PE Februory 2, 1968

Ghairman Mao and lliee-Ghalrmran Lln Fiao teeelue P.[.4. Activists lm the $tudy of Pt Ghairman Mao's Works

Eornestly lmplement the Frinciple of 4 "Supporting the Left, but Not Any Porticulor Foction" JieJangjun Bao editoriol commemoroting the first on- niversory of the great supreme commonder Choirmon Moo's coll thqt "the People's Liberotion Army should A help the brood mosses of the 1eft."

Ghinese Government $tateanellt 0omdemns .w U.$. Imperialisrn's e rlsme 0f figgression Firmly supportin'g the just stond o{ the Koreon Government ond people in countering U,S. imperiolism's flogrant provocotion. -'

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, In every place or unit where power must be seized, it is i necessary to earry out the policy of the revolutionary "three-in- I one" combination in establishing a provisional organ of power which is revolutionary and representative and enjoys proletarian authority. This organ of pow'er should preferably be called the revolutionary committee.

Without a people's army the people have nothing.

an Coalition Gauerntnent (April 1945)

In the fields of the'struggle for'produetion and scientific ex- periment, mankind makes constant progress and nature undergoes constant change; they never remain at the same level. Therefore, man has constantly to sum up experienee and go on discovering, inventing, creating and advaneing. Quoted tn "Premier Chou En-lai's Report on the Wark of the Gouern- rnent to the First Session o! the Third 'Nationul People's Congress oJ the People's Republic of China" (Decem- ber 1964) Our greot teocher, greot leoder, greot supreme commonder ond greot helmsmon Choirmon Moo receives P.L.A. octivists in the study of Choirmon Moo's works I I

Our most respected snd beloved greot leoder Chuirmon Moo, his ciose comrode-in-orms Vice-Chairmon Lin Pioo ond Comrocie Chou En'loi with P.L,A. octivists in the study of Chsirmon Moo's works T-

THE WEEK Chairman JIIao and llice-Ghairman Lin Piao fleceiue P.L.[. ilctivists in the $tudy U Ghairman illao's torks n UR most respected and beloved great leader structions and winning all-round victory in the \-/ Chairrnan Mao, his close comrade-in-arms Vice- great proletarian cultural revolution. Chairman Lin Piao, and Csnrades Chou En-lai, BoundX.miy Ioyal to Chairman Maq the rev- Chen Fo--ta, Karrg Sheng, Li Fu-chun, Chiang Ching olutionary fighters who have mme from coastal and and Yao Wen-)ruan on January 26 received activists frontier posts and other parts of the rnotherland and of the Chinese People's Liberation Army i:r the are gathered in the heart of the cotrntry, Peking, study of Chairman Mao's works. have brought with them the rich fruits of their ex- . Those received are the delegates to the fourth perience in the creative study and application of congress of activists in the creative study and ap- Chairman Mao's works and reports of victories and pUcatian of Mao Tse-tung's thought coilvened by the achievements in defence of the motherland and in Headquarters of the General Staff of the Chinese their work of helping the Left, helping industry People's Liberation Arm5r, the delegates to the and agricuiture, exercising military control and giv- second cong"ess of activists in the study of Chair- ing military and political training. As they waited man Mao's works convened by the Geaeral Logis- to be received by their gleat suprerne commander tics Department of the P.L.A., the delegates to the Chairman Mao, in the Great HalI of the People, they second congress of activists in the study of Chairman sang Wi.shtng Chni;rmnn Mao a LoW, Lortg Li.!e! and I\Iao's works from the air force of the P.L.A., and the Sailing the Seas Depends on the Helmsmnn. delegates to the congress of activists in the study The east glows red as the sun rises. Chairman of Chairman Mao's worts frorn the second artillery Mao, the red sun that shines in our hearts, came corps of the P.L.A. into the hall, irl excellent health and in high spirits, Among those present at the rec-eption of the ac''currpanied by Vice-Chairman Lin Piao and Com- activists were Cornrades Chen Yi, Liu Po-cheng, rades Chou En-lai, Chen Po-ta, Kang Sheng, Li Fu- Li Hsien-nien, Hsu Hsiang-chien, Nieh JLrng-chen, chun, Chiang Chiag and others, and warrnly met the Yeh Chien-yjng, Hsieh Fu-chih, Yang Cheng-w, r,erzolutionary fighters who have performed great Su Yu, Wu Fa-hsien, Wang Tung-hsing, Yeh Chun, and meritorious deeds for the motherland and the Li Tien-yu, Wang Hsin-ting, Wen Yu-cheng, Chiu people. Hui-tso, Chang Chih-ming, Hsiao Ch'i.ng-kuang, Li "The heavens are great, the earth is great, but Tso-peng, Wang Hung-kun, Chang llsiu-chuan, Yu they can't crompare with the greatness of what the Li-chin, Liu Chin-ping, Li fien-huan, Cheng Wei- Party has done for the people. Dear as are father shan, Fu Chung-pi, and Huang Tso-chen. and mother, Chairman Mao is still dearer." With "Sailing the seas depends on the helmsman, great joy and exciternent, the revolutionary fighters making revolution depends on Mao Tse-tung's on seeing Chairman Mao, waved their red-covered thought." Our great teacher,'great leader, great revolutionary books of Quotatians From Chai,rman supreme commander and great helmsrran Chairman Mua Tse-tarzg and cheered again and again "Long Mao and his close comrade-in-arms Yicethairman live Chairman Mao!" "A trong, long life to Chairman Lin Piao received the P.L.A. activists in the creative Mao!" words elaquently expressing their deep feel- study and application of Chairman Mao's works at ings of boundless love for and loyalty to Chairman a time when the situation in the great proletarian Mao. cultural revolution throughout the country is grow- Smiling, Chairman Mao time and again waved ing better and better. This reception expresses the to and applauded the P.L.A. comrades in hearty greatest solicitude for and gives the greatest inspira- greeting. tion, stimulus and happiness to China's hund-reds of "We act acccrding to Cha"irman Mao's instruc- millions of armymen and civiUans now engaged in tions, we advance rvhen Chairman Mao gives the implementing Chairman Mao's latest series of in- signal." At this happiest of moments, the revolu-

6 Peki.ng Reui,etn, No. 5 lionary fighters enthusiastically expressed their apply Chairman Mao's works, make an all-round determination to hold still higher the great red ban- implementation of the whole series of Chairman ner of Mao Tse-tung's thought, to develop still Mao's latest instructions, win all-round victory in further the fine revolutionary style of study advo- the great proletarian cultural revolution and render cated by Chairman Maq bring about a new f,igh new meritorious services to the motherland and the tide in the mass movement to creatively study and people.

Chinese Government Ststement Condernns U.S. Imperiolism's Crime of Aggression - Firmly supporting the just stond of the Koreon Government ond people in countering U.S. imperislism's flogront provocotion ' U.S, imperiolism exploits the copture of its spy ship in Koreo's territoriol woters to vigorously corry out wor blqckmoil. o Should U.S. imperiolism dore 16 spfoork on o new wqr odyenture, it is bound to receiye eyen more seyere punishment.

Follotoing is th.e full tert of the statement issued has moved U.S. military aircraft from Japan proper and by the Gouernment of the Peoyfle's Republic oJ Chi,na Okinawa to south Korea and sent the U.S. nuclear- on Januarg 28.-Ed. powered aircraft carier Enterpri,se to the seas off Korea. Moreover, has seized this opportunity step On January 23, naval units of the Korean People's it to up war rnobilization at home and has balled up U.S. Army captured on the seas off Wonson an armed U.S air force and navy reservists. This is an undisguised spy ship Pueblo r,vhieh had intruded into Korea's policy of war intimidation territorial waters for espionage aetivities. On January 27, the Government of the Democmtic People's Republic While carrying out brazen war blaekmail, U.S. of Korea issued a statement pointing out that this imperialism has repeatedly expressed the hope that the provocation by U.S, imperiaiism "is another flagrant modern revisionist clique will come forward to help violation of the Korean armistice agreement, and an it find a way out. The United States iq moreover, open aggression against the Democratic People's Repub- trying lrard to cover up its crime of aggression and lie of Korea. . . . It is entirely right that the Korean bring pressures to bear on the Democratic People's Re- people have taken the decisive measure of self-deferrc.e. public of Korea thror:gh the United Nations. Thg shameful record Udited Nations serwing as a tool . . . The U.S. imperialists, no matter how they act, can of the imperialisrn aggression against Korea is never conceal their ugly nature of aggresion nor sur- of II.S. in its still fresh in people's minhs. U.S. imperialism's attempt prise the Korean people." The Chinese Government and to once again use the United Nations to serve its policy people firmly support the just stand of the Korean aggression against meet with Government and people in countering U.S. im- of Korea will certainly the eondemnation of the people throughout the world. perialism's flagrant provocation Our great leader Chairman Mao has said: "To It is by no means accidental that the U.S. warship achieve their ends of aggression and enslavement of the intruded into Korea's territorial waters for espionage peoples of all countries, thg U.S. irnperialists have been activities. To save themselves from doomed defeat on creating tension in all parts of the world. They calculate the Vietnam battlefield, the U.S. aggressors are plotting that they will always be.nefit from tense situations, but expand the war aggression against Vietnam and to of the faet is that the tension created by the United States I activities aggression and lvar stepping up their of has led to the opposite of what they desire. It serves throughout Asia. T'his incident of provocation a.gainst to srobilize the people of the world agaiast the U.S. the Korean people by U.S. imperialism is part and aggressors." parcel of these criminal U.S. activiiies" In trying to intirnidate the Korean people by war Exploiting the capture of the spy ship, the U.S. backmail, U.S. imperialism has forgoiten the lesson it ruling clique is vigorously carrying out war mobiliza- vras taught in the Korean rvar. Should U.S. imperialism tion and war blackmail, bringing in armed foi:ces and d-are to embark on'a new war adventure, it is bound stepping up military depioyments and at the same time to taste the bitter fr"uit of its own making and receive uttering hysterical war cries. The Johnson government even mcre severe punishment.

February 2,7968 T_

The People's Liberation Army shoulsl help the broad rnasses of the Left.

MAO TSE-TUNG

Wx'{{A JIEFANGJUN BAO

Earmestly lmplenremt the Primeiple sf "$ffippmrting

The Left, hut ffot Any Partieular FaeftEmnro'

-ln cGmmemorotion of the first cnniversory of the greot supreme comrmsnder Choirmon Mco's coll thot "The People's Liberotlon Army should help the brood mssses of the Left"

ITJITH boundless love and esteem for, infinite faith individuals and units have emerged. Their outstanding W in nncl elci'rrai loyalty to thc great supreme representatives are Comrade Li Wen-chung, the heroic ccrlurarrdcr' Chairnran Mao. u'e, at a time when the 4th Platoon, and the p,ersonnel of Unit 8341 who are situation in the gr:eat proletarian cultural rerrolution is helping the Left in the Peking General Knitrvear MiIl. unplcccdentedly excellent. rvai'mly commemorate the Within tire army there has been a new leap in ideological first anniversary of Chairman Mao's great call that revo luti on ization. "The Feople's Liberation Arrny should help the broad masses of the Lef t.a' The great call that "the Feople's Liberation Army should help the broad masses of the Left" is an impor- During the past 5rear, the cc,irrirranders and fighters tant component part of Chairman Mao's the.ory on carry- of our army, resolutely responding to Chairman Mao's ing on the revolution under the dictatorship of the pro- gl(a[ ca]I. hai'e helC high the great red bannel of Mao letariat an,C an important strategic step in the great Ts,e-tung's thought in their rvork of helping the Left, proletarian cultural rerrclution. It marks a new devel- helping industr;,' and agriculture, exercising military opment of Chairman Mao's thinking on army building. control and girzing military and political training. They have closely foliowed Chairmau Mao's great strategic In order to further carry out this great call of Chair- pian. steadfastly sided rvith the revolutlonary Left, and man Mao's, it is norn necessary to earnestly foliow the helped the ma;sses of the L.eft rvith the thought of Mao principle of "helping th,e Left, but not any particular Tse-tung. Together .rvith the re.irolutionary masses, faction." This is the decisive factor for the army in they have shattered the bourgeois headquarters headed carrying out Chairman Mao's lat'est s,eries of instructi.ons by China's I(hrushchor,. developed in depth the revolu- to the letter and in an all-round wa5,, and in doing bet- tionary mass criticism and promoted the revolutionary ter the wor'k of helping the Left, helping industry and great ailiances, the revolutionary "three-in-one" com- agricuiture, exercising military control and giving mili- binations and the procesrs of struggle-criticism-trar-rs- tary and political tlaining. formation in each unit. In this rvav, they' have made immense contributions in the great proletarian cultural To help the Left but not any particular faction, it revolulicn. is necessary to act exactly in accor,Cance rvith Chairman Mao's instruetions and support the broad masses of the In this gleat struggle, the Diass movem,ent in the Left. We must support all revolutionary mass oI'ganiza- arm,l, for the creative study and application of Chair' tions. Favouring one u,hiie becoming estlanged from nr;:n lVlac-r's w,orks has be,en brought to a n,erv siag--. The another cannot 6." s|l6lr,red. Nor is it permi-",sible to sup- conmandei's and fighters harre been tet-npered and port one against another. It is also wrong to "support testeci in carrving on thc revoiulion r-li:der the dicta- whatever ;'-cu do if you are the Left." Instead, lve torship of the prolelai'iat. Larg,e numbers of advanced shor-r1d support all rvords and de,eds that conform rvith

