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MESSAGE SALUTING CHAIRMAN MAO TSE-TUNG — From the Rally to Inaugurate and Celebrate the Peking

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Most respected and beloved great leader Chairman Mao: I n t h e m i d s t o f o u r g r e a t s t r u g g l e a g a i n s t a n d a l l - o u t c r i t i ­

c i s m a n d r e p u d i a t i o n o f t h e t o p P a r t y p e r s o n i n a u t h o r i t y t a k ­i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d , w e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s o f t h e c a p i t a l , w i t h g r e a t e l a t i o n , r e p o r t t o y o u , t h e r e d d e s t r e d s u n i n o u r h e a r t s , t h e e x c i t i n g n e w s t h a t t h e P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l R e v o l u t i o n a r y C o m m i t t e e h a s b e e n s e t u p . T h i s s e n d s s o a r i n g t o t h e s k i e s a n o t h e r p a e a n o f v i c t o r y f o r y o u r b r i l l i a n t t h o u g h t ! T h i s i s a n o t h e r g r e a t v i c t o r y f o r t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r y l i n e r e p r e s e n t e d b y y o u !

O n t h e o c c a s i o n o f t h i s a u s p i c i o u s f e s t i v a l o f p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s , w e c h e e r a n d s i n g , i n o n e v o i c e f r o m t h o u s a n d s o f h e a r t s : L o n g l i v e C h a i r m a n M a o ! A l o n g , l o n g l i f e t o C h a i r ­m a n M a o !

C h a i r m a n M a o ! W h e n w e t h i n k b a c k o v e r t h e i n s p i r i n g c o u r s e o f t h e C h i n e s e r e v o l u t i o n , w o r d s c a n n o t e x p r e s s o u r b o u n d l e s s l o y a l t y t o y o u , n o s o n g o r m u s i c i s g o o d e n o u g h t o s i n g y o u r p r a i s e , o c e a n s a r e n o t a s v a s t a s o u r i n f i n i t e r e s p e c t a n d l o v e f o r y o u .

I t i s y o u w h o i n t e g r a t e d M a r x i s m - L e n i n i s m w i t h t h e w o r k ­e r s ' m o v e m e n t , f o u n d e d t h e g r e a t C h i n e s e C o m m u n i s t P a r t y , a n d c r e a t i v e l y d e v e l o p e d M a r x i s m - L e n i n i s m .

I t i s y o u w h o l i t t h e s i n g l e s p a r k o n t h e C h i n g k a n g M o u n ­t a i n s , a n d o p e n e d t h e w a y f o r t h e v i c t o r y o f t h e C h i n e s e r e v ­o l u t i o n .

I t i s y o u w h o l e d t h e C h i n e s e W o r k e r s ' a n d P e a s a n t s ' R e d A r m y a c r o s s m o u n t a i n s a n d r i v e r s i n f u l f i l l i n g t h e w o r l d -f a m o u s 2 5 , 0 0 0 - l i L o n g M a r c h .

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I t i s y o u w h o , a t t h e T s u n y i M e e t i n g w h i c h w i l l g o d o w n f o r e v e r i n t h e a n n a l s o f h i s t o r y , e n d e d t h e d o m i n a t i o n o f t h e " L e f t " a n d R i g h t o p p o r t u n i s t l i n e s i n t h e P a r t y a n d l a i d t h e f o i m d a t i o n f o r t h e v i c t o r y o f t h e C h i n e s e r e v o l u t i o n .

I t i s y o u w h o , f r o m Y e n a n , t h e s a c r e d h e a r t l a n d o f t h e r e v o l u t i o n , p o i n t e d t h e w a y f o r w a r d i n t h e W a r o f R e s i s t a n c e A g a i n s t J a p a n .

I t i s y o u w h o c o m m a n d e d t h e m i g h t y f o r c e s o f t h e p e o p l e ' s a r m y t o m a r c h i n t o P e k i n g , b r i n g i n g a n e w s p r i n g t o t h a t a n c i e n t c a p i t a l .

I t i s y o u w h o h o i s t e d t h e f i r s t f i v e - s t a r r e d f l a g o n T i e n A n M e n S q u a r e a n d f o u n d e d o u r g r e a t P e o p l e ' s R e p u b l i c .

I n t h o s e l o n g y e a r s o f f i g h t i n g a n d o n t h o s e g r e a t r e v o l u ­t i o n a r y e x p e d i t i o n s , y o u g u i d e d u s i n o v e r c o m i n g d i f f i c u l t i e s o n e a f t e r a n o t h e r a n d s u c c e s s i v e l y p a s s i n g t h r o u g h f i e r c e s t o r m s , t o l e a d o u r c a l a m i t y - r i d d e n l a n d o u t o f d a r k n e s s i n t o l i g h t . O u r c o u n t r y r o s e l i k e a g i a n t i n t h e E a s t , b r i n g i n g t h e h o p e o f v i c t o r y t o t h e p e o p l e o f t h e w o r l d . I t r o s e a b o v e t h e h o r i z o n l i k e t h e r e d s u n , l i g h t i n g t h e r o a d t o l i b e r a t i o n f o r t h e p r o l e t a r i a t a n d t h e o p p r e s s e d n a t i o n s o f t h e w o r l d .

C h a i r m a n M a o ! I n o r d e r t o g u a r a n t e e t h a t o u r s o c i a l i s t c o u n ­t r y w i l l n e v e r c h a n g e c o l o u r , y o u p e r s o n a l l y i n i t i a t e d a n d l e d t h e u n p r e c e d e n t e d g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n a n d a r e l e a d i n g u s f o r w a r d i n a n e w L o n g M a r c h .

I t i s y o u w h o u n c o v e r e d t h e d a r k n e s s o f t h e o l d P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l C o m m i t t e e o f t h e C h i n e s e C o m m u n i s t P a r t y a n d t h e o l d P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l P e o p l e ' s C o u n c i l , a n d s m a s h e d t h e f o n d d r e a m o f r e s t o r i n g c a p i t a l i s m c h e r i s h e d b y t h e h a n d f u l o f c a r e e r i s t s h i d d e n t h e r e .

I t i s y o u w h o p e r s o n a l l y d e c i d e d t o b r o a d c a s t t h e c o n t e n t s o f t h e f i r s t M a r x i s t - L e n i n i s t b i g - c h a r a c t e r p o s t e r i n t h e c o u n ­t r y , t h u s k i n d l i n g t h e r a g i n g f l a m e s o f t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n .

I t i s y o u w h o p r e s i d e d o v e r t h e d r a w i n g u p o f t h e " D e c i s i o n o f t h e C e n t r a l C o m m i t t e e o f t h e C h i n e s e C o m m u n i s t P a r t y C o n c e r n i n g t h e G r e a t P r o l e t a r i a n C u l t u r a l R e v o l u t i o n " , w i t h

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t h e r e s u l t t h a t t h e b o u r g e o i s r e a c t i o n a r y l i n e w a s p r o c l a i m e d b a n k r u p t a n d t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n w a s s w i t c h e d o v e r t o c o r r e c t d i r e c t i o n .

I t i s y o u w h o , w i t h p e n e t r a t i n g i n s i g h t , d i s c o v e r e d a n d e n t h u s i a s t i c a l l y s u p p o r t e d t h e R e d G u a r d m o v e m e n t t h a t h a s s h a k e n t h e w o r l d . G u i d e d b y y o u r p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r y l i n e , t h e y o u n g R e d G u a r d s h a v e p e r f o r m e d i m m o r t a l f e a t s f o r t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n .

I t i s y o u w h o r e v i e w e d i n P e k i n g m o r e t h a n t e n m i l l i o n m e m b e r s o f t h e g r e a t c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n a r y a r m y f r o m a l l p a r t s o f t h e c o u n t r y , a g r e a t n e w c r e a t i o n i n t h e h i s t o r y o f t h e i n t e r n a t i o n a l c o m m u n i s t m o v e m e n t .

I t i s y o u w h o , i n P e k i n g , i s s u e d t h e o r d e r f o r t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s t o f o r g e t h e g r e a t a l l i a n c e a n d s e i z e p o w e r f r o m t h e h a n d f u l o f P a r t y p e o p l e i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d , a n d t h u s p u s h e d t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n f o r w a r d t o a c o m p l e t e l y n e w s t a g e .

I t i s y o u w h o h a v e r e s o l u t e l y s u p p o r t e d t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s i n l a i m c h i n g a g e n e r a l o f f e n s i v e a g a i n s t t h e t o p P a r t y p e r s o n i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d , t h u s s o u n d i n g t h e b u g l e c a l l f o r a n e w a n d m i g h t y c a m p a i g n i n t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n .

T h e s e m o v i n g s c e n e s , t h e s e s o u l - s t i r r i n g p i c t u r e s , p r e s e n t t h e m a g n i f i c e n t p r o s p e c t o f c o m p l e t e v i c t o r y f o r t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n , c o m p o s e a n o d e t o y o u r b r i l ­l i a n t t h o u g h t , r e c o r d t h e m o s t g a l l a n t c h a p t e r i n t h e h i s t o r y o f t h e i n t e r n a t i o n a l c o m m u n i s t m o v e m e n t a n d o p e n a n e w e r a i n t h e h i s t o r y o f m a n k i n d .

R e s p e c t e d a n d b e l o v e d C h a i r m a n M a o , y o u h a v e t a u g h t u s t h a t "before a b r a n d - n e w social s y s t e m c a n b e b u i l t on the site of the old, the site m u s t be s w e p t clean''.^ A h a n d f u l o f c o i m t e r - r e v o l u t i o n a r y r e v i s i o n i s t s i n t h e o l d P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l P a r t y C o m m i t t e e a n d t h e o l d P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l P e o p l e ' s

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C o u n c i l , s u p p o r t e d a n d s h i e l d e d b y t h e t o p P a r t y p e r s o n i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d , t u r n e d P e k i n g i n t o a " w a t e r t i g h t a n d i m p e n e t r a b l e " i n d e p e n d e n t k i n g d o m , i n a v a i n a t t e m p t t o c h a n g e P e k i n g i n t o a b a s e f o r r e s t o r i n g c a p i t a l i s m i n o u r c o u n t r y . F o r m o r e t h a n a d e c a d e , t h e y h a v e b e e n f r a n t i c a l l y e n g a g e d i n c r i m i n a l a c t i v i t i e s a g a i n s t t h e P a r t y , s o c i a l i s m a n d M a o T s e - t u n g ' s t h o u g h t . S e e i n g t h e i r m o n s t r o u s c r i m e s w i t h o u r o w n e y e s , h o w c o u l d w e n o t f e e l a n g r y ? H o w c o u l d w e n o t r e b e l ? H o w c o u l d w e n o t s e i z e p o w e r ? P l e d g i n g d e t e r m i n a t i o n t o d e f e n d y o u a n d t h e P a r t y C e n t r a l C o m m i t t e e a t t h e c o s t o f o u r l i v e s a n d e n t e r t a i n i n g d e e p - r o o t e d h a t r e d f o r t h e c l a s s e n e m y , w e l a u n c h e d a f i e r c e o n s l a u g h t a g a i n s t t h e c o u n t e r - r e v o l u t i o n a r y r e v i s i o n i s t c l i q u e i n t h e o l d P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l P a r t y C o m m i t t e e a n d t h e o l d P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l P e o p l e ' s C o u n c i l . W h e n w e h a d j u s t f i r e d t h e f i r s t s h o t t h e t o p P a r t y p e r s o n i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d i m m e d i a t e l y b r o u g h t o u t h i s b o u r g e o i s r e a c t i o n ­a r y l i n e , v a i n l y a t t e m p t i n g t o s t r a n g l e t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n r i g h t h e r e i n o u r g r e a t c a p i t a l . T o d e f e n d y o u r i l l u s t r i o u s t h o u g h t a n d y o u r p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r y l i n e , w e h a v e r e b e l l e d a g a i n s t t h e b o u r g e o i s r e a c t i o n a r y l i n e a n d e x p o s e d t h e K h r u s h c h o v o f C h i n a , a u t h o r o f t h i s r e a c ­t i o n a r y l i n e . G u i d e d b y y o u r p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r y l i n e , w e h a v e b r o k e n d o w n a l l r e s i s t a n c e , s w e p t a w a y a l l o b s t a c l e s a n d h a v e c a t e g o r i c a l l y p l e d g e d r e s o l u t e l y a n d t h o r o u g h l y t o s m a s h t h e c o u n t e r - r e v o l u t i o n a r y r e v i s i o n i s t l i n e o f t h e o l d P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l P a r t y C o m m i t t e e a n d t h e o l d P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l P e o p l e ' s C o u n c i l , a n d r e s o l u t e l y a n d t h o r o u g h l y t o c r i t i c i z e a n d r e p u d i a t e t h e t o p P a r t y p e r s o n i n a u t h o r i t y t a k ­i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d a n d t h r o w h i m i n t o t h e d u s t - b i n o f h i s t o r y ! W e a r e d e t e r m i n e d t o c o m b i n e t h e c r i t i c i s m a n d r e ­p u d i a t i o n o f t h e t o p P a r t y p e r s o n i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d w i t h t h e s t r u g g l e t o s m a s h c o m p l e t e l y t h e c o u n t e r - r e v o l u t i o n a r y r e v i s i o n i s t c l i q u e o f t h e o l d P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l P a r t y C o m m i t t e e a n d t h e o l d P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l P e o p l e ' s C o u n c i l . W e a r e a l s o d e t e r m i n e d t o i n t e g r a t e t h i s

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c r i t i c i s m a n d r e p u d i a t i o n w i t h t h e t a s k o f s t r u g g l i n g [ a g a i n s t a n d o v e r t h r o w i n g t h o s e P a r t y p e r s o n s i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d ] , c r i t i c i z i n g a n d r e p u d i a t i n g [ t h e r e a c t i o n a r y b o u r g e o i s a c a d e m i c " a u t h o r i t i e s " a n d t h e i d e o l o g y o f t h e b o u r ­g e o i s i e a n d a l l o t h e r e x p l o i t i n g c l a s s e s ] a n d t r a n s f o r m i n g [ e d u c a t i o n , l i t e r a t u r e a n d a r t a n d a l l o t h e r p a r t s o f t h e s u p e r ­s t r u c t u r e t h a t d o n o t c o r r e s p o n d t o t h e s o c i a l i s t e c o n o m i c b a s e ] i n o u r o w n d e p a r t m e n t s , s o a s t o c h o p o f f t h e s i n i s t e r t e n t a c l e s , w h i c h t h e t o p P a r t y p e r s o n i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d s t r e t c h e d i n t o e v e r y s p h e r e !

R e s p e c t e d a n d b e l o v e d C h a i r m a n M a o ! Y o u h a v e t a u g h t u s : "All reactionary forces on the verge of extinction invariably conduct a last desperate struggle against the revolutionary forces."^ T h e h a n d f u l o f P a r t y p e o p l e i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d h a v e n o t g i v e n i n a n d a r e m a k i n g a f u t i l e a t t e m p t t o r e v e r s e t h e v e r d i c t p a s s e d o n t h e m . T h e y a r e n o t r e s i g n e d t o t h e i r d e f e a t a n d a r e s e e k i n g r e t a l i a t i o n , t h u s s t i r r i n g u p a n a d v e r s e c u r r e n t a i m e d a t c a p i t a l i s t r e s t o r a t i o n . T h e i r c h i e f b o s s b e h i n d t h e s c e n e s i s t h e t o p P a r t y p e r s o n i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d . W e s h a l l k e e p i n m i n d y o u r t e a c h i n g s : "With power and to spare we must pursue the tottering foe and not ape Hsiang Yu the conqueror seeking idle fame."^ H o l d i n g h i g h t h e g r e a t r e d b a n n e r o f y o u r i l l u s ­t r i o u s t h o u g h t , w e s h a l l l a u n c h a g e n e r a l o f f e n s i v e a g a i n s t t h e t o p P a r t y p e r s o n i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d a n d p e n e t r a t i n g l y c r i t i c i z e , t h o r o u g h l y r e p u d i a t e a n d c o m ­p l e t e l y d i s c r e d i t t h e b o u r g e o i s r e a c t i o n a r y l i n e h e r e p r e s e n t s , t o g e t h e r w i t h h i s b o o k o n " s e l f - c u l t i v a t i o n " b y C o m m u n i s t s , a b i g p o i s o n o u s w e e d w h i c h h e h a s p a i n s t a k i n g l y p l a n t e d . W e s h a l l r e f u t e , o v e r t h r o w a n d c o m p l e t e l y d i s c r e d i t t h e h a n d f u l o f P a r t y p e o p l e i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d ; w e

'Mao Tse-tung, "The Turning Point in World War U " , Selected W o r k s , Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1965, Vol. I l l , p. 103.

