C O M M U N I Q U E O F T H E H f E N L A R G E D T W E L F T H ^ P L E N A R Y S E S S I O N O F T H E

E I G H T H C E N T R A L C O M M I T T E E O F T H E C O M M U N I S T P A R T Y

O F C H I N A

F O R E I G N L A N G U A G E S P R E S S P E K I N G

C O M M U N I Q U E O F T H E E N L A R G E D T W E L F T H

P L E N A R Y S E S S I O N O F T H E E I G H T H C E N T R A L C O M M I T T E E

O F T H E C O M M U N I S T P A R T Y O F C H I N A

(Adopted on October 31, 1968)

F O R E I G N L A N G U A G E S PRESS P E K I N G 1968

P r i n t e d i n t h e P e o p l e ' s R e p u b l i c of C h i n a

O u r g r e a t l e a d e r C h a i r m a n M a o a t t h e E n l a r g e d T w e l f t h P l e n a r y S e s s i o n o f t h e E i g h t h C e n t r a l C o m m i t t e e o f t h e C o m m u n i s t P a r t y o f C h i n a .

O u r g r e a t l e a d e r C h a i r m a n i V I a o a n d h i s c l o s e c o m r a d e - i n - a r m s , V i c e - C h a i r m a n L i n P i a o , a t t h e E n l a r g e d T w e l f t h P l e n a r y S e s s i o n o f t h e E i g h t h C e n t r a l C o m m i t t e e o f t h e C o m ­m u n i s t P a r t y o f C h i n a .

C h a i r m a n M a o i s m a k i n g a m o s t i m p o r t a n t s p e e c h a t t h e s e s s i o n .

Quotation from

Chairman Mao Tse-tung

T h e f o r c e a t t h e c o r e l e a d i n g o u r c a u s e f o r w a r d i s t h e C h i n e s e C o m ­m u n i s t P a r t y .

T h e t h e o r e t i c a l b a s i s g u i d i n g o u r t h i n k i n g i s M a r x i s m - L e n i n i s m .

Quotation from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

T h e c u r r e n t g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l ­t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n i s a b s o l u t e l y n e c e s s a r y a n d m o s t t i m e l y f o r c o n s o l i d a t i n g t h e d i c t a t o r s h i p o f t h e p r o l e t a r i a t , p r e v e n t ­i n g c a p i t a l i s t r e s t o r a t i o n a n d b u i l d i n g s o c i a l i s m .

T ^ H E Enlarged Twelfth Plenary Session , of the Eighth Central Committee of

the Communist Par ty of China opened in Peking on October 13, 1968 and was suc­cessfully concluded on October 31.

Comrade Mao Tse-tung, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, presided over this session which is of great historic significance and made a most important speech on the great proletarian cultural revolution movement since the Eleventh Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Party in August 1966.

Vice-Chairman Lin Piao, Chairman Mao .Tse-tung's close cornrade-in-arms, attended ttie session and made an important speech.

Attending the session were Members and Alternate Members of the Central Committee.

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A l l m e m b e r s o f t h e C u l t u r a l R e v o l u t i o n G r o u p U n d e r t h e C e n t r a l C o m m i t t e e a t t e n d e d t h e s e s s i o n .

P r i n c i p a l r e s p o n s i b l e c o m r a d e s o f t h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y c o m m i t t e e s o f t h e p r o v i n c e s , m u n i c i p a l i t i e s a n d a u t o n o m o u s r e g i o n s a t t e n d e d t h e s e s s i o n .

P r i n c i p a l r e s p o n s i b l e c o m r a d e s o f t h e C h i n e s e P e o p l e ' s L i b e r a t i o n A r m y a t t e n d e d t h e s e s s i o n .

T h e E n l a r g e d T w e l f t h P l e n a r y S e s s i o n o f t h e E i g h t h C e n t r a l C o m m i t t e e u n a n i ­m o u s l y h o l d s t h a t t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n , p e r s o n a l l y i n i t i a t e d a n d l e d b y o u r g r e a t l e a d e r C o m r a d e M a o T s e - t u n g , i s a g r e a t p o l i t i c a l r e v o l u t i o n m a d e b y t h e p r o l e t a r i a t a g a i n s t t h e b o u r ­g e o i s i e a n d a l l o t h e r e x p l o i t i n g c l a s s e s u n d e r t h e c o n d i t i o n s o f t h e d i c t a t o r s h i p o f t h e p r o l e t a r i a t i n o u r c o u n t r y .