I Peking Rerieu', No. 5 Mao Tse-tung's thought. Under no circumstances should and are standing on Chairman Mao's proletarian revolrr we support bourgeois and petty-bourgeois factionalism tionary line. We must not ignore the consciousness d among some of the memb,ers. We rnust use Mao the masses, the new developments of the maas movts Tse-tung's thought to help them overcome and correct ment and the fact that "the backward sections anotrt it. The utmost effort should be made to promote the the masses are exerting themselves to catch up with formation of the revol.utionary great alliance between the advanced." We must not negate and exelude from the two revolutionary mass groupings on the basis of the revolutionary ranks those people who have made rev-olutionary principles. mistakes at one time and those revolutionary organiza- tions where some bad elements sneaked into the To carry out resolutely the principle of "heiping the leadership. Left, but not any particular faction" is an important indication of J.oyalty to Chairman Mao, to Mao Tse-tung's Bourgeois and petty-bourgeois factionalism is a thought and to his proletarian revolutionary line in the reactionary social trend of thought. The commanders present new situation of the great prol'etarian cultural and fighters of ou"r army, who are fighting in the front- revolution. line of heiping the Left, helping industry and agricul- ture, exercising giving Today, when the great proletarian cultural revolu- military control and military and political latest tion has won decisive victory, the handful of renegades training, must take Chairman Mao's and special agents who sneaked into our revolutionary lnstructions as the key tink, fight seif, repudiate revi- ranks, the handful of diehard capitalist roaders within sionism, strengthen ideological rer.olutionization and the Parl,y and other class enemies in society do not resolutely resist the influence of this tiend. This is a take their failure lying down. They are trying in a basic question in "helping the Left, but not any par- thousand and one ways to stir up and use reactionary ticular faction." If bourgeois and petty-bourgeois bourgeois and petty-bowgeois factionalism to incite factionalism should be allowed to grow in our minds discord and sow dissension among the revolutionaries without being resisted, the work of helping the Left, in order to split their ranks, interfere with Chairman helping industry and agriculture, exercising military Mao's great strategic plan, and undertnine the great control and giving military and political training rn'ill proletarian cultural revolution and the proletarian be led astray. This rvill in turn encourage factionalism headquarters headed. by Chairman Mao. This is the in some revolutionary mass organizations, deepen the reflection of the struggle between the two classes, the differences between the two groupings of revolutionary two roads and the two lines in the new situation. fhe mass organizations, damage the unity between the army great People's Liberation Aimy is the mo6t important and the people and hamper the realization of Chairman mainstay of the great proletarian cultural revolution. Mao's great strategic p1an. We must be clear about the characteristics of the class The People's Liberation Army is a highly prole- struggle in the present circumstances, sharpen our tarianized and militant people's army, founded and revolutionary vigilance, take a clear-cut, firm stand on nurtured by our great supreme commander Chairman Chairman Mao's proletarian revolutionary line, reso- Mao himself. In the new year we must use Mao lutely adhere to the principle of the Left, but "helping Tse-tung's thought to unify the thinking and actions not any particular faction," and wage an uncompromis- of army units supporting the Left in each area so as to ing struggle against bourgeois and petty-bourgeois fac- enable them to go all-out, aim high, advance courage- This is the pressing need in uniting the rev- tionalism. ously and resolutely correet any shortcomings and olutionary masses, in defeating the class enemy and in errors as soon as they emerge. Every commander and all-round victory in the great proletarian cul- 'r,,inning fighter of the 'People's Liberation Army should study tural revolution. more earnestly Chairman Mao's proletarian revolu- Chairman Mao constantly teaches us: "!Ve must tionary line, strengthen his proletarian Party spirit, firrnly believe that the great majority of the masses oppose bourgeois and petty-bourgeois factionalism, be a are good and that bad elements only make up a very model in "helping the Left, but not any particular fac- small fraction." tion" and do his best to guide those pecple in the rev- olutionary ranks with petty-bourgeois ideas on to the To have firm faith in the majority of the masses is path of the proletarian revolution. It is necessary to proletarian the core of Chairman Mao's revolutionary redouble our revolutionary vigilance, smash the schemes line. It is the basic starting-point of "helping the Left, of the class enemies at home an'd abroad to disrupt the particular but not any faction." We must firmly believe unity between the army and the people and to under- that after a year and more of the great proletarian cul- mine the great proletarian eultural revolution. It is tural revolution, the revolutionary masses have. seen necessary to greatly strengthen the unity between the more and more clearly both the crimes of the handful army and the people and win new merit in seizing all' of top Party capitalist roaders in opposing the Party round victory in the great proletarian cultural revolu- and socialism and the counter-revolutionary revisionist tion. line which they pushed. Even among those who were misled in the past, the majority have norv awakened ("JieJangjun Bao" editarial, Januarg 28)

February 2,7968 I P.L.A.'s Greqt Contribufions in the Culturol Revolution

Using the Grest Thought of Moo Tse-tung To Help the Broed Mssses of the Left

fiURING the great proletarian cultural revolution, the Mountains). They help the mass or:ganizations to t-'' Chinese People's Liberation Army which was unfold the mass movement for creatively studying and founded and is led by our great oupreme commander applying Chairman Mao's works, expl.aining to them Chairman Mao himself and is under the direet command the importance of "studying Chairman Mao's writings, of deputy supreme commander Lin Piao, has held high following his teachings, acting according to his instruc- the great red banner of Mao Tse-tung's thought. In tions and being his good soldiers" and relating their its work of helping the I-eft, helping industry and agri- own experience as to how they study Chairman Mao's culture, exercising military control, and giving military works with specific problems in mind, study and apply and political training, it has used Mao Tse-tung's them in a creative way, combine study with application, thought to arm the hundreds of millions of the revolu- first study what must be urgently applied so as to get tionary masses and has thus rendered great new meri- quiek results, and strive hard to apply what they study. torious service. Itrey also help the revolutionary masses to organize exhibitions for people to see holv the new society and "The People's Liberation Army should help the Chairman Mao's proletarian revolutionary line stand in broad masses of the Left." Chairman Mao issued this eontrast to the old society and the bourgeois reaetionary fighting order to the P.L.A. in January last year when line of China's Khrushchov and hold meetings at which great the proletarian cultural revolution came to the people recall the bitter past so as to be better able to cruciaL stage of decisive battle between the two classes, appreciate the happiness of today. A11 this serves to the two roads and the trvo }ines" This order represents arouse hatred towards the old society and China's the greatest confidence in, the greatest concern for, and Khrushchov, increase their ardent love towards ihe greatest the encouragement and spur to the broad great leader Chairman Mao, and raise their conscious- masses of P.L.A. commanders and fighters. Acting ness in studying Chairman Mao's works. under this order, they have gone in their thousands and tens of thousands into factories and mineg enter- The commanders and fighters pay special attention prises and government organizations, schools and the to the implementation by the revolutionary masses of vast countryside. Among them were veterans of the Chairman Mao's latest instructions. They say that it Red Army, cornbat heroes ,as well as newl5r eulisted is our duty to spread Chairman Mao's latest instruc- men maturing under the guidance of Mao fse-tung,s tions to all corners of the country so that the broad thought. During the past year, they have rnade tre- masses of revolutionaries will be better able to follow mendous eontributions to the winning of decisive closely Chairman Mao's great strategic plan. victory'in the great proletarian cultural revolution by Whenever Chairman Mao's latest instructions a-re using the invincible thought of Mao Tse-tung to help t and protect the broad masses of the Left, helping them relayed, the commanders and fighters swiftly and to carry out revolutionary mass criticism and repudia- zealously tranemit Chairman Mao's voice to the broad tion, form revolutionary great alliances and revolu- masses, Iast autumn, Chairman Mao said: "There is tionary "three-in-one" combinations, carry out the tasks no conflict of fundamental interests within the working of struggle, criticism and transformation in various class. Under the dictatorship of the pfoletarriat, thete units, and make great efforts in grasping revolution is no reason whatsoever for the working class to split and promoting ptoduction. inlo two big irreconeilablo groupings." The F.L.A men vigorously propagated this instruction rvherever they The P.L.A. commanders and fighters have always were stationed and helped the revolutionary mass regarded it their cardinal task to disseminate Mao organizations to speedily bring about the revolutionary Tse-tung's thought among the masses and to organize great alliances Among the masses, they also made and arm them with it. ,A.s soon as they enter a factory, great efforts to spread and implement Chairman a village, a government organization, or a school, they Mao's latest instruction on cadres-The comect han- immediately join the masses in studying 'Chairman dliug of cadres is the key question in forming the rev- Mao's latest instructions and the "three constantly read olutionary "three-in-ond' coEr,lr,ination, eonsolidating the articles" (Seroe the Peoyile, In Memory oJ Norman revolutionary great altriance and rnaking a success of Bethune and. The Faoii,sh Old Man Who Remooed the struggle-criticism-transformation in each unit, and it

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must be solved properly. As a result, many revolu- Mao's. latest inatructions are tr.ansformed itrto conscious tionary leading cadres were Iiberated from the yoke revolutionary action. of the bourgeois reactionary line. Since Chairman Mao At present, in accordance with the instruction issued the great call "fight self, repuiliate revisionism" of depufy supreme commander Lin Piao, the great Chinese and Vice-Chairrnan Lin Piao gave the instruction to P.L.A., white vigilantiy defending our great motherland make great efforts to run.Mao Tse-tung's thought study and the great proLetarian cultural revolution, are classes, the armymen have helped in those departments conscientiously summing up their experience in using where they were to run these classes '"vell. In the Mao Tse-tung's thought to make propaganda among the study classes, togethcr with the P.L.A. commanders masses, organize them and arm them. They have ex- and fighters, hundreds of millions of revolutionary pressed their determination to unite with the revolu- peopl'e and revolutionary. cadres have made efforts to tionary rtrrasses, vanquieh the class enemy and make still destroy bourgeois and petty-bourgeois ideas and uphoid greater contributions in the struggle for the all-iound Mao Tse-tung's thought. In the study classes, Chairman victory of the great proletarian cul.tural revolution.

SonE at Victarr to Moo Tse-tung's Thought

Konsu ond Honon Provinciol Revolutionqry Committees Formed

TfTOWARDS the end of January and with an excellent personally presided over two meetings at Chengchow I situaticn prevailing in the great proletarian cultural during the years of the big teap forward. revolution throughout the nation, Kansu Province in the northwest and Honan Province in central-south During the present great and unprecedented prole- tarian China both established revolutionary committees amidst cultural re'iolution, Chairman Mao has always shown concern the storms of the class stmggle. This is a great victory for the revolutionary struggles of the thought of Mao Tse-tung and for people of Kansu and Honan and he inspected Honan for the invincible himself. Chairman Mao's proletarian revolutionary 1ine. It is Boundlessly loyal to the great leader Chair- man Mao, a new song of victory of China's revoluti.onary people arming themselves with the great thought who, under the brilliant guidance of Chairman Mao's of Mao Tse-tung, developing their fearless revolutionary latest instructions, are advancing .to actrieve all-round spirit and surmounting every difficul\2, the proletariaa victory in their great proletarian cultural revolution. revolutionaries and revolutionary masses of these two provinces dragged out the handful of counter-revolu- Kansu Province is a strategic base with glorious t onary revisionists such as those agents of China's revolutionary traditions. Thirty-three years ago, Khrushchov: Wang Feng in Kansu and Wen Min-sheng Long March, our great leacler during the world-famous and Chao Wen-fu in llonan. With the firm support of and Peasants' Red Chairman lVlao led the Workers' the commanders and fighters of the Chinese People's through the province. Since that time the great Army Liberation Army, the proletarian revolutionaries and revolutionary practice of Chairman Mao has inspired ,i revolutionary masses seized into the hands of the prole- the 13 million revolutionary people of Kansu and the tarian revolutionaries all the power usurped by these : hundreds of millions of the revolutionary people revisionists. throughout the country. The present in the great eultural revolu- Honan, with 50 miilion people, is another province situation i as Kansu and Honan as it is in the with a glorious revolutionary history. It was in tion is excellent in i Tse-tLrng's thought and Chengchow, capital of Honan, that the Peking-Hankow rest o{ the cor.rntry- Mao i proletarian line have i Railway workers started their February 7, 1923 strike Chairman Mao's revolutionary a movement led by tl're Chinese Communist Party. gone deep into the hearts of the people. The prole- -In the course of the great battles in China's socialist tarian dictatorship has been consolidated ald revolution and socialist construction, Chairman Mao strengthened. To win all-round victory in the great visited Honan many times to inspect the Yellow River cultural revolution, the revolutionary masses are im- and the rural people's communes there. To guide the plementing every one of Chairman Mao's latest instnuc- victorious advance of the revolution, Chairman NIao tions. The establishment of the Kansu and tr{onan