2 From Mao Tse-tung's poem T h e C a p t u r e of N a n k i n g by t h e P e o p l e ' s L i b e r a t i o n A r m y .

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s h a l l c o m p l e t e l y s m a s h t h e a d v e r s e c u r r e n t a i m e d a t t h e r e s t o r a t i o n o f c a p i t a l i s m . W e s h a l l f i r m l y f u l f i l t h e g r e a t h i s t o r i c m i s s i o n w i t h w h i c h y o u h a v e e n t r u s t e d u s , n a m e l y ,

f i r s t , t o s t r u g g l e [ a g a i n s t a n d o v e r t h r o w t h o s e P a r t y p e r s o n s i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d ] , s e c o n d , t o c r i t i c i z e a n d r e p u d i a t e [ t h e r e a c t i o n a r y b o u r g e o i s a c a d e m i c " a u t h o r i t i e s " a n d t h e i d e o l o g y o f t h e b o u r g e o i s i e a n d a l l o t h e r e x p l o i t i n g c l a s s e s ] a n d t h i r d , t o t r a n s f o r m [ e d u c a t i o n , l i t e r a t u r e a n d a r t a n d a l l o t h e r p a r t s o f t h e s u p e r s t r u c t u r e t h a t d o n o t c o r ­r e s p o n d t o t h e s o c i a l i s t e c o n o m i c b a s e ] ; a n d w e s h a l l u n s w e r v ­i n g l y c a r r y t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n t h r o u g h t o t h e e n d !

R e s p e c t e d a n d b e l o v e d C h a i r m a n M a o ! " T a k e f i r m h o l d of the revolution and promote p r o d u c t i o n " i s a g r e a t p o l i c y a d v a n c e d b y y o u . W e s h a l l c e r t a i n l y c a r r y i t o u t t o t h e l e t t e r . W e s h a l l c e r t a i n l y p l a c e t h e r e v o l u t i o n i n t h e f i r s t p l a c e , p u t t h e r e v o l u t i o n i n c o m m a n d o f p r o d u c t i o n a n d e n e r g e t i c a l l y g r a s p t h e r e v o l u t i o n a n d v i g o r o u s l y p r o m o t e p r o d u c t i o n , t h u s s p a r k i n g o f f a n e w u p s u r g e i n b u i l d i n g s o c i a l i s m w i t h g r e a t e r , f a s t e r , b e t t e r a n d m o r e e c o n o m i c a l r e s u l t s , w i n n i n g s u r e v i c t o r y i n b o t h r e v o l u t i o n a n d p r o d u c t i o n !

R e s p e c t e d a n d b e l o v e d C h a i r m a n M a o ! W e s h a l l r e s o l u t e l y c a r r y o u t a n d d e f e n d t h e p o l i c y o f t h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y " t h r e e - i n -o n e " c o m b i n a t i o n y o u h a v e a d v a n c e d . I n t h e c o u r s e o f t h e s t r u g g l e t h o r o u g h l y t o c r i t i c i z e a n d r e p u d i a t e t h e t o p P a r t y p e r s o n i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d a s w e l l a s h i s b o u r g e o i s r e a c t i o n a r y l i n e o n t h e q u e s t i o n o f c a d r e s , t h a t o f " h i t t i n g h a r d a t m a n y i n o r d e r t o p r o t e c t a h a n d f u l " , w e s h a l l h a s t e n t h e f o r m a t i o n o f t h e g r e a t a l l i a n c e o f p r o l e t a r i a n r e v ­o l u t i o n a r i e s a n d r e a l i z e t h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y " t h r e e - i n - o n e " c o m ­b i n a t i o n . W e s h a l l r e s o l u t e l y s m a s h t h e p l o t o f t h e h a n d f u l o f P a r t y p e o p l e i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d , w h o , m a s q u e r a d i n g a s r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s , a r e m a k i n g v a i n a t t e m p t s t o w o r m t h e i r w a y i n t o t h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y " t h r e e - i n - o n e " p r o ­v i s i o n a l o r g a n s o f p o w e r a n d c a r r y o u t a c t i v i t i e s a i m e d a t c o u n t e r - r e v o l u t i o n a r y r e s t o r a t i o n . W e s h a l l n o t f a i l t o m a k e

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a good job of seizing power, holding power and exercising power.

At the crucial moment of the decisive battle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, you issued the militant call to the Chinese People's Liberation Army that it should actively support the broad masses of the Left. This manifests your deepest solicitude and utmost support for us. The People's Liberation Army is a proletarian revolutionary army built by you personally and led directly by Comrade Lin Piao. It is the main pillar of the dictatorship of the proletariat. We must determinedly smash the plot of the class enemy to direct the spearhead of its attack against the Chinese People's Libera­tion Army. We are resolved earnestly to learn from the Liberation Army, unite with it and fight alongside it, make great efforts to strengthen the dictatorship of the proletariat, resolutely suppress all the class enemy's disruptive and sabotaging activities and build the people's capital as firm as rock and as strong as steel.

Chairman Mao! You are our supreme commander and our most brilliant helmsman. We will always follow you in making revolution and in marching forward valiantly through great storms! We will rebel against whoever dares to oppose you, defame your illustrious thought and oppose your prole­tarian revolutionary line, we will overthrow him and never allow him to rise again!

Respected and beloved Chairman Mao, we vow to you: We will always study your writings, follow your teachings, act according to your instructions and be your good fighters. We will study as maxims the "three constantly read articles" ["Serve the People", "In Memory of Norman Bethune" and "The Foolish Old Man Who Removed the Mountains"] and "On Correcting Mistaken Ideas in the Party", "Combat Liberalism", and others of your brilliant writings, make rev­olution in the depths of our being by breaking with "self" and fostering devotion to the public interest and make ener­getic efforts to seize power from the "selfishness" in our

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minds. We will firmly adhere to your teachings and carry out rectification campaigns while we engage in struggle. We will energetically oppose anarchism and thoroughly overcome the mountain-stronghold mentality, the small group mentality, sectarianism, ultra-democracy and disregard of organizational discipline. We will strengthen the proletarian revolutionary spirit, scientific approach and sense of organization and dis­cipline, establish the proletarian revolutionary new order, consolidate the great alliance of the proletarian revolutionaries and build our ranks into an extremely proletarianized and extremely militant army.

Peking is the capital of our great motherland and is the hope and beacon of the world's revolutionary people. Under your wise leadership, we proletarian revolutionaries in the capital, full of confidence and high spirits, will assuredly build Peking into the reddest of proletarian revolutionary cities, always shining with the splendour of Mao Tse-tung's thought, and into the red socialist bulwark standing four-square against imperialism and revisionism of the world.

We most heartily wish a long, long life to you, the reddest red sun that shines most brightly in our hearts!

Bally to Inaugurate and Celebrate the Peking Municipal Revolution­ary Committee

April 20, 1967

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— At the R a l l y to Inaugurate a n d Celebrate the P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l R e v o l u t i o n a r y C o m m i t t e e ,

A p r i l 20, 1967

C o m r a d e w o r k e r s , p o o r a n d l o w e r - m i d d l e p e a s a n t s , r e v o l u ­t i o n a r y c o l l e g e a n d m i d d l e s c h o o l t e a c h e r s a n d s t u d e n t s i n P e k i n g , c o m r a d e r e v o l u t i o n a r y c a d r e s o f g o v e r n m e n t o r ­g a n i z a t i o n s , c o m r a d e c o m m a n d e r s a n d f i g h t e r s o f t h e P e o ­p l e ' s L i b e r a t i o n A r m y , y o u n g R e d G u a r d f i g h t e r s , c o m ­r a d e s , c o m r a d e s - i n - a r m s :

T h a n k s t o t h e s o l i c i t o u s c o n c e r n a n d g u i d a n c e o f o u r g r e a t l e a d e r C h a i r m a n M a o , t h e P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l R e v o l u t i o n a r y C o m m i t t e e , a f t e r t h r e e m o n t h s o f a c t i v e p r e p a r a t i o n , o f f i c i a l l y p r o c l a i m e d i t s f o u n d i n g t o d a y . T h e C e n t r a l C o m m i t t e e o f t h e C h i n e s e C o m m u n i s t P a r t y h a s a l r e a d y g i v e n i t s a p p r o v a l .

O n b e h a l f o f C h a i r m a n M a o a n d h i s c l o s e c o m r a d e - i n - a r m s C o m r a d e L i n P i a o , o n b e h a l f o f t h e P a r t y C e n t r a l C o m m i t t e e , t h e S t a t e C o u n c i l a n d t h e M i l i t a r y C o m m i s s i o n o f t h e P a r t y C e n t r a l C o m m i t t e e , I e x t e n d t o y o u o u r w a r m c o n g r a t u l a t i o n s a n d t h e m i l i t a n t g r e e t i n g s o f t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n !

P e k i n g i s w h e r e C h a i r m a n M a o l i v e s a n d w h e r e t h e P a r t y C e n t r a l C o m m i t t e e i s l o c a t e d ; i t i s t h e c e n t r e o f l e a d e r s h i p o f t h i s u n p r e c e d e n t e d , g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n .

S o o n a f t e r t h e p u b l i c a t i o n o f C o m r a d e Y a o W e n - y u a n ' s a r t i c l e " O n t h e N e w H i s t o r i c a l D r a m a Hai Jui Dismissed from

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Office".^ P e k i n g ' s p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s q u i c k l y xm-c o v e r e d t h e i n t r i g u e a n d p l o t o f t h e h a n d f u l o f c o u n t e r ­r e v o l u t i o n a r y r e v i s i o n i s t s i n t h e o l d P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l P a r t y C o m m i t t e e a n d c r i t i c i z e d a n d r e p u d i a t e d t h e m . T h i s t r i u m ­p h a n t l y r a i s e d t h e c u r t a i n o n t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n a l l o v e r t h e c o u n t r y .

S e v e n c o m r a d e s a t P e k i n g U n i v e r s i t y , i n c l u d i n g C o m r a d e N i e h Y u a n - t z u , w r o t e t h e n a t i o n ' s f i r s t M a r x i s t - L e n i n i s t b i g -c h a r a c t e r p o s t e r . C h a i r m a n M a o h i m s e l f d e c i d e d t o h a v e t h e c o n t e n t s o f t h i s p o s t e r b r o a d c a s t , a n d t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n f r o m t h i s t i m e o n d e v e l o p e d v i g o r o u s l y o n a n a t i o n a l s c a l e .

I n P e k i n g , a t t h e 1 1 t h P l e n a r y S e s s i o n o f t h e P a r t y C e n t r a l C o m m i t t e e o v e r w h i c h h e p r e s i d e d , C h a i r m a n M a o w r o t e a b i g - c h a r a c t e r p o s t e r b o m b a r d i n g t h e b o u r g e o i s h e a d q u a r t e r s . T h e 1 6 - p o i n t d e c i s i o n c o n c e r n i n g t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n w a s a d o p t e d a n d a c o m m u n i q u e o f t h e p l e n a r y s e s s i o n w a s i s s u e d . T h i s p r o c l a i m e d t h e d e f e a t o f t h e b o u r ­g e o i s r e a c t i o n a r y l i n e .

P e k i n g ' s m i d d l e s c h o o l s w e r e t h e b i r t h - p l a c e o f t h e g r e a t , w o r l d - s h a k i n g R e d G u a r d m o v e m e n t . W i t h C h a i r m a n M a o ' s w a r m s u p p o r t , t h i s m o v e m e n t s w e p t s w i f t l y o v e r t h e w h o l e c o u n t r y . E s p e c i a l l y a f t e r C h a i r m a n M a o r e c e i v e d t h e R e d G u a r d s l a s t A u g u s t 1 8 , t h e s e y o u n g f i g h t e r s w e n t f r o m t h e i r s c h o o l s o u t i n t o s o c i e t y a n d f r o m P e k i n g o u t t o o t h e r p a r t s o f t h e c o u n t r y t o e x c h a n g e r e v o l u t i o n a r y e x p e r i e n c e . T h e y v i g o r o u s l y d e s t r o y e d t h e f o u r o l d s [ o l d i d e a s , c u l t u r e , c u s t o m s

' This is a reactionary opera by the counter-revolutionary revisionist Wu Han, adapted from the story of a deposed feudal official named Hai Jui of 400 years ago in the Ming Dynasty. By distorting history and using the past to satirize the present, the author complained of "injustice" done to the anti-Party and anti-socialist Right opportunists who had been removed from office by the Chinese people in 1959, and encouraged them to stage a come-back. In November 1965, Comrade Yao Wen-yuan published his article "On the New Historical Drama H a i Jui D i s m i s s e d f r o m Office" in Shanghai and thus sounded the call for the unfolding of the great proletarian cultural revolution. — T r .

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a n d h a b i t s ] o f t h e e x p l o i t i n g c l a s s e s , a n d e n e r g e t i c a l l y f o s t e r e d t h e f o u r n e w s [ n e w i d e a s , c u l t u r e , c u s t o m s a n d h a b i t s ] o f t h e p r o l e t a r i a t . T h e y p e r f o r m e d i m m o r t a l f e a t s i n t h e g r e a t p r o l e ­t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n .

B e t w e e n A u g u s t a n d N o v e m b e r l a s t y e a r . C h a i r m a n M a o r e c e i v e d m o r e t h a n 1 2 m i l l i o n y o u n g R e d G u a r d f i g h t e r s a n d r e v o l u t i o n a r y t e a c h e r s a n d s t u d e n t s f r o m a l l o v e r t h e c o u n t r y . A r m y m e n a n d c i v i l i a n s , y o u n g a n d o l d , c a m e t o g e t h e r a n d m a d e o u r g r e a t c a p i t a l t h e c e n t r e o f n a t i o n a l a t t r a c t i o n a n d t h e f o c u s o f w o r l d a t t e n t i o n .

T h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s o f P e k i n g e n t h u s i a s t i c a l l y r e s p o n d e d t o t h e c a l l i s s u e d b y C o m r a d e L i n P i a o f r o m t h e T i e n A n M e n r o s t r u m o n N a t i o n a l D a y l a s t y e a r a n d u n f o l d e d t h e s t r u g g l e b e t w e e n t h e t w o l i n e s . F i r m l y s t a n d i n g o n t h e s i d e o f C h a i r m a n M a o ' s p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r y l i n e , y o u h a v e r e p u l s e d r e p e a t e d a t t a c k s b y t h e b o u r g e o i s r e a c t i o n a r y l i n e i n s e v e r a l m o n t h s o f e n d e a v o u r . Y o u h a v e g a i n e d s u p e ­r i o r i t y n o t o n l y p o l i t i c a l l y a n d i d e o l o g i c a l l y b u t a l s o o r g a n i ­z a t i o n a l l y .

T h e s t o r m o f S h a n g h a i ' s J a n u a r y R e v o l u t i o n b r o u g h t t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n t o a n e w s t a g e — t h a t o f w a g i n g t h e s t r u g g l e t o s e i z e p o w e r f r o m a h a n d f u l o f P a r t y p e o p l e i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d . P r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s i n P e k i n g a l s o i m m e d i a t e l y w e n t i n t o a c t i o n a n d c a r r i e d o u t s t r u g g l e s t o s e i z e p o w e r f r o m b e l o w a n d t o o p p o s e t h e a d v e r s e c u r r e n t a i m e d a t a c a p i t a l i s t r e s t o r a t i o n , w i n n i n g o n e g r e a t v i c t o r y a f t e r a n o t h e r .

O n t h e b a s i s o f t h e s e g r e a t s t r u g g l e s a n d v i c t o r i e s a n d i n r e s p o n s e t o C h a i r m a n M a o ' s c a l l , P e k i n g ' s p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u ­t i o n a r i e s a n d y o u n g R e d G u a r d f i g h t e r s — a f t e r h a v i n g h e l d r e p r e s e n t a t i v e c o n f e r e n c e s o f w o r k e r s , p o o r a n d l o w e r - m i d d l e p e a s a n t s , a n d c o l l e g e a n d m i d d l e s c h o o l R e d G u a r d s — e s t a b ­l i s h e d P e k i n g ' s p r o v i s i o n a l o r g a n o f p o w e r w h i c h i s r e v o l u ­t i o n a r y , r e p r e s e n t a t i v e a n d p o s s e s s e s p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r y a u t h o r i t y . T h i s i s a g r e a t v i c t o r y f o r C h a i r m a n M a o ' s p r o l e ­t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r y l i n e a n d f o r M a o T s e - t u n g ' s t h o u g h t .

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You have now seized power, but the struggle between the two roads and the two lines have not ceased. You must realize that it is no easy matter to seize power, nor is it easy to hold power, and it is still more difficult to consolidate this dictatorship of the proletariat.

