETEEN sixty-seven marks a turning point in the A big Asian countty with a population of 500 J \ history of the Indian revolution. Under the guid- million, India occupies an extremely important strategic ance of the invincible thought of Mao Tse-tung, the position in the world . The great Indian people have finally embarked on the only correct Lenin pointed out more than 40 years ago: "In the last road for the Indian revolution the victorious road analysis, the outcome of the struggle will be determined along which Chairman Mao 1ed -the Chinese people to by the fact that Russia, India, China, et€., account for seize political power by armed force. The revolutionary the overwhelming majority of the population of the line upheld by the revolutionaries in the Indian Com- globe." Now, the revolutionary people of India ied by munist Party has been winning one victory after the revolutionaries in the Indian Communist Party are another, while the line of "peaceful transition" pursued determined to take the road of the Chinese revolution, by the Indian revisionists is steadily going on the rocks, to oppose armed counter-revolution with armed revolu- The revolutionary situation in India is better than tion. This is not only a great turning point in the ever. history of the Indian revolu-tion, but is also of immense

Ja*uarg 12, L968 21 . several hundred million peasants will rise like a mighty storm, like a hurricane, a force so swift and violent that no power, however great, will be able to hold it back. They witl smish all the trammels that bind them and rush forward along the road ts liberatioa. They will sweep all the imperialists, warlords, corrupt officials, local tyrants and evil gentry into their graves. MAO TSE.TUNG

significance for the development of the world proleta- tered to pieces. Every bit of the "dignity" and "prestige." rian revolution. built up by the landlords and plantation owners was The struggle between the two lines and the two swept into the dust. The landless or land-poor roads which existed in the Indian Comrnunist Party for peasants, now proud and elated, lifted up their heads. a long time has inteasified in the past few years. The The movement struck terror into the hearts of the revolutionaries in the Indian Communist Party, under landlords and plantation owners. The top rank of the guidance of Mao Tse-tung's thought, have firrnly landlords and plantation owners and those of the sec- opposed the parliamerrtary road of "peaceful transition" ond rank fled to Calcutta, while the third rank and pursued by the u$rrpers of the Party's leadership, the the still lesser fry vanished into the smaller cities and renegade Dange clique and the handful of revisionist county towns Urgent reports and appeals for rescue chieftains whose representatives are Namboodiripad poured into the offices of the reactionary government and Jyoti Basu. and filled the Indian reactionaries with fear. These revolutionaries in the Indian C.P. resolutely The armed struggle waged by the Naxalbari proclaimed that "the strategy srnployed by the great peasants greatly inspAed the revolutionaries in the leader lfuo Tse-trrhg is one which ffog Tndian Man'xists Indian C. P. and the revolutionary people in all India. should adopt" and that "we shall have to strive earrrest- Ttre Indian revolutionaries set up in various places com- ly to be apt pupils of Comrade Mao Tse-tung." Abiding mittees in support of the Naxalbari peasants' struggle, by Chairrnan Mao's brilliant teaching "Political and rallied the people to support the armed revolution. power grows out of the barrel of a gun," they explicitly They translated and published large quantities of Chair- pointed out that jn India "the only correct path of the man Mao's writings, widely propagating Mao Tse-tung's people's democratic revolution is: to build up revolu- thought. They published many periodicals and books, tionary bases in the rural areas through an agrarian and printed leaflets to spread the truth about the revoLulion under proletarian leadership, and subsequent- seizure of political power by armed force and to ex- ly to encircle the urban centres by expanding these pose the sma1l handful of revisionists within the Party revolutionary bases; to organize people's liberation w'ho sabotage armed struggle. Following the example forces from among the peasants'guerrilla forces and to of the fndian C. P. revolutionaries in the Darjeeling lead the revolution to victory by capturing the cities.', area, many revolutionaries went deep into the rural areas where they are now striving hard And so at the beginning of 1967, a spring thunder- to "develop the Naxalbari type movement" storm burst over India. In Naxalbari and other places of and to build up "more Naxalbaris." of Darjeeling District, revolutionary peasants rallied by the revolutionaries in the Indian C. P., 1it the flames of The furious flames of the peasants' movement armed struggle. quickly spread in the vast Indian countryside. Accord- ing to the skimpy disclosures made by the Indian press, The revolutionaries in the Indian C. p. led the the peasants' landless or land-poor peasants in Darjeeling District, "Naxalbari-type" of land struggles have developed in 50 places in eight states and areas who were oppressed and exploited to the limit by ihe under the direct control Central landlords, to mount tempestuous attacks on the land- of the Government. The peasants these places, lords. the plantation owners and the reactionary gov- in with arms in hand, regained the land forcibiy occupied the landlords the ernment; they took back the land and wrested arms by and reactionary government, and they seized the crops on and grain fr:om them. They organized sma11 armed the land illegally controlled by the landlords. During groups and set up "peopl,e's courts,, to punish those harvest time in India, the peasants quite a number loeal tyrants and evil gentry who put up stubborn in of places organized committees" or resistance, and defended by armed force the fr-uits of "peasants' "people's comrnittees" and traunched a movement of share to their agrarian revolution. Betvreen March ancl June "no the landlords" and taxes to the government." last year ihe peasants engaged in 220 armed actions. "no The priviieges which the feudal landlards enjoyed for These facts indicate that a vigorous situation has thousands of years and foreign plantation owners for emerged in the Indian revolution. ,,order,' a century, and the "law" and imposed on the Nineteen sixty-seven is also a year during whieh peasants by the reactionary gov,ernment were all shat- the "parliamentary road" follovred by Namboodiripad,

22 Peking Reoieus, No. 2 Jyoti Basu and sueh other Indian revisionists was The "parliamentary road?r, of , th€' Indian revisionists further exposed and went up in smoke. has gone bankrupt once again in 1967's "experiment." This is a heavy This "parliamentary road" is a mixture of the blow not only to the Indian revisionists but also Soviet revisionist renegade clique and fallacy of "peaceful transition" advocated by old-line to the to China's Khrushchov. revisionists Bernstein and Kautsky and the "Doctrine 'advocated of Non-Violence" by Gandhi. The Soviet The insfiring events of the suecessive victories of rerrisionist reuegade clique and China's Khrushchov the revolutionary line, and the increasing failure of the have made great efforts to support and propagate revisionist line in India in 196? forecast a bright future this "parliameniary road," the so-called "Indian road," for the development of the trndian revoluticn. attempt to prevent Indian people and other in an the In regard to the tasks of the Indian revolution, opprrcssed nations and peoples from taking the vie- the revolutionaries in the Indian C.P. put forward the torious road of the Chinese revolution.. following as.the main ones at present: to spread among Hiring themselves out to the Indian reaetionaries, the people Mao Ts+-tung's thought, the acme of the Indian revisionists have promised never to use Marxism-Leninism in the present era; to carry further armed force to orzerihrow the reactionary Indian Gov- the siruggle against the otd and new types of revision- ernment. Since these revisionists, the Indian reaction- ism; to make a specific analysis of India's objective aries calcul.ated, can be used both as tools for carrying conditions in accordance with the brilliant thought of out the reactionary policies of the Congress Party and Mao Tse-tung, and formulate the programme and tac- as ornaments for dressing up Congress "democracy," tics for the Indian revolution on this basis; and to give the Indian reactionaries allowed them to run in the impetus to the peasant revolqfi6psl', struggle and February "general elestions" of 1967. The revisionists develop Naxalbari-type movements. The rerrolutionaries were also given seats and offieial appointrments in the in the Indian C.P. and India's revolutionary people now so-called "non-Congress governments" in West Bengal are striving for the realization of these tasks. and Kerala. Under the brilliant light of Mao Tse-tung's thougiri, In taking the "parliamentary road,". the Indian the revolutionary people of India will surely seore still revisionists have completely exposed themselves as greater vietories in their future struggles! In spite of shameful renegades, and accomplices of the Indian the fact that the Indian revolutionary struggle may be reactionaries into the bargain. They took part in the protracted and tortuous, the Indian people will gain reactionary regime's suppression of the people and its the final victory in the revolution. That is certain. A massacre of many revolutionary people. Their hands new India with genuine independence and people's are stained with the blood of the Indian people, d.emocracy will certainly emet'ge in the East!

