NIGHT VIEW OF THE TIENANMEN SQUARE IN PEKING. ON THE LEFT ARE THE NATIONAL MUSEUMS FOR CHINA’S REVOLUTIONARY AND HISTORIC RELICS. ON THE RIGHT IS THE GRAND HALL OF THE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS. . er—the Judas Trotsky—to set up an anti- Communist, counter-revolutionary Mao- ist “International.” I am deeply con- vinced that not only Chinese Commun- ists and the Chinese people but also Communists and their friends through- out the world take a firm stand against these machinations of Mao Tse-tung. 3. He has smashed state organs of the democratic dictatorship of the people and is replacing them with the machin- ery of his personal reactionary military dictatorship. Mao Tse-tung tried to use the slogan of the destruction of the old bourgeois state machine as a pretext for crushing the constitutional state organs of peo- ple's power in China. He has completely paralyzed the higher legislative body— the National People’s Congress and its Standing Committee, both of which had been elected in accordance with the Constitution. The Chairman, Deputy Chairmen, members of the Standing Committee and most of the deputies of the NPC have been savagely persecuted on all sorts of false accusations levelled at them by Mao Tse-tung. To all intents and purposes, the State Council, which is the highest organ of executive power in China, has also been paralyzed. More than two-thirds of the Premier's deputies have been relieved of their posts or arrested, and the remain- ing deputies have been slandered and ga by the hungweipings and tsao- ans. With the exception of the Defence Ministry and a few other offices, the min- istries and state committees subordina- ted to the State Council were placed under the control of hungweipings and tsaofans and then an integrated mili- tary control was established over them. Many high-ranking officials of the State Council and Ministries have been killed, wounded, baited until they lost their health or subjected to other repressions in the form of, unbearable, humiliating . or health-destroying hard labor. Provincial and lower people’s con- gresses and people’s councils have been made away with, and legal organs — people’s courts and people’s procura- tor’s offices of all levels—have likewise ceased to function. Their heads and cadres have been either persecuted or physically destroyed. The exceptions are the members of the national bourgeoisie in all legislative and executive bodies. They have not been touched at all by Mao Tse-tung. Mao Tse-tung has elected to liquidate the Party backbone and foremost repre- sentatives of non-Party people in organs as the cardinal means of destroying these organs of power. In planting so- called “revolutionary committees,” Mao Tse-tung counted on creating a weapon of his personal military dictatorship. Their paramount task is to persecute and annihilate Communists, Young Communist Leaguers, _ revolutionary servicemen and foremost’‘workers,’ pea- PACIFIC TRIBUNE—MARCH 21,-1969—Page 10 sants and intellectuals. As soon as a so-called “revolutionary committee” was set up, hungweipings led by the chair- man of the “revolutionary committee” publicly smashed the signboards of the local CPC committee and of the peuple’s committee, This was followed by the publication of notices ordering all officials of local Party organizations and Communists as well as cadres of the organs of power to register at the “revolutionary com- mittee” within three days and await fur- ther sanctions. Arrest, exile, imprison- ment or murder awaited many of those who registered and also those who did not register but were later discovered. Communists who headed provincial or other local Party organizations or people's committees and charged with being “counter-revolutionary revision- ists,” “traitors” or “Soviet spies” were brutally executed at public rallies in many localities where so-called “revo- lutionary committees” were formed. Are these not typical features of an anti- communist coup of any counter-revolu- tion? The key role in the “revolutionary committees” is played by military people whom Mao Tse-tung still manages to delude. The so-called “Leftist elements” (hungweipings and tsaofans) are mere- ly their assistants, while the few former Party and administrative cadres who have been recruited with the help of the “tripartite alliance” slogan play the role of supernumeraries. In spite of Mao Tse-tung’s having proclaimed the slogans of “struggle against the dictator- ship of the bourgeoisie” and “defence of the dictatorship of the proletariat,” all his actions prove the reverse: behind the screen of “defending the dictator- ship of the proletariat” he is destroy- ing the people’s power and replacing it with his personal reactionary military dictatorship. VOUTUUU ERE ESEO SOOO TROON EA TEEO EEE EETTOR EEE 4. He is inflicting harm on the People’s Liberation Army, splitting its ranks and employing it as a blind tool for his own personal ends directed against the Party and the people. Mao Tse-tung has used part of the PLA as an instrument of the counter- revolutionary coup and reactionary per- sonal military dictatorship, concentrated part of the PLA on seizing power from Communist Party and the people's gov- ernment, killing Communists, workers, peasants and intellectuals; incited one part of the PLA against another part and ordered the PLA to pursue his re- actionary policy of “three supports’* and “two military measures.”