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Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 01:43:26 +0100 (MET)
From: rolf.martens-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se (Rolf Martens)
Subject: M-G: UNITE! Info #22en: 8/12 The 4-Gang in China, 1976 


UNITE! Info #22en: 8/12 The 4-Gang in China, 1976 
[Posted: 03.11.96]

[Continued from part 7/12]

In this part are reproduced the original series postings (9) and (10).


"The Four" & events in China '76 (9): NE on Oct Blow  [Sent: 10.06.96]

This is part of a discussion on the Jefferson Village Virginia
Marxism list and is also sent to newsgroups.

[Note: In one earlier posting today on another subject, headed
"Does the Avakian clone 'C' really want to debate line?", I by
misfortune in the very first line maintained that a certain debate
on the Marxism list "took part" instead of "took place", which was
what I meant, of course, and later in the posting also wrote a
couple of things which were linguistically somewhat inconsistent. 
They could hardly have caused misunderstandings of any importance,
but I hereby apologize for the errors - I do have the intention to 
"let each part stand in its place" and regret each time in my 
postings this isn't quite so. - RM]

[In this posting on the role of the Gang of Four in the struggle 
which eventually led to the overtrow of socialism in China, I bring 
in translation the telegram from Chairman Klaus Sender of the KPD/ML
(NEUE EINHEIT), Germany, to Chairman Hua Guofeng of the Communist 
Party of China congratulating the latter on his appointment and on 
the victory against the phoney"left" Gang of Four, of 1 November 1976. 
My source is the No. 3 /1976 issue of the journal NEUE EINHEIT, pp 
15-19, and I include also the comments on the telegram in that issue 
of the journal.]

[Concerning the reception which this telegram got in China, see
a brief comment after the reproduced text - RM]

[Precisely this document is of considerable importance in this
context to the revolutionaries of today. This because it among
other things points to that *subversion against the international
communist movement* which, 20 years ago and *still today*,
was and is connected with the question of the Gang of Four in
China. "Avakianism" and also "MIMism" are present-day 
reactionary, phoney"Marxist" ideological currents corresponding 
to it. This document, by the extraordinarily great insight in the 
matters on the part of the then KPD/ML(NEUE EINHEIT) which it shows 
up, also points to the extremely advanced character of that party 
at that time. I'll later, for comparison, reproduce the statements 
on the same occasion by some other parties in the world, as 
published in the issuies of the Peking Review in late 1976.] 

[One later statement by the KPD/ML(NEUE EINHEIT), that of
October 1978 which condemned the betrayal by the Chinese
revisionists, repudiateed the reactionary line of Deng Xiaoping / 
Hua Guofeng and also that of the Gang of Four, and declared that
that party would continue to uphold Mao Zedong's allsidedly correct
line, I already have reproduced once, in my "UNITE" Info #1en" (and
also #1de and #1se) of 23.12.1995. I'll bring it again as posting 
(10) on the present subject. Further postings concerning above all 
the subversion against the international communist movement in this
context will follow.]

[In studuing this document, readers today, I hope, will get a hint
towards the fact that, if they today could reach an understanding
of the situation in the world which is comparable to that which the
KPD/ML(NEUE EINHEIT) had of the situation then, some 20 years
ago, this would mean a considerable advance on the part of the
revolutionary forces.] 


     A   G R E A T   H I S T O R I C   V I C T O R Y

   The Telegram from Chairman Klaus Sender to 
                    Chairman Hua Kuo-feng

The Chairman of the Central Committee of the Kommunistische
Partei Deutschlands / Marxisten - Leninisten (NEUE EINHEIT),
comrade Klaus Sender, on 1 November 1976 sent to comrade
Hua Kuo-feng, on the occasion of his appointment as Chairman
of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and
Chairman of the Military Commission of the C.P.C Central
Committee, a telegram which also expresses the joy of our
Party at the victory over the counter-revolutionary black Gang
of Four and contains some important points concerning the
political evaluation of these counter-revolutionary forces.

Because of its importance, the telegram was also published as
"Revolutionaere Stimme" Extrablatt No. 28. [Those extra editions
of that party's paper were disseminated as leaflets. - RM] The
"Revolutionaere Stimme" Extrablatt No. 28 was published on
6 November under the title "A Great Historical Victory - The
Telegram of Chairman Klaus Sender to Chairman Hua Kuo-feng"
and was distributed in mass edition in our country. From 30
October on, the article "Great Historic Victory" was distributed
by our party [i.e. the leading article of three Chiese publications
on 25.10.76, published abroad in e.g. the Peking Review issue 
No. 44 / 76 of 29.10.76 - text, see my posting (8) on this subject],
later together with the text of the telegram in the "Revoultionaere 
Stimme" Extrablatt No. 28.

