August THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY AND THE PLA Hsiao Hua FRIENDSHIP WITH CHINA Dr. Hewlett Johnson h NEW PEKING Jack Chen Supplement: Doatments on the Cease-Fire Negotrations in Korea ' vol. Iv Peoples China 41 Yang Shih Ta Chieh, Peking, China This journal appears on the lst and 16th of each month. Entered as first-class printed matter at the General Post Office of China. Editor: Chiao Kuan'hua Vol. 4, No. 3 CONTENTS August 1, 1951 EDIT'ORIALS The PlA-Defender of World Peace. 3 Old Poison in a New Bottle. 3 ARTICLES The Chinese Communist Party and the PLA. .Hsiao Hua 4 Friendship with China. .....Dr. Heuslett Johnson I The Just Struggle of the Iranian People. .Saifudin 11 Thirty Years of the Communist Party of China-IL... .Hu Chiao-mu 12 PrcTORIALS Chairman Mao Lectures at Yenan. .Oil Painting by Lo Kung-liu L7 The PLA Today. 18 Peking, Heart of the Nation. .:.... 20 Chinese People's Volunteers Capture a Key ' Mountain Pass in Korea. .....Woodcut by Yen Han 36 FEATURDS New Peking .Jack Chen 2l A Regiment of Heroes. .... .Pui Shilt' 24 How the Tillers Win Back Their Land-VII The First Taste of I{appiness . Hsiao Ch'ien 25 CULTURAL TRONT The PLA's Cultural Troupes ....... 30 CT/RRENT CHINA July 11-25, 1951 31 Letters from Our Readers 32 SUPPLEMENT Documents on the Cease-Fire Negotiations in Korea El A t ffl {6 H l. 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Leninism. years, It was only after the Chinese people, led by During these 24 stormy the revolutionary the Communist Party, created their own armid forces have always maintained their unshakable confldence in This is because they forces that the revolution was assured of victory. the final victory. high politicaf consciousness and are closely Today, after the achievement of that victory, the have a united with the people. This is because they under- PLA, under Commander-in-Chief Chu Teh, close stood that the material advantage enjoyed by the comrade-in-arms of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, stands enemy, such as a profusion of arnaments, wag a guardian borders the People's as the of the of transient factor while the permanent and decisive as the guarantor of the people's independ- Republic, factor was the support of the arvakened masses of ence and democracy and the assurance that Taiwan, the people in a just cause. the last unliberated part of China, will be freed. The victory of the PLA is the living proof ot August 1 is a date of particular sigriflcance to this fundamental law of war. Further proof of thai the oppressed peoples of the colonlal and semi- has been af;orded by the defeat of the U.S. aggres- colonial countries, for it confirmed a vital revolu- sors and their lackeys in Korea at the hands of the tlonary truth. With brilliant foresight, in 1926 Korean People's Army aided by the Chinese people's Stalin pointed out that the characverlstic of the volunteers men inspired by the spirit of the self- Chinese revolution was that of an armed people less heroes- of the PLA, opposing an armed counter-revolution. On August Having suffered a century of ravages and des- L, 1927, the Chinese people recognised this trulE truction by the feudal-imperialist forces, the Chi- and acted on it with decisive effect. They created ness people naturally and profoundly hate war- and launched their young revolutionary anny il They have already given remarkable evidence ol the arduous struggle against the brutal counter- the success of their peaceful efforts. In contrast revolutionary forces. to the monopoly-eapitalist system of the imperialist The birth of this mighty revolutionary armed countries based on exploitation for whom t'ar is an force sounded the death knell of the reactionary inherent need. The essence of the People's Demo- regime. Though it started with only a,few ill- cracy is peace, for it is the expression of the will equipped ffghters, in a series of historic campaigns it of the people whose primary need is peace. defeated immensely superior enemy forces and The PLA is the army of the people, of the flnally routed the 8,000,000 U.S.-equipped KMT armv People's Democracy. The PLA is an army dedicated in the War of Liberation. to the cause of peace. Old Poison l,l0a a New Bottle The U.S. imperialists and their chief sateliite, the contribution to encompassing Japan's defeat. It Attlee government, have learnt nothing good from aims to legalise the U.S. seizure of the Chinese their disastrous reverses in Korea. isiland of Taiwan. \trhile the Kaisung talks for a cease-fire in It also constitutes a flagrant attack on the legi- I(orea are in progress, Washington and London have timate interests of the Soviet people in the Japanese simultaneously made known the text of their so- peace settlement. It violates the true interests of called "revised draft peace treaty" with Japan and all natiorx which fought against fascist Japan in announced that a "conference" will be held in San the Iast war. Francisco on September 4 for the signing of this It must be stressed again that such a Japane3e separate peace treatY. "peace settlement," violating the genuine interests , No one need ponder long over the "revised of the Japanese people and without the participation draft": it is the same old poison-in a new bottle. of the Chinese People's Republic and the U.S.S.R., AII the fatal ingredients are there. Like the original will be neither viable nor valid. draft, it aims to perpetuate Vfall Street's enslave- This U.S.-British draft peace treaty is dead ment of the Japanese people and streamline Japan before it is born. It is condemned by all peace- into a major base for further aggressions against loving peoples. Several "invited" governments have the Asian peoples. already decided to boycott its signing at San Fran- This separate peace treaty is a flagrant attack cisco, and the opposition to it is growing as realisa- on the sovereign rights ofz the Chinese people. It tion of its aggressive nature spreads. This U.S.- attempts to exclude from taking part in the Japanese British plot of using the so-called Japanese peace peace settlement that nation which was the first to treaty to further their aggressive plans in Asia will resist Japanese aggression and made the greatest undoubtedly be smashed. [, 4 PEOPLE'S CHINA The Communist Party of China and the Chinese People's Liberation Army , Hsiao Hua It is exactly 30 years now since the birth of the in the face of ruthless massacre by the KMT reae- great Communist Party of China. In these 30 years, tionaries who would "rather kill a thousand in error the Party and its leader of genius, Chairman Mao than have one (Communist-Editor) escape." In Tse-tung, have led the people throughout China spite of enemy oppression, the Communist Party of through four extremely difficult revolutionary wars China continued to hold high the great banner of i (the First Revolutionary Civil War from 1925 to revolution and continued to wage heroic struggles in 1927, the Second Revolutionary Civil War from 1927 the cause of the Chinese people's liberation. On to 1936, the War of Resistance to Japanese Aggres- August l, 1927, the Party led the Nanchang Uprising. sion from 1937 to 1945 and the Third Revolutionary On August 7, 1927, the Central Committee of the Civil War beginning from 1946), founding and build- Party called an emergency meeting, which firm1y ing up a powerful, unequalled People's Liberation corrected and put an end to Chen Tu-hsiu's line ol Army, overthrowing the dark rule of imperialism, capitulation, decided on an over-all policy of agrarian feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism in China, and revolution and erryed resistance against the KMT re- bringing into being the great and glorious New actionaries' policy of massacre, and called on the Party China. The history of the Party's 30 years' struggle and the masses to continue revolutionary struggle. is mainly the history of leading the Chinese.people The Party also led one after another Autumn Harvest and the PLA in revolutionary wars. Uprisings in various places, the Canton Uprising and the South Hunan Uprising. Under the leader- II ship of Chairman Mao Tse-tung and other comrades, In founding and building up the people's army. the revolutionary troops, the workers' pickets and and in leading the revolutionary wars, the Com- peasants' self-defence corps which took part in the munist Party o{ China has traversed a difflcult and uprisings joined forces and formed a real people's circuitous road.