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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China

Publications and Documents which are Now Difficult to Find

      This is an archive of all the pamphlets and other documents we can locate from the GPCR, primarily in English, but also to some extent in other languages eventually. This great revolution fortified, secured, and to some extent re-established genuine proletarian rule in China while Mao was still alive, overthrew the “capitalist roaders” within the Chinese Communist Party and within Chinese society more generally who (consciously or not) were attempting to destroy socialism and move China back to capitalism, and which made serious efforts to gradually but continually transform socialist society in the direction of communism.

      The GPCR itself was originally dated from 1966-1969, and Mao envisioned the need for a whole series of periodic additional cultural revolutions of that sort occurring throughout the entire period of socialism. However, this initial GPCR was not fully consolidated, and new struggles continued to break out. Most notably, there was the campaign to Criticize Lin Biao [Lin Piao] and Confucius, and then the need for another campaign against Deng Xiaoping and his allied capitalist-roaders. These came to be viewed as extensions of the GPCR, and consequently most people today view the GPCR as having extended up until Mao’s death in September 1976. That is the way we will view things here, though we will put the campaigns against Lin and Deng in separate sections near the bottom.

      As with other sections of BannedThought.net about Maoist China, some of the documents here are written by, or promote, individuals who later became targets of the revolution themselves, including Lin Biao and Deng Xiaoping. We are including them as part of our complete archive of the history of the GPCR and the entire Chinese Revolution.

      These documents from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution are now suppressed in China (at least as far as mass access is concerned) and many of them are becoming very difficult to locate anywhere else in the world as well, except for those few with access to major research libraries. This is why we are posting them here on BannedThought.net.

      For information about other aspects of China in the Maoist era, or about present-day capitalist-imperialist China, please see the links at the bottom of this web page. Note also that there are some documents touching on aspects of the GPCR on these other pages.

      If you know of other materials which should be posted here, or if you have other comments or suggestions, please contact us at: freespeech@bannedthought.net

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Basic Documents of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