[mpertasa& New Start in the lndonesian Revolution mHE past year has witnessed an important new start Chairman Mao has said: "Itrithout armed struggle t in the Indonesian revolution armed struggle neither the proletariat, nor the people, nov the Com- waged by the Indonesian Communists- and revolution- munist Party would have any standing at all in China ary people in the rural areas of several of the country's and it would be impossible for the revolution to major islands. The Indonesian guerrilla fighters have triumph." It is precisely so in Indonesia. This hae solemnly proclaimed to the world through their rev- been proved by the many lessons in the history of the olutionary gunfire that they are determined to take Indonesian Communist Party, especiaily the serious set- the road of the Chinese revolution charted by the great back suffered by the revolution in the Oetober 1965 leader of the world's people Chairman Mao Tse-tung coup d'etat and the subsequent nationwide massacl'es that is, to rely on the peasants, wage armed struggle, carried out by the Suharto-Nasution fascist military set up rural revolutionary base areas, overthrow the gloup. The Indonesian Cornmunists, who live under Suharto-Nasution fascist military regime and carry the a murderous white terror, have explored anew the path revolution to victory. The upsurge of revolutionary of the Indonesian revolution under the guidance of armed struggle in Indonesia indicates that the prelude Marxism-Leninism, Mao Tse-tung's thought. They have to a new great battle has begun in the Indonesian rev- summed up in time the lessons learnt by the Party oiution. The good tidings have brought joy and en- in leading the Indonesian people in revolutionary strug- couragement to the entire Indonesian people living gle. The;r have criticized the Right opportunist errors under white teror and have struck fear into the hearts committed by the Party leadership in the past' In of the reactionaries. August and September 1966, the Political Bureau of ,a January 12,7968 A single spark can start a prairie fire, MAO TSE.TUNG

the Central Committee of the Indonesian Communist cessful surprise raid in mid July on the Singkawang Party published a statement and a self-criticism. From air base on the west coast of West Kalimantan, they the lessons, paid for in blood, the Political Bureau has have over the past few months caught the enemy un- dlawn the. following conclusion: ''To achieve complete prepared in many battles and have started to establish victory, the Indonesian revolution must take the road a revolutionary base area in the hills. They have also of . the Chinese revolution. This means that the In- set up training grounds in areas where they are active donesian revolution cannot avoid adopting as its main to train themselves in preparation for protracted armed form of struggle the people's armed struggle against struggle. armed counter-revolution; in essence, this means armed trepidation, agrarian revolution of the peasants under the leadership In r'eactionary newspapers in Djakarta report that the Indonesian of the proletariat." Communists and revolution- ary people waging armed struggle attach great import- The documents of the Political Bureau of the Cen- ance to the stud5' of Chairman Mao s works and that tral Committee of the Indonesian Communist Party the-"- are mapping out their own strategy and tactics show the correct orientation of the Indonesian revolu- ''according to the theories of Mao Tse-tung." The tion. They are a call to the Indonesian Communists Djakarta paper Api Pantjasila admitted that the peo- and revolutionarl- people to unite and engage in new ple's revolutionary armed forces in West Kaiimantan siruggle. The documents represent spring thunder have developed "excellent guerrilla warfare strategy echoing over the nation of a thousand islands. They and tactics," that they usually move about "skilfuliy harre sounded the death knell for the Suharto-Nasution and courageously in small units" and "only fight open fascist military dictatorial regime and brought hope and battles" when they meet small groups of reactionary immense encouragement to the Indonesian people who troops and when the situation is favourable to them. are under the ruie of darkness. With the guidance of Western news agencies have reported that these rev- these documents, the Party has made an important olutionary armed forces recently took advantage of the turn. It has shifted from the cities to the rural areas, favourable terrain in the hilly areas near Bengkaiang from peaceful struggle to armed struggle. It has acted and concentrated a superior force to encircle a com- speedily to lead the people in waging the new battle. pany of government troops who were soundly defeated. F.eactionary papers in Djakarta exclaimed in alarm that As a result of the flexible and mobile strategy and the Indonesian Communist Party had started a carF tactics of the people's armed forces, the reactionary paign of leaving the cities for the countryside. The troops sent out on counter-revolutionary "encirclement Communists and the revolutionary people have gone and suppression" operations are often exhausted as they to the rural areas and launched an armed agrarian vainly search for the people's armed forces, while the revolution. The Political Bureau of the Central Com- latter are able to make use of favourable opportunities mittee of the Indonesian Communist Party declared in to constantly deal blows at the enemy. proclamation last May -that Indonesian Com- a the Af, present, the Indonesian revolutionary armed munists and revolutionary people have "risen up from struggle has only just begun. In the new struggle, the the ground, picked up the red flag of Marxism-Lenin- Party and the people are stitl facing serious difficulties. ism and hoisted it aloft, determined. to proceed along However, as the great leader Chairman Mao has pointed the path of armed revolution." out: "At certain times in the revolutionary struggle, The year 1967 is the year in which the Indonesian the difticulties outweigh the favourable conditions and Communists and revolutionary people began to take so constitute the principal aspect of the contradiction up arms in struggle against the counter-revolutionary and the favourable conditions constitute the secondary a.r'med forces of the Suharto-Nasution regime. During aspect. But through their efforts the revolutionaries the year, they kindled the torch of revolutionary armed can overqome the difficulties step by step and open struggle by arousing and relying on the peasants in up a tavourable new situation; thus a difficult situa- the rural, hilly and.forest areas in West Kalimantan, tion yields place to a favourable one." The Indonesian east, central and west Java, south and north Sumatra Communists and revolutionary people are dauntless, and south and north Sulawesi. heroic fighters. They are breaking through the white terror and fighting courageously. Under the brilliant Reactionary papers in Djakarta have admitted that Iight of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Tse-tung's thought, the revolutionary armed struggle launched by the In- they will overcome all difficulties and through pro- donesian Communists and revoluiionary people in West tracted and arduous struggle by their revolutionary Kalimantan has been growing. Since their first suc- armed forces, open up a new situation of victory.

24 Peking Reuieu, No. 2 Soviet Revision ists' Plot to Coll Cou nter- Revol utionq ry lnternotionol Meeting Con Only Speed Their Own Doom

from on orticle by the Editoriol Deportment of the Albqnion psper --Excerpts _: Zeri i, Populli,t

7 ERI I POPULLIT recently published an article It is just as difficult and hopeless for the Soviet ,J "Why Do Soviet Revisionists Insist on the Inter- revisionist leading clique to implement its traitorous national Meeting?': by its Editorial Department, exposing foreign policy. Its ever closer and more criminal collu- the despicable scheme of the Soviet revisionist ruling sion with U.S. imperialism, the most rabid enemy of clique in making redoubled efforts to convene a sinister the people of the world, and with the other imperialists counter-revolutionary meeting and the predicament it and reactionaries, and its out-and-out treachery towards is now facing. the freedom-loving peoples and socialist countries can After the announcement of the convocation of the no longer be covered up by threadbare slogans. "consultative get-together" of the revisionists in Buda- The peoples have learnt and are learning better and pest, the Soviet revisionist leadership is making a big better to conclude, not by the words of the revisionists, propaganda fuss about the so-called "international but by their deeds, that by its capitulationist and trai- meeting of the Communist and Workers' Parties." It torous stand and actions at every crucial moment, the continues to insist on convoking such a meeting at an Soviet leadership has als,a-vs taken the side of imperial- early date, because it hopes that by this meeting it will ism. The peoples of the Congo (K), Vietnam. the Arab get out of its predicament or at least mitigate the tre- countries, Cuba and the German Democratic Republic mendous internal and external difficulties confronting as r,vell as many other countries and peoples have all it, and at the same time attain some of its counter- suffered from this treachery, not to mention the plots revolutionary aims in the international communist jointly worked out by the Khrushchov revisionists v,'ith movement. the imperialists and the most rabid reactionar-v forces The most important and deep-rooted difficulty for opposing China and Albania. the present Soviet revisionist leadership lies in the fact This traitorous line of the Soviet revisionist leading principled, merciless that, as a result of the open and clique and its supporters could only lead to the emer- struggle by the Marxist-Leninist Parties, the anti-Marx- gence and constant sharpening of the contradictions not pro-impe- ist, anti-socialist, counter-revolutionary and only between the revisionist cliques and the Marxist- rialist line u,hich the Soviet revisionist leadership has Lenf4ist Parties, but also between these cliques and the pursued and is pursuing all fields, has been exposed in Sovigt pe.ople and other peoples. The discontent and eyes the people and the other peo- before the of Soviet resistance of the genuine revolutionaries, of the work- ples. ing people of the revisionist couniries and of all the The demagogic slogan of the Soviet revisionists other peoples to'u'"'ards the anti-Mar:xist and counter- about "building of communism" and that of the other revolutionary activities of the Soviet revisionist clique revisionist countries about "building of socialism" have and its collaborators in the international arena are failed. The Soviet peopie and the other peoples have mounting steadily. The alliance between Soviet revi- seen that in the Soviet Union the process of capitalist sionism and U.S. imperialism for the division of spheres restoration in the economy and of bourgeois degenera- of influence and domination of the world as rvell as tion throughout the social life has replaced socialism their expansionist ambition to enslave all the peoples and communism. The contradictions between the new of the world cannot but incur opposition from all those Soviet bourgeois aristocracy and the broad masses of who are struggling for the freedom and independence the people are growing every day. The of the peoples, and all those lvho hate imperialism and makes use of its privileges to subject the masses to eco- refuse to be enslaved. nomic oppression and political repression. But wherever there is oppression and persecution, there rviil be resis- In many lands, including a number of revisionist- tance and struggle. The bankrupt internal policy of ruled countries, new Marxist-Leninist Parties and or- the Soviet revisionists and their followers is rapidly ganizations have been or are being founded' Their leading to "inevitable clashes between the masses and organization is developing in scope, their struggle the ruling cliques which are in power today. against revisionist treachery is growing, their connec-