Februarg A, 1968 11 Provincial Revolutionary Committees proclaims the strengthen unity between arm]rynen and civilians and complete bankruptcy of the criminal plots by rvhich the dictatorship of the proletariat, and resolutely smash China's Khrushehov and his agents vainJy attempted all plots and sabotage by the class enemies in China to restore capitalism in these two provinces. It also and abroad and by the handful of capitalist roaders in signifies the emergence of a new stag€ in the great the Party, so as to ensure the all-round victory of the cultural revolution in Kansu and Honan. great proletarian cultural revolution. Speaking on behalf of all their cornmai-rders and Celebrotion Rolly in Kunsu fighters at the raliy, Chang Ta-chih, commander of the P.L.A. units under the Lanchow Command, warmly There was great jubilation in Lancho'uv, capital of haiied establishment of the Kansu Provincial Kansu, on January 24. Carrying huge portraits of the Revolutionary Committee and gave resolute support to Chairman Mao and rn'aving red-covered Quotations the revolutionary political power of the proletariat. From Chai,rman Mao Tse-tung, 250,000 proletarian He said: We must warmly respond to Vice-Chairman revolutionaries, revolutionary people and commanders Lin Piao's militant call aloft the great red banner and fighters of the P.L.A units under the Lanchow "Hold of Mao Tse-tung's thought and win new merit in the Command gathered from all directions at the rallying great proletarian cultural revolution movement," study place and warmly celebrated the birth of the Kansu and apply Chairman Mao's works in a creative way, put Provincial Revolutionary Committee. When the estab. proletarian politics the fore and do a better job of lishment of the revolutionary committee was announced to helping helping industry and agriculture, at the rally, there was thunderous applause and mighty the Left, exercising military control and giving military and rounds of cheers: "Long live the invincible thought of political training, support and help of the Mao Tse-tung!" "Long live the victory of Chairman with the proletarian revolutionaries and revolutionary masses. Mao's revolutionary line!" "Long live Chairman Mao! revolutionary vigilance, A long, long life to him!" We should redouble our strengthen preparedness against war and be ready at Hsien Heng-han, Chairman of the Kansu Provincial all times to smash war provocations by U.S. imperialisn: Revolutionary Committee, speaking at the rally, said: and its lackeys and strive hard to defend the security "In the course of the great proletarian cultural revolu- of our motherland and win all-round victory in the tion in Kansu Province, our great supreme commander great proletarian cultural revolution. Chairman l\4[ao dispersed the mists and pointed out the way forward for us. The invincible thought of Mao Hu Chi-tsung, Vice-Chair-rnan of the Kansu Pro- Tse-tung has given us inexhaustible wisdom and vincial Revolutionary Committee and a revolutionary strength. A11 our victories are great victories for Mao leading cadre, and representatives of the conferences Tse-tung's thought!" of workers, poor and lower-middle peasants and ccn- gresses of college and middle school Red Guards and The Kansu Provincial Revolutionary Committee, a of other revolutionary mass organizations in Lanchow po\,ver, provisional organ of Comrade Hsien Heng-han also addressed the rally. stressed, should become a polverful headquarters for vigorously fostering Mao Tse-tung's thought, so as to Amidst stormy applause and cheers, the raily win all-round vibtory in the great proletarian cultural adopted a message of salute to the most respected and revolution and turn the whole province into a great red beloved great leader Chairman Mao. sehool of Mao Tse-tung's thought. The message says: "Oh, Chairman Mao, Chairman He continued: "We must strive hard to run Mao! Your brilliant thought is the beacon guiding our diJferent types of classes for studying Mao Tse-tung's way forward and our weapon in battle. AII our lives thought we1l, place the study of Mao Tse-tung's thought we will study your writings, follow your teachings, and ahead of all else, bring about a new upsurge in the aet according to your instructions. We will engrave great mass movement to creatively study and appiy your brilliant thought on our minds and put it into Mao Tse-tung's thought in the province and use the practice. We will fitrl the skies above, and flood the furvincible thought of Mao Tse-tung to command, re- earth of Kansu with the radiance of Mao Tse-tung's mould and move everything forward. thought; we will arm the people of Kansu with Mao Tse-tung's thought! We will keep the banner of your "'We must, by developing revolutionary mass brilliant thought flying for ever over Kansu for end- criticism and repudiation in depth, continue clear to less generations!" away all the revisionist poison spread by China's Khrushchov and his agents in Kansu, so that the great The rally also adopted a message to the people of thought of Mao Tse-tung takes permanent root in the the whole province. minds of the people and his proletarian revolutionary The rally ended a celebration parade. line always guides us in victorious advanee.', with The armymen and civilians in the province, Hsien Celebrotion Rolly in Honon Heng-han said, should redouble their revolutionary vigilancg continue to carry out the movement to On January 27, a mass rally was held in Cheng- "support the army and cherish the people,,, greatly chow, capital of Honan Province, to celebrate the

12 Peking Reuiew, No. 5 founding of the Honan Provincial Revolutionary Com- committees at all levels must make a determined effort mittee. to revolutionize their own thinking, destroy self- interest, The rally opened with the song ?he East ls Red. foster devotion to the public interest and When the birth of the Honan Provincial Revolutionary make great efforts to remould their world outlook. Committee was proclaimed, 250,000 revolutionary They must be vigilant against attacks with sugar-coated bullets, people and commanders and fighters of the People's always maintain the fine tradition of modesty, prudence, Liberation Army present raised their copies of the red- plain living and hard vnork, never foi: a mcment covered From Chairman Mao Tse-tung and divorce themselves from the masses, serve the Quotations people shouted again and again: "Long live the victory of wholeheartedly and, together with the revolu- Chairman Mao's proletarian revolutionary linel" tionary masses throughout the province, strive to buiid Honan "Long live the victory of the invincible thought of into a great red school of Mao Tse-tung's thought." Mao Tse-tung!" "Long live Chairman Mao, our most respected and beloved great leader! A long, long life Wang Hsin, second political commissar of the to him!" "A long, long life to Chairman Mao, the very Honan Provincial Military Area Command and a vice- red sun that shines most brightly in our hearts!" chairman of the provincial revolutionary committee, speaking Liu Chien-hsun, Chairman of the Honan Provincial on behalf of the Provincial N,Iititaly Area Command and commanders fighters Revolutionary Committee, addressing the ratly, de- all and of the P.L.A. stationed there, extended clared: "Sailing the seas depends on the helmsman; warm congratu.iations, declared making revolution depends on Mao Tse-tung's thought. their support for the new-born revolutionary committee Aii the victories won in the great proletarian cultural and pledged firm resolve to uphold its revoiu- tionary revolution in Honan are great victories for Mao authority. In the course of the new year, he said, they Tse-tung's thought and for Chairman Mao's revolution- would carry out with sti)'I greater determina- tion Chairman Mao's great ary line. Chairman Mao's series of latest instructions call to "support the army and cherish people," greater firmness are the beacon lighting the way of our advance; they the and with irust and rely revolutionary masses, be are the basic guarantee for all-round victory in the on the to modest and prudent, guard great proletarian cu-ltural revolution. We can recall against conceit and im- petuosity, modestly learn masses, their many experiences in the course of our struggle over from the be students, enthusiastically propagate Tse-tung's the past year and more, but the deepest and most Mao thought among them, carry out ideological and poiitical fundamental is that closely following our great supreme w'ork deep-going, meticulous commander Chairman Mao means victoryl" in a and patient way, strengthen army-civilian unity, do a still better job of Comrade Liu Chien-hsun pointed out that the most helping the Left, helping industry and agricultnre, important and fundamental task in the new year was exercising military control and giving military and to develop in a stiil more extensive and deep-going political training, and win new merit in the great way the great mass movement for the study of Mao struggle to achieve all-round victory !n the great prole- Tse-tung's thought in which the key link was the crea- tarian cultural revolution. tive study and appliqation of Chairman Mao's latest instructions. In implementing these instructions, "fight Speeches were also made at the raliy bv representa- Great self, repudiate revisionism" must be taken as the guid- tives of the Honan Provincial Revolutionar-v poor and lower- ing principle, and it was necessary to get rid of bour- Aliiance Committee and of workers, peasants young enthu- geois and petty-bourgeois factionalism, strengthen middle and Red Guards. AtI greeted the provincial revolu- proletarian Party spirit; eliminate anarchism and siasiically the birth of strengthen the revolutionary spirit, scientific approach tionary committee. and sense of organization and discipiine of the proie- The raliy adopted a message of salute to our most tariat. The revclutionary committees at all levels and revered and beloved great leader Chairman Mao. It a1l the revolutionary mass organizations must make a says: "Respected and beloved Chairman Mao, we will really good job of running the various types of Mao firmly bear in mind your teaching 'You must concern Tse-tung's thought study classes and develop the yourselves with state affairs and carry the great prole- splendid revolutionary style of study - linking theory tarian cultural revolution through to the end!' We lvill with practice - advocated by Chairman Mao himseif. hold the great red banner of your brilliant thought still higher, your latest instructions as our guiding Comrade Liu Chien-hsun continued: "Fierce class take principle, go out, aim high, advance from strength struggle continues after victory in the struggle to seize all political, power. We must heighten our revolutionary vigilance to strength and achieve all-round ideological, great prole- and never forget the class struggle, never forget the economic and organizational victory in the revolution." dictatorship of the proletariat, never forget to keep tarian cultural proletarian politics to the fore and never forget to hold A parade in celebration followed the rally. high the great red banner of Mao Tse-tung's thought. In seizing pcwer, we relied on Mao Tse-tung's thoughf. The Rewni,n Ribao and JieJangiun Bao published We must also rely on Mao Tse-tung's thought in hold- joint editorials warmly greeting the founding of the ing and exercising power. Members o{ revolutionary revolutionary committees of the two provinces.

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Stories obout Chino's scientific suryey of Mt. Jolmo l-ungmo

TN 1966 and 196? a Chinese scientific expedition made way up Mt. Jolmo Lungma and made observations of r a multi-purpose survey of the area dominated by solar radiation and alpine meteorology at altitudes of Mt. Jolmo Lungma the worid,s highest peak on a 5,900 metres, 6,500 metres and above 7,000 metres. They scale unknown in -the history of science. It - was a obtained Cata on solar radiation at the highest point magnificent success. (See Pekirug Reaieu, 1g68, No. 4, ever reached on earth's surface in this fieid of study. p. 12.) Their data far surpasses that of the Americans. The great thought of Mao Tse-tung lvas the guar- To reach above 7,000 metres on the northern slope antee of success and the source of strength. All the of Mt. Jolmo Lungma, the climbers had to make their achievements of this survey of iVIt. Jclrlo Lungma, the way over the perilous North Col which lies betv*een top of the "Roof of the World.," derive from the invin- 6,600 metres and 7,007 metres above sea level. Known cible thought of Mao Tse-tung. as a "gate" to the summit, North Col rises at an average gradient of 55 d.egrees and ends at the top in an almost "We Hcye o Red Sun in Our Hecrts', vertical ice ciiff. It was described by the British as utterly "unclimbable" since some British "explorers" , "W" are detqrroined to plant ttre.great red .banner lost their lives on its icy slopes. Yet the Chinese people of Mao Tse-tung;s thought on Mt. Jolmo Lungma." 'Ihis armed with Mao Tse-tung's thought tackled the North was the heroic pledge of the solar radiation observa- Col rvith success. In 1960, young Chinese mountaineers tion group. succeeded for the {irst time in history in reaching the Because of its great height and highly transparent sumn-rit of Jolmo Lungma over the North Col. Now the atmosphere, Mt. Jolmo Lungma is an ideal place for scientific rvorkers n ere folLowing suit to achieve new v'onders there, studying solar radiation. A U.S. mountaineering tea.m, while climbing the southern slope of the peak in -1g63, "Be resolu'te, fear no sacrifice and surmount every i made some observations at an altltude of less than 6,000 difficulty to win victory" msrnfgls of the expedition t metres above sea level. Later a spate of American repea-ted this quotation from- Chairman Mao as they articies made a big fuss about the bit of infoi-mation surraounted one obstacle after another and pressed they collected. for-azard. They said: "Chairman l,{ao guides us in this China's revoltrtionary scientific v;orkers rvere in- battie; no force on earth can stop our advance!" censed by this U.S. imperiaList provocation. Keenly alive to the significance of their work as a struggie Still More Rigorous Tests Aheod against nature and, more important, against the imperi- demands alists, revisionists and all the other reactionaries, they Coliecting data on solar radiation con- tinuous work over relatively long period. The im- were determined, no matter what the difficulties, to a periaiists certain reactionary have achieve an outstanding success. Along with the meteo- and "authorities" insisted that is impossible rologists, the scientists in solar radiation fought their it for men to continue work- ing for relatively long periods at altitudes over 6,000 metres. But the Chinese scientific workers banished + From Chairman Mao's poem T:he Faitg .Carse. superstition, emancipated their minds and swept away

