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.

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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-
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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.

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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.

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group wanted abused and insulted wee
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