January 72, 7968 25 tions with the masses are.becoming stronger, and they against their - chieftains- U.S. imperialism and tlre are courageously raising the banner of revolution. Soviet revisionist leding dique. It is ttre line of unreserved support for tbe revolutionary and libera- AI tlds s@res tbe revisionist cliques to death. tion mcivements of the peoples. The revblutionary That is u'hy for all its previous defeats the Soviet revi- line upheld by these Parties is steadily penetrating the sionist leadership, in order to extricate itself from this minds o! the peoples of tbe s-hoLe world and has be- grave and very difficult situation, still pins great hopes come an ener growirg irye*us to the revolutionary on an international meeting of the so-called "Com- etruggle of the working people on all continents. This munist and Workers' Parties.'f The Soviet revisionist struggle cannot be strangled ard queiied by irnperialist renegade clique needs such an "interngtional commu- aggression and brutal oppresei.oa" or by tk demagogic nist forum" to deceive the Soviet people and the other nonsense and deceptive manoeuvres of the revisionist peoples. In doing so, the Soviet leaders are seeking to renegades. prepare the ground and to ensure the support of the international revisionist front for the further traitorous The planned convrccation of the Budapeit "con- steps they intend soon to take, steps calculated to bring sultative get-together" is con-nectea dko with the grave about capitalist restoration in the country, further situation facing the revisisnist front and prevailihg'ia extend coltraboration with U.S. irnperialism, undermine the mutual relations between the various revisionist the liberation struggles of the Vietnamese and other diques. The control of the Soviet revisionists over the peace-loviirg peoples, subvert socialism and turn it into revisionist front has been gr,eatly shaken anril whatever capitalism, and so forth. tJ:e efforts of the traitorous Soviet leaders, they wiil be uaable to plug the big leaks in their sinking boat. Prac- ^ On the other hand, the "international meeting" is tice in reoent years has shown that the deepening of needed by the Soviet revisionist leading clique to stage the process of the revisionist parties' deviation from an "international condemnation" of the Marxist-Lenin- Marxism-Leninism is in direct proportion to the increase ist Parties, above a1l the Communist Party of China in divergences, contradictions and disputes between the and the Albanian Party of Labour, to "isolate" therrl r"evisionist parties and c.ountries. and to hinder the process of the growth and develop- rnent of the Marxist-Leninist revolutionary movement The question of eonvoking an "international throughout the world. meeting" of the varioue Parties has a long history beset with defeats and disillusions ior the Soviet 31ing clique, The Albanian Party of Laborr and. the Communist and refiects most clearly the deep and irreparable Party of China are the prlncipal enemies of the revi- splits in the revisionist front. The decision to hold the sionists. By their principled and steadfast strrrggle, the so-called "consultative get-together" in Budapest has not two Parties have ruthlessly exposed the revisionists' eliminated and cannot e{iminat€ the difficulties in con- treachery, have ftustrated and are frustrating their vening this "international meeting," as has been con- treacherous platrs, and have smashed their criminal iirmed by the sad experienoe of the ill-fated and dis- divisive and deceptive manoeuvres. The fight of all the credited meeting of March 1, 1965 and the Karlovy forces the awake Marxist-I-eninist has kept revieionists Var5r meeting in April 1967. oights. Thus, in Budapest, as on every other occasion, tlhe Soviet leaders will surely attempt to direet tlreir Ttre revisionist partnens of the Soviet leadership, poisoned arrows against our Parties. though they themselves pul'sue the revisionist 1ine, continue to show doubts and hesitations about their Ilowev-er, the Soviet revisionist dique and its zup participation in the projected meeting, because of the miscalculating; they are simply deluding porters are way it is being prepare4 the quastions to be discussed, Whatever efforts themselves with fantastic illusions. and the resutts it will yield, and because of their neluc- can never peddle their revisionist trey exert, tlrey rub tanc.e to subrnit to the big-power drauvinistic dictates Communist Party China the tEsh, isolate the of and of t,Le Soviet revisionist leadership. In the revisionist Labour irresistible pro- Albanian Party of or halt the camp, based on the relations of , of glowth and constant strengthening of the world cess there cannot k unity and a stable alliancre. On the con- movement. Marxist-Icninist trary, tlre cnontradictions, dieputes and the entrifugal Reality shows the people ever more clearly that tendencies are deepening with every passing day. tlhe only real Marxist-l,eninist line is the one which Ihe Khrushchov revisionistd propaganda and pre' b defended by the Albaaian Party of labour, the parations for the meeting, which has become "famous," Chinese Communist Party and the other Marxist- reveal that they now find themselves in an impasse, Leninist Parties, the line of revolutionary war for the faoed with another inevitable big defeat and even a overthrow of the bourgeoisie and the establishment of still greater split between thernselves. A bigger failure the dictatorship of the proletariat the line of class Iis ahead of tlrem, both in their foreign and home poli- generating struggle to eliminate the danger of rcvi- cies. restoring and sionism.construction and capitalivn thus to carry the of socialism and communism tJrrough to As a result of all this, ttre resistance of the genuine the end. It is the line of firm, tit-for-tat struggle Communirsts and peoples fur. the Soviet Union and in against imperialism and modern r.evisionism, and other revisionist countri,es will surely grow and be

26 Peking Reoi.ew, No. 2 strengthened, the revisionist parties in the capitaiist Iutionaries and Communists to danouncg sad unmasl countries will become even more decadent, and real mercilessly the new treactrerous plans oI the Soviet Marxist-Leninist Parties will continue to be founded revisionist leadership to convene the so-called 'tnt€r: and strengthened and will lead the working ciass, rev- national meeting of the Communist Parties,E olutionary peasantry and patriotic intellectuals to carry on their strr-rggle against imperialism, the bourgeoisig The Soviet peopLe, and first of all the Soviet Marx- the revisionists and reaction lst-Leninists, should rise up and courageously revolt against the Brezhnev-Kosygin clique. Ttre Soviet re- A meeting such as the Khrushchov revisionists are visionist ruIing dique has deprived the Soviet people trylng organize is, good to in a seose, for world revo- of their grreat victories achieved in the glorious Octo- lution and for the international communist rrlovement. ber Revolution and. has caused them to suffer again It will further weaken and expose the traitorous re- from capitalist slavery. We are deeply convinced that visionist cliqueq isolate them from the peoples and the in the Soviet Union and other c.ountries where tlre re. masses of the Communists in their countries, and speed visionists are in power, the Communists and the peo- up their disintegration- ples will ceaselessly intensify their revolutionary strug- In conelusion, the article points out: It irs an impor- g1e and will again raise aloft the banner of Marxism- tant internationalist duty of all the genuine revo- knirrism and proletarian internationalisrn-

(Continued from p. 14.) hopes of us Red Guards, and this adds to our respoD- We must do a good job of propagating Mao very \r'eU that only a handful of imperialists, modern sibility. Tse-tung's thought so that it will assume command over revisionists and reactionaries are agairxt China, whereas everyl,hing, and we must make a great effort to give the broad masses of the people want friendship with aid to the peopie's revolutionary sti'uggles in all coun- us. The thoughts of revolutionary people throughout tries. We must catry out the following: "We love what the world are fixed on the world's revolutionarJr centre, Chairman Mao loves, we support what Chairrnan Mao the great socialist China" ttle China of Mao Tse-tung'e zupports, rve act according to Chairman Mao's instruc- thought. We have friends every.where in the world- tions, we advanoe when Chairman Mao gives the signal." Lei Fu-chien ol the Peking btstitute of Forestry: Whc- Tsin Chi.h-ehi,ang of the Peking Institute of Aeronauti.cs, ever is against China can come to no good end- Yuan Chan4-ching of the Peki"ag Institute oJ Geologg Khr-ushchov opposed China, aud he is finished. Nehru andYang Huq-kuan of the Peking Institu.te oJ Forestrg: opposed China, and he is finished. Al1 anti-China We Red Guards who have periormed meritorious ser- clowns wilt eventually go the same way- vices for China's great proletarian cultural revolution are determined to carry this revolution through to the Our lnternotionolist Duty ls to Support the end, together with workers, peasants and soldiers Revolutionory Struggles of the throughout the country. In the course of the next creatively World's People tu'e1ve months we must do stil1 better in studying and apptying Chairman Mao's v.'orks, and with Kuo Cltung-po of the Peking Staricps Printing Factorg "fight self-interest, repudiate retisionism" as the pivot and, Tso Chun of .th,e Chin"o-Albania FrLend.shfit Peo- strir,'e to crown the great proletarian cultural revolution ptle's Com.mune: Chairman Mao ofte-n teaches us: with all-round victory. This wili make China a still f'The people who have -tniuq0lilEd.in, theq.owq revolu-- . more porverful and c.onsolida'rcd red base area of the tion should. help those stifl strrrggl!4g .for libe.ration. w'olld revolution- This gur .dutR,'"China-is the rerrolu- is iuternationatist 'Hsiang Pao+htrr of o P.L.A. urut in Peki,ng: We are tionary the pegplq and Peking, base area of worldls fighters of the Chinese People's Liberation Arrny. We great the rer'olutiorrary cherished our capital, is centre must not cpntent ourselves mei'ely with being revolu- by the people of all lands. We should dissiminate Mao .be tionaries of China, we. must revolutionaries of the Tse-tung's thought in all parts of the world. so that world too. The moment the great leader Chairman revolutioaaty people everywhere can grasp this power- Mao gives the order, and points to tis the dir-ection, ful ideological weapon for etruggle. We workers and ihere we will go and support the revolutionar.v strug- peasante resoluteiy reqpond our great leader must to gles of the wor'ld's people and carry the rvorld revolu- Mao's hold of Chairman stirring call to take a firm tion through to the end.. We sha1l always cherish in promote production in revolution and vigorously and our hearts this teaching of Chairman Mao's: "People practice give the actual all-out support to rerrolutionary of the wsrld, unite and de{eat the U.S. aggressors and struggles of all oppressed nations and oppressed peoples all their running dogs! People of the world, be in the world. courageous, dare to fight, defy difficutties aad advance Li YetlL ond Hsin Chen of Peking's No. 23 Middle wave upon u,ave. Then the whole world will helorag School: The rvorld's revolutionary people have high to the people. Monsters of all kinds shall be destroyed"'