• “Decision of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Concerning the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution”, adopted on Aug. 8, 1966, 20 pages. [This famous Circular of the Central Committee of the CCP was drawn up under Mao’s guidance and presents the 16 key points established to guide the GPCR.]   PDF Format   [1,004 KB]
  • German: “Beschluß des Zentralkomitees der Kommunistischen Partei Chinas über die große proletarische Kulturrevolution”, 9 pages.   PDF Format   [79 KB]
• “An Epoch-Making Document — In Commemoration of the Second Anniversary of the Publication of the Circular”, May 17, 1968, 28 pages.   PDF Format   [962 KB]
• The Great Socialist [Proletarian] Cultural Revolution Series (1966-1967):
  • The Great Socialist Cultural Revolution in China (1), 2nd ed. (Peking: FLP, Oct. 1966), 78 pages, PDF Format   [5,417 KB]   Includes these articles:
    • “Hold High the Great Red Banner of Mao Tse-tung’s Thought and Actively Participate in the Great Socialist Cultural Revolution”, editorial of the Liberation Army Daily [Jiefangjun Bao], April 18, 1966.
    • “Never Forget the Class Struggle”, editorial of the Liberation Army Daily, May 4 1966.
    • “On ‘Three-Family Village’ — The Reactionary Nature of Evening Chats at Yenshan and Notes from Three-Family Village”, by Yao Wen-yuan, May 10, 1966.
  • The Great Socialist Cultural Revolution in China (2), (Peking: FLP, 1966), 68 pages, PDF Format   [4,094 KB]   Includes these articles:
    • “Open Fire at the Black Anti-Party and Anti-Socialist Line!”, by Kao Chu, first published in the Liberation Army Daily, May 8, 1966.
    • “Heighten Our Vigilance and Distinguish the True from the False”, by Ho Ming, first published in the Kuangming Daily, May 8, 1966.
    • “Teng To’s Evening Chats at Yenshan is Anti-Party and Anti-Socialist Double-Talk”, compiled by Lin Chieh, Ma Tse-min, Yen Chang-huei, Chou Ying, Teng Wen-sheng and Chin Tien-Liang, first published in the Liberation Army Daily and the Kuangming Daily on May 8, 1966.
    • “On the Bourgeois Stand of Frontline and the Peking Daily”, by Chi Pen-yu, first published in Red Flag, No. 7, 1966.
  • The Great Socialist Cultural Revolution in China (3), (Peking: FLP, 1966), 32 pages, PDF Format   [1,278 KB]   Includes these articles:
    • “Sweep Away All Monsters”, editorial of Renmin Ribao [People’s Daily], June 1, 1966.
    • “A Great Revolution That Touches People to Their Very Souls”, editorial of Renmin Ribao, June 2, 1966.
    • “Mao Tse-tung’s Thought is the Telescope and Microscope of Our Revolutionary Cause”, editorial of Jiefangjun Bao [Liberation Army Daily], June 7, 1966.
    • “We are Critics of the Old World”, editorial of Renmin Ribao, June 8, 1966.
  • The Great Socialist Cultural Revolution in China (4), (Peking: FLP, 1966), 56 pages, PDF Format   [3,102 KB]   Includes these articles:
    • “Long Live the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution”, editorial of Hongqi [Red Flag], No. 8, 1966.
    • “Capture the Positions in the Field of Historical Studies Seized by the Bourgeoisie”, editorial of Renmin Ribao [People’s Daily], June 3, 1966.
    • “Tear Aside the Bourgeois Mask of ‘Liberty, Equality and Fraternity’”, editorial of Renmin Ribao, June 4, 1966.
    • “New Victory for Mao Tse-tung’s Thought”, editorial of Renmin Ribao, June 4, 1966.
    • “To Be Proletarian Revolutionaries or Bourgeois Royalists?”, editorial of Renmin Ribao, June 5, 1966.
  • The Great Socialist Cultural Revolution in China (5), (Peking: FLP, 1966), 36 pages, pamphlet with just one article: “Raise High the Great Red Banner of Mao Tse-tung’s Thought and Carry the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Through to the End — Essential Points for Propaganda and Education in Connection with the Great Cultural Revolution”, editorial of Jiefangjun Bao [Liberation Army Daily], June 6, 1966.   PDF Format   [1,740 KB]
  • The Great Socialist Cultural Revolution in China (6), (Peking: FLP, 1966), 32 pages, PDF Format   [1,428 KB]   Includes these articles:
    • “A New Stage of the Socialist Revolution in China”, editorial of Renmin Ribao [People’s Daily], July 17, 1966.
    • “The Sunlight of the Party Illuminates the Road of the Great Cultural Revolution”, editorial of Renmin Ribao [People’s Daily], June 24, 1966.
    • “Trust the Masses, Rely on the Masses”, editorial of Hongqi [Red Flag], No. 9, 1966.
    • “From the Masses, to the Masses”, editorial of Renmin Ribao [People’s Daily], July 21, 1966.
    • “Be a Pupil of the Masses Before You Become a Teacher of the Masses”, editorial of Renmin Ribao [People’s Daily], July 29, 1966.
  • The Great Socialist Cultural Revolution in China (7), (Peking: FLP, 1967), 36 pages, PDF Format   [1,674 KB]   Includes these articles:
    • “The Programmatic Document of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution”, editorial of Hongqi [Red Flag], No. 10, 1966.
    • “Master the Ideological Weapon of the Great Cultural Revolution”, editorial of Renmin Ribao [People’s Daily], Aug. 11, 1966.
    • “Study the 16-Point Decision, Know it Well and Apply It”, editorial of Renmin Ribao [People’s Daily], Aug. 13, 1966.
    • “Sailing the Seas Depends on the Helmsman”, editorial of Renmin Ribao [People’s Daily], Aug. 15, 1966.
    • “Revolutionary Youth Should Learn from the People’s Liberation Army”, editorial of Renmin Ribao [People’s Daily], Aug. 28, 1966.
    • “Hold Fast to the Main Orientation in the Struggle”, editorial of Hongqi [Red Flag], No. 12, 1966.
  • The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China (8), (Peking: FLP, 1967), 28 pages, PDF Format   [1,088 KB]   In French: PDF Format   [1,216 KB]
    Includes these articles:
    • “Comrade Lin Piao’s Speech at the Peking Mass Rally to Receive Revolutionary Teachers and Students From All Over China”, Nov. 3, 1966.
    • “Victory for the Proletarian Revolutionary Line Represented by Chairman Mao”, editorial in Hongqi, No. 14, 1966.
    • “Seize New Victories”, editorial in Hongqi, No. 15, 1966.
  • The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China (9), (Peking: FLP, 1967), 28 pages, pamphlet with just one article: “Carry the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Through to the End”, editorial of Renmin Ribao [People’s Daily] and Hongqi [Red Flag], Jan. 1, 1967.   PDF Format   [1,483 KB]
  • The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China (10), (Peking: FLP, 1967), 48 pages, PDF Format   [1,927 KB]   Includes these articles:
    • “Message of Greetings to Revolutionary Rebel Organizations in Shanghai from the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, the State Council, the Military Commission of the Party’s Central Committee and the Cultural Revolution Group Under the Party’s Central Committee”, Jan. 11, 1967.
    • “Take Firm Hold of the Revolution, Promote Production and Utterly Smash the New Counterattack Launched by the Bourgeois Reactionary Line — Message to All Shanghai People”, Jan. 4, 1967.
    • “Urgent Notice — From the Shanghai Workers’ Revolutionary Rebel General Headquarters and 31 Other Revolutionary Mass Organizations”, Jan. 9, 1967.
    • “Telegram Saluting Chairman Mao — From the Rally Held by the Revolutionary Rebel Organizations of Shanghai and the Shanghai Liaison Centres of Revolutionary Rebel Organizations of Other Places to Celebrate the Message of Greetings of the Central Authorities and Completely Smash the New Counter-Attack by the Bourgeois Reactionary Line”, from a rally held by revolutionary organizations in Shanghai, Jan. 12, 1967.
    • “Oppose Economist and Smash the Latest Counterattack by the Bourgeois Reactionary Line” — Editorial of Renmin Ribao [People’s Daily] and Hongqi [Red Flag], January 12, 1967.
    • “Proletarian Revolutionaries, Unite”, by Commentator, Hongqi, No. 2, 1967.