T h e P l e n a r y S e s s i o n h o l d s t h a t i n h i s g r e a t r e v o l u t i o n a r y d o c u m e n t "Bombard the Headquarters" i s s u e d a t t h e E l e v e n t h P l e n a r y S e s s i o n o f t h e E i g h t h C e n t r a l

C o m m i t t e e , C h a i r m a n M a o c h a r t e d t h e c o u r s e o f v i c t o r y f o r t h e c u r r e n t g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n .

T h e P l e n a r y S e s s i o n h o l d s t h a t t h e " D e c i s i o n C o n c e r n i n g t h e G r e a t P r o l e ­t a r i a n C u l t u r a l R e v o l u t i o n " d r a w n u p u n d e r C h a i r m a n M a o ' s p e r s o n a l g u i d a n c e a t t h e E l e v e n t h P l e n a r y S e s s i o n o f t h e E i g h t h C e n t r a l C o m m i t t e e a n d t h e C o m ­m u n i q u e o f t h e E l e v e n t h P l e n a r y S e s s i o n a r e c o r r e c t .

T h e P l e n a r y S e s s i o n h o l d s t h a t C h a i r ­m a n M a o ' s p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r y l i n e , h i s g r e a t s t r a t e g i c p l a n f o r t h e g r e a t p r o l e ­t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n a n d t h e s e r i e s o f i m p o r t a n t i n s t r u c t i o n s h e h a s g i v e n a t v a r i o u s s t a g e s o f t h i s r e v o l u t i o n , a n d V i c e -C h a i r m a n L i n ' s m a n y s p e e c h e s a r e a l l c o r r e c t . T h e C u l t u r a l R e v o l u t i o n G r o u p U n d e r t h e C e n t r a l C o m m i t t e e h a s p l a y e d a n i m p o r t a n t r o l e i n t h e s t r u g g l e t o c a r r y o u t C h a i r m a n M a o ' s p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u ­t i o n a r y l i n e .

P r a c t i c e i n t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n p r o v e s t h a t , a s C o m r a d e M a o T s e - t u n g h a s s a i d , the current great prole­tarian cultural revolution is absolutely necessary and most timely for consolidat­ing the dictatorship of the proletariat, preventing capitalist restoration and build­ing socialism. U n d e r t h e g u i d a n c e o f C h a i r m a n M a o ' s p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r y l i n e a n d t h e l e a d e r s h i p o f t h e p r o l e t a r i a n h e a d q u a r t e r s w i t h C h a i r m a n M a o a s i t s l e a d e r a n d V i c e - C h a i r m a n L i n a s i t s d e p u t y l e a d e r , a n d i n t h e p r o c e s s o f e x ­t r e m e l y c o m p l i c a t e d a n d a c u t e c l a s s s t r u g ­g l e o v e r t h e p a s t t w o y e a r s , h u n d r e d s o f m i l l i o n s o f p e o p l e h a v e b e e n m o b i l i z e d o n a s c a l e u n p r e c e d e n t e d i n b r e a d t h a n d d e p t h a n d , w i t h t h e s u p p o r t o f t h e C h i n e s e P e o p l e ' s L i b e r a t i o n A r m y a n d t h r o u g h r e ­p e a t e d t r i a l s o f c l a s s s t r e n g t h , h a v e f i n a l l y s m a s h e d t h e b o u r g e o i s h e a d q u a r t e r s r e p ­r e s e n t e d b y L i u S h a o - c h i t o g e t h e r w i t h i t s a g e n t s i n v a r i o u s p l a c e s , w h i c h v a i n l y a t t e m p t e d t o u s u r p t h e l e a d e r s h i p o f t h e

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P a r t y , t h e G o v e r n m e n t a n d t h e a r m y , a n d h a v e s e i z e d b a c k t h a t p o r t i o n o f p o w e r t h e y u s u r p e d . R e v o l u t i o n a r y c o m m i t t e e s h a v e b e e n s e t u p i n t w e n t y - n i n e p r o v i n c e s , m u n i c i p a l i t i e s a n d a u t o n o m o u s r e g i o n s , t h a t i s , t h r o u g h o u t t h e c o u n t r y w i t h t h e e x c e p t i o n o f T a i w a n P r o v i n c e . T o d a y t h i s m o m e n t o u s p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n h a s w o n g r e a t a n d d e c i s i v e v i c t o r y .