Jw'uarE 12, 1968 Z7 Notes on Fighting SeffL Interest

By the late Li Wen-Chung, heroic fighter and "Model in Helping the Left and Cherishing the People'l

The follotoing i.s a sli,ghtlg abridged translation of Li, Wen-ch,ung's notes, uritten less than tuso months before his death, on creatirselg studging and apgilging Chairman Mao's uorks and tighting self-i.nterest. Li Wen-chung was Leader of the 4th platoon a! the 6th companA of o People's Liberatton Arm.y unit. Last August, the 4th yilatoon usas detailed to escort members of the reuoluti,onarA nxasses ocross the Kankiang Ritser. There was an accident and the ferry boat sank in mid-stream. More th.qn 50 Red Guards and other reuoluti,onary fighters were brought safely asltore, but Li Wen-chung and tuo other men of the P.L.A. platoon laid down thei.r lioes in the usork of rescue. Witlt th.e approual of our great leader Chainnan Mao and his close cornrade-in- arms Vice-Chairman Lin Pi,ao, the 4th piatoon has been gitsen the honourable ti,tle of "Model Platoon in Helping the Lelt attd Cherishing th.e Peogtle," while Li Wen-chu,ng has been post- humouslg auarded the glori,ous title of "Model in Helping the LeJt anil Cherishing the Peo- ple." (See "Peking Reuieru," Nos. 51 and 52, 1967.) A natian**id.e compaign is naw arouxng armArnen and people to emu.late the heroic 4th platoon onil Com.rade Li Wen-chung. Li Wen-chung's notes were frontpaged in "Jiefangjun Bo.o" otl December 25, last gear. Along usi.th the notes, tlti,s olnxA paper printed. an editori.al entitled "A Brilliant Eramyile in Studying and Applying Chairman Mao's Works Creatioelg and in Transforming One's World Outlook." lt pointed. out: It is bg no rneans fortuitous that in the fierce struggle between the two ciosses, th.e troo road,s and the two lines, Li Wen-chung u:as boundlessly loyal to Chah'man Mao, follou,ed hiim closelg, completelg deuoted himself to others usithout thought of seli, and demanstrated the fine proletarian qualitg of utter dedication to the collecti,ue interest. AIL this r.r.os estoblished on a solid foundation. lt tpas the rczult oJ his protracted efforts, made u;ith deep class teeling, to studg and apply creati.uelg Chairtnan Mao's usorks anil to ilestroy self-interest and culti-*ate deootr,on to the public interest. His attitude tousarils bourgeois selt-intercst ac'cs to rexeal his selfislt, ideas fullg, hit them haril, correct them deter- minedlg, and trulg displag the fine re1:olutionary stgle of studg ushi,ch links theory with practice, the style uhich Chailman Mao ad.L^ocates. He h.as set us a shining eram,ple in the studg of Chairman Mao's roorks, an etam[,le o! combining study taith application so as to ge.t quick results, and, of strioing h,aril to apply uhat is leon* so cs to conpletelg tronsform one's uorld otttlaok,

_P,R, Ed,

TN 1967 our army has been going deep among the mentalism, all manifestations of bourgeois ide

28 Peking Rersietn, No. 2 of years of private ownership. It is deep-seated. Root- In the last six months, every time I have had a ing out self-interest and building devotion to the public discussion with a comrade about his ideological prob- interest is a stormy, deep-going revolution, a revolution lems or talked about our prob).ems in general I have to destroy all bourgeois ideas and ensure the ascendancy felt it necessary to speak about my own shortcomings. of Mao Tse-tung's thought. In making this revolution, What is the road I have travelled since I joined the one must depend primarily on one's ow:r efforts, with army? What has helped me make progress? Gen- help flom the masses of the people. erally speaking, when I follow Chairman Mao's in- Chairman Mao has said: "The revolutionary rvar structions, I advancre bravely, Otherrvise, I go astray, is a rvar of the masses; it ean be waged only by mobi- Thi.s applies as rn ell to both fighters and cadres, without exception. lizing the masses and relying on them." In destroying self-in'rerest, it is necessary to rely on the masses and 2. One must fight self-interest unflaggingly. llrage a "people's \Mar." The masses help you under- Throughcut the process of remoulding one's world take "reconnaissances" and make "estimates" so that outlook, one must take hold of the principal contra- you can reach a decision, rvork out "battle plans" and diction and hit where it hurts. concentrate your forces for a frontal attack. OnIy by Chairman Mao has taught us: "trf in any process continuous and unfiagging fighiing is it possible to fulfil there are a numbcr of contradietions, one of thenr must this task. Whether one has the courage to do so or not be the principal contradiction playing the leading and is a quesiion of whether one is willing or not to break decisive role, while the rest occupy a secondary and u,'ith self-interest and become a proletarian revolution- sullordinate position. Ttrrerefore, in studying any com- ary fighter. This is also a touchstone distinguishing plex process in which there are two or more contra- genuine the revolutionary from the sham. dictions, rve rnust d,evote every effort to finding its In destroying self-interest and cultivating devotion principal eontradiction. Once this principal contra- to the pubiic interest, three steps have to be taken: diction is grasped, all problems can be readily solved." 1. One must fully reveal one's selfish ideas. This lVe mtrst fight a war of annihilation in fighting is the first step in remoulding one's world outlook. self-interest and completely destroy and discard self- Vhether or not one dares to reveal thtm is a question interest. We rnnst fight it until we blush vi'ith shamg of rvhether one is a revolutionary or not. lVhether sw,eat and lose appetite and sleep. (When comrades or not one reveals them full;' is a question cf r.,'heii-ler cri'ticize C :ne, I cculdn't sleep rr hat rvith u'restling one is a thoroughgoing revoluticnary or Dot. rvith mS shortcomings. I think this criticism ex- pre$ses my class brothers'greatest concern and affection In order to reveal one's selfish ideas truthfully, for me. Without this affection, one cannot make rev- {ully and to the root, one must rid oneself of fear olution.) is impossible to revolutionize our thinking fear of losing face or reputation, fear of public criticism,- It completely' if we make light of our shortcomings or and fear of forfeiting prestige, in short, fear of the masses mistakes, if r.ve fight only on the flanks without mak- and of the revolution. ing a breakthrough in depth, if we oniy fight some- Chairman Mao has taught us: "Thoroughgoing times or half-heartedly, or if we minimize or gloss materialists are fearless" and "countless revolutionary over our shortcomings and mistakes. martyrs have laid dorvn their lives in the interests of altogether neces- the people, and our hearts are filled with pain as we Chairman Mao has said: It is overawed by his the living think of them-can there be any personal sary that rve "should not be [the har{ships that can interest, then, that we would not sacrifice or any error enemy's] trtlculence, dispirited by endured, or dejected by setbaeks, but should have that we would not discard?" A proletarian rev

Janu"ar'y 12, 1968 )Q the opinions have been raised, whether before many words. He must go on remoulding himself all his people, or at a meeting or elsewhere; c. Not mind Iife. He must learn from those who are models in the attitude of the person rnrho has raised them; d. Not studying Chairrnan Mao's works and make trernen- mind whether the criticism is excessive or not -- dous efforts in studying and applying the "three con- *Blarne not the speaker but be warned hy his lrords"; stantiy read artieles." .He must face the world and and e. Not mind in rvhat manner they have been brave the storms, temper and remould liimselt and raised-to your face or behind your back. raise his level of class consciousness and revoltrtionize his thinking in class struggle, especialiy in the great brief, we must hold firmly to the truth. cor- In storms of the great proleLarian cultur-al revciution. rect mistakes, eliminate selfish ideas and accept cri- ticism in the inierests of the people and the revolu- Revealing one's selfish ideas is the prereqtiisite, tion. eombating these ideas is ihe key link and remcuiding None of these three 3. One must resoiutely remould oneself. Re- oneself is the purpose anC result' moulding oneself is the continuation and the purpose steps can be left out. of the first tr.vo sieps. It represents a qualitative leap; Chairman Mao has said: t'This change in world it represents an even more arduous anC thoiough- outlootr< is something fruldarnental." Self-remoulding going revolution of one's mind. Neglecting this would is a hard, Iong and painful pracess' Refore olle can mean stoppir,g half*way in the revolution and u,asting become a good fighter of Chairmart I\{ao's, one must ali the previous efforts. have the determinatj"on to stuciy ccnscieutiously, to steel Remoulding oneself completely and thoroughly onese.lf again and again until one is completely trans- dernands that one have real tenacity and a higir degree forrned, and io act at all times according to Chairman of c.a&sciousness, that a ntan's deeds tally with his Mao's instructions.