14 Peki.ng Reuiew, No, 5 stereotyped foreign ways of doing things. They. kept their r,vay up the ice cliff. It took them full 40 minutes up their high altitude obserwations frcm dar.vn to dusk. to cover the 50 metres to the top. Strong gales often blew at night, chilling them to the marrorv. But this cquld not shake the will of revolu- To prepare themselves for the greater difficulties tionary,scientific workers. "We have a red sun in our and more rigorous tests ahead, they gathered in their hearts which gives us warmth and strength," they tents that evening and studied Quotations From Chai,r- declared- man hfao Tse-tztng. "In times of difficulty we rnust not lose sight of our achievements, must see the bright fu- After working for six days in a row on the moun- ture and rnust piuek up our courage." Their voices recit- tain, they ran out of food and petrol. What should ing this passage echoed through the age-old ice-bound they do? They recalled Chairman Mao's teaching: valley. "Give fuII play to our style of fighting eourage in battle, no fear of sacrifice, no fear of fatigue,- and con- The;' traverseci the Main Rongbuk Glacier the next tinuous fighting (that is, fighting suceessive batttres in day, selecied the first obserwation post and started work a short time without rest)." This gave them tremen- right away in the spirit of "seize the day, seize the dous courage and strength in theirbattle against the hour." On the day they were to work at the 7th and elements. " They held out for another day until the last observation post, they got up at three o'clock in whole work was successfully completed. the morning. They crossed the ice crevices by moonlight and reached the designated spot at noon. To seize the best time for observation, they set to work without "Go Where the Difficulties Are Greoter" bothering to take a snack. Helped by P.L.A. men and local Tibetans, the rev- By now they had spent 15 days on the glacier. Ex- olutionary surveyors climbed 20 peaks from 6,000 to posure to strong ultra-violet rays, rarefied air at high over 7,000 metres above sea level and carried out altitudes and piercing winds had caused their faces to astronomical geodetic surveying, triangulation, differen- swell. Some were so swollen around the lips that they tial levelling and stereophotogrammetric surveying of found it difficult to eat. But no one uttered a word of Mt. Jolmo Lungma from 61 observation posts. This complaint. Determined to hold out till final victory, feat is unprec€dented in the world history of surveying. they felt great joy in battling against hardships. The Main Rongbuk Glacier hanging at the waist Astronomical geodetic observations had to be car- of Mt. Jolmo Lungma is studded with seracs and criss- ried out at night, and those who undertook this task crossed by erevices. But the revolutionary aurveyors endured exceptionally intense cold. On their very first armed with Mao Tse-tung's thought were dauntless and night on the peak, they were hit by bad weather and they finally succeeded in tackling this seemingly inac- their tents were almost swept au,ay by strong winds. cessible area. As they threaded their way past the seracs looking for a good observation post, they suddenly found their way blocked by a tall ice wall "What is work? Work is struggle. There are d,ifficulties and problems in those places for us to over- bome and solve. , We go there to work and strug- gle to overcome these difficulties. A good comrade is one who is more eager to go where the difficulties are greater." This great teaching of Chairman Mao's filled them with boundless strength and courage. They bqgan to cut steps with their Members of the scientific expedition to Mt. Jolmo Lungma at work. On the knapsack, as a con$tant source of inspiration, is the quotation from Chairman Mao: "Be resolute, fear ice picks and worked no saerifice and surmount every difficulty to win victory."

February 2,7968 15 Anchoring the tents.with their own bodies and holding the mountains, they eventually discovered Early the instrument cases in their arms to keep them safe, Palaeozoic strata formed between 400 million and 500 the young scientific workers battled the weather for million years ago at places traversed many times by two straight days" They set to work as soon as the foreign "explorers." Their discovery filled the gap in weather broke on the third day. the geological history of the Mt" Jolmo Lungma area. lndomitoble Revolutionory Will to Conquer Moy the Greot Red Bonner of Moo Tse-tung's Mt. Jolmo Lungmo Thought Fly For Ever Over the World's Three members of the geophysics group climbed Mt. Highest Feok Jolmo Lungma for three days to reach a height of 6,400 The great thought of Mao Tse-tung guided the metres above sea level This was still 100 metres short members the expedition scaling the peaks of of their goal to obtain new geomagnetic data of in science and technoiogy. They studied and appiied Mao At this juncture, one of them was attacked by Tse-tung's thought creatively at all times and every- acute mountain sickness and could go no further. His where and in tackling every problem. They advanced tasks were shared by the other two. Facing tremen- in the teeth of difficulties without losing their bearings dous difficulties, they recalled Chairman Mao's teaching: because they had \{ao Tse-tung's thought as their guide. "No matter what the difficulties and hardships, so long They were high in spirit and strong in morale because as a single man remains, he will fight on." They vowed Mao Tse-tung's thought was for them an inexhaustible that they would fight on to the last man till final source of strength. victory. The heroic People's Liberation Army men who Every step forward required tremendous effort. aided the expedition showed a fearless revolutionary Forty minutes passed, yet they made verSr little pro- spirit and utter devotion to others without any thought gress. They opened their copies of the Quototi.ons From of self. They scouted the road for the scientific workers. Chairman Mao Tse-tung and read passage: aloud this They always took on the tasks that involved the "This army has an indomitable 'to spitit and is determined greatest danger. They helped ahead those who suffered vanquish all enemies and never to yield." Chairman from mountain sickness. At times of great difr'iculty Mao's teaching gave them new strength and they they were always ready with a quotation from Chair- reached their destination after a hard struggle. man Mao to encourage members of the expedition to They could get no sieep that night on the mountain. fulfii their tasks. But the next day they obtained geomagnetic data at Members of the expedition tuned in to broadcasts the highest point ever reached in such surveying. from Peking every day after their return from work no The discovery of Early Palaeozoic strata was an- matter how tired they were or how late it was. When other example showing how members of the expedition Chairman Mao issued his great call to "fight self, re- broke with fetishes and superstitions and emancipated pudiate revisionism," they immediately respcnded. their minds. _ ' They held meetings by the Tsangpo River to combat In the last eentury and more, imperialist .,ex- self and repudiate revisionism, exchange experience in plorers" have distorted the geological picture of the Mt. the study of the "three constantly read articles" (Seroe Joimo Lungma apgg. They made thg. qgroneous as$er- tke Peaple, In Memorg of Norman Bethune and The tion that Early Palaeozoic strata probably did not exist Foolish OLd Man Who Remotsed the Mountai.w) and in this area. they denounced the revisionist line in scientific re- While making their surveys in the Mt. Jojmo search. Lungma area. the Chinese scientific workers repeatedly Both scientific workers and P.L.A. men actively studied Chairman Mao's teaehing: "In the fields of the propagated Mao Tse-tung's thought and the tremendous struggle for production and scientific experiment, man- significance of the great proletarian cultural revolution kind makes constant progress and nature undergoes among the local population. Following Chairman Mao's eonstant change; they never remain at the same level. instructions, they went deep among the masses, visited i Therefore, man has constantly to sum up experience the homes of the poor and lower-middle peasants and and go on discovering, inventing, creating and advanc- herdsmen, learnt from them, worked with them, cul- ing. Ideas of stagnation, pessimism, inertia and com- tivated in themselves the feelings of the workers and placency are all wrong. They are wrong because they peasants and remoulded their own world outlook. The agree neither with the historical facts of social develop- Tibetan working people pledged to make the great red ment over the past milli6l years, nor with the historical banner of Mao Tse-tung's thought fly for ever over the facts of nature so far known to us (i,e. nature as re- world's highest peak. vealed in the history of celestial bodies, the earth, life, and other natural phenomena)." CORH,ECTION: our (No. page Chairman Mao's teaching helped them root out In last issue 4), 6, left-hand superstition column, the last three lines of the second paragraph should and emancipate their thinking. Animated read: vigorous and vital vanguard organization which is with fiery proletarian determination to win honour for composed of advanced elements of the proletariat and is Chairman Iy'Iao and for the Chinese people and in the capable of leading the proletariat and the revolutionary masses in the fight against class enemy. indomitable spirit of the Fooiish Old Man who.r:emoved the

16 Peking Retietr, No. 5 lmplernenting Chqirmon Moo's Lotest Instructions Meons Victory

How An Air Force Unit Helps the Left in Tientsin's Hungwei District I -

i rftHE air force unit now helping the Left in Hungwel the working class split into two irreconcilable i to big I r District in Tientsin is an outstanding collective in groupings." Members of the unit lost no time in relay- i the creative study and application of Chairman Mao's ing this instruction to the revolutionaries in the districl I works and in the all-round implementation of Chairman Twelve of them visited 58 factories and plants in 24 1 Mao's latest instructions. hours to publicize it among the workers and staff. The { workers were so moved that they said: "We workers i Hoiding high the great red banner of Mao Tse- I suffered most from exploitation and oppression before { tung's thought, members of the unit have enthusiastical- I liberation. Now that Chairman Mao has called on us I Iy disseminated and resolutely defended Chairman to forge must the Mao's latest series of extremely important instructions the revolutionary alliances, we take Iead." concerning the great proletarian cultural revolution- They have made these instructions the soul of people's Firmly adhering to Chairman Mao's latest instruc- being and translated them intc the conscious actions ol tions, this help-the-Left unit helped the Left, but not the masses. As a result, the cultural revolution in the any particular faction- When the two groups in a district has been advancing triumphantly along the factory were both revolutionary mass organizations, course charted by Chairman Mao. they treated them equally and helped them to achieve a revolutionary great alliance on the basis of revolu- Closely ond Resolutely Follow Choirmon Moo's tionary principles as quickly as possible. If one of the Lotest lnstructions trvo groups was misled by the capitalist roaders, they worked patiently to help the misled masses return to Vice-Chairman Piao Lin has said: "Our Chairman Chairman Mao's revolutionary line. Mao is the commander-in-chief of this great proletarian cultural revolution. Chairman Mao is the supreme com- Remove Obstocles, Overcome Foctionolism, ond mander. Under the guidance of the great supreme com- lmplement Choirmon Moo's Lqtest lnstructions mander Chairman Mao and faithfulty following his instructions, we will certainly carry the great cultural ln the Course of the Struggle revolution forward smoothly and win great victories!" \ryh.its- advaneing steadfastly along tlre course indi- Ever since the unit was assigned the task of helping cated by Chairman Mao's latest instructionq the air I the Left, its members have always acted on and closely force unit helping the l,eft has had to break through and resolutely followed each and every one of Chair- all resistance and overcome all obstacles. man Mao's latest instructions. When the proletarian revolutionaries in Hungwe{ When Chairman Mao gave the instruction that "tho District were unfolding the mass campaign of revolu- People's Liberation Army should help the broad masses tionary criticism and repudiation and building the rev- of the Left," these air force men took the side of the olutionarv alliances, the agents of China's Khrushchov .,r I masses of the Left with enorrnous zeal and fervour and in Tientsin, in a vain attempt to avert their own im- _{ !l lr{ pledged to stand foursquare behind the Left. For minent destruction, ganged up with the monsters and ll: l .{r J instance, there was a revolutionary mass organization demons Taking advantage of the bourgeois :li"il in society. ,t in a knitwear mill which had dwindled to only one and petty-bourgeois factionalism and anarchist trend of t member as a result of t.Le attacks by the bourgeois thought in the revolutionary ranks, they created splits' reactionary line. However, in defiance of a1l difficul- obstructed the implementation of Chairman Mao's ties and risks, they gave it all-out support. They said: latest instructions and undermined his great strategic "Chairman Mao orders us to help the Left, we must plan. Notwithstanding aI1 this, the air force unit forged unflinchingly carry out the order." With their he1p, ahead courageously and unswervingly implemented this organization rapidly grew in strength before long. Chairman Mao's latest instructions. Last September, the great leader Chairman Mao When the handful of capitalist roaders in the Party instructed that "there is no conflict of fundamental were trying to incite misled people to sabotage the interests within the working class. Under the dictator- revolutionary mass criticism and the revolutionary ship of the proletariat, there is no reason whatsoever for great alliances in the district, the air force men imme-