Writings by the So-Called “Gang of Four”:

• Jiang Qing [Chiang Ching]:
  • “On the Revolution of Peking Opera” — Speech made in July 1964 at the Forum of Theatrical Workers Participating in the Festival of Peking Opera on Contemporary Themes, by Chiang Qing, 7 pages. [From the pamphlet of the same title, (Peking: FLP, 1968).]   Chiang Ching’s speech only, 7 pages: PDF Format   [349 KB]. Also available in HTML format at: http://www.wengewang.org/read.php?tid=19208
    Full Pamphlet (with articles by others as well), 76 pages: PDF Format   [3,395 KB].
  • “Speech by Comrade Chiang Ching — At the Rally to Inaugurate and Celebrate the Peking Municipal Revolutionary Committee”, April 20, 1967, 6 pages. [From the pamphlet “Great Victory for Chairman Mao’s Revolutionary Line — Warmly Hail the Birth of Peking Municipal Revolutionary Committee” (1967) available in its entirety in the section below.]   PDF Format   [361 KB].
• Zhang Chunqiao [Chang Chun-chiao]:
  • “Speech by Comrade Chang Chun-chiao on Behalf of the Delegations of the Revolutionary Committees in Four Provinces and One Municipality — At the Rally to Inaugurate and Celebrate the Peking Municipal Revolutionary Committee”, April 20, 1967, 3 pages. [From the pamphlet “Great Victory for Chairman Mao’s Revolutionary Line — Warmly Hail the Birth of Peking Municipal Revolutionary Committee” (1967) available in its entirety in the section below.]   PDF Format   [184 KB].
  • “On Exercising All-Round Dictatorship Over the Bourgeoisie”, originally an article in the CCP theoretical journal Hongqi [Red Flag], #4, 1975. Reissued as a pamphlet (Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1975).   PDF Format, 34 pages [9,502 KB].
    Also available in PDF format elsewhere on the Internet, including at: http://digital.wolfsonian.org/WOLF016679/00001
    Also available in HTML format at: http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/zhang/1975/x01/x01.htm and http://www.marx2mao.com/Other/ARD75.html and in both English and Chinese at: http://www.wengewang.org/read.php?tid=4985&keyword=zhang
    Also available in German (“Über die Ausübung einer allumfassenden Diktatur über die Bourgeoisie”): German: PDF Format, 19 pages [161 KB].
  • “Rede an führende Kader auf Provinz- und Stadtebenen beim Besuch der Zentralen Studienklasse in Peking am 28. Juni 1976”, in German translation.   German: PDF Format, 24 pages [165 KB].
    
• Yao Wenyuan [Yao Wen-yuan]:
  • “On ‘Three-Family Village’ — The Reactionary Nature of Evening Chats at Yenshan and Notes from Three-Family Village” (May 10, 1966), 42 pages. From the pamphlet “The Great Socialist Cultural Revolution in China (1)”, listed above.   PDF Format   [3,124 KB].
  • “Commemorate Lu Hsun and Carry the Revolution Through to the End”, by Yao Wen-yuan, a speech on the 30th anniversary of the death of Lu Hsun, Oct. 19, 1966, 17 pages. [From the pamphlet “Commemorating Lu Hsun — Our Forerunner in the Cultural Revolution” (1967) available in its entirety in the section below.]   PDF Format   [907 KB].
  • “On the Counter-Revolutionary Double-Dealer Chou Yang”, by Yao Wen-yuan. (Peking: FLP, 1967), 116 pages.   PDF Format   [2,573 KB].
  • “The Working Class Must Exercise Leadership in Everything”, from Hongqi, #2, 1968. (Peking: FLP, 1968), small pamphlet format, 16 pages.   PDF Format   [744 KB].
  • “Comments On Tao Chu’s Two Books” (1968), 44 pages.   PDF Format   [2,013 KB].
  • “On the Social Basis of the Lin Piao Anti-Party Clique” (1975), 36 pages.   PDF Format   [1,318 KB].
• Wang Hongwen [Wang Hung-wen]:
  • [To be added.]

Other GPCR Pamphlets:

• 1966:
  • “Mao Tse-tung’s Thought is the Invincible Weapon”, four articles from 1966, 87 pages. (Peking: FLP, 1968)   PDF Format   [3,534 KB].
• 1967:
  • [Book:]“The May Upheaval in Hongkong”, by the Committee of Hongkong-Kowloon Chinese Compatriots of All Circles for the Struggle Against Persecution by the British Authorities in Hongkong, (Hongkong: 1967), 191 pages. About the extension of the Cultural Revolution to Hongkong.   PDF Format   [11,305 KB]
  • “Follow Chairman Mao and Advance in the Teeth of Great Storms and Waves”, article about Mao's famous swim in the Yangtse along with editorials from Renmin Ribao and Jiefangjun Bao, July 24-26, 1966, 28 pages. (Peking: FLP, 1967)   PDF Format   [1,240 KB].
  • “Forward Along the High Road of Mao Tse-tung’s Thought — In Celebration of the 17th Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China”, including editorials and speeches by Lin Piao and Chou En-lai on Oct. 1, 1966, 42 pages. (Peking: FLP, 1967)   PDF Format   [2,031 KB].
  • “Betrayal of Proletarian Dictatorship is the Heart of the Book on ‘Self-Cultivation’”, by the editorial departments of Renmin Ribao and Hongqi, May 8, 1967, 24 pages. (Peking: FLP, 1967)   PDF Format   [908 KB].
  • “Patriotism or National Betrayal? — On the Reactionary Film Inside Story of the Ching Court”, by Chi Pen-yu, 44 pages. Original Chinese version in Hongqi #5, 1967. (Peking: FLP, 1967)   PDF Format   [2,286 KB].
  • “Great Victory for Chairman Mao’s Revolutionary Line — Warmly Hail the Birth of Peking Municipal Revolutionary Committee”, including speeches by Chou En-lai, Chiang Ching, Hsieh Fu-chih, Chang Chun-chiao and editorials from Renmin Ribao and Jifangjun Bao, (Peking: FLP, 1967), 60 pages.   PDF Format   [2,626 KB].
  • “Commemorating Lu Hsun — Our Forerunner in the Cultural Revolution”, a collection of speeches and articles on the 30th anniversary of the death of Lu Hsun, including speeches by Chen Po-ta, Yao Wen-yuan, Kuo Mo-jo and others, (Peking: FLP, 1967), 68 pages.   PDF Format   [2,669 KB].
  • “The Struggle Between the Two Roads in China’s Countryside”, by the editorial departments of Renmin Ribao, Hongqi and Jifangjun Bao, Nov. 23, 1967, 36 pages. (Peking: FLP, 1968)   PDF Format   [1,517 KB].
• 1968:
  • “Take the Road of the Shanghai Machine Tools Plant in Training Technicians from among the Workers — Two Investigation Reports on the Revolution in Education in Colleges of Science and Engineering”, by the editorial departments of Renmin Ribao and Hongqi, 68 pages. (Peking: FLP, 1968)   PDF Format   [1,559 KB].
  • “On the Revolutionary ‘Three-in-One’ Combination”, four editorials by Hongqi, Jiefangjun Bao, or Wenhui Bao in the first half of 1967, 48 pages. (Peking: FLP, 1968)   PDF Format   [2,411 KB]   Also available in HTML format at: http://www.marx2mao.com/Other/RTOC68.html
  • “On the Re-Education of Intellectuals”, by Renmin Ribao and Hongqi Commentators, originally in Hongqi, #3, 1968. (Peking: FLP, 1968), small pamphlet format, 20 pages.   PDF Format   [443 KB]
  • “Absorb Proletarian Fresh Blood — An Important Question in Party Consolidation”, Hongqi [Red Flag] editorial, #4, Oct. 14, 1968. (Peking: FLP, 1968), small pamphlet format, 34 pages.   PDF Format   [843 KB]
• 1969:
  • “Put Mao Tse-tung’s Thought in Command of Everything”, New Year editorial for 1969 by Renmin Ribao [People’s Daily], Hongqi [Red Flag] and Jiefangjun Bao [Liberation Army Daily]. (Peking: FLP, 1969), small pamphlet format, 39 pages.   PDF Format   [725 KB]
  • “Grasp Revolution, Promote Production and Win New Victories on the Industrial Front”, Renmin Ribao editorial, Feb. 21, 1969. (Peking: FLP, 1969), small pamphlet format, 26 pages.   PDF Format   [559 KB]
  • “Carry the Great Revolution on the Journalistic Front Through to the End” — Repudiating the Counter-Revolutionary Revisionist Line on Journalism of China’s Khrushchov, by the editorial departments of Renmin Ribao, Hongqi and Jifangjun Bao. (Peking: FLP, 1969), small pamphlet format, 74 pages.   PDF Format   [1,926 KB]
  • “Hold Aloft the Banner of Unity of the Party’s Ninth Congress and Win Still Greater Victories”, editorial of Renmin Ribao, Hongqi and Jifangjun Bao, June 9, 1969. (Peking: FLP, 1969), small pamphlet format, 26 pages.   PDF Format   [565 KB]
  • “Fight for the Further Consolidation of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat” — In Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China. Includes speeches by Lin Piao and Chou En-lai, an editorial, and slogans for the celebration. (Peking: FLP, 1969), small pamphlet format, 54 pages.   PDF Format   [1,314 KB]
• 1970:
  • “Usher In the Great 1970’s”, 1970 New Year’s Day editorial of Renmin Ribao, Hongqi and Jiefangjun Bao. (Peking: FLP, 1970), small pamphlet format, 34 pages.   PDF Format   [671 KB]
  • “Take the Road of Integrating with the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers”, on the orientation of the youth movement. (Peking: FLP, 1970), 105 pages.   PDF Format   [4,667 KB]
  • “Communists Should Be the Advanced Elements of the Proletariat” — In Commemoration of the 49th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China. (Peking: FLP, 1970), small pamphlet format, 20 pages.   PDF Format   [366 KB]
• 1971:
  • “Outstanding Proletarian Fighters”, about outstanding proletarian revolutionaries arising in all walks of life in China. (Peking: FLP, 1971), 101 pages.   PDF Format   [4,749 KB]
  • “To Trumpet Bourgeois Literature and Art is to Restore Capitalism” — A Repudiation of Chou Yang’s Reactionary Fallacy Adulating the ‘Renaissance’, the ‘Enlightenment’ and ‘Critical Realism’ of the Bourgeoisie, by the Shanghai Writing Group for Revolutionary Mass Criticism, (Peking: FLP, 1971), small pamphlet format, 53 pages.   PDF Format   [1,298 KB]
• 1972:
  • “Strive to Build a Socialist University of Science and Engineering”, about the Cultural Revolution in education. (Peking: FLP, 1972), 85 pages. In addition to the title article by the Workers’ and PLA Men’s Mao Tsetung Thought Propaganda Team at Tsinghua University, this pamphlet also includes the “Summary of the Forum on the Revolution in Education in Shanghai Colleges of Science and Engineering” convened by Chang Chun-chiao an Yao Wen-yuan in Shanghai, June 2, 1970.   PDF Format   [5,441 KB]
  • “Strive for New Victories”, in Celebration of the 23rd Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China, editorial by Renmin Ribao, Hongqi and Jiefangjun Bao, (Peking: FLP, 1972), 18 pages.   Searchable PDF Format   [543 KB]
• 1974:
  • “A Vicious Motive, Despicable Tricks — A Criticism of M. Antonioni’s Anti-China Film China”, by Renmin Ribao Commentator, Jan. 30, 1974. (Peking: FLP, 1974), 23 pages.   PDF Format   [871 KB]