The telegram from Chairman Klaus Sender reads:

     To the Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist 
Party of China and Chairman of the Military Commission of the 
Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, comrade 
Hua Kuo-feng!

     To your appointment as Chairman of the Central Committee of 
the Communistof  Party of China and Chairman of the Military 
Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of 
China I would like to convey to you the most cordial congratulations
and at the same time congratulate you to the great victory over the
anti-Party clique of four Wang Hung-wen, Chang Chun-chiao, Chiang
Ching and Yao Wen-yuan on the occasion of their attempt to usurp
Party and state leadership.

     With the victory over the Gang of Four, a quite extraordinarily
important victory against revisionism has been achieved, a point of
departure for an entire new epoch of battles. With it, the most 
dangerous grouping at the present time has been hit.

     They are representatives of phoney"Marxism" and capitulation. 
They indeed are typical representatives of the bourgeoisie within the
Party. They stand in connection with the very worst reaction and have
committed enormous crimes. The subversion which emanates from 
them constitutes a considerable danger to the international
proletariat, to the Communist world movement, to the Chinese 
people and the entire Third World and all peoples and to the
European peoples, who are under the threat of an aggression by
social-imperialism, in a particularly great degree.

     Their plots and international machinations, their intervention 
in favour of phoney"Marxism" and revisionism have caused most
serious damage internationally and must be smashed completely.
They are a clique of rejection of Marxism and of resistance 
against the proletarian revolutionary line of Chairman Mao. The
annihilating and hate-filled outcries of the proletariat and the
broad masses in the gigantic demonstrations in China correspond to 
the interests of the international proletariat and of all peoples. 
These we have learned of with great joy indeed.

     By your resolute action, you have done an extremely great 
service to the international proletariat and to the overwhelming 
majority of all people.

     The repudiation of the influence of this Gang and its sources is
an important constituent part of the continuation of the revolution
under the dictatorship of the proletariat. The criticism of Teng
Hsiao-ping likewise is being continued.

     It is impossible in the briefness of a telegram to go into all 
aspects of this really great victory. But quite certainly, the 
criticism of the clique of four will serve the uniting of all 
revolutionary forces in the world, both the uniting of the proletariat 
with the oppressed peoples and nations and the uniting of the 
proletariat in the different countries and also the unity of the 
Third World and also the uniting of those forces which oppose 
hegemonism and also the crystallization, the further development and 
the carrying-out of the genuinely Marxist-Leninist line. To carry the 
great criticism further to the annihilation of this clique is a great 
common task, to free both China and the Marxist-Leninist movement in 
the world from an evil. With this victory, years of hopes entertained 
by phoney"Marxism" have been put to an end.

     Long live the great, glorious and correct Communist Party of
China!

     Long live the Central Committee led by comrade Hua Kuo-feng!

     Long live the great historic victory over the anti-Party clique
guilty of heinous crimes, the Gang of Four!


End of October 1976

Klaus Sender

Chairman of the Central Committee of the Kommunistische Partei
Deutschlands / Marxisten-Leninisten (NEUE EINHEIT)


So far the text of the telegram and the political taking of position
which it contains. To the telegram is appended the leaflet with the
joint leading article of the Chinese newspaper "People's Daily", 
the journal "Red Flag" and the newspaper "Liberation Army's
Daily" of 25 October 1976, "A Great Victory of Historic 
Significance", which since 30 October 1976 is being disseminated
by us and which gives an account of the essential events in China.

[See my posting (8) on this subject, in which this leading article
was reproduced. - RM] 

Further on, it will be necessary to go into the details of all the
questions in this connection, both as to China and as to the
international movement and also in particular as to events in this
country.

[So far the telegram and the comments on it by the KPD/ML(NEUE
EINHEIT).]

[How was this telegram received in China? It was suppressed
completely!] 

[It wasn't even mentioned, much less published, by the Peking 
Review, for instance. This in contradiciton to the publishing
by that journal in English, with versions in several other languages
too, of a great number of such congratulatory statements on this
occasion, in its issues No.:s  46 (12.11.76) to 52 (24.12.76) of
the year 1976. For comparison and also to show what were the 
standpoints, on that occasion, of several other parties which 
supported the Communist Party of China, I'll reproduce some
of them in full or in part in a later posting.]