Februarg 2,7968 77 diately went among the masses to do'ideological vrork. in the rerzolutionary mass criticism. They also cailed They got tire leading members of mass organizations in a joint meeting to rename the street "Unity Street." the district together and explained Cirairman hl[ao's Iatest instructions on the revolutionary mass criticlsm Trust cnd Rely on the MEsses in lmplernenting anci the revolutionary great a1liance. Thereupon, the ChoirmEn Moo's Latest Instructions revolutioaaries in the district's factories, offices, enter- In accordance with Chairman Mao's teaching that prises and schools went into action. They advanced "the revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can putting big- the revolutionary mass criticism by up be rvaged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on character posters and holding meetings, thus foiling the them," the air force men together with the proletarian piots o-[ the c]ass enemies. revolutionaries have formed a mighty army for spread- When the two mass organizations in a furniture ing Mao Tse-tung's thought. workshop were about to forge a revolutionary great Hungwei District has more than 300 factories and ailiance with the help of the air force_ unit, their mem- a population of over half a million, whereas the com- bers were influenced by an ultra-Left trend of thought manders and fighters of the air force unit number in society. Certain people who held such vier,vs described oniy 148. This being the case, the latter aroused the the proposed alliance at the workshop as a sort of masses and relied on them as Chairman Mao teaches. hotchpotch. Hearing this, some workers wavered. But They divided the district into seven areas and each the air force men there stood firm. They carried out area was in turn divided into several sub-areas. With ideoiogicai-political work among the workers and ex- their help, Mao Tse-tung's thought propaganda teams plained that the building of the revolutionary great of workers were set up in each area and inter-factory alliance was in conformity with the great call of Chair- networks were formed in each sub-area by workers man Mao and with the general orientation of the cur- who carried out activities to propagate Mao Tse-tung's rent struggle. They toid the workers that they had to thought in their spare time. The air force men also steadfastly follow Chairman Mao's latest instnrctions encouraged the workers to do ideological-political work which brooked no obstruction, and that they had to among themselves in a lively manner, ineluding activi- guard against the conspiracy of the class enemies. As ties known as "one helps the other and both become a result, Chairman Mao's instructions were promptly red," As a result, Chairman Mao's latest instructions implemented and the great alliance brought about. were spread widely among the masses, thus giving great great While overcoming obstacles, the air force men res- in'lpetus to the victorious development of the olutely guided the broad masses on to the path of the proletarian cultural revolution. proletarian revolution as directed by Chairman Mao. With the help of this unit, a mass campaign to This was done by setting up typical examples in im- help each other ideologically is now developing in all plementing Chairman Mao's latest instructions so as to the factories in the district. Everyone learns from encourage others to follow suit. the advanced and helps those lagging behind. A new- t5rpe revolutionary relationship of mutual aid between ' When Chairman Mao issued the call to "have faith factories and between individuals has been gradualiy ln and rely:on the majority of the cadres," they im- built up on the basis of Mao Tse-tung's thought. mediately shose as a pace-setter a textile mili which had succeeded in overcoming the ideas of "doubting Chairman Mao teaches: '"9[e Communists are like everyone" and "overthrowing everyone" and in liberat- seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we ing the cadres persecuted by the bourgeois reactionary go, we rnust unite with the people, take root and blos- Iine. Following this example, the factories in the dis- som among them." The air force men ardently passed trict soon liberated more than 90 per cent of the rev- on to the workers, government functionaries and staffs olutionary leading cadres. of enterprises the experience of the People's Libera- tion Army in holding high the great red banner of In response to Chairman Mao's great call to "fight Mao Tse-tung's thought and doing ideological-political self, repudiate revisionism," members of the air force work, and helped tleem train a large number of people unit immediateiy undertook to help the revolutionary who constituted the backbone in ideological and polit- masses in factories, offices and in the neighbourhood ical work. With their help, the revolutionary masses organizations to set up Mao Tse=tung's thought study in the district have brought the movement to crea- elasses. Ttrey encouraged the revolutionaries to com- tively study and apply Mao Tse-tung's thought and bat factionalism and root out selfish ideas and imple- Chairman Mao's latest instructions to an unprece- ment Chairman Mao's latest instructions well. dentedly new high. No. B Street in Hungwei District has 10 factories Fight Repudiote Revisionism, ond whose workers were divided into many different groups Self, due to the influence of factionalism. The air force Remould World Outlook men helped the workers study Chairman Mao's latest Chairman Mao teaehes us that the great proletarian instructions and his "three constantly read articles" cultural revolution is a great revolution that touches in the study classes. Using these as their weapon, people to their very souls and aims at solving the prob- the workers overcame .factionalism and joined forces lem of their world outlook. The air force men helping

78 Peking Retsiew, No. 5 the Left in Hungwei District profoundly realized that reciification campaigns in which they fight se1f, re- to arm the masses with Mao Tse-tung's lati:st instruc- pudiate revisir:nism and remould their world outlock tions, it was first of all necessary to arrn themselves thrcugh cririci,sm and self-ci'iticism. Bearing in rninci with them. From the day they came to the district, Chairna.i: lIao's tea-ching that "t?re masses are the rea! the;r have paid constant attention to remoulding their heroes," the;* look upcn the masses as their teachers, oy;-n rvcrl.d outiook through studying and applying conscientiousiy learn from them, make a clean breast Chairman Mao's latest series of very important instruc- of theil selfish ideas io them and solicit criticism from tions concerning the great proletarian cuitural revolu- them. ticn in the course sharp and complex class of the Recently, they have studied the experience of Li struggle. They regarded eternal loyalty to Chairrnan Wen*cliung, the "Model in Helping the Left and i\fao as the basic criterion for remoi.lldi.ng their worid Cherishing the Peopl.e," in creatively studying and outlook. applying Chairman Mao's rn orks and in remoulding his Vice-Chairman Lin Piao instructs us: "The surg- world outlook (See Peking Rexieut, No. 52, 1967.) They ing rnass movement, in ttrrn, always gives tremendous pledged to become models in stud;,-ing, implementing, inspiraiion and education to the army and becomes a propagating and defending Chairman Mao's latest in- revolutionary furnace for tempering and raising the structions. They are determined to keep the great red army'sr politicai consciouslless." Follor,'ring out this banner of Mao Tse-tung's thought alr*-ays flying high instruction, the air force men regularly carried out over Hungwei District. I

Repudiating Chba3 Khrushchov

The &reat Thought 0f ffiao Tse-tumg Es the

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f: Hf NA's Khrushchov, that big careerist who con- Party, the magic rveapon with which to defeat the enemy \-l spired to usurp the Party leadership, ahvays op- and achicve victory, and a sure guarantee for the pro- posed Chairman Mao's proletarian line on Party build- Ietarian seizure and consolidation of pclitical power. ing. What he pursued lvas a counter-revolutionary Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and our great leader Chair- revisionist line on Party building. He said: "The main- man Mao have all made great contributions and set tenance of Party unity is something absolute" even brilliant examples in uniting and unifying the revolu- r.r,hen there are "differences on matters of principle,'r tionary party of the proletariat, both theoretically and and "obedience is necessary even when it means to obey practicaliy. what is erroneous." He also said: "Whether the line of do we want? the Party is right or wrong it must maintain its unity.'r But r,vhat kind of unity and solidarity question, Mao Tse-tung's He spread such fallacies with the intention to mislead, On this Mardsm-Leninism, to opportunism indeed, to coerce Party members into serving as his thought, stands in diametrical opposition and revisionism hues. "docile tools" in his anti-Party schemes to usurp Party of all leadership. This served his plot for a capitalist restora- Lenin saiC: "The unity of the Party is most dear tion. to us. But the purity of the principles of revolutionary social-dernocracy is dearer still." Orgonizationol Principles Must Suhrnit to the revolution- Political Line Tire unity needed by the proletariat is ary u^nit.rr, unity in fighting for the great cause of com- The unity and solidarity o{ the proletarian re'ro1u- munism. The proletarian Party cannot want unity for { tionary poiitical party are a basic guarantee of victory the purpose of surrendering to the enemy and of restor- in the cause of the proletarian revolution. ing capitalism. This is what Lenin meant by "ihe The great leader Chairman Mao always teaches: purity of the principles." In other words, organizational "TVe must build a centralized, unified Party" and "We principles must submit to the political line' The prole- shall solidly unite all the forces of our Party on demo- tarlan Party must establish soiid unity on the basis of cratic centralist principles of organization and dis- Marxist-Leninist principles and the correct Marxist- cipline." Leninist line. Marxists have always held that unity is strength, The invincible thought of Mao Tse-tung - Marx- that unity and solidarity are the very life-blood of the ism-Leninism at its highest in our time - is the founda- Tebruary 2,7968 19 tion of the unity and solidarity of the proletarian Party. our Party astray, tc change the nature of our Party The history of the Chinese rer.olution convincingly and turn it into a bourgeois party. proves that only when our Party achieves unity and solidarity based on Mao Tse-tung's thought and Chair- Genuine Unity Con Be Achieved Only Through man Mao's proletarian revolutionary line, is there that Correct lnner-Poriy Struggle genuine unity and solidarity needed by the proletariat for fulfilling its historic mission. The struggle between the proletariat and the bour- geoisie inevitably finds expression within the Party. It China's Khrushchov stressed that "the maintenance is not at all surprising that differenees and contradic- of Party unity is something absolute" while the Party's tions of one kind or another, and even differences con- guiding principle and political line, whether right or cerning the Party line, arise within the Party. wrong, can be disregarded. He openly declared that Chairman Mao teaches: "The law of the unity of even if there are "differences on matters of principle opposites is the fundamental law of the universe" and and line," and even if it is "wrong politically," there "the unity of opposites is conditional, temporary and should still be absolute obedience" and "unconditional, transitory, and hence relative, whereas the struggle of "Party unity should be maintained." Obviously, "abso- i, opposites is absolute." Unity and struggle in the Party lute unity" and "absolute obedience" under an oppor- constitute the unity opposites and are mutually tunist and revisionist political line is to make the pro- of opposed and complementary. The unity and solidarity Ietariat surrender to the bourgeoisie and abandon of the proletarian Party is achieved and consolidated in Marxism-Leninism, Mao Tse-tung's thought, in "abso- the course of continuous struggle. There is no unity lute obedience" to opportunism and revisionism. The without struggle. unity desired by China's Khrushchov is therefore unity at the expense of revolutionary principle, unity for the In pressing t'is absurdities about "absolute uni.ty," purpose of betraying the revolution ar-f making a pro- China's Khrushchov was completely denying the contra- letarian Party degenerate into a bourgeois party. dictions in things and nega"ng the struggJ.e of opposites; this was out-and-out betrayal of revolutionary dial.ectics The capitulationist, revisionist line pursued by and the thought of Mao Tse-tung. China's l(hrushchov China's Khrushchov past decades provides over the a wanted only unity and no struggle. Lle asserted that most explicit footnote "absolute he to the unity" it was necessary to stress "the identical aspects and not advocated. struggle" and that there should be "absolute unity" During the War of Resistance Against Japan, he even when there were "ditfgrences on matters of prin- strongly urged that Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang be ciple, line and ideology." In all this hirs purpose was, taken as the "revolutionary banner," and that the anti- under the hypocritical slogan of "unity," to negate Japanese armed forces led by the Communist Party be inner-Party struggle, aud especially the struggle be- placed under the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek's "na- tween the two lines, and to smother Party life. tional government." Then after the victory in the War Chairman Mao teaches: 'ff there were no contra- of Resistance, he proclaimed a "new stage of peace and dictions in the Party and no ideological struggles to democracy" and wanted to sell out wholesaie the Com- resolve them, the Part5r's life would come to an end." munist Party and the people's armed forees led the by The philosophy of our Communist Party is one of strug- Party. Had it maintained "absolute unity" according to gle, of revolution. The proletarian Party can purify, this line, would not our Party have long ago become an conti.nually extend and strengthen its ranks and main- appendage of Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang, a fascist tain its revolutionary vigour and vitality for ever only party, a party of traitors? when it holds high the banner of revolutionary struggle In the period of socialist revolution, he wanted to and uses Mao Tse-tung's thought to defeat bourgeois develop the rich peasant economy and declared that ideas, uses Chairman Mao's revolutionary line to defeat capitalist "exploitation has its merits." He stood for the line of opportunism. And a militant Communist the "consolidation of the new democratic order,,, and Party will stagnate and degenerate if it does not do so. even encouraged capitalists the to "struggle against the China's Khrushchov wanted us to stress "identical workers." After socialist transformation of the owner- aspects" with the Chiang Kai-shek reactionaries, land- ship of the means of production was completed in the opportunists and group of ,,the lords and capitalists, the the main, he set up a big clamour about the theory of renegades whom he did his best to shieid. He forbade dying out of class struggle," asserting that in dealing us to struggle against He wanted the proletariat ,'the them. with the bourgeoisie emphasis should be on identi- to feel grateful to the class enemy who exploited and cal aspects" and that capitalists should be admitted into oppressed it, and to think that "exploitation has its the Party. Had it maintained "absolute unity" accord- merits." Moreover, he wanted us to "coexist peace- ing to this line, would not our Party have long ago fully" with opportunism and capituiate to the class become a revisionist party, a bourgeois party? enemy. From this it is clear that the "absolute unity,' no In short, by "absolute unity" and "inner-Party matter "whether the line of the Party is right or wrong,, peace," China's Khrushchov actually meant permitting advocated by China's Khrushchov was designed to lead erroneous ideas and a wrong line to spread unchecked