As soon as Peking was liberated in 1949, the rule of the dictatorship of the proletariat was established. But the hand­ful of counter-revolutionary revisionists in the old Peking Municipal Par ty Committee futilely attempted to tu rn Peking into an independent kingdom under their control. They waved "red flags" to oppose the Red Flag. Outwardly, they put on a show of following Chairman Mao's proletarian rev­olutionary line but in secret they followed the reactionary line of the top Party person in authority taking the capitalist road. This small handful usurped leadership from the prole­tariat and attempted to divert the dictatorship of the prole­tariat on to the road of capitalist restoration.

Proletarian revolutionary comrades in Peking must firmly bear this lesson in mind; after the seizure of power they must pay full attention to strengthening and consolidating the political power. They must really hold it and use it well.

To do this, they must hold high the great red banner of Mao Tse-tung's thought and carry the great proletarian cul­tural revolution through to the end. At present, they must creatively study and apply Chairman Mao's works with specific problems in mind. They must expose, criticize and repudiate the handful of top Par ty persons in authority taking the capitalist road and the handful of counter-revolutionary revisionists in the Peking municipality more fully, more pene­tratingly and more comprehensively. They must link this with the movement in their own units to struggle [against and overthrow those Par ty people in authority taking the capitalist road] , criticize and repudiate [ the reactionary bour­geois academic "authorities" and the ideology of the bour­geoisie and all other exploiting classes], and to transform

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[ e d u c a t i o n , l i t e r a t u r e a n d a r t a n d a l l o t h e r p a r t s o f t h e s u p e r ­s t r u c t u r e t h a t d o n o t c o r r e s p o n d t o t h e s o c i a l i s t e c o n o m i c b a s e ] . A t t h e s a m e t i m e , i n t h i s g r e a t r e v o l u t i o n a r y m o v e m e n t o f c r i t i c i s m a n d r e p u d i a t i o n , t h e y s h o u l d f u r t h e r s t r e n g t h e n a n d d e v e l o p t h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y g r e a t a l l i a n c e a n d t h e r e v o l u t i o n ­a r y " t h r e e - i n - o n e " c o m b i n a t i o n . T h i s i s t h e g e n e r a l o r i e n t a ­t i o n o f t h e s t r u g g l e a n d t h i s i s w h a t w e m u s t f i r m l y h o l d t o .

O n l y b y d o i n g s o c a n w e t h o r o u g h l y e l i m i n a t e a l l t h e p o i s o n o u s i n f l u e n c e s o f t h e b o u r g e o i s r e a c t i o n a r y l i n e s o t h a t t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r y l i n e r e p r e s e n t e d b y C h a i r m a n M a o w i l l b e f u l l y c a r r i e d o u t i n a l l f i e l d s . A n d o n l y b y d o i n g s o c a n t h e b r o a d m a s s e s b e a r m e d w i t h M a o T s e - t u n g ' s t h o u g h t , t h e r e v o l u t i o n i z a t i o n o f t h e i r t h i n k i n g p r o m o t e d , a n d o u r d i c t a t o r s h i p o f t h e p r o l e t a r i a t c o n s o l i d a t e d f r o m t h e r o o t s .

S i m u l t a n e o u s l y w i t h t a k i n g f i r m h o l d o f t h e r e v o l u t i o n , w e n e e d t o p r o m o t e p r o d u c t i o n e n e r g e t i c a l l y . N o t o n l y s h o u l d t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n b r i n g a b o u t b r i l l i a n t r e s u l t s i n t h e p o l i t i c a l a n d i d e o l o g i c a l f i e l d s , b u t a l s o i n t h e f i e l d s o f e c o n o m i c c o n s t r u c t i o n a n d s c i e n t i f i c r e s e a r c h .

T h i s i s t h e s e c o n d y e a r o f o u r c o u n t r y ' s T h i r d F i v e - Y e a r P l a n . W e m u s t s t r i v e f o r a b u m p e r h a r v e s t t h i s y e a r , s t r i v e f o r f u r t h e r i n c r e a s e s i n i n d u s t r i a l p r o d u c t i o n a n d s c a l e n e w h e i g h t s i n s c i e n t i f i c r e s e a r c h . I n t h i s r e s p e c t , P e k i n g e x e r t s i m p o r t a n t i n f l u e n c e o n t h e w h o l e c o u n t r y .

P r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r y c o m r a d e s o f P e k i n g , u n d e r t h e c o n d i t i o n o f r e v o l u t i o n i z i n g t h e i r t h i n k i n g , m u s t m a k e s t i l l b i g g e r e f f o r t s t o g o a l l o u t , a i m h i g h a n d f u l f i l a n d o v e r f u l f i l t h i s y e a r ' s t a r g e t s w i t h g r e a t e r , f a s t e r , b e t t e r a n d m o r e e c o n o m i c a l r e s u l t s , l a y a s o l i d a n d p r o s p e c t i v e b a s e f o r t h e T h i r d F i v e - Y e a r P l a n a n d c a r r y o u t s t i l l m o r e e f f e c t i v e l y t h e i m p o r t a n t s t r a t e g i c p r i n c i p l e p u t f o r w a r d b y C h a i r m a n M a o o f p r e p a r e d n e s s a g a i n s t w a r , p r e p a r e d n e s s a g a i n s t n a t u r a l c a l a m i t i e s a n d e v e r y t h i n g f o r t h e p e o p l e .

Chairman Mao taught us on the eve of our nation-wide victory:

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T o w i n c o u n t r y - w i d e v i c t o r y is o n l y the f irst step i n a long m a r c h of ten thousand li. . . . T h e C h i n e s e r e v o l u ­tion is great, but the r o a d after the r e v o l u t i o n w i l l be longer, the w o r k greater a n d m o r e arduous. T h i s m u s t be m a d e clear n o w i n the P a r t y . T h e c o m r a d e s m u s t be h e l p e d to r e m a i n modest, p r u d e n t a n d free from arrogance a n d r a s h ­ness i n t h e i r style of w o r k . T h e comrades m u s t be h e l p e d to preserve the style of p l a i n l i v i n g a n d h a r d struggle.^

P r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r y c o m r a d e s o f P e k i n g a n d y o u n g R e d G u a r d f i g h t e r s , w e w h o l e h e a r t e d l y h o p e t h a t y o u w i l l h o l d s t i l l h i g h e r t h e g r e a t r e d b a n n e r o f M a o T s e - t u n g ' s t h o u g h t , f o l l o w C h a i r m a n M a o ' s t e a c h i n g s , c h e r i s h t h e f r u i t s o f y o u r v i c t o r i e s , s t r e n g t h e n y o u r s e n s e o f r e s p o n s i b i l i t y , s t e a d i l y c o n s o l i d a t e a n d e x t e n d t h e p o w e r y o u h a v e a l r e a d y s e i z e d a n d e n s u r e t h a t o u r c a p i t a l , w h e r e C h a i r m a n M a o l i v e s , w i l l a l w a y s r e m a i n i n t h e h a n d s o f t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s , w i l l f o r e v e r b e f u l l o f y o u t h a n d v i t a l i t y , a n d n e v e r c h a n g e c o l o u r .

F i n a l l y , l e t u s l o u d l y a c c l a i m : L o n g l i v e t h e v i c t o r y o f C h a i r m a n M a o ' s p r o l e t a r i a n r e v ­

o l u t i o n a r y l i n e ! L o n g l i v e t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s ! L o n g l i v e t h e C h i n e s e P e o p l e ' s L i b e r a t i o n A r m y ! L o n g l i v e t h e R e d G u a r d s ! L o n g l i v e t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n ! L o n g l i v e t h e d i c t a t o r s h i p o f t h e p r o l e t a r i a t ! L o n g l i v e t h e C h i n e s e C o m m u n i s t P a r t y ! L o n g l i v e t h e i n v i n c i b l e t h o u g h t o f M a o T s e - t u n g ! L o n g l i v e o u r g r e a t l e a d e r C h a i r m a n M a o ! A l o n g , l o n g l i f e

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^ Q u o t a t i o n s from C h a i r m a n M a o T s e - t u n g , F L P , P e k i n g , 1966, p . 195. 14

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C o m r a d e w o r k e r s , p e a s a n t s , s o l d i e r s , s t u d e n t s , a n d r e v o l u ­t i o n a r y c a d r e s , c o m r a d e s - i n - a r m s , y o u n g R e d G u a r d f i g h t e r s :

G o o d d a y t o y o u ! O n b e h a l f o f t h e C u l t u r a l R e v o l u t i o n G r o u p U n d e r t h e P a r t y C e n t r a l C o m m i t t e e , I e x t e n d t o y o u o u r w a r m c o n g r a t u l a t i o n s o n t h e f o u n d i n g o f t h e P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l R e v o l u t i o n a r y C o m m i t t e e a n d t h e m i l i t a n t g r e e t i n g s o f t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n !

T h e f o u n d i n g o f t h e P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l R e v o l u t i o n a r y C o m ­m i t t e e m a r k s a n e w v i c t o r y f o r t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n i n t h e c a p i t a l . a n d w i l l e x e r t a g r e a t i n f l u e n c e o n t h e n a t i o n - w i d e v i c t o r y o f t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v ­o l u t i o n . A f t e r t h e C o n f e r e n c e o f R e p r e s e n t a t i v e s o f R e v o l u ­t i o n a r y W o r k e r s a n d S t a f f , t h e C o n f e r e n c e o f R e p r e s e n t a t i v e s o f P o o r a n d L o w e r - M i d d l e P e a s a n t s , t h e C o n g r e s s o f R e d G u a r d s o f U n i v e r s i t i e s a n d C o l l e g e s , a n d t h e C o n g r e s s o f R e d G u a r d s o f M i d d l e S c h o o l s , P e k i n g ' s p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s h a v e n o w f u r t h e r a l l i e d t h e m s e l v e s a n d b r o u g h t a b o u t t h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y " t h r e e - i n - o n e " c o m b i n a t i o n . T h i s i s a g r e a t v i c t o r y f o r t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r y l i n e r e p r e s e n t e d b y C h a i r m a n M a o .

C o m r a d e H s i e h F u - c h i h h a s m a d e a v e r y g o o d s p e e c h . H e r e I w a n t t o t a l k a b o u t o n l y t w o p o i n t s . O n e i s a b o u t t h e r e l a t i o n ­s h i p b e t w e e n t h e w o r k o f a l l - o u t c r i t i c i s m a n d r e p u d i a t i o n o f t h e h a n d f u l o f t o p P a r t y p e o p l e i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e

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c a p i t a l i s t r o a d a n d t h e t a s k i n v a r i o u s u n i t s o f s t r u g g l i n g [ a g a i n s t a n d o v e r t h r o w i n g t h o s e P a r t y p e r s o n s i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d ] , c r i t i c i z i n g a n d r e p u d i a t i n g [ t h e r e a c t i o n a r y b o u r g e o i s a c a d e m i c " a u t h o r i t i e s " a n d t h e i d e o l o g y o f t h e b o u r g e o i s i e a n d a l l o t h e r e x p l o i t i n g c l a s s e s ] a n d t r a n s ­f o r m i n g [ e d u c a t i o n , l i t e r a t u r e a n d a r t a n d a l l o t h e r p a r t s o f t h e s u p e r s t r u c t u r e t h a t d o n o t c o r r e s p o n d t o t h e s o c i a l i s t e c o n o m i c b a s e ] . T h e o t h e r i s a b o u t s u p p o r t i n g t h e a r m y a n d c h e r i s h i n g t h e p e o p l e .

T h e c u r r e n t s i t u a t i o n i n C h i n a a s a w h o l e i s v e r y g o o d , e x t r e m e l y g o o d . T h i s i s t h e r e s u l t o f o u r s t r u g g l e b e i n g l e d b y C h a i r m a n M a o , t h e r e s u l t o f t h e g r e a t a l l i a n c e o f t h e p r o ­l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s , a n d t h e r e s u l t o f t h e s u p p o r t g i v e n b y t h e g r e a t C h i n e s e P e o p l e ' s L i b e r a t i o n A r m y .

T h e d e v e l o p m e n t o f t h e s i t u a t i o n , h o w e v e r , i s n o t e v e n , a n d t h e r e a r e r e v e r s e s . T h i s i s a n o r m a l p h e n o m e n o n . T h e r e i s n o t h i n g o n t h e g l o b e t h a t p r o c e e d s w i t h a b s o l u t e e v e n n e s s , a n d i n v e r y f e w c a s e s a r e t h e r e n o r e v e r s e s . I t i s o n l y t h r o u g h r e p e a t e d c o n t e s t s o f s t r e n g t h a n d s t r u g g l e s b e t w e e n t h e p r o ­l e t a r i a t a n d t h e b o u r g e o i s i e i n t h e c o u r s e o f t h e g r e a t c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n t h a t w e c a n t e m p e r o u r s e l v e s . H o w c a n w e t e m p e r o u r s e l v e s i f t h e r e a r e n o r e v e r s e s ? T h e r e f o r e , t o h a v e r e v e r s e s i s n o t a b a d t h i n g .

I n t h e p r e s e n t s t a g e i n w h i c h t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s a r e f o r g i n g a n a l l i a n c e t o s e i z e p o w e r , w e s h o u l d l a u n c h a v i g o r o u s m a s s m o v e m e n t t o c r i t i c i z e a n d r e p u d i a t e t h e t o p P a r t y p e r s o n i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d a n d , a t t h e s a m e t i m e , g r a d u a l l y t u r n t o t h e t a s k o f s t r u g g l e , c r i t i c i s m a n d r e p u d i a t i o n , a n d t r a n s f o r m a t i o n i n v a r i o u s u n i t s a c c o r d ­i n g t o l o c a l c o n d i t i o n s . T h i s i s a n a r d u o u s t a s k .

T h e h a n d f u l o f t o p P a r t y p e o p l e i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d a r e r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s o f c a p i t a l i s t r e s t o r a t i o n a n d t h e b e h i n d - t h e - s c e n e b o s s e s o f t h e c o u n t e r - r e v o l u t i o n a r y , r e v i ­s i o n i s t c l i q u e o f t h e P e k i n g m u n i c i p a l i t y . F o r s e v e n t e e n y e a r s a n d m o r e , t h e y h a v e b e e n p u t t i n g f o r w a r d a n d s t u b b o r n ­l y p e r s i s t i n g i n a b o u r g e o i s r e a c t i o n a r y l i n e i n v a r i o u s f i e l d s .

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T h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r y l i n e r e p r e s e n t e d b y C h a i r m a n M a o h a s d e v e l o p e d i n t h e s t r u g g l e a g a i n s t t h i s b o u r g e o i s r e a c ­t i o n a r y l i n e . W e m u s t c o m p l e t e l y e l i m i n a t e t h e p e r n i c i o u s i n f l u e n c e o f t h e b o u r g e o i s r e a c t i o n a r y l i n e o n t h e p o l i t i c a l , e c o n o m i c , i d e o l o g i c a l a n d c u l t u r a l f r o n t s , a n d f l y t h e g r e a t r e d b a n n e r o f M a o T s e - t u n g ' s t h o u g h t o v e r a l l p o s i t i o n s .

T h e t a s k o f s t r u g g l e , c r i t i c i s m a n d r e p u d i a t i o n , a n d t r a n s ­f o r m a t i o n i n v a r i o u s u n i t s a n d t h e w o r k o f c r i t i c i z i n g a n d r e p u d i a t i n g t h e t o p P a r t y p e r s o n i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d d o n o t c o n t r a d i c t e a c h o t h e r a n d c a n b e l i n k e d t o g e t h e r . T h e a l l - o u t c r i t i c i s m a n d r e p u d i a t i o n o f t h e f e w t o p P a r t y p e r s o n s i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d c a n g i v e a s t r o n g i m p e t u s t o s t r u g g l e , c r i t i c i s m a n d r e p u d i a t i o n , a n d t r a n s f o r m a t i o n i n v a r i o u s u n i t s , w h i c h , i n t u r n , c a n b r i n g a b o u t a f u l l e r e x p o s u r e a n d a m o r e p r o f o u n d c r i t i c i s m a n d r e p u d i a t i o n o f t h e p o i s o n s s p r e a d o n v a r i o u s f r o n t s b y t h a t t o p P a r t y p e r s o n . T h i s r e q u i r e s u s t o d o s o m e h a r d t h i n k i n g , t o s t u d y C h a i r m a n M a o ' s w o r k s w e l l , a n d t o d o g o o d w o r k i n i n v e s t i g a t i o n a n d s t u d y .