Campaign to Criticize Lin Piao and Confucius:

• “Confucius — ‘Sage’ of the Reactionary Classes”, by Yang Jung-kuo. (Peking: FLP, 1974), 75 pages.   PDF Format   [3,129 KB]
• “Ghost of Confucius, Fond Dream of the New Tsars”, 3 commentaries by mass criticism groups and by a Hsinhua correspondent. (Peking: FLP, 1974), 49 pages.   PDF Format   [2,197 KB]
• “On the Social Basis of the Lin Piao Anti-Party Clique”, by Yao Wen-yuan (1975), 36 pages.   PDF Format   [1,318 KB].
• [Book:] “Selected Articles Criticizing Lin Piao and Confucius — Volume I”, 9 articles, 221 pages. (Peking: FLP, 1974)   PDF Format   [9,663 KB].
• [Book:] “Selected Articles Criticizing Lin Piao and Confucius — Volume II”, 11 articles, 239 pages. (Peking: FLP, 1975)   PDF Format   [10,701 KB].
• “Workers, Peasants and Soldiers Criticize Lin Piao and Confucius — A Collection of Articles”, 120 pages. (Peking: FLP, 1976)   PDF Format   [4,314 KB].
• “Great Victory for the Military Line of Chairman Mao Tsetung — A Criticism of Lin Piao’s Bourgeois Military Line in the Liaohsi-Shenyang and Peiping-Tientsin Campaigns”, by Chan Shih-pu, (Peking: FLP, 1976), 124 pages plus 2 large maps.   Searchable PDF Format   [4,731 KB]

Last Campaign against Deng Xiaoping:

• [To be added.]

The Coup d’Etat After Mao’s Death and the End of the Cultural Revolution:

• The Coup d’Etat against the Maoist Left Wing of the CCP:
  • “Great Historic Victory: In Warm Celebration of Chairman Hua Kuo-feng’s Becoming Leader of the Communist Party of China, and of the Crushing of the Wang-Chang-Chiang-Yao Anti-Party Clique”, 56 pages, (Peking: FLP, 1976). Includes a speech by Wu Teh [Wu De] and several newspaper editorials lauding Hua Kuo-feng [Hua Guofeng] and the arrest of Mao’s closest comrades, the so-called “Gang of Four”.   PDF Format   [2,354 KB].
  • “China’s October Coup that Ended the Maoist Era”, by Warren Sun and Frederick Teiwes. (Original source not known to us.), 22 pages. This is an informative discussion of the details of how this coup came about, who organized it, the lies that Hua Guofeng and the other conspirators told, and so forth. Written by two prominent bourgeois Sinologists.   PDF Format   [273 KB].
• Condemnations of the Four by Folks Duped by the Reactionaries (and who should have known better, even if they might have had a few small valid criticisms in some cases!):
  • “Thoroughly Criticize the ‘Gang of Four’ and Bring About a New Upsurge in the Movement to Build Tachai-Type Counties Throughout the Country — Report at the Second National Conference on Learning from Tachai in Agriculture”, by Chen Yung-kuei [Chen Yonggui], (Peking: FLP, 1977), 54 pages.   PDF Format   [2,189 KB].
• The Kangaroo Trial and Unjust Punishment of the ‘Gang of Four’ and Others:
  • [Book:] “A Great Trial in Chinese History”, issued by the victorious capitalist-roaders, (Peking: New World Press, 1981), 260 pages.   PDF Format   [13,142 KB].
• Reversing the GPCR and the Capitalist Road:   [To be added.]