20 Peking Reuiera, No. 5 inside the Party while forbidding us to criticize uSe for your reference. In other words, whether the and repudiate them. In fact, he allolved the bourgeoisie line of the Party is right or wrong, it must maintain its to attack the proletariat but forbade the proletariat to unity." counter-attack. This is an outright lie and a most vicious slander It is thus clear that we can achieve real unity in and attack on our great leader Chairman Mao and our the revolutionary party of the proletariat oniy when we great Party. adhere to revolutionary principle, and uphold Marxism- Leninism, Mao Tse-tung's thought. If we abandon prin- Our Party's history is a glorious history of the ciple and unite rviih opportunism and revisionism, then, struggle between the proletarian revolutionary line as Lenin said: ". . . such 'unity' rneans, in practice, represented by Chairman Mao and all kinds of oppor- unity of the proletariat with the national trourgeoisie tunist lines, a history which no one can alier. And no and a split in the international proletariat, the uniiy of one can distort the soiidarity and unity of the Chinese lackeys and a split among the revolutionaries." Cornmunist Party which are based on the victory of Chairman Mao's revolutionary 1ine, Unity with the bourgeoisie and revi-sionists will inevitably create disunity r,vith the Marxist-Leninists. Chairman Mao pointed out cleariy in 1938: 'Broad- Isn't this proved by the f:rcts? It was notre other than ly speaking, in the last 1? years our Party has learned China's Khrushchov who for a long time employed to use the Marxist-Leninist weapon of ideological strug- counter-revolutionary double-faced tactics to counter gle against incorrect ideas wittrrin the Party on two Chairman Mao's revolutionary 1ine. It was he who fronts against Right opportunism and against 'Leftr secretly knocked together a group of counter-revolu- opportunism."- tionaries to form a bourgeois headquarters. And it was Chinese Communist Party is he again who echoed Khlushchov in attempting "peace- The history of the ful evolution" iir China. The more than 40 years' filled with struggle between the two 1ines. Indeed, the Chinese Party is a history of history of the Chinese Communist Party has fully proved history of the Communist and the two lines" that China's Khrushchov, the concentrated expres- the struggle between the two classes sion of all opportunism, was the biggest revisionist and Even during those periods when Chen Tu-hsiu, splitter rvho had laid hidden deeper and longer than Wang Ming and others usurped the leading positions in any other of their kind inside the Chinese Communist the Party, the correct line represented by Chairman Party. Mao was always locked in acute struggle with their lines. The historic Tsunyi Serious attention must be paid to the fact that after "Left" and Right opportunist great victory of Chair- Khrushchov subverted the proletarian power in the Meeting [in 1935] proclaimed the line. The whole Party was Soviet Union, China's Khrushchov became more bare- man Mao's revolutionary Mao's brilliant teadership and faced, unbridled and vociferous in advocating his reac- united under Chairman revolutionary line. tionary theory of "absolute unity." He ranted that unified on the basis of his every Communist "must be a pliant and docile too1" And it is precisely because our Party is unified and even blustered: "if a I(hrushchov coup d'etat occurs unCer the great banner of Mao Tse-tung's thought that in the Chinese Communist Party," "the minority must ours is a great, glorious and corect Party. still remain subordinate to the majority even though the opinion of the majority is wrong." In these words In introducing the "experience" summed up in the China's Khrushchov revealed his grim visage. And iI statement "whether the line of the Party is right or his scheme were allowed to succeed, there would be a wrong, it must maintain its unity" to a Party in which restoration of capitalism in China, all mankind would a revisionist line had already emerged, wasn't China's be thrown back and the heads of millions of revolu- Khrushchov brazenly demanding "absolute unity" under tionary people would roll! the revisionist line? And rnhat was that if not to attack Marxism-Leninism and protect revisionism? Unity Under the lnvincible Thought of By advocating his fallacious concept oI "Party Moo Tse-tung unity," China's Khrushchov also distorted the history of In peddling his theory of "absolute unity," China's the international comrnunist mo\rement. Khrushchov wiiluily distorted Party history. At a time Marx and Engels waged a principled struggle when the Khrushchov revisionist clique had already against the opportunists the Bakuninists, the Proud- usurped Party and state leadership in the Soviet Union honists, the Blanquists- and the Lassalleans and and when the adverse current of modern revisionism unified the world proletarian revolutionaries on- the had already emerged in the international communist basis of Marxism. movement, China's Khrushchov once said in a talk with a Communist Party delegation from a certain country: Lenin and Stalin rvaged a principied struggle In- "Even during the period of Chen Tu-hsiu's erroneous against Bernstein, Kautsky and Co. of t1-re Second Iine, our Party was unified under his 1ine, and later it ternational, against the Mensheviks, Trotsky, Bukharin was unified under the 'Left' deviationist line. . . . This is the experience of the Chinese Party which you ean (Continued on P. 37.)

Febru,arg 2, 7968 21 rlif,l,iiiiii# t,:.+li:iltr.r,'iI i'iiiffiru, irl.tii:iliiiir ffi#*$i#rffi-,g+mffi## ,.ireeting 4th Anniversary ol Chqirryn Mao's Statement Japanese Revolutionary Left Persist in Revolutionary Struggle and Pledge to Carry lt to the End The Japanese revolutionary Left have recently Mao and no force on earth can stop them, he made statements warmly greeting the 4th anniversary said. iJanuary 27) of the publication of the great leader of Kuraji Anzai of the Japanese revolutionary Left rhe world's people Chairman Mao's Sfofement Suyt- pointed out that recent developments in Japan and norting the Japanese Peopile's Just, Patriotic Struggle abroad had fully testified to the correctness of Chair- Against U.S. Imperiali,sm. With boundless love for man Mao's statement. He said: "The U.S. imperial- Chairman Mao, they are determined to hold atoft the ists are scard out of their wits by the victories of great red banner of Mao Tse-tung's thought and con- the great proletarian cuitural revolution in China and tinue to develop the patriotic anti-U.S. struggle. have been forced into an impasse by the Vietnamese Masayoshi Fukuda, Permanent Member of the people's armed forces. The armed struggles of the Yamaguchi Prefectural Committee (Left) of the Japa- peoples in Asia, Africa and Latin America have like- nese Communist Party said that Chairman Mao's state- wise struck panic into them. In these circumstances, ment is a great document. Like a bright beacon, it U.S. imperialism instigates the Japanese reactionaries lights up the path of revolution and the liberation of to tie Japan firmly to its aggressive war chariot. The the Japanese people. fact that U.S. imperialism subjects Japan to its aggres- IIe said in his statement that Chairman Mao had sion, oppression and control has brought untold suffer- pointed out: "The Japanese nation is a great nation. It ings to the Japanese workers, peasants, students and will certainly not allow US. irrperialism to ride rough- other sections of the Japanese people. It is time for shod over it for long." Ttris, he said, shows the bound- the Japanese people to direct the spearhead of their less confidence the great leader Chairman Mao and the struggle against U.S. imperialism and its lackeys, the fraternal Chinese people hive in the Japanese people. Japanese reactionaries, and resolutely unfold a patrio- It will continue to inspire and encourage them to tic, anti-U.S. struggle." develop "th,ei1 patlioiic anti-U.S. struggle. He stressed: "IJ.S. imperialisrn and the Japarlese He"addi:d'that Chairman M'do aIsO hail pointed out reactionaries are confronted with grave political and that the most reliable guarantee for victory in the economic crises. The Japanese people with the working struggle for national liberation lies in the continued class as their vanguard should prepare themselves for expansion; among the Japanese people of various strata; battle so as to greet the approaching stortny era." of the patriotic united: front against U.S. imperialist Takashi Kojima of the Saga Prefectural Committee aggression, oppression and control, in the solidarity of (Left) of the Japanese Communist Party said: "What the Japanese people with the Chinese and other peoples happened in the last four years has proved that Chair- of the v,orld anri the strengthening of the broad inter- man Mao's statement is scientific and entirely correct. national united front against U.S. imperialism. The We have full confidence in the future of our struggle, publication of Chairman Lllao's great statement has and our faith in Mao Tse-tung's thought has been fur- tremendously inspired the Japanese people, who are ther deepened." controllc'C and oppressed by U.S. imperialism, and has Kojima said that the recent struggle of the Japa- graduaily led their anti-U.S. struggle to a high tide. nese people against the entry of the U.S. nuclear war- In this great anti-U.S. struggle, Fukuda pointed ships into Sasebo signifies a new upsurge in the Japa- otrt, the Miyamoto revisionist clique has foliowed in, nese people's patriotic anti-U.S. struggle. The counter- the foolsteps of the Soviet modern revisi.cnists in op- revolutionary features of the Miyamoto revisionist posing the solidarity between the Japanese and Chinesc clique hav.e become so glaringly exposed in this strug- peoples and the solidar.ity between the world's revolu- gle that this clique has been repudiated by dhe rev- tionary peoples., Its renegade features have been ex- olutionar5r p,eople. He stressed: "So long as the Jap- posed more and more before the broad masses of the anese people persist in siruggle along the path pointed Japanese people. out by Chairman Mao, they will surely be able to smash The Japanese people are marching forward along all sabctages anC overcome all obstacles put up by the the path of great victory pointed out by Chairman renegade clique and win final victory."

Z2 Peking Reoieut, No, 5 fapanese Progressives Call for Broad United Front To Strengthen Struggle Against lJ. S. lmperialism

The progressive friends in various circles in Japan, mensely raised their morale and given them added in recent statements, warmly haiied the 4th anniver- courage." sary of the January 27, 1964 statement made by Chair- He continued: "Chairman Mao is our great leader. man Mao, the great leader of the world's people, sup- He is both a great thinker and a great revolutionary. porting the Japanese people's just patriotic struggle We are grateful to him for his incomparably powerful against U.S. imperialism. They pointed out that Chair- support .and encouragement to the Japanese people." man Mao's statement had lit up the road for the Japanese people in carrying on their struggle. They In conclusion, he said: "We Japanese people are pledged themselves to fight unswervingly together with determined to march in the direction pointed out by their fellow countrymen and all other people of the Chairman Mao, strengthen and expand our patriotic rvorld for the victory of their struggle against U.S. u.nited front against U-S. imperialism, unite with the imperialism. They sternly denounced the Miyamoto Chinese people and all oppressed peoples and nations revisionist clilque for its traitorous attempt to under- of the world and carry the struggle against U.S. im- mine the patriotic anti-U.S. struggle of the Japanese perialism .and revisionism ihrough to the end." people. Seimin Miyazaki, Director General of the Head- Hisao Kuroda, Chairman of the lleadqu-arters of quarters of the Japan-China Friendship Association the Japan-China Friendship Association (Orthodox), (Orthodox), declared: "Chairman Maons January 27, stressed the great importance of the statement of Chair- 1964 statement has been a mighty encouragement to man Mao. He declared: "As Chairman Mao has point- the Japanese people's patriotic, anti-U.S. struggle." ed out, the Japanese people should expand their pa- He said: "There is an excellent situation in Japan triotic anti-U.S. united front at home and unite with today. The East wind is prevailing over the West all people abroad who are oppressed and enslaved by wind. To oppose the entry of a U.S. nuelear aircraft U.S. imperialism to form a broad international united carrier, we Japanese people have carried out a valiant front to fight jointly against U.S. irnperialism." struggle which signals the beginning of the 1968 strug- He said that the Japanese pecple lvould never allow gle. We will never tolerate U.S. imperialisrn and bhe Sato government to reaiize its sinister design to com- mit aggression again against China and that tJre Japanese peoplels latest, fierce struggle against the visit by U.S. nu- clear vessels had demonstrated the mighty strength of the Japanese people. Ilisao Ku- roda went on to condemn the Miyamoto revisionist clique for its traitorous manoeuvres against China, against revolu- tion and against the people. It was quite natural that the elements of ttris clique should have been cleared out by the peasants from their ranks in the recent struggles in Sanri- zuka, Sunagawa and north F\rji against U.S. military bases, he said- Kenzo Nakajima, Director General of the Japan-China Cultural Exchange Association, declared: "Chairrnan Mao's issued years statement four ago Holding the portrait of Chairman Mao antl o placard saying: *Long live ihe points out clearly to tJre Japa- great leader Chairrnau ltlao Tse-tung!" and ..Long live, long tive the inviEcible nese ,people the direction of thought of Mao Tse-tung'!" Japanese peoBle demonstrate in strong protest against sabotaging of Japanese-Chinese friendship gy the U.S.-Japanese reac- their struggle; it has im- tionaries and the Miyamoto revisionist cLique ira the Communist party of Japan, February 2,1968 ,, Japanese reaction turning our country into a base for Matsumura exposed the deceptive nature of the the rvar of aggression against Vietnam and a base for so-called "united front," often touted by the Miyamoto nuclear war.'t revisionist clique. He said that this so-called "united front" was designed to alienate the people from rev- Teigi Hagihara, Managing Director of the Japan olution. International Trade Promotion Association, said, "The correctness of the conclusion that 'U.S. imperialism is Matsumura strongly condemned the Miyamoto re- the most ferocious enemy of the Japanese nation' con- visionist clique for collaborating with the Soviet modern tained in Chairman Mao's statement has been fuily revisionist clique, the biggest accomplice of U.S. im- borne out by the practice of our struggle." Hagihara perialism, in forming an anti-Chinese and counter- pointed out that U.S. imperialism would intensify its revolutionary "united front." government, the collusion with the reactionary Sato He stressed that if we did not thoroughly expose group Soviet revisionists and the Japanese revisionist the ugly features of the Miyamoto revisionist clique foi further opposition to China. We must strengthen which had degenerated into a running dog of the friendship and broaden the unity of the Japan-China American and Japanese reactionaries, it would not be and trade circles and resolutely smash the attack by possible to form a truly revolutionary united front or the enemy. to achieve the genuine liberation of the Japanese people. Yuichi Kobayashi, Chairman of the Japan League Chiyo Nakajima, Chairman of the Tokyo Commit- made of Journalists, said: "The statement by Chair- tee of the Japan Women's League, said: "The great rnan Mao, great leader people the world, the of the of leader Chairman Mao said four years ago in his Stote- on January 27 four years ago, supporting the Japanese ment Supporting the Japanese Peoytle's Just, Patriotic people's just, patriotic struggle against U.S. imperialism Struggle Against U.S. Imperialism: 'The Japanese embodies the great leader's boundless faith in the nation is a great nation. It will certainly not allow U.S. people genuine Japanese who are striving for inde- imperialism to ride roughshod over it for long.' This pendence, peace. democracy and Practice in struggie is the greatest inspiration and encouragement to the years has cor- in the last four fully testified to the Japanese people." rectoess of Chairman Mao's scientific thesis." She paid warm tribute to the large-scale patriotic past year," Kobayashi continued, 'In the "the struggle against U.S. imperialism mounted by the Japanese revolutionary people have brought about a Japanese people recently. She said: "The U.S. and situation just, patriotic struggle against new in their Japanese reactionaries are most afraid of the Japanese U.S. imperialism by creatively studying and applying people's patriotic, anti-U.S. struggle. The Miyamoto Mao's Miya- Chairman works and rebelling against the revisionist clique, like the Japanese and U.S. reac- moto revisionist clique." tionaries, slanders and vilifies the brave students and "On the occasion of the 4th anniversary of Chair- other young people and has thus revealed itself as a man Mao's statement," he said, "we should do still better gang of counter-revolutionaries and renegades." grasping sentence in studying and every of Chairman Chiyo Nakajima said that no matter how frenzied effectively our struggle." Mao's and apply it in the fascist suppression by the U.S.-Japanese reaction- Noted philqSpphgr Kazgto Matsumura.stressed that aries and the sabotage by the Miyamoto revisionist Chairman Mao had pointed out in his statement the clique might be, the Japanese people's just, patriotic constant broadening of the patriotic anti-U.S. united struggle against U.S. imperialism would, under the front of the Japanese people and this was of immense guidance of Mao Tse-tung's thought, surely grow and importance. win final victory.

