Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 21:08:12 +0100 (MET)
Subject: M-G: UNITE! Info #61en: {9/9} Reply on Cultural Revolution


UNITE! Info #61en: {9/9} Reply on Cultural Revolution
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[Continued from part {8/9}]


13 C. THE FALSE STORY ON THE 1976 TIANANMEN
      EVENTS IN PEKING REVIEW NO. 15, 1976
      [WITH SOME 1996 COMMENTS BY ME] [ctd.]

The revolutionary masses showed their utmost hatred for this
counter-revolutionary political incident.  Yet the handful of
bad elements said glibly: "It manifests the strength of the mas-
ses."  They went so far as to claim brazenly that "the situation
has now got out of hand and it would be of no use even if a re-
giment or an army was called in," and so on and so forth, show-
ing their unbridled reactionary arrogance.

See how these counter-revolutionaries use extremely decadent and
reactionary language and the trick of insinuation to viciously
attack and slander our great leader Chairman Mao and other
leading comrades on the Party Central Committee:

"Devils howl as we pour out our grief, we weep but the wolves
laugh.  We spill our blood in memory of the hero; raising our
brows, we unsheathe our swords.  China is no longer the China of
yore, and the people are no longer wrapped in sheer ignorance:
gone for good is Chin Shih Huang's feudal society.  We believe
in Marxism-Leninism, to hell with those scholars who emasculate
Marxism-Leninism!  What we want is genuine Marxism-Leninism. 
For the sake of genuine Marxism-Leninism, we fear not shedding
our blood and laying down our lives; the day modernization in
four fields is realized, we will come back to offer libations
and sacrifices."

[MY COMMENT:
That of course was a pro-Deng Xiaoping statement. There *were*
some of those, too. But the PR wants people to believe that this
kind of statements represented the *majority* of those recited
or written, which, it can safely be assumed, it did *not*.]

The clamours of these counter-revolutionaries about combating
"Chin Shih Huang" and demanding "genuine Marxism-Leninism" were
out-and-out counter-revolutionary agitation in the same vein as
the language used in Lin Piao's plan for a counter-revolutionary
coup d'etat, "Outline of Project '571'".  By directing their
spearhead at our great leader Chairman Mao and the Party Central
Committee headed by Chairman Mao, and lauding Teng Hsaio-ping's
counter-revolutionary revisionist line, these counter-revolutio-
naries further laid bare their criminal aim to practise revi-
sionism and restore capitalism in China.

In the past few days these elements not only wrote reactionary
poems but put up reactionary posters.  They lauded Teng Hsiao-
ping and attempted to nominate him to play the role of Nagy, the
chieftain of the counter-revolutionary incident in Hungary. 
They raved that "with Teng Hsaio-ping in charge of the work of
the Central Committee, the struggle has won decisive victory"
"to the great satisfaction of the people throughout the coun-
try."  They uttered vile slanders, saying that "the recent so-
called anti-Right deviationist struggle is the act of a handful
of careerists to reverse verdicts."  They openly opposed the
great struggle initiated and led by Chairman Mao to repulse the
Right deviationist attempt to reverse correct verdicts; their
counter-revolutionary arrogance was inflated to the utmost.

[MY COMMENT:
Same thing again. Quoting from the *minority* of the statements,
pretending that these were "typical".]

However, the time when these counter-revolutionary elements ran
rampant coincided with the day of their downfall. Going against
the will of the people, they were extremely isolated.  As these
bad elements were making disturbances, perpetuating acts of
violence and sabotage, many revolutionary people courageously
stepped forward to denounce their counter-revolutionary acts and
struggled against them.  The Peking worker-militia, people's po-
lice and army guards on duty at the square and the revolutionary
people present at the time worked in close co-operation, and
fought bravely in defence of Chairman Mao, the Party Central
Committee, Chairman Mao's revolutionary line and the great capi-
tal of our socialist motherland.

[MY COMMENT:
Here those almost 100,000 "passers-by who came over to see what
was happening" suddenly have turned into valiant (but obviously
inefficient) "fighters against the disturbances".]

When the handful of bad elements again set fire to the barracks
at 5 p.m., the army guards put out the fire at the risk of their
own lives. To safeguard the Great Hall of the People, more than
100 Peking worker-militiamen were injured, a dozen of them se-
riously wounded.  Six army guards were abducted and many woun-
ded.  Risking dangers, the people's police persevered in figh-
ting.  Although the barracks was besieged and fire was engulfing
the first floor, leading comrades of the Peking worker-militia
command post persevered in the struggle on the second floor.  At
this critical moment, the switchboard operator calmly reported
the news to leading departments concerned.

At 6:30 p.m., after Comrade Wu Teh's speech was broadcast, most
of the onlookers and the masses who had been taken in quickly
dispersed.

[MY COMMENT:
Those nearly 100,000  are back to their "normal", "onlooker"
status!]

But a handful of counter-revolutionaries continued their despe-
rate resistance and again posted some reactionary poems around
the Monument to the People's Heroes.  Three hours later, on re-
ceiving an order from the Peking Municipal Revolutionary Commit-
tee, tens of thousands of worker-militiamen, in co-ordination
with the people's police and P.L.A. guards, took resolute
measures and enforced proletarian dictatorship. In high morale,
the heroic Peking militiamen valiantly filed into Tien An Men
Square and mounted powerful counterattacks.  They encircled
those bad elements who were still creating disturbances and com-
mitting crimes in the vicinity of the Monument to the People's
Heroes.  They detained the active criminals and major suspects
for examination.  In the face of powerful proletarian dictator-
ship, the handful of rampant rioters could not withstand even a
single blow.  They squatted down, trembling like stray dogs. 
Some hurriedly handed over their daggers, knives and notebooks
on which they had copied the reactionary poems. Several crimi-
nals who pulled out their daggers in a vain attempt to put up a
last-ditch fight were duly punished.

The revolutionary masses and people of the whole city [MY COM-
MENT: ...who weren't trusted to go to the square at all] hearti-
ly supported and acclaimed the revolutionary action of the Pe-
king worker-militia, the people's police and the P.L.A. guards.

[MY COMMENT:
Yeah, "three cheers" from us passers-by who have come over to
see what the heck is happening...with the once-so-reliable Pe-
king Review in its #15, 1976! - Rolf M.]

{As noted above in part {7/9}, the suppression of the people's
just demonstration on Tiananmen on 05.04.1976 was a serious
crime, instigated above all by the 4-gang. The facts of these
events constitute important evidence on the reactionary charac-
ter of that gang and on the fact that they contributed to, and
by no means genuinely opposed, the overthrow of socialism in
China. Their crimes provided the Deng clique - later joined by
Hua Guofeng too, who broke his promise to uphold Mao Zedong's
line - with important pretexts for *their* kind of revisionism.}

{For an account of all the more important events in China in
1976, see my Info #45en, parts 4/12 - 7/12. An important mid-
1977 analysis by the then German Marxists of the late 1976 -
early 1977 struggles in China, pointing out the necessity of
publicly criticizing developments there, was reproduced in
translation in Info #40en (parts 2/4 - 3/4), of 13.07.97.}


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