T h e P l e n a r y S e s s i o n h o l d s t h a t t h e v i c t o r i e s o f t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n a r e f u r t h e r p r o o f t h a t t h e C o m ­m u n i s t P a r t y o f C h i n a w i t h C o m r a d e M a o T s e - t u n g a s i t s l e a d e r i s a g r e a t , g l o r i o u s a n d c o r r e c t P a r t y . T h e P l e n a r y S e s s i o n h o l d s t h a t t h r o u g h t h e s t o r m s o f t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n , a m p l e i d e o l o g i c a l , p o l i t i c a l a n d o r g a n i z a t i o n a l c o n d i t i o n s h a v e b e e n p r e p a r e d f o r c o n v e n ­i n g t h e N i n t h N a t i o n a l C o n g r e s s o f t h e P a r t y . T h e P l e n a r y S e s s i o n d e c i d e d t h a t t h e N i n t h N a t i o n a l C o n g r e s s o f t h e C o m ­m u n i s t P a r t y o f C h i n a w i l l b e h e l d a t a n a p p r o p r i a t e t i m e .

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T h e P l e n a r y S e s s i o n r a t i f i e d t h e " R e p o r t o n t h e E x a m i n a t i o n o f t h e C r i m e s o f t h e R e n e g a d e , T r a i t o r a n d S c a b L i u S h a o - c h i " s u b m i t t e d b y t h e s p e c i a l g r o u p u n d e r t h e C e n t r a l C o m m i t t e e o f t h e P a r t y f o r t h e e x a m i n a t i o n o f h i s c a s e . T h e r e p o r t c o n ­f i r m s w i t h f u l l s u p p o r t i n g e v i d e n c e t h a t L i u S h a o - c h i , t h e N o . 1 P a r t y p e r s o n i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d , i s a r e n e g a d e , t r a i t o r a n d s c a b h i d i n g i n t h e P a r t y a n d i s a l a c k e y o f i m p e r i a l i s m , m o d e r n r e v i s i o n i s m a n d t h e K u o m i n t a n g r e a c t i o n a r i e s w h o h a s c o m m i t t e d i n n u m e r ­a b l e c r i m e s . T h e P l e n a r y S e s s i o n h o l d s t h a t t h e e x p o s u r e o f t h e c o u n t e r - r e v o l u ­t i o n a r y f e a t u r e s o f L i u S h a o - c h i b y t h e P a r t y a n d t h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y m a s s e s i n t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n i s a t r e m e n d o u s v i c t o r y f o r M a o T s e - t u n g ' s

- t h o u g h t a n d f o r t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n . T h e P l e n a r y S e s s i o n e x p r e s s e d i t s d e e p e s t r e v o l u t i o n a r y i n d i g ­n a t i o n a t L i u S h a o - c h i ' s c o u n t e r - r e v o l u t i o n ­a r y c r i m e s a n d u n a n i m o u s l y a d o p t e d a

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r e s o l u t i o n t o e x p e l L i u S h a o - c h i f r o m t h e P a r t y o n c e a n d f o r a l l , t o d i s m i s s h i m f r o m a l l p o s t s b o t h i n s i d e a n d o u t s i d e t h e P a r t y a n d t o c o n t i n u e t o s e t t l e a c c o u n t s w i t h h i m a n d h i s a c c o m p l i c e s f o r t h e i r c r i m e s i n b e t r a y i n g t h e P a r t y a n d t h e c o u n t r y . T h e P l e n a r y S e s s i o n c a l l s o n a l l c o m r a d e s i n t h e P a r t y a n d t h e p e o p l e o f t h e w h o l e c o u n t r y t o c a r r y o n d e e p - g o i n g r e v o l u t i o n a r y m a s s c r i t i c i s m a n d r e p u d i a ­t i o n a n d e r a d i c a t e t h e c o u n t e r - r e v o l u t i o n ­a r y r e v i s i o n i s t i d e a s o f L i u S h a o - c h i a n d t h e h a n d f u l o f o t h e r t o p P a r t y p e r s o n s i n a u t h o r i t y t a k i n g t h e c a p i t a l i s t r o a d .