** * Three supports: “support of the Lefts,” meaning support of the hung- weipings and tsaofans, “support of in- dustry” and “support of agriculture”, which means the establishment of mill- tary control over the country's entire economy. **Two military measures: “military administration,” which signifies the es- tablishment of a military regime in the cities and countryside, in factortes, offi- ces and educational establishments to watch the ‘workers, ° peasants, intellec- He utilized the abolition of military ranks as a means for isolating in one blow the marshals, generals and officers who held no military posts from any contact with the army. Mao Tse-tung has purged and persecuted marshals, generals, officers and sergeants of the PLA. Of the nine marshals, all except Lin Piao have been subjected to brutal persecution and indignities and some, for example, Marshals Peng Teh-huai and Ho Lung, have even been arrested. The number of generals and admirals of the army, navy and air force re- moved from their posts and persecuted, runs, according to incomplete data, from 70 to 80. According to information from various sources, among those pur- ged are four Deputy Defence Ministers, the Chief of the General Staff and seve- ral of his Deputies, Chief of the Opera- tional Department of the General Staff and his Deputy, Chief of the Central Political Administration and two of his Deputies, three Deputy Commissars of the Public Security Forces, three Deputy Commanders, the Commissar and First Deputy Commissar of the Navy, the Commander, four Deputy Commanders and three Commissars of the Artillery, seven Deputy Commanders, the Commis- sar and two Deputy Commissars of the Air Force, Commander of the Armored Forces and his Deputy, three Deputy Commanders and Deputy Commissar of the Railway Forces, Deputy Commander of the Engineers, Commander of the Anti-Aircraft Forces, five Deputy Chiefs, the Commissar and Deputy Commissar of the Central Administration of the Logistics Service, and so on. Still more commissars and political workers were persecuted among the me- dium-rank and junior officers. More than half of the personnel in the General Staff and the Central Political Adminis- tration of the PLA have been removed from their posts and persecuted; the removal and persecution of the com- manders of the Peking Military Area and the Peking garrison was even reported on two occasions. The facts show that Mao Tse-tung and Lin Piao not only carried through a mass purge, persecuted and annihilated the higher commanders and commissars and also the command- ers and political workers of all ranks in the former First, Second and Third Field Armies, which they have always regard- ed as an alien body, but they also pur- ged, persecuted and annihilated, group after group, the higher commanders, commissars, commanders and political workers of the former Fourth Field Army whom Mao Tse-tung and Lin Piao did not trust or who Chiang Ching thought did not obey her orders. They are ruthlessly purging the com- munist backbone of the PLA and are planning to replace wholesale the cadres of Communists and members of the Young Communist League in the PLA with the new men tried and tested in tuals and students and persecute them: “military training”, which means that the entire population, young and old, Is forced at the point of the bayonet “to study Mao Tse-tung’s thought” and that military drill is introduced in schools and higher educational establishments. the course of the “cultural revolution’ All this is being done to make it easie for Mao Tse-tung, Lin Piao and Chiay Ching to usurp all the power in the PLA and to convert, in a conspiratorial way, the People’s Liberation Army, crea ted and led by the Communist Party into their personal anti-communist hord. es directed against the people. They have already, set up special army units directly subordinated to th “headquarters of Mao Tse-tung”. It is only with the help of these units that Communists, the population and “un reliable” detachments of the PLA are suppressed and the “revolutionary com mittees” in the localities are protected. All this demonstrates the fear of Mao Tse-tung and his supporters in face of the ‘dissatisfaction mounting in th army. Indeed, the commanders, politi cal workers and soldiers of the PLA will not be able to tolerate for long the pre sent situation. Sooner or later they wil rise up to fight against Mao Tse-tung and his group, for the restoration ofa genuine Chinese Communist Party an the building of socialism in China. 5. He is ruining the younger genere tion; he has disbanded the Young Com munist League of China and is replat ing it with the reactionary organiza tion of hungweipings. On the one hand, Mao Tse-tung has disbanded the Young Communist Le gue and the Young Pioneer Organization) and is brutally persecuting the leaders of the YCL and the Young Pioneers, their functionaries and YCL members. On th other hand, utilizing the military and the police as the leading core and back bone of command, he has by coercidi and deception compelled part of th university students and secondary and elementary school pupils to organize hungweipings and to play the part the storm detachments in villifying hounded, insulting, beating up, arrest: ing and killing people and in arranging arson—all according to his wishes-t@ act as small fry, as bullies who § their blood to stage the “rebellion” and the seizure of power he wanted. He has compelled millions of young people and children to waste their val able time, to drop their’ ‘studies, undergo moral corruption and to 10s their health and life. He has committed} a grave crime, crippling the growilé generation of the Chinese people. has wounded the soul of tens of millio”™ of fathers and mothers anxious for fate of their young sons and daughters. Those whom Mao Tse-tung and his group wanted abused and insulted wee abused and insulted on their orders bY the hungweipings at their assemblage: Those whom Mao Tse-tung and his grouP wanted purged or ousted from_ flit were, on their orders, marked dow! ! the hungweipings, who, at their rallié and demonstrations demanded that t be purged or ousted from office. Tho® whom they wanted beaten up, were q their orders, beaten up by the hungwe pings. Those whom they wanted to 4 rest, on their orders were arrested b the hungweipings. Those whom al wanted to kill, on their orders were # =