Collections of Documents from the GPCR:

• [Book:] “Important Documents on the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China”, which consists mostly of speeches by Lin Piao [Lin Biao]. Pocket edition with red plastic cover. (Peking: FLP, 1970), 350 pages.   PDF Format   [7,312 KB].
• [Book:] And Mao Makes 5: Mao Tsetung’s last great battle, edited with an Introduction by Raymond Lotta, (Chicago: Banner Press, September 1978), 539 pages. [Because of the very large file size of the entire book, each section and each included article is also being made available here separately.]
  
  • Entire volume in one big file:   Searchable PDF Format   [21,605 KB]
  • Cover, title page, contents and preface:   PDF Format   [15 pages; 805 KB]
  • Introduction:   PDF Format   [50 pages; 3,987 KB]
  • Section I: Background to the Struggle:   PDF Format   [51 pages; 3,735 KB]
    • Text 1: “Report at the Central Study Class”, by Wang Hung-wen   PDF Format   [19 pages; 1,466 KB]
    • Text 2: “The Laws of Class Struggle in the Socialist Period”, by Chi Ping   PDF Format   [7 pages; 516 KB]
    • Text 3: “Report to the Tenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China”, delivered by Chou En-lai   PDF Format   [15 pages; 1,195 KB]
    • Text 4: “Report on the Revision of the Party Constitution”, by Wang Hung-wen   PDF Format   [8 pages; 567 KB]
  • Section II: Criticize Lin Piao and Confucius:   PDF Format   [71 pages; 5,082 KB]
    • Section II Intro:   PDF Format   [2 pages; 127 KB]
    • Text 5: “Carry the Struggle to Criticize Lin Piao and Confucius Through to the End”   PDF Format   [4 pages; 299 KB]
    • Text 6: “Dare to Think and Do”   PDF Format   [2 pages; 90 KB]
    • Text 7: “Study the Historical Experience of the Struggle Between the Confucian and Legalist Schools”, by Liang Hsiao   PDF Format   [11 pages; 782 KB]
    • Text 8: “The Philosophy of the Communist Party is the Philosophy of Struggle”, by Chiang Yu-ping   PDF Format   [3 pages; 229 KB]
    • Text 9: “Working Women’s Struggle Against Confucianism in Chinese History”   PDF Format   [7 pages; 514 KB]
    • Text 10: “To Develop Industry We Must Initiate Technical Innovation”, by Kung Hsiao-wen   PDF Format   [9 pages; 655 KB]
    • Text 11: “Has Absolute Music No Class Character?”, by Chao Hua   PDF Format   [6 pages; 436 KB]
    • Text 12: “A Decade of Revolution in Peking Opera”, by Chu Lan   PDF Format   [11 pages; 868 KB]
    • Text 13: “History Develops in Spirals”, by Hung Yu   PDF Format   [11 pages; 798 KB]
    • Text 14: “Speech at Peking Rally Welcoming Cambodian Guests”, by Wang Hung-wen   PDF Format   [5 pages; 332 KB]
  • Section III: Fourth People’s Congress and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat Campaign:   PDF Format   [64 pages; 4,650 KB]
    • Section III Intro:   PDF Format   [2 pages; 82 KB]
    • Text 15: “Report on the Work of the Government”, delivered by Chou En-lai   PDF Format   [9 pages; 696 KB]
    • Text 16: “Report on the Revision of the Constitution”, delivered by Chang Chun-chiao   PDF Format   [6 pages; 412 KB]
    • Text 17: “Study Well the Theory of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat”   PDF Format   [4 pages; 253 KB]
    • Text 18: “On the Social Basis of the Lin Piao Anti-Party Clique”, by Yao Wen-yuan   PDF Format   [13 pages; 1,034 KB]
    • Text 19: “On Exercising All-Round Dictatorship Over the Bourgeoisie”, by Chang Chun-chiao   PDF Format   [12 pages; 938 KB]
    • Text 20: “Fighting With the Pen and Steel Rod”   PDF Format   [8 pages; 619 KB]
    • Text 21: “Socialist Big Fair Is Good”   PDF Format   [9 pages; 645 KB]
  • Section IV: Criticize Water Margin:   PDF Format   [18 pages; 1,142 KB]
    • Section IV Intro:   PDF Format   [1 page; 64 KB]
    • Text 22: “Unfold Criticism of ‘Water Margin’”   PDF Format   [3 pages; 178 KB]
    • Text 23: “Criticism of ‘Water Margin’”, by Chu Fang-ming   PDF Format   [9 pages; 622 KB]
    • Text 24: “On Teng Hsiao-ping’s Counter-Revolutionary Offensive in Public Opinion (Excerpts)”, by Hung Hsuan   PDF Format   [4 pages; 289 KB]
  • Section V: Criticize Teng and Beat Back the Right Deviationist Wind:   PDF Format   [142 pages; 10,141 KB]
    • Section V Intro:   PDF Format   [2 pages; 87 KB]
    • Text 25: “Two Poems”, by Mao Tsetung   PDF Format   [2 pages; 62 KB]
    • Text 26: “Reversing Correct Verdicts Goes Against the Will of the People”   PDF Format   [4 pages; 273 KB]
    • Text 27: “Counter-Revolutionary Political Incident at Tien An Men Square”   PDF Format   [5 pages; 325 KB]
    • Text 28: “Communist Party of China Resolutions”   PDF Format   [1 page; 49 KB]
    • Text 29: “Firmly Keep to the General Orientation of the Struggle”   PDF Format   [3 pages; 188 KB]
    • Text 30: “A General Program for Capitalist Restoration”, by Cheng Yueh   PDF Format   [13 pages; 1,017 KB]
    • Text 31: “Criticism of Selected Passages of ‘Certain Questions on Accelerting the Development of Industry’”   PDF Format   [14 pages; 1,045 KB]
    • Text 32: “Comments on Teng Hsiao-ping’s Economic Ideas of the Comprador Bourgeoisie”, by Kao Lu and Chang Ko   PDF Format   [8 pages; 570 KB]
    • Text 33: “A New Type of Production Relations in a Socialist Enterprise”   PDF Format   [9 pages; 637 KB]
    • Text 34: “Fundamental Differences Between the Two Lines in Education”   PDF Format   [10 pages; 722 KB]
    • Text 35: “Repulsing the Right Deviationist Wind in the Scientific and Technological Circles”   PDF Format   [9 pages; 637 KB]
    • Text 36: “What Is the Intention of People of the Lin Piao Type in Advocating ‘Private Ownership of Knowledge’?”, by Liang Hsiao   PDF Format   [10 pages; 795 KB]
    • Text 37: “A Reactionary Philosophy That Stands on Its Head”, by Hung Yu   PDF Format   [4 pages; 319 KB]
    • Text 38: “From Bourgeois Democrats to Capitalist-Roaders”, by Chih Heng   PDF Format   [7 pages; 544 KB]
    • Text 39: “Capitalist-Roaders Are the Bourgeoisie Inside the Party”, by Fang Kang   PDF Format   [10 pages; 715 KB]
    • Text 40: “Capitalist-Roaders Are Representatives of the Capitalist Relations of Production”, by Chuang Lan   PDF Format   [6 pages; 465 KB]
    • Text 41: “Talks Concerning ‘Criticizing Teng Hsiao-ping and Repulsing Right Deviationist Wind’”, by Chang Chun-chiao   PDF Format   [14 pages; 1,086 KB]
    • Text 42: “Deepen the Criticism of Teng Hsiao-ping in Anti-Quake and Relief Work”   PDF Format   [3 pages; 201 KB]
    • Text 43: “Proletarians Are Revolutionary Optimists”, by Pi Sheng   PDF Format   [7 pages; 489 KB]
  • Biographical Material on the Four:   PDF Format   [13 pages; 1,009 KB]
    PDF Format   [13 pages of photographs; 1,645 KB]
  • Appendicies: Documents from the Right:   PDF Format   [98 pages; 7,070 KB]
    • Introduction:   PDF Format   [1 page; 61 KB]
    • Appendix 1: “On the General Program of Work for the Whole Party and Whole Nation”   PDF Format   [22 pages; 1,679 KB]
    • Appendix 2: “Some Problems in Accelerating Industrial Development”   PDF Format   [21 pages; 1,490 KB]
    • Appendix 3: “On Some Problems in the Fields of Science and Technology”   PDF Format   [6 pages; 427 KB]
    • Appendix 4: “Two Talks by Teng Hsiao-ping”   PDF Format   [8 pages; 553 KB]
    • Appendix 5: “The Bitter Fruit of Maoism”, by Y. Semyonov   PDF Format   [6 pages; 439 KB]
    • Appendix 6: “Speech at Special Session of UN General Assembly”, by Teng Hsiao-ping   PDF Format   [10 pages; 756 KB]
    • Appendix 7: “A Complete Reversal of the Relations Between Ourselves and the Enemy”, by Hsiang Chun   PDF Format   [10 pages; 763 KB]
    • Appendix 8: “CPC Central Committee Circular on Holding National Science Conference”   PDF Format   [9 pages; 651 KB]
    • Appendix 9: “To Each According to His Work: Socialist Principle in Distribution”, by Li Hung-lin   PDF Format   [4 pages; 289 KB]
• [Book:] “CCP Documents of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: 1966-67”, (Hong Kong: Union Research Institute), 1967 [?], 361 pages. This work included the original Chinese language documents plus the English translations. This version, however, only includes the English translations.   PDF Format   [27,856 KB]