T h e P l e n a r y S e s s i o n p o i n t s o u t t h a t a f i e r c e s t r u g g l e b e t w e e n t h e t w o c l a s s e s , t h e t w o r o a d s a n d t h e t w o l i n e s r u n s t h r o u g h t h e h i s t o r y o f t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l ­t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n o v e r t h e p a s t t w o y e a r s a n d m o r e . T h e s t r u g g l e c e n t r e s o n t h e q u e s t i o n o f p o l i t i c a l p o w e r , t h e q u e s t i o n o f t h e f i g h t f o r l e a d e r s h i p b e t w e e n t h e p r o l e ­t a r i a t a n d t h e b o u r g e o i s i e , the ques­tion of whether the leadership of the P a r t y

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and state is to be in the hands of Marxists or of revisionists. Unreconciled to their doom, the exploiting classes and their agents used all kinds of political and eco­nomic means both from the Right and from the extreme "Left" — t h a t is, "Left" in form but Right in essence — in a vain attempt to confuse class alignments, sabo­tage the great proletarian cultural revolu­tion and stage a counter-seizure of power from the proletariat. But all their plots have been exposed one after another by the masses of revolutionary people who have grasped Mao Tse-tung's thought. The Plenary Session holds that it is essential to continue sharpening vigilance against sabotage by the exploiting classes and their agents.

The Plenary Session seriously criticized and repudiated the "adverse February current" of 1967 directed against the deci­sion of the Eleventh Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee, against the great proletarian cultural revolution and

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a g a i n s t t h e p r o l e t a r i a n h e a d q u a r t e r s w i t h C h a i r m a n M a o a s i t s l e a d e r a n d V i c e -C h a i r m a n L i n a s i t s d e p u t y l e a d e r . T h e P l e n a r y S e s s i o n h o l d s t h a t t h e s h a t t e r i n g o f t h e " a d v e r s e F e b r u a r y c u r r e n t " a n d o f t h e s i n i s t e r t r e n d l a s t s p r i n g t o r e v e r s e t h e c o r r e c t v e r d i c t o n t h e " a d v e r s e F e b r u a r y c u r r e n t " w a s a n i m p o r t a n t v i c t o r y f o r C h a i r m a n M a o ' s p r o l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r y l i n e i n s m a s h i n g t h e b o u r g e o i s r e a c t i o n a r y l i n e .

T h e P l e n a r y S e s s i o n h o l d s t h a t t h e t r e m e n d o u s v i c t o r i e s o f t h e g r e a t p r o l e ­t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n h a v e f u r t h e r d e m o n s t r a t e d t h e p r o f o u n d a n d f a r - r e a c h ­i n g s i g n i f i c a n c e o f C o m r a d e M a o T s e - t u n g ' s t h e o r y o n c o n t i n u i n g t h e r e v o l u t i o n u n d e r t h e d i c t a t o r s h i p o f t h e p r o l e t a r i a t . M a o T s e - t u n g ' s t h o u g h t i s M a r x i s m - L e n i n i s m o f t h e e r a i n w h i c h i m p e r i a l i s m i s h e a d i n g f o r t o t a l c o l l a p s e a n d s o c i a l i s m i s a d v a n c ­i n g t o w o r l d w i d e v i c t o r y ; i t i s t h e t h o u g h t g u i d i n g a l l t h e w o r k o f t h e P a r t y , t h e a r m y a n d t h e c o u n t r y . O n c e M a o T s e - t u n g ' s

thought is grasped by the masses of the people, it generates an immense material force. In the great proletarian cultural revolution, Mao Tse-tung's thought has been rapidly disseminated among hundreds of millions of people, making its way deep into their hearts; in their s trug­gles, the masses of workers, peasants and soldiers have eagerly and creatively studied and applied Mao Tse-tung's thought. This is the basic guarantee for consolidating the dictatorship of the proletariat and prevent­ing our country from ever changing its political colour. The whole Party, the whole army and the revolutionary com­mittees at all levels must continue to hold aloft the great red bariner of Mao Tse-tung's thought, unite closely around the proletarian headquarters with Chairman Mao as its leader and Vice-Chairman Lin as its deputy leader, closely follow Chair­man Mao's great strategic plan, conscien­tiously carry out each and every one of Chairman Mao's latest instructions, carry

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f o r w a r d t h e m a s s m o v e m e n t f o r t h e s t u d y o f C h a i r m a n M a o ' s w o r k s , r u n M a o T s e -t u n g ' s t h o u g h t s t u d y c l a s s e s w e l l , u s e M a o T s e - t u n g ' s t h o u g h t t o u n i f y t h e i r t h i n k i n g a n d c o - o r d i n a t e t h e i r s t e p s a n d a c t i o n s a n d c r i t i c i z e a n d r e p u d i a t e t l i e r e a c t i o n a r y b o u r g e o i s t h e o r y o f " m a n y c e n t r e s " , s o a s t o g o o n w i n n i n g f r e s h v i c t o r i e s i n a l l f i e l d s o f o u r w o r k .