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FHAIRI\{AN MAO teaches us that "there is Do line rnust be criticized and repudiated under the foi- tl construction wlthout destruetion- I)estrnction Iorring three heads. means criticism and reprrdiation; it means revolutioa. It involves reasoning things out, which is construction. A ReYisionist Educotionol Policy process you have con- Put destruction first, and in the The struggle between the two elasses, the two roads ctructicn." and the two iines in edueation eentres on this question: To carry out the proletarian revolution in educa- For whieh class are successors being trained? Tire pro- tion, we must put destruction first and thoroughly re- letariat aims to train and bring up stlcc€ssolrs for- the pudiate the counter-revolutionary revisionist eduea- revolutionary cause of the proletariat. The bourgeoisie tional line, draw a sharp dividing line politically, ideo- seeks to train its suecessors in order to brin"g ahout lsgically and theoretiealiy between the tvrc classes, the a capitalist restoration. two ro.ads and the ti,vo Iines on the edueational front; Chairman lVlao has said: "Our edueational poliey be loyal NIao Tse-tttng's and to and ahvays to th,ouglii must enable everj'one who receives an education to Chairman Mao's proletarian edueational Only so line. develop morally, intellectually and physically and be- can corrrplete victory be in the proietarian revo- assured co(ne a worker with both socialist corrsciousness arid lution in education. cnlture." "Education must serve proletarian potritics and In the past 17 years, the leadership in education was edueation must be combined with productive labour"" in the hands of China's Khrushchov and Lu Ting-yi, a Chairman Mao has developed Marxisi-Leninist theories eounter-revolutionary revislonist and scholar'-t;rrant. of education u'ith genius and ereativel;n. When we irn- Ttrey resisted-, distorted and tarnpered with the prcle- plement his edueational policy, the socialist ccnscious- tarian educational line u.orked out by Chairrnau Mao ness of China's younger generation will assuredly be and the Party's Centra] Corlmittee, and pushed a coun- rapidly enhanced and they will be steeled and ternpered tei:-revolutionary revisionist line ii-r education irr a vain into staunch successors to the proletarian revolutionary atternpt to turn our socialist-type schools into hot houses cause. With the carrying out of his policar, the differences for trainir,lg bourgeois su.ecessor:s and prepare public between workers and peasants, between the cities and i:pinion and eadres for restoring capitalisn. This sinister the countryside and between manual and mental work

?,4 Peking Reoieto, No, 2 will certainly be narfowed gradually, the dictatorship of out at the top, you have to read and read." Opposiog the the proletariat rvill certainly be strengthened and the idea of students being both red and expert, he spread restoration of capitalism prevented. Ail this will un- the non-sense that "it won't do and it is also impossible doubtedl-,* hasten the final victory of the communist for a person 'to be both." cause in China and in other parts of the r.r/orld. Chairman Mao teaches us: "Not to have a corrsct The handful of top Farty persons in authority political point of view ls like having no soul." When taking the capiialist road desperately {eared and hated we train successois to the proletai:ian revolutionary Chairman Mao's educational policy. In 1958, China's cause, 1Me should first of all pay attention to whether Khrushchov open'ly opposed Chairman Vlao's educa- or not they love Chairman Mao, are loyal to Mao tional policy when he said: "Ttie existing educational Tse-tung's thought and serve the people wholehearted- policy- and the aims of education have not been clear- Iy. Only in this rvay can they stand firmly on the side cut. They should be repudiated." In 1961, in concert of the proletariat and of Chairman Mao in the struggle rvith the reactionary forces at home and abroad, Lu bet*ween the truo classes, the two roads and the tu,o Ting-;ri mounted a fierce offensive against Chairman Iines. Mao's educational policy. He said demagogically: "It These ideas of "giving first place to intellectual is impossible to map out something in education v,,hich development" snd ."putting professional skill above all" will be valid fcr generations. Differing viervs on have never been applied in their true sense. China's educational policy should be allowed insicie tire Party; Khrushchov, Lu Ting-yi and their like did not really opposing vie.,r,s should also be tolerated outside the ignore politlcs. Lu Ting-yi said: So long as one is Party." learned, "even if he supports Tito ideoicgically . . . this Lu Ting-yi vehemently attacked Chairman Mao's may be allowed." In trttering these words he let the cat educational policy and stubbornly pushed a connter- out of the bag. revolutionary revisionist educaticnal policy, namely, the As it turned out, Lu Ting-yi and his like simpiy did so-callecl theory of the "dual aim of education," put not want to put proletarian to the fore. What fcr'ward in accordance with the ideas of China's Khru- the}, v7ar1.6 to put to the fore was bourgeois politics. shchov. He divided the youtrger generation into tw-o By means of these deceptive slogans they tried to in- categcf ies of people. The majority were to be trained duce the .vounger generation to divorce themselves from as tillers of the land and factory hands rvith eiementary pioletar-ian pclitics. fi'om production and frorn the eriucation in reading and $'riting. In other r*-ords. the-v n-orker:s and pea-

Jamuory 12, 1968 3l of mechanically crarr.rning students with know-ledge ed the educational revolution started in 1958. While must be abolished. The teaching method of developing vilifying the quality of teaching in our sehools as being the students' initiative must be intr.odttced. This is lower than that during the tirnes of the Northern War- aimed at enabling er-ery student to develop moraliy, lords and the Kuomintang, he did all he could in advocat- intellectually and physically and become a rvorker ing that in the matter of curricula. teaching mat'erials and "vith both socialist con-cciousness and culture. methods, lve should follow the example of the so-caIled But over the last 17 years, China's Kl'rrushcirov, "famous" schools run under the Kuominiang regime. Lu Ting-yi and their like, pla;,'it-tg their counter-revolu- In 1961, Lu Ting-yi and his like increased the number tionar-v. doubie-dealing tricks, did ali they cou.1d to of courses in primary, junior and senior middle schools oppose Chairman Mao's instructions on shortening the to 11, 13 and 10 respectively (with an extra of four eeriod of schooiing and transforining c'.rrrieula and optional courses for the latter). Thg amouni of time teaching materials, methods of teaching and examina- girzen to academic study in middle schools was increased tion. to 34-36 hours per week. With the introduction of the China's Khrushchov constantly spread such non- "surpri-

2' Pelcing Reuieto, No. 2 gleat call to "grasp revolution, pro- ACROSS TI.IE LANffi mote production," and have broughl w/./iffi/Yrlv./k/,//'/////v,/./. /,2't'i+,t'''.( in an all-round record harvest. The-v have eageriy sold the state their bumper harrzests of grain, cotton, olution, there have been phenomenal Home Morket Brisk oil-bearing crops and other farm and increases in the supplies of paper, side-line products. Grorvth of indus- lfr HINA'S urban and rural markets writing ink, stencils and other trial and agricuitural production \-r are thriving as the unprecs stationery goods. Sales of ehemical has considerably increased the dented great proletarian cultural fertilizers, semi-mechanized farm purchasii-rg power of the nrban and revolution takes its course with the implementg insecticides and plastic rural popuiation, and of the peasant proletarian revolutionaries and rev- sheets farm also increased. for use masses in particular. This resulted olutionary workers and staff in Compared with the same period of in a rather big rise in aggregate sales finance and trade firnly pursuing 1966, 20 50 per cent more frorn to of commodities in 196?. There rvere the policies formulated by the great consumer goods means pro- and of particularly large increases in sales leader Chairman l\{ao "grasping duction have been sent to the coun- revolution, promoting production,"- of some major iniu:trial consurller tryside in anticipation of the buying goods. "developing the economy and en- boom this coming spring. The rural suring supplies." districts have already received most In 1966 and 196?. thc state re- adjusted the pri.ces of certain com- Urban and rural markets are of the farm machinery, rubber-tyred modities. Besides lor'.-eri.ng the prices pretty weli supplied; buying and carts, chemical fertilizers and small of some industrial cons'.;:riel'goods, it selling are heavy and prices are farm tools needed for the spring stable. 1967 siate purchasbs farming. cut prices of agric';-it;:a1 neans of of production grain, cotton, tobacco, bast fibre by an atelage of nearly These excellent market conditions 4 per cent. Chern:cai iertilizer and crops, pigs, poultry and vegetables both and countryside are in tou'n in-secticide ptlces s-ere cui 10 to 15 surpassed those of 1966. The food growth inseparable from the' of per cent and thcse ri motors grain supply sitrratir:n is going from industrial and agricultural produc- -.ma11 and transformers ilr agrici-rltural good to better. Meats, vegetables, tion. With the Chinese rvorking 20 per ce:::. of the fruits and other non-stapie foods are class creatively studying and apply- use by --'{ost price readjusi:aents cc,':cerned re- available in greater quantities than ing Chairman Mao's writings in the prices c::':a::i industrial before. Mass demands for industriai course of the great proietarian dr-rcing of goods sold remc:': ::' :nountainous consumer goods have in the main cultural revolution, there rvere new in areas so tirat the criierei:ces in re- been met. Sales of cotton doth, developments in industry and espe- gional pr.ice 1€',-.ls :hi,tughout the underwear and other knitwear cially in the light industries. This countr-v have b:en :-:-i'l'o-,.ied. topped 1966 levels. Thele has been has provided a solid material basis a 15 per eent rise in sales of serving for the prosperity of the sccialist The ttrban arld :il'al t;tarkets ilave machines, radio sets, thermos flasks, home market. The poor and lorver- taken on a co::rp1e..-i:' tle'\v look as enamel wash basiirs and aluminium middle peasant members cf the ::ural old cnlture. ideoli{.-. :'-l:tctns and pots and pans. To meet the needs of people's comnunes have enthusiasti- habits har.e been eiinilateci and the I the great proletarian cultural rev- callrv ansurered Chairman 1\1[ao's ne-rv has bee:r fos:ered, The charac- t t country's institutions of higher learning. Calling th*se and colleges at all leveis s-!:iie large numbers of the "Committees of College Affairs," he invested thcm with children of workers, poor ard lorver-middle peasants, rvide porvers u,hich actually placed them above the revoiutionary caCres. rer-olutionary armymen and Party committees. martyrs lr,'ere kept out. Even if admitted, they rvere always discriminated against or simpli' expelled for Chairman Mao teaches us that "the Chinese Cone- one reason or anothei:. munist Party is the core of leadership of the lr,,hcle f,hinsss people. i{ithout this core, the cause of social- Ho1dir"rg stilt higher the great red banner of Mao ism cannot be victorious." Tlr.e fact that Lu Ting-yi Tse-tung's though'" and taking "fight self-interest, re- advocate