T h i s i s a t a s k o f t h e f o r e m o s t i m p o r t a n c e . F o r i t s f u l f i l m e n t , a r e v o l u t i o n a r y l e a d i n g o r g a n m u s t b e s e t u p i n e v e r y u n i t . N a t u r a l l y , i n s o m e u n i t s w h e r e t h e P a r t y a n d g o v e r n m e n t l e a d e r s h i p o r m a n a g e m e n t a r e i n t h e m a i n g o o d , t h e s e i z u r e o f p o w e r i s u n n e c e s s a r y . N e v e r t h e l e s s , i t i s n e c e s s a r y f o r n e a r l y a l l t h e u n i t s t o f o r m t h e g r e a t r e v o l u t i o n a r y a l l i a n c e a n d t h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y " t h r e e - i n - o n e " c o m b i n a t i o n a n d s o s e t u p t h e p r o v i s i o n a l o r g a n o f p o w e r . O t h e r w i s e , w i t h o u t t h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y a l l i a n c e a n d " t h r e e - i n - o n e " c o m b i n a t i o n h o w c a n y o u p r o c e e d w i t h s t r u g g l e , c r i t i c i s m a n d r e p u d i a t i o n , a n d t r a n s f o r m a t i o n ? A n d w h o w i l l g i v e t h e l e a d e r s h i p ? I s n ' t t h i s c r y s t a l - c l e a r ?

C o m r a d e s , h a v e y o u t h o u g h t t h e m a t t e r o v e r ? S o m e s t u d e n t s a r e i n t e r e s t e d o n l y i n g o i n g a b o u t a n d " s t o r m i n g " , a n d s h o w g r e a t e n t h u s i a s m f o r i t . I t i s a f u n d a m e n t a l t a s k o f t h e s o c i a l ­i s t r e v o l u t i o n a n d s o c i a l i s t t r a n s f o r m a t i o n , a b i g j o b f o r t h e

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n e x t h u n d r e d y e a r s , f o r a u n i t o r d e p a r t m e n t s u c c e s s f u l l y t o c a r r y t h r o u g h t h e s t r u g g l e , c r i t i c i s m a n d r e p u d i a t i o n , a n d t r a n s f o r m a t i o n ! I f y o u g i v e a t h o u g h t t o t h i s , y o u c o m r a d e s w i l l s t r e n g t h e n y o u r s e n s e o f r e s p o n s i b i l i t y !

W e i n t h e C u l t u r a l R e v o l u t i o n G r o u p U n d e r t h e P a r t y C e n ­t r a l C o m m i t t e e s h o u l d a l s o c a r r y o u t t h e w o r k o f p e n e t r a t i n g i n v e s t i g a t i o n a n d s t u d y . A n d , w o r k i n g t o g e t h e r w i t h y o u c o m r a d e s , w e s h a l l l e a r n f r o m y o u r g o o d e x p e r i e n c e a n d t h e n h e l p y o u i n y o u r w o r k .

W e h a v e b e e n c o m r a d e s - i n - a r m s s h a r i n g w e a l a n d w o e o v e r t h e p a s t y e a r . I h o p e t h a t y o u c o m r a d e s w i l l t h i n k s e r i o u s l y o f t h e q u e s t i o n o f s t r u g g l e , c r i t i c i s m a n d r e p u d i a t i o n , a n d t r a n s f o r m a t i o n . Y o u s h o u l d n o t d i v e r t t h e a i m o f s t r u g g l e f r o m t h e h a n d f u l o f P a r t y p e o p l e i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d , b u t s h o u l d t h o r o u g h l y r e f u t e t h e m . T h e h a n d ­f u l o f c o u n t e r - r e v o l u t i o n a r y r e v i s i o n i s t s i n t h e f o r m e r P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l P a r t y C o m m i t t e e , t h e f o r m e r P r o p a g a n d a D e p a r t ­m e n t o f t h e P a r t y C e n t r a l C o m m i t t e e a n d t h e f o r m e r M i n i s t r y o f C u l t u r e m u s t a l s o b e e x p o s e d , c r i t i c i z e d a n d r e p u d i a t e d i n a m o r e t h o r o u g h g o i n g w a y .

S i n c e t h e d i r e c t i v e s o f s u p p o r t i n g t h e L e f t , o f s u p p o r t i n g i n d u s t r y a n d a g r i c u l t u r e , o f p l a c i n g c e r t a i n u n i t s u n d e r m i l i ­t a r y c o n t r o l a n d o f m i l i t a r y t r a i n i n g , i s s u e d b y C h a i r m a n M a o a n d r e s o l u t e l y s u p p o r t e d b y C o m r a d e L i n P i a o , t h e P e o p l e ' s L i b e r a t i o n A r m y h a s t h r o w n i n g r e a t s t r e n g t h , a n d t h e P . L . A . c a d r e s a n d s o l d i e r s h a v e d o n e a g r e a t w o r k a n d s c o r e d i n i t i a l b r i l l i a n t s u c c e s s e s .

Y o u a r e f u l l y a t l i b e r t y t o c r i t i c i z e p e o p l e i n t h e a r m y , n o m a t t e r w h o , b y w r i t i n g b i g - c h a r a c t e r o r s m a l l - c h a r a c t e r p o s t ­e r s , w h e t h e r s e n d i n g t h e m d i r e c t l y t o t h e p e r s o n s t h e m s e l v e s o r t o u p p e r o r g a n i z a t i o n s o r e v e n t o t h e P a r t y C e n t r a l C o m ­m i t t e e . B u t t h e s p e a r h e a d o f t h e a t t a c k s h o u l d i n n o c i r c u m ­s t a n c e s b e d i r e c t e d a g a i n s t t h e a r m y .

T h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y m a s s e s s h o u l d a d o p t a c o r r e c t a t t i t u d e t o w a r d s t h e a r m y a n d g i v e i t s u p p o r t . Chairman Mao teaches

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us, "Without a people's army the people have nothing."^ The eight-point order issued by the Military Commission of the Party Central Committee on January 28 is correct and is still in force. The main aspect of the order deals with the point that the masses should adopt a correct attitude towards the People's Liberation Army, that is, giving support to the army.

The army for its part should also adopt a correct attitude towards the masses, that is, to cherish the people. Chairman Mao teaches us, "The army must become one with the people so that they see it as their own army. Such an army will be invincible. . . ."^ As to the present ten-point order issued by the Military Commission of the Party Central Committee on April 6, it is also correct and remains in force. The main aspect of the order deals with the point that the army should adopt a correct attitude towards the masses, that is, cherishing the people.

The spirit embodied in the eight-point order is identical with that of the ten-point order. It is wrong to counterpose the latter to the former, and by no means should the ten-point order be used to wreck the eight-point order. If you do so, you are doing wrong. The reason why we raise this question is that we fear comrades may commit mistakes or be misled by evil-minded persons. Hence, with particular emphasis we put forward the call to support the army and cherish the people.

Chairman Mao teaches us, . . . We are confronted by two types of social contradic­

tions — those between ourselves and the enemy and those among the people themselves.^

Since they are different in nature, the contradictions between ourselves and the enemy and the contradictions

'Mao Tse-tung, "On Coalition Government", Selected Works, FLP, Peking, 1965, Vol. I l l , pp. 296-97.

2 Mao Tse-tung, "On Protracted War", Selected Works, FLP, Peking, 1965, Vol. II, p. 186.

•^Mao Tse-tung, On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, 1st pocket ed., FLP, Peking, 1966, p. 2.

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among the people must be resolved by different methods. To put it briefly, the former are a matter of drawing a clear distinction between ourselves and the enemy, and the latter a matter of drawing a clear distinction between right and wrong.i

W e s h o u l d b e g o o d a t d i s t i n g u i s h i n g b e t w e e n t h e c o n t r a d i c ­t i o n s b e t w e e n o u r s e l v e s a n d t h e e n e m y a n d t h o s e a m o n g t h e p e o p l e . T h e t w o d i f f e r e n t t y p e s o f c o n t r a d i c t i o n s m u s t n o t b e c o n f u s e d . W i t h r e g a r d t o t h e c o n t r a d i c t i o n s a m o n g t h e p e o p l e , i n c l u d i n g c o n t r o v e r s i e s a m o n g m a s s o r g a n i z a t i o n s , t h e y s h o u l d b e p r o p e r l y h a n d l e d b y applying the method of pre­senting facts and reasoning things out and the principle of "unity, criticism, unity". I t i s w r o n g t o b r a n d c e r t a i n o r g a n i ­z a t i o n s a n d p e o p l e t h a t h o l d a d i f f e r e n t v i e w a s b e i n g " c o u n t e r - r e v o l u t i o n a r y " . I t i s a l s o w r o n g t o u s e t h e m e t h o d o f h a n d l i n g t h e c o n t r a d i c t i o n s b e t w e e n o u r s e l v e s a n d t h e e n e m y t o s e t t l e d i s p u t e s b e t w e e n d i f f e r e n t m a s s o r g a n i z a t i o n s , l e t a l o n e t h e u s e o f v i o l e n c e .

C o m r a d e s , w e h o p e t h a t t h e b r o a d r e v o l u t i o n a r y m a s s e s i n P e k i n g , u n d e r t h e l e a d e r s h i p o f t h e P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l R e v o l u t i o n a r y C o m m i t t e e , w i l l h o l d h i g h t h e g r e a t r e d b a n n e r o f M a o T s e - t u n g ' s t h o u g h t , c o n s o l i d a t e a n d d e v e l o p t h e r e v ­o l u t i o n a r y g r e a t a l l i a n c e i n t h e c o u r s e o f t h e a l l - o u t r e v o l u ­t i o n a r y c r i t i c i s m a n d r e p u d i a t i o n , a n d b u i l d P e k i n g i n t o a g r e a t s c h o o l f o r s t u d y i n g a n d a p p l y i n g M a o T s e - t u n g ' s t h o u g h t i n a c r e a t i v e w a y .

L e t u s a c c l a i m : L o n g l i v e t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n ! L o n g l i v e t h e R e d G u a r d s ! L o n g l i v e t h e d i c t a t o r s h i p o f t h e p r o l e t a r i a t ! L o n g l i v e t h e C h i n e s e C o m m u n i s t P a r t y ! L o n g l i v e M a o T s e - t u n g ' s t h o u g h t ! L o n g l i v e C h a i r m a n M a o ! A l o n g , l o n g l i f e t o h i m !

•Ibid., pp. 5-6.

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S P E E C H B Y C O M R A D E H S I E H F U - C H I H

— At the Rally to Inaugurate and Celebrate the Peking Municipal Revolutionary Committee,

April 20, 1967

C o m r a d e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s , c o m r a d e s - i n - a r m s a n d y o i m g R e d G u a r d f i g h t e r s ,

T h e P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l R e v o l u t i o n a r y C o m m i t t e e w h i c h h a s l o n g b e e n e x p e c t e d b y u s a l l i s n o w p r o c l a i m e d a s f o u n d e d .

F r o m s t a r t t o f i n i s h , p r e p a r a t i o n s f o r t h e s e t t i n g u p o f t h e P e ­k i n g M u n i c i p a l R e v o l u t i o n a r y C o m m i t t e e e n j o y e d t h e s o l i c i t o u s a t t e n t i o n o f o u r g r e a t l e a d e r C h a i r m a n M a o . A t t h i s m o m e n t o f g e n e r a l r e j o i c i n g f o r t h e p e o p l e o f t h e P e k i n g m u n i c i p a l i t y , l e t u s j o i n i n w i s h i n g o u r m o s t r e s p e c t e d a n d b e l o v e d g r e a t l e a d e r . C h a i r m a n M a o , a l o n g , l o n g l i f e ! L o n g , l o n g l i f e t o h i m !

T o d a y P r e m i e r C h o u E n - l a i a n d a l l c o m r a d e s o f t h e C u l t u r a l R e v o l u t i o n a i r y G r o u p U n d e r t h e P a r t y C e n t r a l C o m m i t t e e a t ­t e n d o u r r a l l y . L e t u s e x t e n d t o t h e m o u r w a r m e s t w e l c o m e a n d g r e e t i n g s o f t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n !

D u r i n g t h e p r e p a r a t i o n s f o r t h e s e t t i n g u p o f t h e P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l R e v o l u t i o n a r y C o m m i t t e e , t h e P e o p l e ' s L i b e r a t i o n A r m y p a r t i c i p a t e d i n t h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y " t h r e e - i n - o n e " c o m b i ­n a t i o n , g i v i n g u s f i r m s u p p o r t i n e v e r y a s p e c t . L e t u s e x t e n d r e v o l u t i o n a r y g r e e t i n g s t o t h e m ! L e t u s l e a r n f r o m t h e m !

I n S h a n g h a i a n d S h a n s i , K w e i c h o w , H e i l i m g k i a n g a n d S h a n ­t u n g P r o v i n c e s , t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s h a v e b e e n t h e f i r s t t o f o r m t h e i r g r e a t a l l i a n c e s a n d s e i z e p o w e r f r o m t h e h a n d f u l o f P a r t y p e o p l e i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d . T h e y h a v e s e t e x a m p l e s f o r u s t o e m u l a t e . T o d a y t h e r e s p o n s i -

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b l e c o m r a d e s o f t h e s e p r o v i n c i a l a n d m u n i c i p a l r e v o l u t i o n a r y c o m m i t t e e s h a v e c o m e f r o m a f a r t o t a k e p a r t i n o u r r a l l y a n d s u p p o r t u s . L e t u s e x p r e s s o u r w a r m e s t w e l c o m e a n d t h a n k s t o t h e m .

T h e P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l R e v o l u t i o n a r y C o m m i t t e e h a s b e e n e s t a b l i s h e d a s t h e r e s u l t o f a h e r o i c a n d p r o t r a c t e d s t r u g g l e w a g e d b y t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s , w o r k e r s , p e a s a n t s , s o l d i e r s a n d r e v o l u t i o n a r y i n t e l l e c t u a l s o f t h e c a p i t a l , r a i s i n g h i g h t h e g r e a t r e d b a n n e r o f M a o T s e - t u n g ' s t h o u g h t a n d a d ­h e r i n g t o t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r y l i n e , a g a i n s t t h e h a n d ­f u l o f P a r t y p e o p l e i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d a n d a g a i n s t t h e b o u r g e o i s r e a c t i o n a r y l i n e .

P e k i n g i s w h e r e o u r g r e a t l e a d e r C h a i r m a n M a o l i v e s , t h e s i t e o f t h e s u p r e m e c o m m a n d o f t h e p r o l e t a r i a t . T h e i n f i n i t e l y b r i U i a n t t h o u g h t o f M a o T s e - t u n g i s i l l u m i n a t i n g t h e w h o l e w o r l d , t h e w h o l e o f C h i n a a n d t h i s c a p i t a l o f o u r g r e a t m o t h e r ­l a n d . B u t t h e o l d P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l P a r t y C o m m i t t e e , i n w h i c h a h a n d f u l o f c o u n t e r - r e v o l u t i o n a r y r e v i s i o n i s t s w e r e l o n g e n t r e n c h e d a n d w h i c h w a s s h i e l d e d a n d s u p p o r t e d b y t h e h a n d f u l o f t o p P a r t y p e r s o n s i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d , c o n s i s t e n t l y w a v e d " r e d f l a g s " t o o p p o s e t h e R e d F l a g , r a b i d l y o p p o s e d o u r m o s t r e s p e c t e d a n d b e l o v e d g r e a t l e a d e r C h a i r m a n M a o , v i c i o u s l y a t t a c k e d a n d d i s p a r a g e d t h e g r e a t t h o u g h t o f M a o T s e - t u n g a n d o p p o s e d t h e c r e a t i v e s t u d y a n d a p p l i c a t i o n o f C h a i r m a n M a o ' s w o r k s . T h i s c o u n t e r - r e v o l u t i o n ­a r y r e v i s i o n i s t c l i q u e c o n s i s t e n t l y o p p o s e d C h a i r m a n M a o ' s t h e o r y o n c l a s s s t r u g g l e , p r e a c h e d c l a s s c o n c i l i a t i o n , s p r e a d t h e c o n c e p t o f t h e d y i n g o u t o f c l a s s s t r u g g l e , o p p o s e d a n d u n d e r ­m i n e d t h e s o c i a l i s t e d u c a t i o n m o v e m e n t i n c i t y a n d c o u n t r y s i d e , s h i e l d e d t h e h a n d f u l o f P a r t y p e o p l e i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d a n d p r o t e c t e d t h e i n t e r e s t s o f t h e b o u r g e o i s i e . T h e y c o n s i s t e n t l y o p p o s e d g i v i n g p r o m i n e n c e t o p r o l e t a r i a n p o l i t i c s , p u r s u e d a c o u n t e r - r e v o l u t i o n a r y r e v i s i o n i s t l i n e i n i n d u s t r y , a g r i c u l t u r e , f i n a n c e a n d t r a d e , c u l t u r e , e d u c a t i o n a n d o t h e r f i e l d s , a n d w o r k e d v i g o r o u s l y f o r t h e r e s t o r a t i o n o f c a p i t a l i s m . T h e y c o n s i s t e n t l y o p p o s e d t h e l i n e o f t h e P a r t y