Che irrnon Mso's Ststement Points Out the Wsy to Victory for J e ponese People

ITOIIR years ago on January 2?, Chairman Mao, the patriotic united front of all strata of the Japanese r red sun which shines most brightly in our hearts people against U.S. imperialist aggression, oppression and the most respected and beloved great teacher of and control. This is the surest guarantee of victory the world's people, made a statement on the Japanese in their patriotic struggle against U.S. imperialism." people's patrioiic and just struggle against U.S. imperial- Chairman Mao's statement has given the greatest ism. He said: "The Japanese nation is a great nation. inspiration and boundless encouragement to the It rvill certainly not allow U.S. irnperialisrn to ride Japanese people u,ho are fighting at the forefront in roughshod over it for long." He added: "The last the East against U.S. imperialism. On the fourth few years have seen the constant broadening of the annirrersary of the publication of this statement,

24 Peking Reuieto, No. 5 the revolutionary people of Japan joyfully and enthusi- imperialism shows once again its sham oppt-,sitiou to asticaily hail: The most respected and beioved great U.S. in,peria-iism but real betra;,al of the Japanese peo- Ieader of the world's people Chairman Mao has pointed ple, it;r role as loyal follo.wers of U.S. imperialism a.nd out to the Japanese people the path to victory Soviet revisionism, its v,.alloning ii-r the mire w'ith the i.n their patriotic anti-U.S. struggle. They say that reactionary Sato government and its stubbol'n persis- "like sunshine that nourishes the growth of ail living tence in its anti-communist, anti-people. counter- things and like the beacon illuminating the road to revolutionary and anti-China 1ine. It also refiects lhe Iiber-ation, the statement of Chairman IVIao, the great cliqr.re's great uneasiness orrer the ,Ca,ii;r expansion of teacher of the u.orld revolution, has given the Japanese the Ja1:anese pecple"s patriotic anti-U.S. united front. pecple infinite courage, wisdom, confidence and sti-errgth in their struggle against the enemy." With Under the gurdance of the ali-illun,inating thought iniinite respect for Chairman Mao, they say: "The cf Mao Tse-tung, the Japanese pecple havc become development of the situ-ation in Ja.pan and in the world increasingly awakened. In their practical struggle they and the actual struggle of the Japanese people show have orga-nica.lly iinked the extension and deveiopment that the statement made four years ago by Chairman cf the patriotic anti-U.S. united flont inside the country I\{ao. the great leader of the rvorld revolution, in sup- r,r:ith ttre extension and development of the interna- port o{ the Japanese people's patriotic anti-U.S. struggle ticnal anti-U.S. united front. corresponds exactly to the reality of the Japanese peo- In his Statement Supporting the Japanese People's ple's struggle and is an. inviolable truth." Jrtst, Fatriotic Stru.ggle Against U.S. Imperialism, During the past four )ears, the tevolutionaiy Chairman Mao has pointed out: "The Chinese and pecple of Japan have ah,vays regarded Chairrnan Mao's Japanese peoples should unite, the people of various statement as a banner of truth ieacling them from vic- Asian eountries should unite, all oppressed people and tory to victory. More and more people ratlying round nations of the world should unite, all peace-Ioving the brilliant great banner, of Mao Tse-tung's thought countries should unite, all countries and individuals have waged the anti-U.S. struggle in ever increasing subjected to U.S. imperialist aggression, control, inter- intensity. Particuiarly after the Miyamoto revisionist vention and bullying should unite and form a broad its clique had openly discarded the anti-U.S. banner and united front against U.S. imperialism to frustrate publicly slid down into the quagmire of capitulating plans for aggression and war and to defend world to U.S. imperialisrn, allying rvith Soviet modern revi- peace." During the past four years, the Japanese peo- p1e Mao sionism, opposing China. opposing revolution and op- have been taking this teaching of Chairman posing the people, a broad patriotic anti-U.S. united as their guide to action. front, with the revolutionary Left as its core. speedily In their heroic anti-U.S. struggles suctr as those came into being and has quickly expanded, A vivid against U.S. military bases, against the entry of U.S. example of this is the recent porverful struggle against nuclear-pou,ered submarines into Japanese ports and the entry into Sasebo of the U.S. nuclear-powered air- against U.S. imperialist revival of Japanese militar- craft carrier Enterpnse. It was waged by the people in ism, the Japanese people invariably put forth over 30 administrative regions at municipal, provincial clear-cut slogans against the U.S. extension of its ag- and prefectural Levels. gressive war in Vietnam, against the United States China and Wolkers, peasants, students, intellectuals, urban directing its spearhead of aggression at against U.S. Asia. In the recent struggle petty bourgeoisie, religious people and small and invasion of aircraft car- medium-level industrialists in places frorn Hokkaido to against the call of the U.S. nuclear-porvered Enterprise Sasebo, they sirouted: "Oppose the Kyushu, from big cities an'd the coastal areas to tnountain rier at in viliages, rvho suffer consistently from U.S. imperialist U.S. imperialist's' extension of their aggressive war rn,ith the Vietnamese people to oppression, have taken part in this massive anti-U.S. Vietnaml" and "Unite joint They cond-emned the struggle. As soon as the struggle began, the revolu- wage a struggle!" sternly government crime of help- tionary Left organizatiotrs and the Japan-China Friend- traitcrous Sato for its fresh widen the war of aggres- ship Association (Clthodox). holding aloft the great rcd ing the U.S. imperialists to banner of Mao Tse-tung's thought, conducted all-round sion in Vietnam. organizational work in all parts of the eountry. Other Under the inspiration of the invincible thought of progressive organizations and people and patriotic Mao Tse-tung, the Japanese people are not afraid of stu,Cents also took part valiantly in the struggle. From violent suppression in their anti-U.S. struggje. They their pr:actice in this rvidespread struggle, the people have advauced wave upon u/ave. They have perfolmed have realized more deeply that "U.S. imperialism is the countless heroic exploits in this struggle. Chairman most ferocious enemy of the Japanese nation." The Mao said in his statement that "the Japanese people torvering crimes committed by the traitorous Sato will be able to drive the U.S. imperialists from government, lackey of U.S. imperialism, in ruthlessiy their soil and realize their aspirations for independ- suppressing the patriotie people r,vith large numbers of ence, dernocracy, peace and neutrality." The truth of police have evoked strong public indignation. The this brilliant prediction by our great leader Chairman Miyamoto clique's new, vicious attack on the broad Mao wilt certainly be proyed by further developments masses of patriotic youth and students who oppose U,S. in the Japanese people's revolutionary struggle.

February 2, 1968 ,q, Victory Surely BeEomgs to the Peoples of lndo-Chino

by "RENMIN RIBAO" COIVIMENTATOE

r[]HE East Wind blorvs strong. Netvs of victories keeps defying brute force. On January 18, Cambodian troops f pouring in. Inspired by the excellent revolutionary heroically repulsed the raid made by U.S. and south situation prevailing in the rvorld, the peoples of Indo- Vietnainese puppet troops on the Peam lVlontea post in China have brought their anti-imperialist struggles to Prey Veng Province. The struggle of the Royal Govern- a new and heartening phase. ment of Cambodia and the Cambodian people to reso- lutely uphold their independence, neutrality, territorial The heroic Vietnamese people, holding high the integrity and smashed the great banner of resisting U.S. aggression and saving sovereignty has forcefully aggres-sive scheme U.S. imperi.alism the the country. have become strdnger and stronger as they of and won admiration the Chinese peopie and the peoptres of fight in the war against aggression. The people. and of Asia and the world. armed forces of south Vietnam scored a resounding vic- tory last year b1n wiping out nearly 365,000 enerny The counter-revolutionary global strategy of U.S. troops, ineluding more than 170,000 U.S. and satellite imperialism aims to turn the whole peninsula of Indo- troops. With the start of 1968, they have responded China into a base for its aggression and its eolony. The resolutely to the fighting caII of President Ho Chi Minh peoples of the three Indo-Chinese countries are facing and the South Vietnarn Natlonal Front for Iiberation the same and most ferocious enemy, U.S. imperialism, and, giving frill play to the spirit of fearing no fatigue and share the same destiny. The Vietnamese, Laotian and continuous fighting, have been pounding away and Cambodian peoples are supporting one another in fiercely and successfulty at the enem;r. In a recent their just cause of fighting against U.S. imperialist attaek on the U-S. air base at Da Nang, the South aggression and defending their national independence. Viet- . nam Liberation Army destroyed or darnaged 67 U.$ Our great leader Chairman NIao said: "fn order to aircraft at one blou,. In the vicinity of the demiiitarized safeguard national independence and state sovereignty, zone and on other battlefields, it has latrnched sucees- it is imperative to wage a tit-for-tat struggle against sive offenslves and scored a series of major victories. In U.S. imperialism which is aggressive by its very nature." north Vietnam, the people and armed forces have shot The practice the prolonged down wel.l over 2,700 U.S. pirate planes, thus dealing a of anti-imperialist strug- crushing blow at U.S. imperiaiism's policy of war black- g1e of the peoples of Indo-China shows that the only 'mail. way The victories of ihe Vietnamese people have for them to win and safeguard national indepen- greatly encouraged the revolutionary peopie the world denee and to deal with U.S, imperialism r,vhich is riding 'over give and deflated tlr.e arrogance of U.S. imperialisrn" roughshod ever;iwhere is to it tit-for-tat: defy its The U.S. aggressors are in dire straits. bu1lying, reject its threats, disbelieve its fine words a4d l resolutely resist its aggression. All countries in tIrc Led by the Neo Lao Haksat, the Laotian patriotic world, big or small, can frustrate the aggressive plots army and people have continuous\r won brilliant vic- of U.S. imperialism and achieve victory in winning and tories in conrageous and arduous fig.hting- On top of upholding national independenee, so long as they have the great successes scored last year, they have exten- the courage to chalienge brute f,orce and to dare to sively developed peoplds guerrilla warfare and mounted struggle, and so long as they rely on the broad masses .offensives against the enemy, thus greeting the new of the people. year with greater exploits. Recently they launched a At present, U.S. imperialism, rvith the backing of fierce offensive against the Rightist troops, wiped out the Soviet revisionist clique, is r,tgorously planning to more than 700 of them and liberated the important expand its war of aggression in Indo-China. In a bid to strategic area of Nam Bap. This represents the first step avert defeat in its war of aggression against Vietnam, in foiling the plan of U.S. imperialism and its lackeys it is not only sending more reinforcements to south for a dry-season military adventure. The resound,- Vietnam and intensifying the bornbing of north Viet- ing victory at Nam Bap has demonstrated the matchless nam, but is also actively .plotting to spread the war might of people's war and once again punctured the flames Tire U.S. U.S. imperidlist papep tiger. to the '*hole of Indo-China. ruling clique has time and agaln clamoured that it will follow The Cambodian people have heroically persevered a policy of "hot pursuit" into Laos and Cambodia. It in their just struggle against U.S. imperialist aggression- instructeri its running dogs in Thailaird and south Viet- In the face of the war threats of U.S. imperialisrn, the nam to incessantly encroach aiong the Camboilian Royal Governrnent of Cambodia has taken the solemn border. U.S. pirate ptranes have been bombing the stand of resolutely defending national independence liberated areas in Laos day and night. The United anC state sovereignty and has dispiayed the spirit of States have even secretly built an "electronic warning

Z6 Peking Reui.ew, No. 5 SPIETDID BATILE ,IGHIESEI$ETT$ OF TE{E $EEBYM U!fffr&ffiE$E PEOPTT rm Tflfln A[m,pBcEs rr t9o7