[But the suppression of this extremely important telegram from the
chairman of the KPD/ML(NEUE EINHEIT), precisely that statemennt,
too, which contained the most enthusiastic support of all for, and 
showed by far the best understanding of all of, that big blow in
China against the Gang of Four together with the continuation -
which there still was, in words at least - of the criticism of Deng
Xiaoping, that suppression was something which could not but
lead to the gravest suspicions concerning the real motives of those
leading forces who had - so far, with the massive support of the
Chinese people - dealt the Gang of Four that blow. This, and later
developments in China and internationally, will be the subject of 
later postings by me, not necessarily in the present series, i.e. 
the one (mainly) about the role of the Gang of Four. - RM]

[So far the original series posting (9). No. (10) follows:]
___________________________________________________________________

"The Four" & events in China '76 (10): NE Oct 1978 [Posted:10.06.96]


This is part of a discussion on the Jefferson Village Virginia Marxism
list and is also sent to newsgroups.

[As posting (10) on this subject I bring again the important statement
of the KPD/ML(NEUE EINHEIT) in Germany of October 1978. It evaluated 
the then recent events in China in a correct and all-round way and 
also pointed out what was the significance to the entire world of these 
events. At that time, the KPD/ML(NEUE EINHEIT) was still a genuinely 
proletarian revolutionary party and an extremely advanced one, and it 
remained so for approximately another decade. On later events, I'll bring 
some more postings, not necessarily in this series. This statement of 
October 1978 I still consider to be an important guideline for all 
Marxist-Leninists in the world today. - RM] 


UNITE! Info #1en: A Basic Statement of Oct 1978 [Posted: 23.12.95]

["UNITE! Info" intro note deleted here]

As #1 I post in translation a statement by the KPD/ML(NEUE 
EINHEIT) published in Germany in 1978/79:


    A BASIC STATEMENT BY OUR PARTY OF OCTOBER 1978


    Our Party here reaffirms and stresses: We continue to adhere

completely to the basic principles of Mao Zedong. Both his line of the

Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, of continued struggle against the

bourgeoisie, and also his revolutionary foreign policy during the

seventies were in their basic conception and in their execution 

completely correct. In this there is nothing decisive and important to

criticize. Deng Xiaoping and also the "Gang of Four" have tried to

undermine this line and to split the correct forces from one another.

Both the big blow against the "Gang of Four" and the discharge of

the hate and fury against the machinations of this grouping and also

the actions of the present Chinese leadership show how very right

Mao Zedong was. We absolutely repudiate both the line "KPD" /

Deng Xiaoping / Hua Guofeng and also the line "Roter Morgen" /

"Gang of Four". They constitute two deviations which wish once more

to act, to the detriment of the correct line, as opportunist underminers

and pacifiers. They have however already in the main failed, since

Mao Zedong in his last years through his decision against Deng

Xiaoping and also against the "Gang of Four" achieved that they can

only more or less openly today take a stand against him and no

longer can directly refer to him and must work towards his being

"surmounted". We combat this.


    Under the conditions of further regrouping in the world, which now is

being caused by the betrayal also by the Chinese revisionists, the

chances for and the necessity of such a political line absolutely 

remain in existence. We shall defend it.


    The peoples are badly advised to embrace either one of the two big

revisionists and to applaud him, or to welcome U.S. imperialism as 

the one who pulls the strings behind the stage. All those are 

reactionaries, and what is necessary is revolution. This truth of Mao

Zedong's remains in existence and will undoubtedly vanquish.



(Translation from the German by RM, 1993)

NOTE:

The above statement was also published by me in Swedish on
1.5.1980 as part of INFORMATIONSBLAD No. 14, and later in
English and Swedish in a leaflet in June 1993. The latter also
contained the following note:

    "Unfortunately, later, the KPD/ML(NEUE EINHEIT) itself 
    degenerated and became a bourgeois party. Concerning this,
    see 'EINE KRITIK der buergerlichen Politik der KPD/ML(NEUE
    EINHEIT), oder wie sie nunmehr heisst, und ihres Vorsitzenden
    Klaus Sender, 1989 / Mitte 1990' by the below publisher, Aug/Sep
    1990."

I later received a letter from the CC of the KPD/ML(NEUE EINHEIT),
of 15.9./13.10.1994. It stated i.a. that "copyright" to all publications 
of that party belonged to its chairman, Klaus Sender, and that he
"expressly forbade" the publishing of translations etc of such
publications together with statements that did not suit that party.

In order to avoid a legal conflict over copyright, no statement will
be made here concerning the present class character of the KPD/ML
(NEUE EINHEIT).

["UNITE! Info" end note deleted here]

[Continued in part 9/12] 



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