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C e n t r a l C o m m i t t e e h e a d e d b y C h a i r m a n M a o o n t h e g r e a t p r o ­l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n , a n d m a d e e n e r g e t i c u s e o f t h e i n s t r u m e n t s o f p r o p a g a n d a w h i c h t h e y c o n t r o l l e d t o d i s s e m i ­n a t e r e v i s i o n i s t p o i s o n w i d e l y , i n p r e p a r a t i o n f o r p u b l i c o p i n i o n f o r t h e r e s t o r a t i o n o f c a p i t a l i s m . I n t h e w o r k o f r e v ­o l u t i o n i z i n g P e k i n g o p e r a , d a n c e d r a m a a n d s y m p h o n i c m u s i c , t h e y c r e a t e d a l l k i n d s o f d i f f i c u l t i e s f o r C o m r a d e C h i a n g C h i n g a n d l e v e l l e d a t t a c k s a g a i n s t h e r . W h a t a r o u s e s p a r t i c u l a r a n g e r i s t h a t t h e y t i m e a n d a g a i n r e s i s t e d C h a i r m a n M a o ' s i n s t r u c ­t i o n t h a t W u H a n s h o u l d b e c r i t i c i z e d a n d r e p u d i a t e d , a n d f o r a l o n g t i m e t o o k n o a c t i o n i n t h i s m a t t e r . F o l l o w i n g p u b l i c a ­t i o n o f C o m r a d e Y a o W e n - y u a n ' s a r t i c l e " O n t h e N e w H i s t o r i ­c a l D r a m a Hai Jui Dismissed From Office", t h e y f o r b a d e n e w s p a p e r s i n P e k i n g t o r e p r i n t i t ; t h e y d i d n o t a l l o w p u b l i c a ­t i o n o f t h e a r t i c l e i n p a m p h l e t f o r m , a n d e v e n a t t a c k e d t h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y c o m r a d e s i n S h a n g h a i . T h e y c o n s i s t e n t l y f o l ­l o w e d t h e c o u n t e r - r e v o l u t i o n a r y r e v i s i o n i s t o r g a n i z a t i o n a l l i n e o f r e c r u i t i n g d e s e r t e r s , a c c e p t i n g t r a i t o r s a n d f o r m i n g c l i q u e s i n p u r s u i t o f t h e i r o w n s e l f i s h i n t e r e s t s , h a n d i n g o u t j o b s t o t h e i r c l o s e a s s o c i a t e s a n d p u t t i n g b a d p e o p l e i n i m p o r t a n t p o s i ­t i o n s , s h i e l d i n g l a n d l o r d s , r i c h p e a s a n t s , c o u n t e r - r e v o l u t i o n ­a r i e s , b a d e l e m e n t s a n d R i g h t i s t s a n d a t t a c k i n g p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s . T h e y c o n s i s t e n t l y m a i n t a i n e d a b l o c k a d e a g a i n s t t h e P a r t y C e n t r a l C o m m i t t e e h e a d e d b y C h a i r m a n M a o , a n d t u r n e d P e k i n g i n t o a " w a t e r t i g h t a n d i m p e n e t r a b l e " i n ­d e p e n d e n t k i n g d o m , i n a f u t i l e a t t e m p t t o m a k e i t a b a s e f o r a c o u n t e r - r e v o l u t i o n a r y r e s t o r a t i o n . T h e m e m b e r s o f t h i s c o u n t e r - r e v o l u t i o n a r y r e v i s i o n i s t c l i q u e w e r e b i g d e s p o t s r i d i n g o n t h e b a c k s o f t h e m a s s e s o f t h e p e o p l e i n P e k i n g . T h e y c o m m i t t e d t o w e r i n g c r i m e s a g a i n s t t h e P a r t y a n d t h e p e o p l e .

T h e r i n g l e a d e r o f t h e c o u n t e r - r e v o l u t i o n a r y r e v i s i o n i s t c l i q u e i n t h e o l d M u n i c i p a l P a r t y C o m m i t t e e , t i m e a n d a g a i n i n t h e m o s t n a u s e a t i n g w a y b r a g g e d a b o u t a m o n g t h e c a d r e s t o b u i l d u p p u b l i c o p i n i o n f o r h i s u s u r p a t i o n o f t h e l e a d e r s h i p o f t h e P a r t y a n d t h e s t a t e . A s a m a t t e r o f f a c t , t h i s c o u n t e r ­r e v o l u t i o n a r y r e v i s i o n i s t , t h e l e a d e r o f t h e o l d M u n i c i p a l P a r t y

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Committee, was an outright capitulationist in the past and has been an agent of the bourgeoisie in our Party.

In the early stage of the War of Resistance Against Japan, this counter-revolutionary revisionist when in the Shansi-Chahar-Hopei Border Area followed Wang Ming's capitula­tionist line of "everything through the united front" and "everything must be submitted to the united front".

During the War of Liberation, when in the Northeast, he continued to carry out Wang Ming's line still more energeti­cally and followed the capitulationist line advanced by the top Party person in authority taking the capitalist road. He op­posed Chairman Mao's great strategic thought of using the rural areas to surround the cities and Comrade Lin Piao's correct stand of arousing the masses boldly and setting up base areas.

In international activities, too, he made a lot of talk, behind the backs of the Party Central Committee, negating class con­tradictions, denying class struggle and glorifying the bour­geoisie and modern revisionism. He lauded the renegades Tito and Khrushchov and the bourgeois reactionaries- of certain countries; he engaged in many capitulationist activities.

It has been verified that this counter-revolutionary revi­sionist became a turncoat and surrendered to the enemy and also betrayed comrades while he was in prison as far back as before the War of Resistance Against Japan. This renegade later colluded with the top Par ty person in authority taking the capitalist road in shielding a group of traitors and placing them in important leading positions in the Party, government and army. It is a tremendous contribution of the young Red Guards that they brought to light this big traitors ' clique within our Party during the great cultural revolution.

Hiding behind the signboard of Communists and under the cloak of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Tse-tung's thought, this handful of counter-revolutionary revisionists in the old Peking Municipal Par ty Committee are in reality loyal lackeys of the bourgeoisie and imperialists. They cling to the bourgeois

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ideological system and the capitalist system and oppose Marxism-Leninism, Mao Tse-tung's thought, and the socialist system. They are a group of anti-Communist, anti-popular counter-revolutionaries. The struggle between us and them is a life-and-death struggle.

This gang of counter-revolutionary revisionists intensely fear and hate the great proletarian cultural revolution initiated and led by Chairman Mao himself. Repeatedly using double-faced tactics, they resisted Chairman Mao's directives, engaged in a series of underground activities, obstinately opposing and sabotaging the great cultural revolution. They were caught in the act of carrying out these anti-Party conspiracies. In response to the call of our great leader Chairman Mao, the proletarian revolutionaries in the capital, with the might of an avalanche and the force of a thunderbolt, smashed the "Three-Family Village"^ gangster inn with one blow, stormed the counter­revolutionary revisionist lair of the old Municipal Par ty Com­mittee, and crushed them completely. Chairman Mao and the Party Central Committee approved publication of the country's first Marxist-Leninist big-character poster from Peking Uni­versity, made a timely decision to reorganize the old Peking Municipal Party Committee and form a new Municipal Par ty Committee. All these steps won the warm support of t he peo­ple of the whole city and the whole country, and gave a tremendous impetus to the great proletarian cultural revolution which had just started.

However, the principal leading members of the new Peking Municipal Party Committee failed to carry out the proletarian revolutionary line represented by Chairman Mao. On the contrary, they pursued the bourgeois reactionary line. In June and July of 1966, the great proletarian cultural revolution in Peking proceeded under the direct control of the handful of top Party persons in authority taking the capitalist road who

'The "Three-Family Village" is an anti-Party and anti-socialist counter-revolutionary clique which is composed of Teng To, Wu Han, Liao Mo-sha and others. — Tr.

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t u r n e d P e k i n g i n t o a b a s e f o r c a r r y i n g o u t t h e b o u r g e o i s r e a c ­t i o n a r y l i n e . T a k i n g t h e s t a n d o f t h e r e a c t i o n a r y b o u r g e o i s i e , t h e y e x e r c i s e d b o u r g e o i s d i c t a t o r s h i p , p r o t e c t e d t h e c o u n ­t e r - r e v o l u t i o n a r y r e v i s i o n i s t c l i q u e o f t h e o l d M u n i c i p a l P a r t y C o m m i t t e e , s h i e l d e d t h e h a n d f u l o f P a r t y p e o p l e i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d a n d a i m e d t h e s p e a r h e a d o f t h e s t r u g g l e a t t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s . T h e t o p P a r t y p e r s o n s i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d p e r s o n a l l y d i r e c t e d m a n y u n i t s i n a t t a c k i n g t h e r e v o l u t i o n ­a r i e s , s u p p r e s s i n g t h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y m a s s e s , p r a c t i s i n g a w h i t e t e r r o r a n d b r a n d i n g l a r g e n u m b e r s o f t h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y m a s s e s a s " c o u n t e r - r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s " o r " R i g h t i s t s " . T h e y a l m o s t n i p ­p e d t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n i n P e k i n g i n t h e b u d a n d s p r e a d t h e p e r n i c i o u s i n f l u e n c e o f t h e b o u r g e o i s r e a c ­t i o n a r y l i n e t h r o u g h o u t t h e c o u n t r y .

A t t h a t c r u c i a l m o m e n t . C h a i r m a n M a o r e t u r n e d t o P e k i n g a n d s a v e d t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n . T h e E l e v e n t h P l e n a r y S e s s i o n o f t h e E i g h t h C e n t r a l C o m m i t t e e o f t h e P a r t y a d o p t e d t h e " D e c i s i o n o f t h e C e n t r a l C o m m i t t e e o f t h e C h i n e s e C o m m u n i s t P a r t y C o n c e r n i n g t h e G r e a t P r o l e t a ­r i a n C u l t u r a l R e v o l u t i o n " . T h i s p r o c l a i m e d t h e b a n k r u p t c y o f t h e b o u r g e o i s r e a c t i o n a r y l i n e a n d r e k i n d l e d t h e r a g i n g f l a m e s o f t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n . A s s o o n a s n e w t h i n g s s u c h a s t h e R e d G u a r d s a n d t h e e x t e n s i v e e x c h a n g e o f r e v o l u t i o n a r y e x p e r i e n c e a p p e a r e d o n t h e h o r i z o n , C h a i r m a n M a o f i r m l y s u p p o r t e d t h e m . T h e R e d G u a r d s o f t h e c a p i t a l p l a y e d t h e i r r o l e i n a r o u s i n g t h e s t r u g g l e a g a i n s t t h e b o u r ­g e o i s r e a c t i o n a r y l i n e i n a l l p a r t s o f t h e c o u n t r y . H e r e i n P e k i n g , C h a i r m a n M a o a n d h i s c l o s e c o m r a d e - i n - a r m s , C o m ­r a d e L i n P i a o , r e c e i v e d m o r e t h a n t e n m i l l i o n R e d G u a r d s a n d r e v o l u t i o n a r y t e a c h e r s a n d s t u d e n t s , g i v i n g t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s t r e m e n d o u s e n c o u r a g e m e n t a n d s t r e n g t h . T h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s i n t h e c a p i t a l , u p h o l d i n g t h e p r o l e ­t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r y l i n e a n d d i s p l a y i n g t h e s p i r i t o f d a r i n g t o t h i n k , s p e a k , a c t , v e n t u r e a n d m a k e r e v o l u t i o n , s m a s h e d t h e w h i t e t e r r o r o f t h e b o u r g e o i s r e a c t i o n a r y l i n e , b e a t b a c k i t s

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n u m e r o u s c o u n t e r - a t t a c k s a n d w a g e d s t r u g g l e s a g a i n s t t h e h a n d f u l o f P a r t y p e o p l e i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d . I n e x t r e m e l y a c u t e , c o m p l i c a t e d a n d t o r t u o u s s t r u g g l e s , t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s w o n o n e v i c t o r y a f t e r a n o t h e r .

I n S h a n g h a i , t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s s t a r t e d t h e s t o r m o f t h e " J a n u a r y R e v o l u t i o n " . I n r e s p o n s e t o C h a i r m a n M a o ' s c a l l , t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s i n t h e c a p i t a l l a u n c h e d a s t r u g g l e f r o m b e l o w t o s e i z e p o w e r f r o m t h e h a n d f u l o f P a r t y p e o p l e i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d . C r o w n i n g a c o n s i d e r a b l e p e r i o d o f p r e p a r a t i o n , d e l i b e r a t i o n s a n d c o n s u l ­t a t i o n , t h e C o n g r e s s o f R e d G u a r d s o f U n i v e r s i t i e s a n d C o l l e g e s , t h e C o n f e r e n c e o f R e p r e s e n t a t i v e s o f R e v o l u t i o n a r y W o r k e r s a n d S t a f f , t h e C o n f e r e n c e o f R e p r e s e n t a t i v e s o f P o o r a n d L o w e r - M i d d l e P e a s a n t s a n d t h e C o n g r e s s o f R e d G u a r d s o f M i d d l e S c h o o l s w e r e s u c c e s s i v e l y c o n v e n e d i n P e k i n g . T h e P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l R e v o l u t i o n a r y C o m m i t t e e — t h e P e k i n g m u n i c i p a l p r o v i s i o n a l o r g a n o f p o w e r — w a s e s t a b l i s h e d o n t h e b a s i s o f t h e g r e a t a l l i a n c e o f p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s a n d i n a c c o r d a n c e w i t h t h e p o l i c y o f r e v o l u t i o n a r y " t h r e e - i n - o n e " c o m b i n a t i o n p u t f o r w a r d b y C h a i r m a n M a o . T h i s i s a t r e ­m e n d o u s v i c t o r y f o r t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n , f o r C h a i r m a n M a o ' s p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r y l i n e a n d f o r t h e i n v i n c i b l e t h o u g h t o f M a o T s e - t u n g .

C o m r a d e s a n d c o m r a d e s - i n - a r m s , w h i l e j u b i l a n t l y c e l e ­b r a t i n g t h e f o u n d i n g o f t h e P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l R e v o l u t i o n a r y C o m m i t t e e , w e m u s t b e a r i n m i n d Chairman Mao's instruction: "You should pay attention to state affairs and carry the great proletarian cultural revolution through to the end!"^

T h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n i n i t i a t e d a n d l e d b y C h a i r m a n M a o h i m s e l f i s a g r e a t p i o n e e r i n g u n d e r t a k i n g i n t h e i n t e r n a t i o n a l c o m m u n i s t m o v e m e n t . A f t e r t h e p r o l e t a r i a t w i n p o l i t i c a l p o w e r i n t h e c o u n t r y , t h e r e s i s t a n c e o f t h e b o u r ­g e o i s i e i n v a r i a b l y g r o w s t e n f o l d , w h i l e t h e y d r e a m o f r e c o v e r -

1 Chairman Mao met revolutionary masses in Peking on August 10, 1966.

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ing their lost "paradise". For quite a long time, they continue to retain a considerable political potential and still, to a con­siderable extent, have the upper hand in the ideological and cultural fields in particular. The proletariat, therefore, face an extremely important new problem of whether they are able to maintain and consolidate political power, prevent a capitalist restoration and carry the socialist revolution through to the end. The Marxist-Leninists who preceded us either did not live to solve this problem or were unable to do so. In Yugo­slavia, and then in the Soviet Union and certain other coun­tries, capitalism was restored through "peaceful evolution". In China, since the dictatorship of the proletariat was establish­ed in 1949, Chairman Mao has led us in waging a series of important struggles against the bourgeoisie on the political, economic, ideological and cultural fronts. For instance: the struggle in 1954 against the anti-Party alliance of Kao Kang and Jao Shu-shih, bourgeois agents who had wormed their way into the Party; the struggle in 1959 against the Right op­portunist anti-Party clique; the struggles on transformation of the system of ownership, namely, regarding state-private joint enterprises, agricultural co-operation, and the people's communes; the struggle against the Rightists on the political and ideological fronts; and the criticism and repudiation on the ideological and cultural front of the film The Life of Wu Hsun,^ Studies of "The Dream of the Red Chamber",^ the reactionary thinking of Hu Shih and Hu Feng, Yang Hsien-

^ The Life of Wu Hsun was a most pernicious counter-revolutionary film which fervently praised the landlord class and its lackeys, frenzied-ly advocated the most shameless slavishness and capitulationism, and maliciously slandered the peasants' revolutionary struggles. Wu Hsun (1838-96) was a landlord's toady w h o m the f i lm turned into a "great man" willing to sacrifice himself to provide poor peasant children with a chance to study. — Tr.