3,2W Nearly Over 365,000 FF.200 I965 I966 r 90? t905 1966 I 967 r906 l96I

:.ar " Enemies Put Out of Militory Vehiclei Enemy Aircroft Slrot Wor Yessels : Action Destroyed Down or Destroyed Sunk ' \ As reported by the South Vietnam Giai Phong Press Agency, the Headquarters of the South Vietnam Peop1e's Liberation Arrned Forces recently issued a communique on the military achievements for 1967. fhe figures in the above chart, which are taken from the communiqug are 6ased on incomplete statistics and do not include those for December 1967. system" as a "barrier" across Laos to "cut" u'hat it devotedly following U.S. imperialism, they will come to calls "infiltration" into south Vietnam. All this has ao good end but will be buried together with it. the been done in a futile attempt to tura the tide of The peoples of Indo-China have established a firm south Vietnam battlefield. defeats it is suffering on the and militant friendship in their common struggle against It must be pointed out that the Laotian Rightists, at U.S. imperialist aggression. In the faca oI U.S. imperial- the instigation of U.S. imperialism, have not only re- lsm's new schemes to expand the war, they will become cently engineered large-scale attacks against the Lao- more closely united, tight shoulder to shoulder and tian liberated areas along the Sino-Laotian and the support each other to defeat the U.S. aggressor bandits 'Vietnamese-Laotian borders, but have gone so Jar as to tJroroughly and completely. send planes to bomb the border areas of China. This Victory undoubtediy belongs to the peoples of Laotian Rightists are simply a bunch of shows that the Indo-China! faithful running dogs of U.S. imperialism and traitors selling out the interests of the Laotian nation. By (Januarg 25) Agonizing Difficulties of U.S. lnnperiqlism ct Home ond Abrosd-lts Gwm TestitrR?ony by "EENMIN RIBAO" COh5MENTATSR, Lyndon Johnson, chieftain of U.S. imperialism, The rnessage was delivered to Congress at a mo- has just delivered his annual State of the Union ment rr,hen U.S. imperialism w'as caught in its worst Message. Subdued in tone and listless in spirii, the predicament to date. The international situation today The message dwel1s on the abstract to avoid real issues but is going against U.S. imperialisrn more and more. reveals as much as it tries to conceal. Johnson2s vain tremendous victories of China's great proletarian cul* endeavour to gloss over matters only accentuates the tural revolution and the worldwide dissemination of problerns and impotence of U.S. imperialism at home the all-conquering thought of Mao Tse-tung have pecple the ancl abr.oad as it is trrought face to face with the rev- greatly inspired ttLe oppressed nations and to olutionary storms 1et Loose by the world's people. worlcl over and have given a powerful impetus 27 ?ebruary 2, 19)!a8 their revolutionary struggles. The Vietnamese Deople serious political and economic crisis in the United States have r..-on brilliant victories in their war against U.S. and have to slide further dor.r,nhill. aggression and for naiional salr'ation, giving U.S. im- Of course, no reactionary force is ever reconciled per-ialisl: a thorotigh trou.ncing. The fia,mes of rev- to its defeat. Johnson's message indicated that Lt.S. oluiionar';.- armed struggie are raging wiih greater and imperialism is determined to put up a last, futile, des- gi:eaiei' intensity in Asia, Africa and La-tin America' perate struggle to save itself from doom. ?ne prtrieiariat and other workine people in liorth great Mao has pointed out: A:-e:ica. Vv-estern Europe and- Oceania ar:e becoming Our leader Chairrnan oI politicaliy av,ra.re. The revoiutionar-v- situa- "The enerny often makes an appraisal of the balance el-er more just tion throughor:t the world is getting better every forces in the class struggle at home ard abroad ancl decadent da1-. rvhiie impei'ia1ism, the Soviet revisionist cliqt-te as rr,e do, But our enemies are backrvard the la'*s and the reactionaries of all couttttries are reaching the reactionalies who are doomed. Ignorant of end of thcir tether. Contradictions among the im- of the objeetive lvorld and metaphysical aad subjeciive rvrong their perialist pcvv'ers are sharpening. T1-re v;hcle capitaiist in their thinking, they are invariably in judgemcnts." s.orlrl is in a state of extraordinan. upheaval and con- fusion. It w-as this state of affairs that impellei John- After reviewing the situation to find his bearings. son to declare rvith alarm in the State of the Union Johnson conclu,ded in his message tha.t the internai and Message: "Our country is challenged, at home and external ciifficulties facing the United States arise from atlro:rd.'' the fact that the "great ship" (i.e., U.S. imperialism) is "moving through new waters" that are "stirred arrd circles do not dare look this But the U.S. ruiing troubled." This is sheer nonsense to fool oihers as Johnson mention- "challenge" in the face. avoided well as himself. As a matter of fact, the rickety boat ing in the message the unfavourable factors for U.S. of U.S. imperialism is being violently tossed about by imperialism in the international situation, and in a the stormy waves of the people's revolution in tire hide setbacks and huncired and one '"vays tried to its world. The only thing Johnson can do to avoid a ship- he was obliged to touch on the Yiet- difficulties. Since wreck is to intensify his counter-revolutionary ciuai nam question, major headache. he brazenly glossed his tactics. On the one hand, he called for the maintenance known defeats U.S. imperialism over the universally of sufficient military strength to carry out aggressio:'r has suffered in its war of aggression against Vietnarn and an increase in miiitary spending and put forrvai:d and drew a veil over the predicament in rvhich U.S. a record-high budgetary outlay of 185,000 million do1- imper:ialism has found itself afler v,,allovring in the lars. On the other hand, he proposed a more aetive quagmire of defeat. He avoided ai1 mention of the nse of such organiza,ticns as the "International Devei- sui'ging revolutionary struggles of the people in Asia, opment Association," the "Asian Develoirment Ba.nl<" Africa and Latin America and had to leave off his and the "Food for Freedom Program," to "support usr-ral bragging about divertir-ig the "trend for change" peaceful change." .{s regards the Vietnam question, c.n in these regions. The message contained not a single the one hand he clamoured that "America will per- word about the so-called "unity" of the NATO bloc severe." On the other, he made it clear that he rvoul.d and the "prosperity" of the "Free World" rrhich John- stick to his "peace talks" frau

28 Peking Reuieu, No, 5 must oppose a major "enemy," that is, the Chinese peo- ciique is the No. 1 accomplice of U.S. imperialism and ple who are holding aloft the great red banner of Mao a brazen traitor to the revolutionary people of the Tse-tung's thought and wholeheartedly aiding and sup- whole wor]d. porting the oppressed nations and people of the world The laws of social development are independent of in thelr revolutionary struggles against imperiaiism. In man's will. The counter-revolutionary two-faced tactics the State of the Union Message, Johnson gave wide of U.S. imperialism and the treachery of the Soviet publicity to his Glassboro with Kosygin and the talks revisionist clique could not save U.S. imperialism's many steps" intensify U.S.-Soviet coI- "important to policy of aggression and war from defeat in the past; lusion. He took special delight in recounting how he neither can these tactics and treachery prevent this collaborated with the Soviet revisionist clique to sabo- No. 1 imperialism going to pot in the future. 1968 Arab people tage the anti-imperialist struggle of the will be a very difficult year for U.S. imperialism. through hot line between Washington and Mos- "the Johnson's State of the Union Message is his ou,n corv" which used for first time in history'r "was the mournful testimony of this. Events will show that all during the Middie East events last year. At the same the desperate efforts of U.S. imperialism to eounter time, he launched rabid attack on socialist China a the intensified struggle of the revolutionary people of and viciously slandered its great proletarian cultural the rvorld against it, far from having any chance of revolution. This lays bare the vile schemes of U.S. success, will only accelerate its complete collapse and imperialism to step up its collaboration with the Soviet doom, revisionist clique to oppose China, communism and the people. This is further proof that the Soviet revisionist (January 23)

Moo Tse-tung's Thought Widespread in Lotin America

Soviet Revisionists' Treochery Cannot Hold Bock Surging Tide of Revolution

DECAUSE the revolutionary stmggle of the people of people in seizing political power by force of arms un'der LD a"1in America is developing in depth, the Soviet Chairman Mao's Ieadership is of general and practical revisionist ruling clique, the No. 1 accomplice of U.S. significance for Latin America, and is the only correct imperialism, over the last ferv years has been stepping road of revolution for the Latin American people; that up its political and economic infiltration of this area, is, to arouse the peasant masses in tJre countryside the so-called "backyard" of the United States. Working under the leadership of the priiitical party of the pro- in close collaboration with U.S. imperialism the No. 1 letariat to wage guerrilla warfare, unfold an agrarian enemy of the Latin American people and- with the revolution, build rural base areas, use the countryside local reactionary ruling circles and revisionist- groups, to encircle the cities and finally capture them. This it has been trying in vain to prevent the int'ensive dis- nelv development in Latin America is exerting a far- semination of Mao Tse-tung's thought and undermine reaching influence on the revolutionary struggles the revolutionary struggle of the Latin Ameriean people. there. As a result of the increasingly widespread and deep- Scared to death by the new situation, the Soviet going dissemination of the ever-victorious thought of revisionist renegade clique has redoubled its efforts Mao Tse-tung, more and more Latin American revolu- to peddle its revisionist contraband to offset the dis- tionaries in recent years have been studying and apply- semination of Mao Tse-tung's thought. It has been ing Mao Tse-tung's thought in earnest and using it as adverti-sing fallacies like "peaceful transition'r and the guide to the revolutionary struggle of their own the "parliamentary road" everywhere. In the name of people. Marxist-Leninist political Farties and other organizing "most extensive national anti-imperialist revolutionary organizations have been formed in more fronts," it has directed the revisionist groups in Latin than ten Latin American countries. Arming themselves America, which have long b,een afflicted with parlia- with Mao Tse-tung's thought, they are summing up the mentary cretinism, to work energetically for "class experience and lessons of the p,eople's armed struggles reconciliation" and unfold "legal struggles" so as to in a number of Latin American eountries. They have underrnine and b,etray the people's revolutionary strug- come to realize that the road taken by the Chinese gles, particulariy their armed revolutionary struggles.

Februarg 2,1968 29 r t

a , Among the revisici:ist groups which dance tune 100 to the miilion U.S. dollars to the Brazilian regime. In I of the Soviet revisionists, some ha'u'e zealously joined Januai'y L967, r,vhen a big Brazilian deiegation headed ! in the "election'' cr.rnraigns of the ri-iiing gi'olips rrzith by i'"finister of Industr:y and Commerce Egiciio I'iiariins , reforiaist programilies lab'eil,ed "social r'tforins," r,vhile visiti:cl }dcscow, another agreem,ent r,va.s signed on the otheis, shutting tlieir eyes to the rnthless suppr=ssion coniltluction of a petro-chemical plant in Br;rzii tith of ihe anti-gcveri:'.aent g'-rei'ri11as by doiresi;lc reac- Scviet iechnical aid and equipment. tionary ri,..Ling' circies, have openly taken their stancl for the "palliamentary rc::cl" and have ta.ken pei:'u in FuLior,..iirg th-- rise to po'uver of Ongai-ria's pro-U.S. 'the rulers' "election" farce,5. dit'i:,,tci::al. l"egirne in Argeniina, the Soviet re''-l:ionists tock tire iuitra-Live in trying to curry favour r,,'itir and Ttre Soviet revisionist 1ea

30 Peking Reuiew, No. 5 (Continued from p. 21) dented scaie. As it becomes integrated rvith the rev- olutionary practice and their like, and unified the worid proletarian rev- of the world's peoples and is mas- tered by hundreds of miilions revolutionary people, olutionaries on the basis of Leninism. of it vrill generate immense revolutionary strength. Irresis- Today the world is at a great turning point. At the tibly, in the course of great struggles, a miliiant unity crucial moment of decisive battle between the interna- of the international communist movement is coming tional proletariat and the bourgeoisie, modern revision- into being with Mao Tse-tung's thought as its 'great ism represented by the Soviet revisionist leading clique banner. shamelessly betrayed Marxism-Leninism and created the most serious split in the international communist The great call "Workers of all countries, unite!" is movement. An historic task, unprecedented in its reverberating ever louder through the skies of the magnitude, has been placed on the shoulders of all the world in its 20th century. History will realize the great revolutionary people of the world, the task of thorough- leader Chairman Mao's scientific prediction: "Let the ly smashing modern revisionism and establishing a new Marxist-Leninists of all countries unite, let the revolu- unity and solidarity in the international communist tionary people of the whole world unite and overthrow movement. imperlalism, modern revisionism and the reactionaries In our times, the invincible thought of Mao Tse-tung of every country! A new worlil without imperialism, is Marxism-Leninism at its highest; it is the great without capitalism and without any system of exploita- banner of our era. Proletarian revolutionaries through- tion is certain to be built." out the world must be united on the basis of Mao Tse-tung's thought. Only so can they be really unified and get united to shoulder the great historic task that (Abridged translation of an article written bg confronts them. proletari,an reoolutionaries of the Otfice of the Today, the movement to study Mao Tse-tung's Armoured Forces and publi,shed, in "Renmin thought is unfolding all over the world on an unpreee- Ri,bao," Januarg 77)

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IHE WEEK On Perilous Peoks Dwells Beouty in Her lnfinite Voriety 14 Choirmon Moo ond Viee-Choirmon Lin Pioo Receive P.L.A lmptementing Choirmon Moo's Lotest lnstructions Activists in the Study Meons Victory 17 of Choirmqn Moo's Works The Greot Thought of Moo Tse-tung ls the Foundo' tion for Unity in the Proletorion Porty 19 ARTICI"ES AND DOCUMENTS llYhole World 22 Chinese Government Stctement Condemns U.S. Moo Tse-turg's Thought lights the lmperiolism's Crime oI Aggression-Firmly Sup. Choirmon Moo's Stotement Points Out the Woy to porting the Just Stond of the Koreon Government Victory for Joponese People 24 ond People in Counte:'ing U.S. lmperiolism's Flogront Provocotion Victory Surely Belongs to the Peoples of lndo-Chino Hibao Commentotor 26 Earnestly lmplement the Principle of "Supporting -Renmin the Left, but Not Any Porticulor Foctionrr - Agonizing Difficulties of U.S. lmperiolism ot Home Jiefangjun Boo editoriol ond Abrood lts Own Testimony Renmin Using the Greot Thought of Moo Tse-tung to Help Ribao Commentotor- - 27 the Brood N'lqsses of the Left 10 Moo Tse-tung's Thought Widespreod in - Lotin Konsu ond Honcn Provincicrl Reyolutionory Commit. Americs: Soviet Revisionists' Trescher"y Connot tees Formed 11 Hold Bock Surging Tide of Revolution 29

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