January 72,1968 .).) teristic features of China's socialist the great proletarian cultural rev- date the 1aw,s governing such activity commerce have become more promi- oluiion on ih-e finance and trade and discover how it affects the earth. nent. The rise in sales of simply front through to the end and turn The proletarian revolutionaries of designed, hard wearing gnods and this front into a great school of Mao Peking Observatory describe this the fall !n demand for luxury items Tse-tung's thought. new teiesrope as a victory for Mao reflect the new social practice charac- Tse-tung's thor,rght'and for the terized by economy and thrift. Ciri*a l!{okes Giont 5olor Rodio gr€at proletarian cultural revolution, Many trade marks now mirror felescope The reason.is that the project was first suggested revolutionary China's socialist revolution and so- rFHE Peking Observai.ory of the by sc.entific rvorkers during the great cialist construction. Every shop and I Chinese Academy of Sciences has 1958 the show window' displays portraits or installed China's largest solar radio leap fonvard in under inspiration of Chairman Mao's call br-rsts of Chairman Mao, quotations teiescope in time for the 1967-68 t.o do ar*'ay s'ith superstition and be from his works and slogans in praise astronornieal year-a peak year oI bold in thinking and action. But the of the great leader. Follorving th,e solar aciivity. example of the Peopl.e's Liberation work ivas hampered by Chi.na's made and instailed by Army, the revolutionary workers Designed, Khrushchov and his'agents in the sci.entists, the promoted and staff in finance and trade active- Chinese '".zorkers and field of science who a re- effective instru- l-v propagate the great thought of new telescope is an visionist Une characterized by ment the study of solar activity. others Mao Tse-tung, turning their premises for slavishness, crawling behind doing into vantage points for disseminat- Much importance is attached to or simply sitting still and nothing. ing Mao Tse-tung's thought. this study because the sun is a giant radio emissions, and solar During the cultural revolution, great source of During the proletarian cul- activity, including enrptions, fre- the proletarian revolutionaries of tural revolution they launched a quently interferes with and even the Chinese Academy of Sciences vigorous revolutionary movement of disrupts radio telecommunications and Peking Observatory rebelled mass criticism to expose, criticize on earth, thus affecting national de- against the handful of capitalist and repudiate such fallacies as the fenoe, aviation, navigation and other roaders in the Party and seized use of "material incentives," "put- fields of work. power from them. With Mao Tse- ting profits in command" and the tung's thought as their guide they opening of "free markets" advocated Unlike ordinary optical telescopes carried the prcject forward with on light, soiar radio by China's l"hrushchov and his which rely the renewed energy. They left their telescope the sun by agents in finance and trade in an "observes" Iaboratories for the w"ork site. To- its radio waves. gives a attempt tc restore capitalism. At collecting It gether with the workers the:'e, they of solar activities that are the same time, they further fosiered "view" studied Chairman Mao's wrj.tings, invisible through ordinary tele- the ideolog;r of serving the people, criticized and repudiated the re- scopes. orientated their work to serve the visionist line in scientifie research countryside and the masses, went An aray of parabolic aerials set and pressed ahead with the work. deep among the masses and to the in the open receives the weak radlo Acting in accordance with Chairman glass-roots organizations to heip the waves frcm the sun and transrnits Mao's teaching on self-reliance and people in production and daily life. them to the receiver indoors; this hard struggle and on building the In these ways they have contributed amplifies and automatically records country by diligence and thrift they to the snccessful development of the them. From this recorded data, scient- compietecl the whole project within great proletarian cultural re',rolution. ists cair study solar activity, eluci- six months. Closely folio',r,ing the strategic plan of the great supreme com- mander Chairman Mao and respcnd- ing to his lofty cail to 'rfight self- interest, repudiate revisionisnr," the revolutionary w'orkers and staff in I finance and trade have started many classes for the study of IvIao I 'Ise-tung's thought and brought i about a new upsurge in their creative study and applicalion of Chairman Mao's writings. This has lurther promoted the revolu- tionization of their own thinking and their work. They pledged them- seives to hcld aloft the great recl ban- ner of Mao Tse-tung's thought, carry ?he array of parabolic aerials of China's uew solar radlo telescope

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Strong Profest Agoinst Bombing reliable rear area.' U.S. imperialism Government on Deerember 4" 1967, Of Chinese Freighter by U.S" rvill never succeed in its attempt in 'rhieh it created pletexts for ag- through intimidation to pler.ent the gression Bondit Aircrsft against Cambodia by in- Chinesc pcopie from suppo:'ling and venting a pack of lies. --This eon- assisting people. On January 3, U.S. bandit aircraft the Vietnarnese stitutes a most-flagrant war biack- The bombing attacks Chinese frantically bombed the Chinese on mail on the part of U.S. imperialism freighters by U.S. imperialist pirate freighter Hongqi No. I.18, whieh was against the Kingdorn of Cambodia. aircraft will only arollse stilt greater. anchored at Cam Pha Port in Viet- these manoeuvres of U.S. im- indignation arnong the Chinese peo- "All nam, wounding several of the erew perialism inciicate that ii is quicken- ple who rvill even more staunchl;r members and seriously damaging ing its pace to expand. the war of fight shoulder to shoulder w,ith tire the ship. During the U.S. air attack, aggression against Vietnam and fraternal Vietnamese people to deal all the cr-ew members of the freighter, spread ii to Cambodia and the whole heavier and heavier bl.c'rs at U.S. q,ho were armed rvith Mao Tse-tung's of Indo-China. This is a desperate imperiaiism till final victory is 'lvon." thought, defied danger and fought struggie b""- U.S. imperialism. As back bravely in self-defenee. The our great leader Chairman Mao has incident was another gra\ze provo- Firm Support for Combodion wisely pointed out, 'The days of the cation by U.S. imperialism following People's Just Struggle U.S. aggressors in Vietnam are its bombing attack on the Chinese Agcinst U.S. lmperiolism numbered. Ilolvever, all reactionary freighter Hongqi No. 154 on Novem- forees on the verge of extinction in- ber 25 last year. ?he Chinese Foreign The Royal Cambodian Govern- variably conduct desperate strug- Ministry issued a statement on Jan- ment issued a statement on December gles. They are bound to resort to uary 7 strongly protesting against 26, 1967, stronglSz condemning fl".S. military adventure and political de- this bandit aet. imperialism for its war threats ception in all their forrns in order against Cambodia. The statement to save themsefues frern exiinrtion.' The statement said: "U.S. imp+ sternly,warned U.S. imperialism that It can be said 'r,vith certainty that rialism has suffered crushing defeats should it invade Cambodia, "it will U.S. imperialism wiil definiteiy come and landed itself in a deeper predica- rneet with stiff resistance frcrn the to no good end by embarking on ment in its v'ar of aggression against army and people of Cambodia" and such an adventurous path of war Vietnam and, desperate like a corner- that Cambodia win "immediately expansion. As the statement qf the ed beast, has resorted, it to frenzied appeal to the friendly porvers for Royal Cambodian Government has bombing attacks on Chinese freight- direct assistance." The Chinese For- declared, U.S. imperialism r,','i11 sure- ers in vain attempt disrupt a to eign Ministry issued a statement on ly meet with the resolute resistance Sino-Viel.namese pre- trade links and January 3 expressing the resolute of the Cambodian people. And it vent the Chinese people giving from support of the Chinese Government u,ill suffer complete Cefeat in the assistanee to the Vietnamese people, and people for the Roya1 Cambodian face of the Indo-Chinese PeoPles thereby and to achieve its crirninai Government's just stand. who ai'e u.aging a jcint fight v'rith design of blockading and isolating common hatred for the enemy' Vietnam. The successive bombing The Chinese Foreign Ministry attacks on Chinese freighters hy statement said: "While making in- "The Chinese Government' and U.S. pirate aircraft not only indi- cessant encroachments on Cambodian people have all along firmly suP- cate that U.S. imperialism is rnaking territory, U.S. imperialism and its ported the Royal Cambodian Gov- a desperate struggle in its war of vassals, the south Vietnamese and ernment and the Cambodian PeoPle aggression against Vietnam, but also Thai puppets, have of late made re- in their just struggle against U.S. further show up the ferocious fea- peated war threats against Cambo- irnperialist aggression. The Chinese tures of U.S. imperialisrn bent on dia, claiming that 'camps' of south Gcvernment is closely watching the being hostiie to the Chinese peopie. Vietnam liberation forces have been developments and hereby solemnl-v 'discovered' on Carabodian territory states that if U.S. irnperialism