2 Studies of "The Dream of the Red Chamber" is a book which evaluates the classical novel from the bourgeois idealist and formallstic point of v iew and uses bourgeois methods of scholastic textual re­search. — Tr.

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C h e n ' s t h e o r y o f " t w o c o m b i n i n g i n t o o n e " , a n d s o o n . A l l t h e s e w e r e s t r u g g l e s w a g e d b y t h e p r o l e t a r i a t u n d e r t h e l e a d e r ­s h i p o f C h a i r m a n M a o h i m s e l f a g a i n s t t h e b o u r g e o i s i e , s t r u g ­g l e s w a g e d b y t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r y l i n e r e p r e s e n t e d b y C h a i r m a n M a o a g a i n s t t h e b o u r g e o i s r e a c t i o n a r y l i n e r e p r e ­s e n t e d b y t h e t o p P a r t y p e r s o n i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l ­i s t r o a d . T h e c u r r e n t g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n i s a b i g a n d d e c i s i v e b a t t l e , a g e n e r a l o f f e n s i v e a g a i n s t t h e i d e ­o l o g y o f t h e b o u r g e o i s i e a n d a l l t h e e x p l o i t i n g c l a s s e s . H u n d r e d s o f m i l l i o n s o f p e o p l e h a v e b e e n a r o u s e d i n a r e v o l u t i o n t o s w e e p c l e a n f r o m b e l o w a l l t h e b o u r g e o i s r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s w h o h a v e w o r m e d t h e i r w a y i n t o t h e P a r t y , g o v e r n m e n t a n d a r m y . O n l y s u c h a g r e a t M a r x i s t - L e n i n i s t a s o u r g r e a t l e a d e r C h a i r ­m a n M a o , w i t h h i s u n i q u e M a r x i s t - L e n i n i s t w i s d o m , h i s e x ­t r e m e l y r i c h e x p e r i e n c e o f s t r u g g l e a n d h i s s u p r e m e c o u r a g e a n d d a r i n g , c o u l d l a u n c h s u c h a w o r l d - s h a k i n g m a s s m o v e m e n t o n s u c h a g i a n t s c a l e . T h e s t r u g g l e t o s e i z e p o w e r i s t h e i n ­e v i t a b l e o u t c o m e o f t h e s t r u g g l e b e t w e e n t h e t w o c l a s s e s [ t h e p r o l e t a r i a t a n d t h e b o u r g e o i s i e ] , t h e t w o r o a d s [ t h e r o a d o f s o c i a l i s m a n d t h e r o a d o f c a p i t a l i s m ] a n d t h e t w o l i n e s [ t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r y l i n e a n d t h e b o u r g e o i s r e a c t i o n a r y -l i n e ] . O n l y b y o v e r t h r o w i n g t h e h a n d f u l o f P a r t y p e o p l e i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d , s e i z i n g p o w e r f r o m t h e m , d i s m i s s i n g t h e m f r o m o f f i c e , a n d p l a c i n g p o l i t i c a l p o w e r i n t h e h a n d s o f s t a u n c h p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s , i s i t p o s s i b l e t o c a r r y t h e s o c i a l i s t r e v o l u t i o n t h r o u g h t o t h e e n d , u p r o o t r e v i ­s i o n i s m , p r e v e n t c a p i t a l i s t r e s t o r a t i o n a n d g u a r a n t e e t h a t o u r s t a t e w i l l n e v e r c h a n g e c o l o u r . T h e m o v e m e n t f o r e x t e n s i v e d e m o c r a c y u n d e r t h e d i c t a t o r s h i p o f t h e p r o l e t a r i a t a n d t h e s t r u g g l e f r o m b e l o w t o s e i z e p o w e r f r o m t h o s e P a r t y p e o p l e i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d h a v e a s t h e i r p u r p o s e t h e d e f e n d i n g o f t h e f r u i t s o f v i c t o r y a l r e a d y w o n b y t h e p r o l e t a ­r i a t a n d p u s h i n g f o r w a r d t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n . T h i s i s n o t o n l y n e c e s s a r y a t p r e s e n t ; i t w i l l a l s o be s o i n t h e f u t u r e . T h i s i s a s i g n a l d e v e l o p m e n t o f M a r x i s m - L e n i n i s m b y C h a i r -

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man Mao, one of equal importance and greatness with Marx's founding of scientific socialism and Lenin's founding of the theory of the seizure of political power by the proletariat in a single country.

Now the proletarian revolutionaries of the whole country are launching a new upsurge in the mass movement to thoroughly criticize and repudiate the top Party persons in authority taking the capitalist road. This is a big and decisive battle in the great proletarian cultural revolution. The top Party persons in authority taking the capitalist road are the chief bosses of revisionism in China. The handful of Party people in authority taking the capitalist road in certain locali­ties and certain departments are the backbone of the forces they rely upon in pushing ahead the counter-revolutionary revisionist line. Thorough criticism and repudiation of the top Party persons in authority taking the capitalist road is the most important fighting task at present. We must firmly hold to this general orientation, boldly arouse the masses in a wide­spread movement for all-round criticism and repudiation politically, ideologically and theoretically, and thoroughly liq­uidate and eliminate the revisionist poison they have spread in various fields.

The handful of top Party persons in authority taking the capitalist road are the behind-the-scene bosses of the counter­revolutionary revisionist clique in the old Peking Municipal Party Committee! We must centre our criticism and repudia­tion on them and thereby overthrow, refute and thoroughly discredit the counter-revolutionary revisionist clique in the old Peking Municipal Party Committee and the handful of Party people in authority taking the capitalist road, and recapture all the positions they have usurped. We must respond to the great call of Chairman Mao, hold high the revolutionary banner of criticism and repudiation, and plunge boldly into the battle to thoroughly smash the bourgeois reactionary line.

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In order to attack the forces of the counter-revolution, what the revolutionary forces need today is to organize millions upon millions of the masses and move a mighty revolutionary army into action.^

We must further extend and consolidate the great alliance of proletarian revolutionaries in the course of this great rev­olutionary mass movement of criticism and repudiation. All proletarian revolutionaries should fight side by side and to­gether get a better grasp of Mao Tse-tung's thought in order to achieve the common objective of criticizing and repudiating the top Party persons in authority taking the capitalist road and the counter-revolutionary revisionist clique of the old Peking Municipal Party Committee. Comrade Lin Piao has pointed out:

We must regard ourselves as an integral part of the rev­olutionary force and, at the same time, constantly regard ourselves as a target of the revolution. In making revolu­tion, we must also revolutionize ourselves. Without revolu­tionizing ourselves, we cannot succeed in making this revolution.

In transforming the objective world, proletarian revolution­aries should, at the same time, ceaselessly transform their own subjective world. We should, in the course of this revolution­ary mass movement of criticism and repudiation, engage in a rectification campaign while carrying on the fight, eliminate self-interest and put public interest first, overcome the tend­ency to seek the limelight, the mountain-stronghold mentality, the "small group" mentality, liberalism, anarchism, in­dividualism and other non-proletarian ideas, strengthen our proletarian revolutionary spirit, scientific approach and sense of organization and discipline. Divergent views among the different revolutionary mass organizations should be resolved

' M a o T s e - t u n g , "On Tact i c s A g a i n s t J a p a n e s e Imper ia l i sm" , S e l e c t e d Works, FLP, Pek ing , 1965, Vol . 1, p . 165.

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b y t h e m e t h o d o f r e c t i f i c a t i o n i n p u b h c , m a i n l y b y s e l f - c r i t i ­c i s m . D i v e r g e n t v i e w s s h o u l d n o t l e a d t o t h e f i g h t i n g o f " c i v i l w a r s " , t h e r e b y c o n f u s i n g t h e g e n e r a l o r i e n t a t i o n o f s t r u g g l e a n d e v e n g i v i n g t h e e n e m y t h e c h a n c e t o s a b o t a g e o u r g r e a t a l l i a n c e a n d g r e a t u n i t y . W e m u s t n o t a l l o w t h e h a n d f u l o f P a r t y p e o p l e i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d t o t a k e a d v a n t a g e o f t h e r e c t i f i c a t i o n c a m p a i g n t o a t t a c k a n d s t r u g ­g l e a g a i n s t p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s . L i k e w i s e , t h e c o n ­s e r v a t i v e s s h o u l d n o t b e a l l o w e d t o u s e t h e f o r m i n g o f t h e g r e a t a l l i a n c e a s a p r e t e x t f o r w e a k e n i n g t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s , r e p r e s s i n g t h e m a n d e v e n s w a l l o w i n g t h e m u p . C h a i r m a n Mao teaches u s : W e m u s t w o r k conscientiously to unite a l l those w h o c a n be united. T h e proletariat m u s t e m a n ­cipate not o n l y itself but also m a n k i n d as a w h o l e . W i t h o u t emancipating the w h o l e of m a n k i n d the proletariat cannot f i n a l ­l y emancipate itself. W e m u s t u n i t e t h e g r e a t m a j o r i t y o f t h e c a d r e s a n d t h e m a s s e s . T h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s s h o u l d n o t d i s c r i m i n a t e a g a i n s t o r e x c l u d e t h o s e p e o p l e w h o w e r e h o o d w i n k e d b y t h e b o u r g e o i s r e a c t i o n a r y l i n e . T h e p r o l e ­t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s s h o u l d , i n t h e s t r u g g l e t o c r i t i c i z e a n d r e p u d i a t e t h e P a r t y p e o p l e i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d , p a t i e n t l y a r o u s e t h e c l a s s c o n s c i o u s n e s s o f t h e h o o d ­w i n k e d p e o p l e , a r d e n t l y h e l p t h e m c o r r e c t t h e i r m i s t a k e s , a n d u n i t e w i t h t h e m i n m a k i n g r e v o l u t i o n . O f c o u r s e , t h e p r o l e ­t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s m u s t n o t u n i t e w i t h s u c h r e a c t i o n a r y o r g a n i z a t i o n s a s t h e " U n i t e d A c t i o n C o m m i t t e e " a n d i t s l i k e . T h e d i c t a t o r s h i p o f t h e p r o l e t a r i a t m u s t b e e x e r c i s e d o v e r s u c h o r g a n i z a t i o n s a n d t h e i r c h i e f s , w h i l e t h e i r m e m b e r s h i p m u s t b e d i s s o l v e d a n d r a n k - a n d - f i l e m e m b e r s t r e a t e d d i f ­f e r e n t l y .

I n c o n n e c t i o n w i t h t h i s r e v o l u t i o n a r y m a s s m o v e m e n t o f c r i t i c i s m a n d r e p u d i a t i o n , w e s h o u l d f u r t h e r i m p l e m e n t t h e p o l i c y o f t h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y " t h r e e - i n - o n e " c o m b i n a t i o n a d ­v a n c e d b y C h a i r m a n M a o . T h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y " t h r e e - i n - o n e " c o m b i n a t i o n m u s t t a k e t h e g r e a t a l l i a n c e o f t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v ­o l u t i o n a r i e s a s i t s b a s i s a n d b e f o r m e d s t e p b y s t e p a s t h e r e v o -

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lutionary mass struggle develops. Only the masses can decide which cadres can join the revolutionary "three-in-one" combi­nation; under no circumstances can cadres determine this them­selves. Every revolutionary cadre should take an active part in this mass movement of criticism and repudiation, actively criticize and repudiate the top Party persons in authority taking the capitalist road, thoroughly expose the counter-revo­lutionary revisionist clique of the old Peking Municipal Party Committee, completely break with them, seriously criticize himself and correct his own errors and accept supervision and testing by the revolutionary masses. The proletarian revolu­tionaries should put stress on the criticism and repudiation of "hitting hard at many in order to protect a handful", that in­tegral part of the bourgeois reactionary line; they should en­courage all cadres willing to make revolution to rise up in revolution and bring about the revolutionary "three-in-one" combination in the course of the struggle. Such a revolutionary "three-in-one" combination can prevent bad cadres from using the combination as a pretext to fish in troubled waters, coimter-attack in revenge or attempt to realize a counter-revolutionary capitalist restoration. The great majority of cadres in the Pe ­king municipality are good or comparatively good. Many of them, such as Wu Teh, Liu Chien-hsun, and other comrades, have begun to stand on the side of the proletarian revolution­aries. We are confident that in the forthcoming struggle they will be able to pass the test, temper themselves and continue to make worthy contributions to the revolution.

Through this revolutionary mass movement of criticism and repudiation, we should mobilize the masses more fully, carry out still better the policy of "taking firm hold of the revolution and promoting production", exert greater efforts in going all out, aiming high and striving for the fulfilment and over­fulfilment of the 1967 industrial and agricultural production plans.

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the creative study and application of Chairman Mao's works in a more thoroughgoing way. Mao Tse-tung's thought has de­veloped in the struggle against diverse opportunist lines, es­pecially in the struggle against the bourgeois reactionary line represented by the top Party person in authority taking the capitalist road. We will be able to grasp and master Mao Tse-tung's thought more thoroughly if we make full use of the handful of top Party persons in authority taking the capitalist road as teachers by negative example and criticize and repu­diate the bourgeois reactionary line thoroughly from every aspect.

Comrades and comrades-in-arms, in reviewing the past and looking forward to the future, we have come to understand more deeply that holding high the great red banner of Mao Tse-tung's thought and giving prominence to proletarian poli­tics are the basic guarantee for carrying the great proletarian cultural revolution through to the end and fulfilling all tasks. Chairman Mao is the greatest Marxist-Leninist of our era. He has inherited, defended and developed Marxism-Leninism with genius, creatively and comprehensively and has brought it to a higher and completely new stage. Mao Tse-tung's thought is Marxism-Leninism at its highest level in the present era, is the most powerful ideological weapon of the proletariat and is our spiritual atom bomb. We proletarian revolutionaries cher­ish Mao Tse-tung's thought with boundless love, faith, admira­tion and loyalty. We must resolutely respond to Comrade Lin Piao's call: "Study Chairman Mao's writings, follow his teachings, act according to his instructions and be his good fighters." We will fly the great red banner of Mao Tse-tung's thought over every factory, commune, shop, school, govern­ment institution, street and every inch of land in the capital. We will build Peking, the people's capital, into the reddest revolutionary city shining always with the radiance of Mao Tse-tung's thought.

Let us hail: Long live the great proletarian cultural revolution!

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L o n g l i v e t h e v i c t o r y o f t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r y l i n e r e p r e s e n t e d b y C h a i r m a n M a o !

L o n g l i v e t h e d i c t a t o r s h i p o f t h e p r o l e t a r i a t ! L o n g l i v e t h e g r e a t , g l o r i o u s a n d c o r r e c t C o m m u n i s t P a r t y

o f C h i n a ! L o n g l i v e t h e a l l - i l l u m i n a t i n g a n d i n v i n c i b l e t h o u g h t o f

M a o T s e - t u n g ! L o n g l i v e o u r g r e a t l e a d e r C h a i r m a n M a o ! A l o n g , l o n g l i f e

t o h i m !

S P E E C H B Y C O M R A D E C H A N G C H U N - C H I A O O N B E H A L F O F T H E D E L E G A T I O N S O F

T H E R E V O L U T I O N A R Y C O M M I T T E E S I N F O U R P R O V I N C E S A N D O N E M U N I C I P A L I T Y

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R e v o l u t i o n a r y c o m r a d e s , c o m r a d e s - i n - a r m s ,

T h e P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l R e v o l u t i o n a r y C o m m i t t e e h a s f o r ­m a l l y c o m e i n t o e x i s t e n c e t o d a y . T h i s i s a m a g n i f i c e n t f e s t i v a l f o r t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s i n P e k i n g , a n d a l s o f o r t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s t h r o u g h o u t t h e c o u n t r y . W e , d e l ­e g a t i o n s o f t h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y c o m m i t t e e s i n t h e p r o v i n c e s o f S h a n s i , K w e i c h o w , H e i l u n g k i a n g , S h a n t u n g a n d t h e m u n i c i ­p a l i t y o f S h a n g h a i , a r e e x t r e m e l y h a p p y t o h a v e b e e n i n v i t e d t o a t t e n d t h i s r a l l y . E n t r u s t e d b y t h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y c o m m i t t e e s a n d r e v o l u t i o n a r y p e o p l e i n t h e s e p r o v i n c e s a n d m u n i c i p a l i t y , w e e x t e n d o u r h e a r t i e s t c o n g r a t u l a t i o n s a n d g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n a r y s a l u t a t i o n s t o t h e P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l R e v o l u t i o n a r y C o m m i t t e e a n d t h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y c o m r a d e s - i n ­a r m s i n P e k i n g !