Magazines from China with Issues from the GPCR Period:

• Peking Review/Beijing Review entire issues and individual articles: http://www.massline.org/PekingReview/   [This archive now has all of the issues from the GPCR period and all of the issues for the entire 1958-1988 period.]
• China Reconstructs:   Index page on BannedThought.net
• China Pictorial:   Index page on BannedThought.net

Contemporary Foreign Commentary about China During the GPCR Period:

• [Book:] The Cultural Revolution at Peking University, by Victor Nee, with Don Layman, (NY: Monthly Review Press, 1969), 98 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [5,720 KB]  
• [Book:] The Chinese Economy, by Jan Deleyne, (1973 [Orig. French version, 1971]), 216 pages. (From the Internet Archive.) Talks about the Chinese economy before, during, and after the initial phase (late 1960s) of the Cultural Revolution.   Searchable PDF format   [8,708 KB]  
• [Book:] Cultural Revolution and Industrial Organization in China: Changes in Management and the Division of Labor, by Charles Bettelheim, (NY: Monthly Review Press, 1974), 136 pages. (From the Internet Archive.)   Searchable PDF format   [4,528 KB]  
  
  
• Far East Reporter Pamphlet Series (Maud Russell)
• Anglo-Chinese Educational Institute
• Chinese Policy Study Group (London)
• U.S.-China People’s Friendship Association:
• Miscellaneous Foreign Commentary, articles, pamphlets, etc.