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3rd Anniversory of Thsilond Bhaycme Chulanoi:d strongly con- ing the Thai people's revolutionary Potriotic Front dernned the U.S.-Thanom cli.que cause. The Thai people, he continued, which, in collusion rvith the revisi.on- have come to a deep understanding The office of the representative ist renegade group, had resorted to through struggle that in opposing a'o:-oad of the Patriotic Front of lhai- reactionary double^dealing tactics and U.S. imperialism and orrerthror,l,ingi land gave a reception in Peking on to such trash as the "constitution," the reactionary regime of the Thanom Jan-'rar5' 2 to celebrate the 3rd anni- "political parties" and "elections" to clique it is imperaiive at the same' ',-ei"sary of the founding of ihe Front. hoodr.,ink the people and rnake the time to wage a resclute struggle it the reception rvhich was filled patriotic people's armeci forces re- against modern revisioni-=n: r.,'ii;h the ri-lth an atmosphere of militant unit-v, nounce arnred struggle and sr.rrrend- Soviet revisionist renegaCe clique as Chinese and foreign friends repeatedly er. He declared that the Thai peo- its centre. Before the ari:::d Thai rn-isl-red a long, Iong life to Chairman pie's armed forces, led by the people, U.S. imperialisrn. Soviei revi- Il{ao, the grea.t leader of the people of Cornr::unist Party of Thailand, had sionism anC the Thanom reactionary the u.orld, and they rvished the peo- dealt the big political fraud of the clique are all paper: tigers. Irnperial- pLe of Thailand stiil greater victories U.S.-Thanom ciique teiling blows by ism, revisionism and reaction are fast in their arnied struggle. Arnong those smashing the enemy's campaigns of approachlng their dr:om, he Cecialed. encirclement and annihiiation. He s'ho atteird.d w.ere I(uo Mo-jo and Referrir:g to the great victories of also sternly denounced the Soviet Liu Ning-I, Vice-Chairmen of the China's great proletarian cultural re.,,- modern revisionlsts for doing their Standing Comrnittee of the National olution, Kuo Mo-jo said that our grea-t utmost Ln trying to split the patri- People's Congress. Bhayome Chu- socialist motheriand had steadily be- otic and democratic mo'rement in lanond, repre.sentati.,,e abroad of the come the strong basiion of the rvcrid Thailand. Front, and Vice-Chairman Kuo Mo-jo revolution and the Chinese people at ti:e reception. spoke Bhal-ome Chulanond r,vcnt on to would certainly give more effective In his speech, Bhayome Chulanond say that the victories lvon in China's support to the people of Asia, Africa, gave an account of the great viciories great proletarian cultural revolution, Latin America and the rest of the won by the people of Thailand in initiated and led by Chairman Mao world in their revolutionary struggles, their armed struggle. He said that Tse-tung himself, had made China the with Ure final aim of achieving the the Thai 1:eople's revolution was able rvorld's revolutionary people's strong complete liberation of mankind. IIe to develop couectly and steadiiy be- bastion rvhich would never change its noted that the conscientious study of cause the lor'ce at the core leading it colour. The triumph of this great the great thought of Mao Tse-tung by forrvard rvas the Communist Party of revolution had shaken the whole the Patriotic Front of Thailand and Thailand-a proietarian revolution- world and had greatly advanced its enthusiastic support to China's ary Party armed with Marxism- the revolution of the world's people. great proletarian cultural revolution Leninism lrnd holding high the great China is the centre of the world rev- constituted a great encouragement to red banner of Mao Tse-tung's olution, he declared, and the peopie the Chinese people. He declared that thought. He added that the revolu- of Thailand wish the fraternal Chi- the Chinese people were resolved to tion 'uvas able to rvin victories and de- nese people still greater victories in support the Thai people in their arm- velop step by step because the people the great proletarian cultural rev- ed struggle against U.S. imperialist of Thailand had grasped the truth olution. aggression and against the puppet that "political porver grorvs out of Thanom regime. He expressed confi- the barrel of a gun." Vice-Chairman Kuo Mo-jo, in his dence that the heroic Thai people, speech, \4/armly praised the Thai peo- guided by the great red banner of In accortiance rvith Mao Tse-ttug's ple for their splendid vietories in their Mao Tse-tung's thought and persist- thought urhich is universally appli- armed struggle which is led by the ing in a protracted people's war, cable as the guiding principie in rer'- Communist Party of Thailand and would surely win final victory. olution, he contir-rued, the Communist follorvs the road of seizing political Party of Thailand has firmly carried power by armed force and using the Speaking on behalf of Pridi Banom- out the line of arousing the peasants, countryside to encircle the cities as yong, former regent of Thailand, establishing rural base areas, perse- pointed out by the great leader Chair- Warni said that Thailand belonged to vering in people's war and encircling man Mao. Practice, he added, has the Thai people who would never the cities from the countryside so as proved that the path taken by the al1ow the Thancim-Praphas clique to finaily seize state a vassal of imperialism to - power. This is Thai people is the only correct one U.S. - turn the only correct path for Thailand to for achieving liberation. This is a vie- their country into U.S. imperialism's achieve independence, democracy and tory for people's tuar and for colony. Warni said that the Thai peo- liberation. It is of prime importance Marxism-Leninism, Mao Tse-ttrng's ple who were Cetermined to oppose for the patriotic and revolutionary thought. counter-revolutionary armed force people, he declared, to str_rdy iVlao with revolutionar;r armed force would Tse-tung's thought which has great Kuo Mo-jo strongly denounced surely win final victory so long as power and which is the acme of U.S. imperialism and Soviet revision- they lvere resolute, feared no sacrifice Marxism-Leninism in the contem- ism for collaborating rvith the Thanom and rvere resolved to surmount every porary era. clique in suppressing and sabotag- difficulty.

,J0 Peking Reuieta, No. 2 An Ominous Sfgn for {.J. S. Imperialism by "RENMIN RIBAO" COMMENTATOB

,l N ominous sign appeared in the skies of the capi- Vietnam. On the contrary, it is even preparing to ex- II 61is1 u'orld on the very first day of the new year. pand the war there. So long as these two basic factors L;,ndon Johnson, chieftain of U.S. imperialism, was which iead to the deterioration of the U.S. finances and forced to announce "stringent actions" to reduce the economy continue to exist, no "stringent actions" taken enormous deficit the United States is expected to incur by the U.S. Government will be of any avail. Contrary in its international payments. He has decided on these to its wish, they wiJl drag U.S. imperialism into an measures in the hope that he can thus maintain the even worselling political and economic crisis. position the tottering This has revealed the i of dolIar. In addition, with a view to rescuing the U.S. dollar, I U.S. imperialism as increasing frailty and decadence of the Johnson Administration has declared that a deep poiitical and crises J well as the extremely economic "whole range of alternatives is being considered" the year of - of the capitalist world. It is the harbinger of u,hich means increased hardships for the American peo- more oppressive gloom and chaos facing the capit.alist I ple. To put it bluntly, it intends to step up its attack on I rvorld- the living standards of the working people in the coun- 1 the class con- 4 In order to dominate the world and pursue its policy try, which will naturally further sharpen of neo-colonialism, U.S. imperialism has, on the one tradictions at home. t hand, been exporting capital in huge sums through The Johnson Administration's attempt to shift the different channels, including so-called foreign "aid," to U.S. economic crisis on to other imperialist countries, gain political and economic controL over other countries particularly those of Western Europe, by means of these and to subjugate and exploit the peoples. On the other "stringent actions" is bound to aggravate the contra- hand, it has been throwing its military weight about dictions among the imperialist countries, further in- and stretching its tentacles of aggression everywhere to tensify their trade war, tariff war and currency war, crack down on the revolutionary struggles of the peo- and sharpen the struggle of those Western European ples. However, this policy of aggression and war has countries represented by France against U.S. domina- not only greatly sharpened its conflict with the peoples tion. but has also increasingly sapped and drained its own These "stringent actions" of the Johnson Admini- strength. Almost every year for more than a dozen stration, adopted at a time when there is a general years now the United States has been unable to make decline and stagnation of production in the capitaiist both ends meet. It has been weighed down by stagger- countries, are bound to quicken the ripening and erup- ing budgetary deficlts and enormous balance of pay- tion of an economic crisis in the capitalist world, further ments deficits. Its failure in the war of aggression sharpen its contradictions, and plunge it into utter chaos. against Vietnam and the soaring expenditure of this vuar have further aggravated its difficulties. U.S. im- Our great leader Chairman Mao has pointed out: now perialism is now like a big, worm-eaten tree. Follorv- "The reactionary forces of the United States are stone walls everywhere, which ing the devaluation of the pound, the dollar, the s5'mbol lplning their heads into have too many days to live." of the U.S. "position of strength," is in dire straits due shows that they will not to the decline of the U.S. position as the overlord of The fact that U.S. imperialism u'as compelled to the capitalist world. The Johnson Administration's take such "stringent actions" to save the dollar at the "stringent actions" to save the dollar represent, in fact, very beginning of a new year has thrown full light on the desperate struggle U.S. imperialism is putting up the impasse in which it has landed itself both internally to maintain its domineering position. and externally and has further exposed its paper tiger nature, outwardly strong but inwardly weak. A11 this Hou,ever, none of the measures adopted by the that its doom is nearer and nearer. Johnson Administration to "restrain" the U.S. export shows of capital and private tourism, to cut its foreign "aid" The struggle of the revolutionary people of the and "defence" spending abroad and to increase its ex- whole world against U.S.-led imperialism is futther pushing to',vards its port of commoclities can fundamentally extricate U.S. weakening U.S. imperialism and it and imperialism from its predicament. To carry out expan- grave at an increasing tempo. This steady decline positive proof of the ex- sion and aggression abroad is the basis of U.S. impe- failure of U.S. imperialism is will cer- rialism's existence but is also one of the root causes of cellent situation of the world revolution. It people its continuous decline. The war of aggression against tainly give great inspiration to the revolutionary and heroically Vietnam, a noose around the neck of U.S. imperialism, the world over to strive more resolutely in their revolution- is a cause of its yearly mounting balance of payments in the ne\^' year for fresh victories irnperialism and its deficit. For all that, ho,,vever, the Johnson Administra- ary struggles against LT.S.-led tion witl not alter its policy of committing aggression running dogs. all over the world; nor will it stop its aggressive war in (January 5)