C o m r a d e s , c o m r a d e s - i n - a r m s , P e k i n g i s w h e r e o u r g r e a t l e a d e r C h a i r m a n M a o l i v e s ; i t i s t h e c a p i t a l o f o u r g r e a t m o t h e r l a n d a n d t h e c e n t r e o f o u r p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n . I n t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n , t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u ­t i o n a r i e s o f P e k i n g , u n d e r t h e d i r e c t l e a d e r s h i p o f t h e P a r t y C e n t r a l C o m m i t t e e h e a d e d b y C h a i r m a n M a o , h a v e m a r c h e d i n t h e v a n o f t h e b a t t l e a n d m a d e e x c e p t i o n a l c o n t r i b u t i o n s

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a n d g i v e n o u t s t a n d i n g m e r i t o r i o u s s e r v i c e t o t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a ­r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n o f t h e c o u n t r y a s a w h o l e . W i t h t h e d a u n t l e s s r e v o l u t i o n a r y s p i r i t o f t h e p r o l e t a r i a t , y o u h a v e l a u n c h e d s t r o n g a t t a c k s o n t h e c o u n t e r - r e v o l u t i o n a r y r e v i s i o n ­i s t c l i q u e o f t h e f o r m e r P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l P a r t y C o m m i t t e e a n d s c o r e d t h e f i r s t g r e a t v i c t o r y i n t h e s t r u g g l e a g a i n s t t h e h a n d ­f u l o f P a r t y p e o p l e i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d . Y o u h a v e c o n t r i b u t e d t h e f i r s t M a r x i s t - L e n i n i s t b i g - c h a r a c t e r p o s t ­e r i n t h e w h o l e c o u n t r y a n d i n i t i a t e d t h e w o r l d - s h a k i n g m o v e ­m e n t o f t h e R e d G u a r d s . Y o u h a v e w a r m - h e a r t e d l y r e c e i v e d m o r e t h a n t e n m i l l i o n y o u n g r e v o l u t i o n a r y f i g h t e r s w h o c a m e t o P e k i n g t o e x c h a n g e r e v o l u t i o n a r y e x p e r i e n c e s , a n d y o u h a v e s e n t o u t t h o u s a n d s u p o n t h o u s a n d s o f R e d G u a r d f i g h t e r s a l l o v e r t h e c o u n t r y , w h o h a v e t a k e n u p C h a i r m a n M a o ' s c a l l a n d t h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y s t y l e o f d a r i n g t o t h i n k , s p e a k o u t , a c t , v e n ­t u r e a n d m a k e r e v o l u t i o n t o e v e r y p a r t o f C h i n a a n d , t o g e t h e r w i t h t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s i n t h e v a r i o u s l o c a l i t i e s , s p r e a d t h e b l a z i n g f i r e o f t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u ­t i o n a l l o v e r t h e c o u n t r y . E v e r y v i c t o r y i n t h e g r e a t c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n i n o u r p r o v i n c e s a n d m u n i c i p a l i t y i s i n s e p a r a b l e f r o m t h e a l l - o u t s u p p o r t g i v e n b y t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n ­a r i e s i n P e k i n g a n d t h e h e r o i c f i g h t i n g o f t h e y o u n g R e d G u a r d f i g h t e r s f r o m P e k i n g . H e r e w e o n c e a g a i n e x t e n d o u r h e a r t ­f e l t t h a n k s t o t h e c o m r a d e s a n d c o m r a d e s - i n - a r m s .

O u r g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n i s i n t h e h i g h - t i d e o f t h e s t r u g g l e o f t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s t o s e i z e p o w e r o n t h e b a s i s o f t h e i r a l l i a n c e . A l l - o u t c r i t i c i s m a n d r e p u d i a ­t i o n o f t h e t o p P a r t y p e o p l e i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d i s s t a r t i n g t h r o u g h o u t t h e c o u n t r y . T h e e s t a b l i s h m e n t o f t h e P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l R e v o l u t i o n a r y C o m m i t t e e a t t h i s i m p o r ­t a n t j u n c t u r e i s a n i m m e n s e e n c o u r a g e m e n t t o p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s a l l o v e r t h e l a n d . W e a r e f u l l y c o n f i d e n t t h a t b o r n o f r e v o l u t i o n a r y s t r u g g l e , t h i s p r o v i s i o n a l o r g a n o f p o w e r w h i c h i s r e v o l u t i o n a r y , r e p r e s e n t a t i v e a n d h a s p r o l e t a r i a n r e v ­o l u t i o n a r y a u t h o r i t y , w i l l b e a b l e t o l e a d t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o ­l u t i o n a r i e s o f t h e c a p i t a l f o r w a r d t o c o n t i n u e t h e i r m a r c h i n

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the van of the battle for the great cultural revolution in China and make still more brilliant contributions to the complete vic­tory of the great cultural revolution in the capital and the country as a whole. We are also fully confident that this provisional organ of power will be able to build our capital into a great school for the creative study and application of Mao Tse-tung's thought, a capital which will never change its colour, a model for t he whole country and an example for the world.

Comrades-in-arms, we are all Chairman Mao's fighters, firing at a common enemy from the same trench. While in Peking, we, the provincial and municipal delegations, have gained much excellent experience, particularly the new experience you have created in the process of bringing about the revolu­tionary great alliance and the revolutionary "three-in-one" combination and your new experience of establishing the Conference of Representatives of Revolutionary Workers and Staff, the Congresses of Red Guards of Universities and Col­leges, and of Middle Schools, and the Conference of Repre­sentatives of Poor and Lower-Middle Peasants. Today we have heard Comrade Hsieh Fu-chih's report and speeches by com­rades in other fields. We will continue to learn from you. You too will certainly continue to help us as you have done in the past. Let us march forward heroically, shoulder to shoulder, under the leadership of Chairman Mao and the guidance of the great red banner of Mab Tse-tung's thought and strive for the complete victory of the proletarian revolutionary line rep­resented by Chairman Mao, for the complete victory of the great proletarian cultural revolution and for new victories in the socialist revolution and construction!

Long live the victory of the great proletarian cultural revo­lution!

Long live the dictatorship of the proletariat! Long live the Communist Par ty of China! Long live Chairman Mao! A long, long life to him!

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HAIL THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PEKING MUNICIPAL REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE

E d i t o r i a l of Renmin Ribao {People's Daily), A p r i l 21, 1967

The formation of the Peking Municipal Revolutionary Com­mittee has been proclaimed in the storms of the unprecedented great proletarian cultural revolution in the new upsurge of the mass movement thoroughly to criticize and repudiate the No. 1 Party person in authority taking the capitalist road, and with the warm attention and guidance of our great leader Chairman Mao!

This is a new paean of victory for the ever-tr iumphant thought of Mao Tse-tung.

It is a great victory for the proletarian revolutionary line represented by Chairman Mao, a great victory of momentous significance in the struggle waged by China's proletarian revolutionaries to seize power! We should treasure this victory. Let us hail this victory, celebrate it, consolidate it and extend it!

Displaying a revolutionary pioneering spirit, the proletarian revolutionaries of Peking after some ample preparations con­vened the Conferences of Representatives of Revolutionary Workers and Staff, and of Poor and Lower-Middle Peasants, the Congresses of Red Guards of Universities and Colleges, and of Middle Schools, and brought into being the great alliance of proletarian revolutionaries of the whole city. Supported and helped by the powerful Chinese People's Liberation Army and in accordance with the principle of a revolutionary "three-in-one" combination put forward by Chairman Mao, the Peking

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M u n i c i p a l R e v o l u t i o n a r y C o m m i t t e e h a s b e e n f o r m e d a s a p r o ­v i s i o n a l o r g a n o f p o w e r w h i c h i s t r u l y r e v o l u t i o n a r y a n d r e p r e s e n t a t i v e , h a v i n g p r o l e t a r i a n a u t h o r i t y .

P e k i n g i s t h e l o c a t i o n o f t h e s u p r e m e c o m m a n d o f C h i n a ' s p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n . I t i s t h e h o p e a n d b e a c o n o f l i b e r a t i o n f o r t h e o p p r e s s e d n a t i o n s a n d p e o p l e s a l l o v e r t h e w o r l d . I t i s h e r e t h a t t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r y t e a c h e r C h a i r ­m a n M a o l e a d s C h i n a ' s s o c i a l i s t r e v o l u t i o n a n d s o c i a l i s t c o n ­s t r u c t i o n . T h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y p e o p l e o f t h e c a p i t a l w h o a r e a r m e d w i t h t h e t h o u g h t o f M a o T s e - t u n g , a r e d e t e r m i n e d t o b u i l d P e k i n g i n t o t h e s o c i a l i s t r e d b u l w a r k o f t h e d i c t a t o r s h i p o f t h e p r o l e t a r i a t .

H o w e v e r , t h e h a n d f u l o f c o u n t e r - r e v o l u t i o n a r y r e v i s i o n i s t s i n t h e o l d P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l P a r t y C o m m i t t e e , u n d e r t h e d i r e c t c o m m a n d a n d s u p p o r t o f t h e N o . 1 P a r t y p e r s o n i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d , t r i e d i n a h u n d r e d a n d o n e w a y s t o t u r n P e k i n g i n t o a b a s e f o r n a t i o n w i d e r e s t o r a t i o n o f c a p i t a l i s m .

I f t h e p r o l e t a r i a t h a d n o t f i r m l y s m a s h e d t h e s c h e m e s o f t h e s e r e v i s i o n i s t s , t h i n g s w o u l d h a v e h a p p e n e d a s Chairman Mao pointed out:

[it would not take long . . . before] a counter-revolu­tionary restoration on a national scale inevitably occurred, the Marxist-Leninist party would undoubtedly become a revisionist party or a fascist party, and the whole of China would change its colour.

D a r k c l o u d s c a n n o t o b s c u r e t h e r e s p l e n d e n t s u n o f M a o T s e - t u n g ' s t h o u g h t . T h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y m a s s e s a n d r e v o l u ­t i o n a r y c a d r e s i n P e k i n g i n t h e i r g l o r i o u s r e v o l u t i o n a r y t r a d i ­t i o n h a v e i n t h e p a s t s e v e n t e e n y e a r s a d h e r e d t o t h e p r o l e t a ­r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r y l i n e o f C h a i r m a n M a o a n d t h e s o c i a l i s t r o a d , a n d h a v e c o n s i s t e n t l y c o n d u c t e d r e s o l u t e s t r u g g l e s a g a i n s t t h i s g a n g o f r e v i s i o n i s t s .

iFrom O n Khrushchov's Phoney Communism and I t s H i s t o r i c a l Lessons for the W o r l d , F L P , Peking, 1964, p. 72.

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I n June our h e a v e n l y troops w a g e toar o n f e s t e r i n g e v i l , T h e i r t e n - l e a g u e cord will c a p t u r e k u n a n d peng}

I n i t i a t e d a n d l e d b y o u r g r e a t l e a d e r C h a i r m a n M a o h i m s e l f , t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n o p e n e d u p w i t h f u l l v i g o u r i n P e k i n g .

T h e P e k i n g p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s h u r l e d d o w n t h e c o u n t e r - r e v o l u t i o n a r y r e v i s i o n i s t c l i q u e o f t h e o l d P e k i n g M u ­n i c i p a l P a r t y C o m m i t t e e w i t h t h e m o m e n t u m o f a l a n d s l i d e . T h e P a r t y C e n t r a l C o m m i t t e e h e a d e d b y C h a i r m a n M a o h a s d i s m i s s e d t h e s e r e v i s i o n i s t s f r o m t h e i r p o s t s .

P e k i n g i s t h e c e n t r e a n d b i r t h p l a c e o f t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n . E v e r y b a t t l e h e r e a f f e c t s t h e p r o g r e s s o f t h e m o v e m e n t o f t h e w h o l e c o u n t r y . B e a r i n g i n m i n d Chair­man Mao's teaching, "You should pay attention to state affairs and carry the great proletarian cultural revolution through to the end" a n d f i r m l y s t a n d i n g o n t h e s i d e o f t h e r e v o l u t i o n ­a r y l i n e o f C h a i r m a n M a o , t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s o f t h e c a p i t a l h a v e c o n t r i b u t e d t r e m e n d o u s l y t o t h e g r e a t p r o ­l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n t h r o u g h o u t t h e c o u n t r y .

P e k i n g p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s p u t u p t h e f i r s t M a r x i s t -L e n i n i s t b i g - c h a r a c t e r p o s t e r , t o u c h i n g o f f t h e o p e n i n g s a l v o o f t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n . T h e y s t a r t e d t h e w o r l d - s h a k i n g R e d G u a r d m o v e m e n t , w i t h i t s d a u n t l e s s r e v o ­l u t i o n a r y r e b e l s p i r i t t o w a s h a w a y a l l t h e m i r e o f t h e e x p l o i t ­i n g c l a s s e s . T h e y r o s e i n c r i t i c i s m a n d r e p u d i a t i o n o f t h e h a n d f u l o f t o p P a r t y p e r s o n s i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d a n d o f t h e b o u r g e o i s r e a c t i o n a r y l i n e l a i d d o w n b y t h e s e p e r s o n s a n d o f t h e s a m e l i n e e x e c u t e d b y t h e n e w P e k i n g M u ­n i c i p a l P a r t y C o m m i t t e e . T h e y t i m e a n d a g a i n d e f e a t e d t h e w i l d c o u n t e r - a t t a c k s o f t h e b o u r g e o i s r e a c t i o n a r y l i n e a n d c r e a t e d a n e w u p s u r g e i n t h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y c a m p a i g n o f e x t e n ­s i v e c r i t i c i s m a n d r e p u d i a t i o n .

iFrom Chairman Mao's poem M a r c h f r o m T i n g c h o w t o C h a n g s h a — to t h e m e l o d y of " T i e h L i e n H u a " .

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A l l t h e s e s u c c e s s e s o f t h e P e k i n g p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s w e r e m a d e u n d e r t h e c l o s e a t t e n t i o n a n d d i r e c t g u i d a n c e o f o u r g r e a t l e a d e r C h a i r m a n M a o .

" T h e people, a n d the people alone, a r e the m o t i v e force i n the m a k i n g of w o r l d history."^ T h e p r a c t i c e o f t h e g r e a t p r o ­l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n i n P e k i n g s h o w s t h a t w e c a n d e f i n i t e l y o v e r c o m e a n y o b s t a c l e , d e f e a t a l l e n e m i e s a n d i m ­p e l h i s t o r y f o r w a r d a s l o n g a s w e r e s o l u t e l y t r u s t t h e m a s s e s , r e l y u p o n t h e m , a r o u s e t h e m w i t h f r e e h a n d s a n d r e s p e c t t h e i r i n i t i a t i v e .

P e k i n g m a r c h e s f o r w a r d , C h i n a m a r c h e s f o r w a r d , t h e r e v o ­l u t i o n m a r c h e s f o r w a r d .

T h e s i t u a t i o n i s e x c e l l e n t f o r u s . T h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u ­t i o n a r y l i n e r e p r e s e n t e d b y C h a i r m a n M a o h a s a l r e a d y a c h i e v e d a d e c i s i v e v i c t o r y . B u t t h e c l a s s e n e m y h a s n o t g i v e n u p i t s v a i n a t t e m p t s o f s t u b b o r n r e s i s t a n c e . W e s t i l l h a v e p r o b ­l e m s o f o n e k i n d o r a n o t h e r i n o u r o w n r a n k s . T h e r e w i l l s t i l l b e t w i s t s a n d t u r n s i n o u r s t r u g g l e ; w e s t i l l h a v e a l o n g w a y t o g o a n d o u r t a s k s a r e s t i l l h e a v y .

I n t h e p r e s e n t s t a g e i n w h i c h t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s a r e f o r m i n g a n a l l i a n c e t o s e i z e p o w e r , t h e f i g h t i n g t a s k f a c i n g t h e p e o p l e o f P e k i n g a n d t h e w h o l e c o u n t r y i s f o r t h e m t o h o l d h i g h t h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y b a n n e r o f M a o T s e - t u n g ' s t h o u g h t i n c r i t i c i s m a n d r e p u d i a t i o n , p e n e t r a t i n g l y a n d t h o r o u g h l y c r i t i c i z e , o v e r t h r o w a n d c o m p l e t e l y d i s c r e d i t p o l i t i c a l l y , i d e o ­l o g i c a l l y a n d t h e o r e t i c a l l y t h e h a n d f u l o f t o p P a r t y p e r s o n s i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d a n d t h e b o u r g e o i s r e a c ­t i o n a r y l i n e t h e y a d v a n c e d a n d p e r s i s t e d i n , a s w e l l a s t h a t b i g p o i s o n o u s w e e d , t h e b o o k o n " s e l f - c u l t i v a t i o n " . W e m u s t t a k e a s o u r c e n t r a l t a s k t h e c r i t i c i s m a n d r e p u d i a t i o n o f t h e f e w t o p P a r t y p e r s o n s i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d , c o m ­b i n e i t w i t h t h e c r i t i c i s m a n d r e p u d i a t i o n o f t h e h a n d f u l o f P a r t y p e o p l e i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d i n p r o v ­i n c e s , c i t i e s , a r e a s , d e p a r t m e n t s a n d u n i t s , c o m b i n e i t w i t h t h e

^ Q u o t a t i o n s f r o m C h a i r m a n M a o T s e - t u n g , F L P , Peking , 1966, p. 118.