Retrospective MLM Commentary about the GPCR:

• “Evaluating the Cultural Revolution in China and its Legacy for the Future”, by the MLM Revolutionary Study Group in the U.S. (85 pages, March 2007)   What does it mean to embark on, and wage a determined revolutionary struggle to stay on, the socialist road to communism? This comprehensive paper describes the sweep of the Cultural Revolution from 1966-1976; its theoretical foundations; its many achievements in the areas of culture, education, industry, agriculture and the liberation of women; the serious obstacles it faced and its shortcomings in a number of areas; and why future revolutionary movements and socialist states must stand on its shoulders. An extensive bibliography on the Cultural Revolution is included.   PDF Format (847 KB);   MS Word Format (1,087 KB)
• “On the Relationship Between the Working Class and Its Party Under Socialism”, by Fred Engst, February 2015, 37 pages. This very important paper focuses on the question of how revolutionary power can be maintained by the proletariat over the long term, and brings out some important lessons learned from the initial successes and then eventual failure (after Mao’s death) of the Cultural Revolution in China. It criticizes some of the bourgeois ideas that have recently developed in China that multi-party democracy and the “rule of law” are the way to ensure genuine socialism. Instead, it argues that the economic basis for the development of capitalist-roaders can be largely eliminated by abolishing “bureaucratic privileges” for Party members, and that mass organizations of the sort which developed in the Cultural Revolution can be institutionalized to criticize Party members and units in which capitalist-roaders start to develop.   PDF Format (487 KB);   MS Word Format (302 KB)
• “The Late Cultural Revolution”, a paper by a long-time American revolutionary, 2016, 47 pages. This paper focuses on the continuing class struggle in China during the 1969-1976 period between Mao and his political allies (on the one hand) and the revisionist forces within the CCP who were determined to reverse the political gains of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. This was first posted on the Mass Proletariat web site at https://www.massproletariat.info/documents/ , along with the introductory paragraph: “This document was written by a comrade of Mass Proletariat. It provides a comprehensive account of the struggles internal to the dictatorship of the proletariat in China in the late Cultural Revolution and how these struggles were reflected in the foreign policy of the Chinese Communist Party. The questions that lie at the heart of this paper are what political line for developing socialism and what foreign policy are needed to advance the class struggle in socialist countries and on the global scale in order to work towards communism? And, because of the primacy of internal contradictions, how is this foreign policy a reflection of the class struggle in a socialist society?”
  [This is the slightly revised version as of Aug. 19, 2018.]   PDF Format (362 KB)

Bourgeois Works on the GPCR:

• [Book:] Die Kultur der Kulturrevolution: Personenkult und politisches Design im China von Mao Zedong, ed. by Helmut Opletal, (Vienna: Museum für Völkerkunde Wien, Sept. 2011), 258 pages, profusely illustrated, with text in German.   Searchable PDF Format (Very large file: 64,839 KB);   Searchable WinDjView Format (Very large file: 86,380 KB)

Scholarly Commentary on the GPCR (From various, sometimes academic Marxist, political perspectives):

• [Book:] China During the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976: A Selected Bibliography of English Language Works, compiled by Tony H. Chang, (1999), 214 pages.   Searchable PDF Format (8,214 KB)
• “The Conclusive Scene: Mao and the Red Guards in July 1968”, by Alessandro Russo, Positions [magazine], Winter 2005, 41 pages.   Searchable PDF Format (450 KB)
• “Interpreting the Cultural Revolution Politically”, by Alexander Day, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies vol. 7, no. 4, 2006, 8 pages.   Searchable PDF Format (51 KB)
• [Book:] Dynamics of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in the Countryside: Shaanxi, 1966-1971, by Shinichi Tanagawa, (Ph.D. Thesis, Stanford University, June 2007), 321 pages. (Some scanned pages a little crooked; our apologies.)   Searchable PDF Format (14,482 KB)
• [Book:] The Paris Commune in Shanghai: The Masses, the State, and Dynamics of ‘Continuous Revolution’, by Hongshen Jiang, (Ph.D. Thesis, Duke University, 2010), 637 pages.   Searchable PDF Format (1,862 KB)
• [Book:] Reading Revolution: Art and Literacy During China’s Cultural Revolution, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Univ. of Toronto, June-September 2016, Exhibition catalog, by Jennifer Purtle and Elizabeth Ridolfo, 116 pages.   Searchable PDF Format (2,765 KB)

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