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GOOD NEWS FROM D.R.V. been fie,fls, An intruding U.S. plane was have dumped sn snd shot down over Ninh Binh Prov- Production Front Victories villages have been bombed scores of ince on January 5. It was the times, even hundred 2,7,40th Shattering or a times, by enemy aircraft dorvned by on the military front day and nighl the people and armed forces of the mueh-vaunted U,S. "air superior- the D.R.V. since the U.S. ag- ity," the people of the Democratic But the courageor:si villagers, re- gressors started their wanton sponding President bombing August 1964. Republic of Vietnam have scored to Ho Chi Minh's raids on 5, great This is a brilliant victory indeed! tremendous victories on the agricul- battle cal-), fight on under ttre production The more U.S. imperialism es- tural and industrial fronts and effec- militant slogan "increase caLates its bombing against north tiveiy supported the war against U.S. in the ci'aters." Rabid enemy raids Vietnatn, the greater wili be its losses. D.R.V. armed forces aggression and for national salvation. serve only to strengthen their deier- The mination to defend and boost their and people shot dorvn 1,064 The U.S. imperialists dreamt of enemy planes last year; and they production. bringing the Vietnamese peop!.e to brought down i9 more U.S. aircraft in the 1968. their knees by wanton bombing and In addition, they have overcome -[irst live days of destruction of the D.R.V.'s economy, all natural adversities. No difficulties but these fond hopes have been have daunted them. Capital con- dashed to pieces by the heroic peo- struction goes on as usual, and im- ple of the norti'r. proved farming techniques have ily announced a series of "emergency contri- The north Vietnamese peasants, been adopted. AII this has measures" being taken in a vain buted to their good harvests. u'ho have taken tire road of collec- attempt to prolong the precarious life tivization, have given fu1l play to Industry has also made great of the mortaily il1 dollar. their ret,olutionary spirit. E-ter since advances in north Vietnam. To meet The five-poini.measures include: a U.S. imperialisro started its large. the needs of war conditions, local in- "mandatory" programme to restrain scaLe bombing in 1965, they have, dustries have been der.'eloped vig- direct private U.S. investment with hoe in one hand and rifle in the orousiy on the principle of self- abroad, controls on foreign loans other, fought the enem-v and rvorked reliance. Many loca1 factories and granted by U.S. banks and on Ameri- the land, and have steadily advanced other enterprises have bcen expand- can travel abroad, curtailment of agricultural production. ed and, according to inccmpleie government spending on the station- In 1965, total agricultural outpui figurs, nearly 300 nerr ones have ing oi troops abroad and on foreign surpassed tLrat of 1964 and registered been cornmissioned- "aid" and increased efforts to expand an increase of. 21,2 per cent compared The engineering industry, in parti- exports. Johnson also hinted that he with 1960. Seven districts, 162 vil- cular, has made rapid progress. rvould ask the U.S. Congress to re- lages and 168 agricultural co-opera- Today, each province and city, and move the proviso for the 25 per cent nbarly all the districts-even a gold backing for U.S. surrency so that tives reached the advanced target of I five tons of paddy per heciare. In number of viliages - have their orvn "our full gold stock" could be used 1966 this latter goal was aehieved by machine-building plants. to cope with the situation that might one whole province, 15 districts, Z?B Our great leader Chairraan N{ao arise from a run on the dollar. villages and more than 1,000 co- has pointed out: "What is a true has- Taken under the compelling cir'- operatives. Last year, there was a tion of irora? It is the niasses, the cumstances of the ra-pid deteriora- burnper harvest of both early and millions upon millions of people who tion of tl-re U.S. international balance late rice. Besides the Hanoi area aud genuinely and sincerely support the of payr:rents and the precai'ious co:r- Thai Binh Provi.nce, more than 40 revolution. That is the real iron bas- dition of the dollar, these measures districts reached the five.-ton targc-t. tion rvhich it is impossible, and ab- are a clear indi.cation that U.S. impe- In order to rvin viciories on the soluteiy inrpossible, for any force ou rialisnr is tormented by a multitude agric.ultural front, the broad nrasses earth to smash," The tremendous of crises and is in deep trouble. of peasants have persisted in an victories attained on the production Johnson disclosed that as a result unflinching struggle against both tiie front by the people of north Vietnam of the increase in overseas spendir.:g U.S. bandits and natu-ral adversit;,. has again vividly borne out the cor- arising from the expansion of the Every grain of nce they reap is rectness of this briii.iant thesis of rvar of aggression against Vieinam agiow with their revolutionary her- Chalrman l,{ao's. and othe,r factors, the U.S. balance of oisrn and is an embodiment of their payments deficit in 1967 rvas estimat- indomitable u,i1l to defeat U.S. impe- THE AILING DOLL,qR ed at between $3,500 million and rialism. $4,000 million, almost three times the Johnson's "Emergemcy fn many places in the past two deficit in the previous year and the years or more, not one village, not Meosures" highest in the past seven years. one paddyfield has escaped the U.S. On New Year's Day, the chieftain What is even more serious is that wanton bombing. Tons of bombs of U.S. imperialism Johnson gloom- following the recent rush for gold

38 Peking Reuiew, No. 2 in Western Europe, the U.S. gold Direct private inrzesiment abroad reserves were reduced by a stagger- has always been an importairt meas- Gold Drain on the U.S. 1967 ure by which U.S. monopoly ing $925 million in December capital According to official U.S. figures, alone. This almost doubles the total seized foreign markets and conducts the U.S. Tr€asury Department nolv for 1966 that .year the United economic aggression. The profits has only $12,000 million in gotd - goId. raked by such investments have reserves as a result of the drain of States lost $5?4 million in This in gold from reached the United States. This lols in one month is unheard of in $4,000-5,000 million every is the lowest level for the last 30 U.S. history. year. Naturally, the U.S. imperial- years. Since 510,500 million of the reserves are assigned backing All this is a mortal threat to the ists wili not easily give up this for source of profit. In the last few the dollar at home, the U.S. Gor,- dollar whose position has been un- ernment has a mere $1,5G0 mil- years precedentedly weakened by increas- there has been a huge outflow lion to pay to foreigners tvho de- ingly heavier pressure foilowing the of U.S. capital every year despite a mand gold in exchange for their nominal "voluhtary" restraint and do1lar:s. devaluation of sterling. Western However, there is nour more the West European countries have news agencies pointed out that de- than $2,500 million circulating in been' main targets. has spite the iikely loss of votes in the the This the European money market alone aroused mounting dissatisfaction rvhich can be presented for ex- coming presidential eleetions this gcld among them. It is precisely because change into at any moment. year, Johnson had decided to take This is the reason behind John- of their opposition that the United the above-mentioned suicidal meas- son's announcement that he will States has had to announce a tem- ask the U.S. Congress to do away ures. This is ample testimony to the porary halt to new investments in u,ith the Z3% gold backing to the desperate situation in which the continental western Europe. U.S. currency so that all U.S. goid dollar finds itself. reserves can be used to meet the The speed at which entire gold rush which might come at The the sharpening contradictions in imperiaiist bloc is declining and fali- any time on the internatior-ral the imperialist bloc, particularly market. Yet, this can on15r be an the ing apart is accelerating. It is sheer heavy pressures applied by the West emerg€ncy remedy. Because, wishful thinking for U.S. imperialism according to official U.S. figures, European countries on the United to imagine it can extricate itself the short*term external lia-bilities States, are another reason why from its predicament through these of the United States norv total Johnson has been compelled to adopt $30,800 million nearly three "emergency measures" which can times the present- U.S. gold re- these "emergency measures.', These neither save the tottering dollar nor serves. This is a far cry from the countries have made it clear to trVash- soften the sharpening contradictions dal-s ten years ago when the ington that if the latter failed to tahe among the imperialist countries. United States had $22,100 rniilion in goid reserves against S15,300 serious steps to "irnprove" its inter- These measures wili only aggra- n:illion of short-term external lia- national payments, they would re- vate the crises in various spheres liilities. fuse to bolster the dollar. which beset the United States.

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Vol. 11, No. 2 Published in English, FYench, Spanish, January 12, 1968 Japanese and Gel'man editions IN THIS ISSUE A,RTICI.ES AND DOCUMENTS Burmese People's Armed Struggle-A Red FIog for the People's Revolution 17 Klcngsi Provinciol Revolutionory Committee Formed Flomes People's Like Proirie Fire in in Excellent Situotion 5 of Wor Roging o Thoilond 20 The Red Flog of the Chingkong Mountcins Will Wove Historic Turning Point in the lndion Revolution 21 Through All the Generotions to Come Renmin lmportont New Sto* in the Indonesion Revolution 23 Ribao and Jielangiun Bao editoriql- 7 Soviet Revisionists' Plot to Coll Counter.Revolution- Greot Culturol Revolution in Progress: I ory lnternotionol Meetirg Con Only Speed fheir The Army ond People Pledge to Fulfil the Militont Own Doom - Zeri i Populli,t 25 Tssks for 1968 Notes on Fighting Setf-lnte

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