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criticism and repudiation of the bourgeois reactionary academic "authorities" in all fields, and gradually enter into the struggle, repudiation and transformation in various units, according to the varying conditions.

In the course of the extensive criticism and repudiation of the handful of top Party persons in authority taking the capital­ist road, we should go on fighting and at the same time launch a rectification campaign to overcome all non-proletarian ideas existing in our ranks. At present, particular efforts should be made to oppose anarchist ideas, further strengthen the revolu­tionary spirit, scientific approach and sense of organization and discipline of the proletariat. We should actively respond to the call to support the army and love the people. We should consolidate and enlarge the revolutionary great alliance, con­solidate and strengthen the revolutionary "three-in-one" com­bination in the course of struggle.

In the campaign of extensive criticism and repudiation of the handful of top Party persons in authority taking the capi­talist road, we should launch a new upsurge in the creative study and application of Chairman Mao's works, conduct this campaign with the invincible thought of Mao Tse-tung as our weapon, and through this campaign acquire a better under­standing and grasp of Mao Tse-tung's thought.

Having gone through the tests of the tempestuous great pro­letarian cultural revolution, the political power of the prole­tariat of our country will become all the more consolidated and the more mighty.

"Let the reactionaries at home and abroad tremble before us. Let them allege that we are no good at this and that. Through their unswerving endeavours, the Chinese people will steadily reach their goal."

L E T O U R G R E A T C A P I T A L S H I N E W I T H T H E B R I L L I A N T T H O U G H T O F M A O T S E - T U N G

F O R E V E R

— W a r m l y H a i l the Birth of Peking Municipal Revolutionary Committee

E d i t o r i a l o f t h e ]iefangjun Bao {Liberation Army Daily),

A p r i l 2 1 , 1 9 6 7

T h e P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l R e v o l u t i o n a r y C o m m i t t e e h a s c o m e i n t o e x i s t e n c e i n t h e f l a m e s o f t h e g r e a t d e c i s i v e b a t t l e w h i c h i s b e i n g f o u g h t b e t w e e n t h e t w o c l a s s e s , t h e t w o r o a d s a n d t h e t w o l i n e s .

I t s f o u n d i n g h a s p r o c l a i m e d t h e t o t a l c o l l a p s e o f t h e o l d P e ­k i n g M u n i c i p a l P a r t y C o m m i t t e e a n d M u n i c i p a l P e o p l e ' s C o u n ­c i l c o n t r o l l e d b y t h e c o u n t e r - r e v o l u t i o n a r y r e v i s i o n i s t s , a n d d e a l t a s e v e r e b l o w t o t h e i r b o s s e s b e h i n d t h e s c e n e s , t h e h a n d ­f u l o f t o p P a r t y p e r s o n s i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d .

T h i s i s a g r e a t v i c t o r y f o r t h e e v e r - v i c t o r i o u s a n d i n f i n i t e l y b r i l l i a n t t h o u g h t o f M a o T s e - t u n g .

T h i s i s a g r e a t v i c t o r y f o r t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r y l i n e r e p r e s e n t e d b y C h a i r m a n M a o .

T h i s i s a g r e a t v i c t o r y f o r t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o ­l u t i o n i n i t i a t e d a n d l e d p e r s o n a l l y b y C h a i r m a n M a o .

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g e o i s r e a c t i o n a r y l i n e a n d t h e h a n d f u l o f P a r t y p e o p l e i n a u ­t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d w a g e d b y t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s i n t h e c a p i t a l u n d e r C h a i r m a n M a o ' s c l o s e c o n c e r n a n d b r i l l i a n t l e a d e r s h i p .

S h i e l d e d a n d s u p p o r t e d b y t h e h a n d f u l o f t o p P a r t y p e r s o n s i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d , t h e c o u n t e r - r e v o l u t i o n ­a r y r e v i s i o n i s t c l i q u e o f t h e o l d P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l P a r t y C o m ­m i t t e e r e c r u i t e d d e s e r t e r s a n d r e n e g a d e s , g a n g e d u p f o r s i n i s t e r e n d s a n d t u r n e d P e k i n g i n t o a " w a t e r t i g h t a n d i m p e n e t r a ­b l e " i n d e p e n d e n t k i n g d o m i n a v a i n a t t e m p t t o t r a n s f o r m i t i n t o a b a s e f o r t h e i r c o u n t e r - r e v o l u t i o n a r y r e s t o r a t i o n . T h e y a l ­w a y s w a v e d " r e d f l a g s " t o o p p o s e t h e R e d F l a g , c a r r i e d o u t a n o u t - a n d - o u t r e v i s i o n i s t l i n e i n t h e p o l i t i c a l , e c o n o m i c , i d e o ­l o g i c a l , c u l t u r a l a n d a l l o t h e r f i e l d s , m a l i c i o u s l y a t t a c k e d o u r g r e a t l e a d e r C h a i r m a n M a o , a n d r a b i d l y o p p o s e d t h e P a r t y , s o c i a l i s m a n d t h e t h o u g h t o f M a o T s e - t u n g . T h e y o p e n l y d e ­f i e d C h a i r m a n M a o ' s d i r e c t i v e s , t h w a r t e d t h e c r i t i c i s m o f Hai Jui Dismissed from Office, s h i e l d e d t h e b o u r g e o i s R i g h t ­i s t s , o r g a n i z e d a t t a c k s a g a i n s t p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s , c a r ­r i e d o u t a w h i t e t e r r o r , a n d s u p p r e s s e d t h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y m a s s e s , i n a f r a n t i c a n d f u t i l e a t t e m p t t o e x t i n g u i s h t h e r o a r i n g f l a m e s o f t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n k i n d l e d b y C h a i r m a n M a o h i m s e l f . T h i s r e v i s i o n i s t c l i q u e i s a n e n e m y o f t h e p e o p l e o f P e k i n g a n d t h e w h o l e c o u n t r y .

F o r a l o n g t i m e , t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s i n P e k i n g h a v e w a g e d a t i t - f o r - t a t s t r u g g l e a g a i n s t t h e c o u n t e r - r e v o l u ­t i o n a r y r e v i s i o n i s t c l i q u e o f t h e o l d P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l P a r t y C o m m i t t e e . P a r t i c u l a r l y s i n c e t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n , t h e y h a v e h e l d h i g h t h e g r e a t r e d b a n n e r o f M a o T s e - t u n g ' s t h o u g h t , s t o o d f i r m l y o n t h e s i d e o f t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r y l i n e r e p r e s e n t e d b y C h a i r m a n M a o a n d d i s p l a y e d a d a u n t l e s s s p i r i t o f d a r i n g t o t h i n k , s p e a k o u t , m a k e r e v o l u ­t i o n a n d r e b e l ; t h e y h a v e s m a s h e d t h e " T h r e e - F a m i l y V i l l a g e " , k n o c k e d d o w n t h e c o u n t e r - r e v o l u t i o n a r y r e v i s i o n i s t c l i q u e o f t h e o l d P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l P a r t y C o m m i t t e e , s h a t t e r e d t h e r e ­p e a t e d c o u n t e r - a t t a c k s o f t h e b o u r g e o i s r e a c t i o n a r y l i n e , w a g e d

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s t r u g g l e s a g a i n s t t h e h a n d f u l o f P a r t y p e o p l e i n a u t h o r i t y t a k ­i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d , p u t a s t o p t o t h e s i n i s t e r w i n d o f c o u n ­t e r - r e v o l u t i o n a r y e c o n o m i s m , a n d c r u s h e d t h e a d v e r s e c u r r e n t o f t h e c o u n t e r - r e v o l u t i o n a r y r e s t o r a t i o n . A f t e r r e p e a t e d t r i a l s o f s t r e n g t h a n d b r e a k i n g t h r o u g h i n n u m e r a b l e b a r r i e r s , t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s h a v e s t e a d i l y g r o w ^ n i n n u m b e r a n d s t r e n g t h , f o r m e d a r e v o l u t i o n a r y g r e a t a l l i a n c e o n t h e b a s i s o f t h e t h o u g h t o f M a o T s e - t u n g a n d , a c c o r d i n g t o t h e p r i n c i p l e o f r e v o l u t i o n a r y " t h r e e - i n - o n e " c o m b i n a t i o n p u t f o r w a r d b y C h a i r m a n M a o , s e t u p t h e P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l R e v o l u t i o n a r y C o m m i t t e e — a p r o v i s i o n a l o r g a n o f p o w e r w h i c h i s r e v o l u ­t i o n a r y , r e p r e s e n t a t i v e a n d p o s s e s s i n g p r o l e t a r i a n a u t h o r i t y . B y d o i n g so , t h e y h a v e h e l d t h e d e s t i n y o f t h e d i c t a t o r s h i p o f t h e p r o l e t a r i a t f i r m l y i n t h e i r o w n h a n d s .

Chairman Mao has taught us that socialist society covers a very long historical period. In this historical period classes, class contradictions and class struggle continue to exist and the struggle still goes on betvi een the road of socialism and the road of capitalism, and there is the danger of capitalist restoration.

T h e s o u l - s t i r r i n g c l a s s s t r u g g l e t h a t h a s b e e n g o i n g o n i n P e k i n g i s a s t r u g g l e b e t w e e n t h e b o u r g e o i s i e p l o t t i n g f o r r e s ­t o r a t i o n a n d t h e p r o l e t a r i a t f i g h t i n g a g a i n s t i t , a n d t h e p o i n t a t i s s u e i n t h i s s t r u g g l e i s s t a t e p o w e r . I t i s s e v e n t e e n y e a r s s i n c e w e o b t a i n e d s t a t e p o w e r . I s t h e r e t h e p o s s i b i l i t y o f o u r s t a t e p o w e r b e i n g s u b v e r t e d o r u s u r p e d ? T h e h a r d f a c t s o f t h e c l a s s s t r u g g l e i n P e k i n g h a v e m a d e i t m o r e c l e a r t o u s t h a t t h e p r o l e t a r i a t , a f t e r g a i n i n g s t a t e p o w e r , m a y l o s e i t , a n d t h e d i c t a t o r s h i p o f t h e p r o l e t a r i a t m a y b e t u r n e d i n t o t h e d i c t a t o r ­s h i p o f t h e b o u r g e o i s i e . T h e o v e r t h r o w n e x p l o i t i n g c l a s s e s w i l l u n d o u b t e d l y s e e k t h e i r a g e n t s i n o u r P a r t y , t h e n a v a i l t h e m s e l v e s o f t h e p a r t o f t h e s t a t e p o w e r t h e y h a v e u s u r p e d t o e n g a g e v i g o r o u s l y i n a c t i v i t i e s t o r e s t o r e c a p i t a l i s m a n d m a k e e v e r y e f f o r t t o c h a n g e t h e c o l o u r o f t h e w h o l e c o u n t r y a n d s e i z e s t a t e p o w e r o n a n a t i o n a l s c a l e . T h e h a n d f u l o f t o p P a r t y p e r s o n s i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d a n d t h e

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I n o r d e r t o d e a l w i t h t h e s e c a r e e r i s t s a n d s c h e m e r s o f t h e K h r u s h c h e v t y p e w h o p l o t t o u s u r p t h e P a r t y a n d t h e s t a t e , w e m u s t f o l l o w C h a i r m a n M a o ' s g r e a t d i r e c t i v e s — b o l d l y a r o u s e t h e m a s s e s , p r a c t i s e e x t e n s i v e p r o l e t a r i a n d e m o c r a c y , m a k e u s e o f t h e f r e e a i r i n g o f v i e w s , b i g - c h a r a c t e r p o s t e r s a n d g r e a t d e b a t e s t o b r i n g a b o u t a g r e a t a l l i a n c e o f t h e r e v o l u t i o n ­a r i e s , a n d f o r m l o n g c o l u m n s o f r e v o l u t i o n a r y a r m y t o c a r r y o u t a g e n e r a l c l e a n s i n g , a t h o r o u g h m o p p i n g u p , s o a s t o d r a g i n t o t h e o p e n t h e s e c o u n t e r - r e v o l u t i o n a r y r e v i s i o n i s t s a n d p e o ­p l e i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d w h o a r e h i d i n g i n e v e r y n o o k a n d c r a n n y , a n d s e i z e b a c k a l l t h e P a r t y p o w e r , p o l i t i c a l p o w e r a n d p o w e r o v e r f i n a n c i a l a n d c u l t u r a l a f f a i r s w h i c h t h e y h a v e u s u r p e d . I f w e a r e o f f o u r g u a r d a n d a l l o w t h e m t o a c c o m p l i s h t h e i r p l o t s , t h e n o u r c o u n t r y w i l l c h a n g e i t s c o l o u r l i k e t h e S o v i e t U n i o n a n d t h e f r u i t s o f t h e r e v o l u ­t i o n p a i d f o r w i t h t h e l i v e s a n d b l o o d o f c o u n t l e s s m a r t y r s w i l l a l l b e f r i t t e r e d a w a y .

H o w a r e t h e p r o l e t a r i a t t o r e t a i n s t a t e p o w e r a f t e r t h e y h a v e s e i z e d i t ? H o w t o p r e v e n t u s u r p a t i o n o f t h e l e a d e r s h i p o f t h e P a r t y a n d t h e s t a t e b y t h e r e v i s i o n i s t s ? H o w t o p r e v e n t t h e r e s t o r a t i o n o f c a p i t a l i s m ? T h i s i s a n e w a n d c e n t r a l i s s u e i n t h e i n t e r n a t i o n a l c o m m u n i s t m o v e m e n t . O n l y C h a i r m a n M a o , t h e g r e a t e s t M a r x i s t - L e n i n i s t o f t h e p r e s e n t e r a a n d o u r g r e a t l e a d e r o f g e n i u s , w i t h s u c h b o l d n e s s o f m i n d , s u c h s t r o n g d e t e r ­m i n a t i o n , s u c h r i c h e x p e r i e n c e i n s t r u g g l e a n d s u c h u n i q u e w i s d o m , c o u l d r e s o l v e t h i s n e w i s s u e o f g r e a t i n t e r n a t i o n a l a n d h i s t o r i c s i g n i f i c a n c e b o t h i n t h e o r y a n d p r a c t i c e b y i n i t i a t i n g

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T h e s e i z i n g b a c k o f p o w e r f r o m a h a n d f u l o f P a r t y p e o p l e i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d i s a g r e a t v i c t o r y f o r t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s . B u t t h e r e a r e m o r e a r d u o u s t a s k s w a i t i n g f o r u s t o a c c o m p l i s h . O u r P e o p l e ' s L i b e r a t i o n A r m y m u s t h o l d h i g h t h e g r e a t r e d b a n n e r o f M a o T s e - t u n g ' s t h o u g h t , s t a n d c l o s e b y t h e s i d e o f t h e b r o a d m a s s e s o f t h e L e f t i n P e ­k i n g , t h o r o u g h l y c r i t i c i z e a n d r e p u d i a t e t h e h a n d f u l o f t o p P a r t y p e r s o n s i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d a n d t h e b o u r g e o i s r e a c t i o n a r y l i n e r e p r e s e n t e d b y t h e m , t h o r o u g h l y l i q ­u i d a t e t h e m o n s t r o u s c r i m e s o f t h e h a n d f u l o f c o u n t e r - r e v o l u ­t i o n a r y r e v i s i o n i s t s o f t h e o l d P e k i n g M u n i c i p a l P a r t y C o m ­m i t t e e , h e l p a n d g i v e s u p p o r t t o t h e p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s s o t h a t t h e y c a n s u c c e s s f u l l y h o l d a n d w i e l d t h e i r p o w e r , m o r e f r u i t f u l l y s t u d y a n d a p p l y C h a i r m a n M a o ' s w o r k s i n a c r e a t i v e w a y , f u r t h e r c o n s o l i d a t e a n d d e v e l o p t h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y g r e a t a l l i a n c e i n l a r g e - s c a l e c r i t i c i s m a n d r e p u d i a t i o n , v i c t o r i o u s l y a c c o m p l i s h t h e g r e a t t a s k o f s t r u g g l e , c r i t i c i s m a n d r e p u d i a ­t i o n , a n d t r a n s f o r m a t i o n , a n d c a r r y t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l ­t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n t h r o u g h t o t h e e n d .

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