T h e E n l a r g e d T w e l f t h P l e n a r y S e s s i o n o f t h e E i g h t h C e n t r a l C o m m i t t e e c a l l s o n a l l w o r k e r s , p o o r a n d l o w e r - m i d d l e p e a s ­a n t s , c o m m a n d e r s a n d f i g h t e r s o f t h e P e o p l e ' s L i b e r a t i o n A r m y , r e v o l u t i o n a r y c a d r e s , r e v o l u t i o n a r y R e d G u a r d s a n d r e v ­o l u t i o n a r y i n t e l l e c t u a l s a n d o n t h e r e v ­o l u t i o n a r y p e o p l e o f a l l n a t i o n a l i t i e s i n t h e c o u n t r y t o c a r r y o u t r e s o l u t e l y C h a i r m a n M a o ' s t e a c h i n g t h a t the working class must exercise leadership in everything, t o e s t a b l i s h the dictatorship of the prole­tariat in the superstructure, including all spheres of culture, t o f u l f i l t h e t a s k s i n a l l s t a g e s o f s t r u g g l e - c r i t i c i s m - t r a n s f o r m a t i o n

put forward by Chairman Mao and to carry the great proletarian cultural revolution through to the end!

We must continue to carry out Chair­man Mao's great principle of the revolu­tionary great alliance and the revolu­tionary three-in-one combination and conscientiously implement Chairman Mao's instructions on conducting revolutionary mass criticism and repudiation, on sim­plifying the administrative structure, on cadres' going down to do manual labour and on changing irrational rules and reg­ulations, so that our new-bom revolution­ary committees can forge close links with the masses, be constantly consolidated, developed and improved and perform the functions of the dictatorship of the pro­letariat still better.

We must continue fully to arouse the masses, conscientiously to carry out the work of purifying the class ranks in fac­tories, people's communes, Party and government institutions, schools, all enter-12

prises and undertakings and neighbour­hoods, etc., and to dig out the handful of counter-revolutionaries hiding among the masses.

We must carry out Chairman Mao's directive tha t the Party organization should be composed of the advanced ele­ments of the proletariat; it should be a vigorous vanguard organization capable of leading the proletariat and the revolu­tionary masses in the fight against the class enemy, carry out Chairman Mao's instruction on "getting rid of the stale and taking in the fresh", conscientiously do the work of Par ty consolidation and Par ty building, expel from the Par ty proved ren­egades, enemy agents, diehard capitalist readers, degenerate elements and other alien class elements who have sneaked into the Party, take proletarian fresh blood into the Par ty — above all, advanced elements with communist consciousness from among industrial workers — and select outstanding Par ty members who

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are resolute in carrying out Chairman Mao's proletarian revolutionary line for leading posts in the Party.

We must fulfil the great historic mission of the proletarian revolution in education. As regards intellectuals, they must be re­educated by the workers, peasants and soldiers so that they can integrate them­selves with the workers and peasants. The workers' propaganda teams should stay permanently in the schools and colleges, take part in all the tasks of struggle-criti­cism-transformation there and always lead these institutions. In the countryside, schools and colleges should be managed by the poor and lower-middle peasants — the most reliable ally of the working class. Th4s is a question of key importance in carrying the great proletarian cultural rev­olution through to the end. The workers, the poor and lower-middle peasants and the commanders and fighters of the Peo­ple's Liberation Army who are undertak­ing this glorious task should constantly

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raise their political consciousness in the course of struggle.

We must grasp revolution and promote production and other work and prepared­ness against war, and do a still better job in building socialist industry, socialist agri­culture and all other socialist under tak­ings in our country. The great proletarian cultural, revolution is a tremendous mo­tive force for the development of socialist production in our country. It is promot­ing the emergence of a new leap in our socialist construction and will continue to do so.

We must continuously strengthen the great Chinese People's Liberation Army, further consolidate national defence, and continue to do a good job in supporting the army and cherishing the people. We are deitermined to liberate Taiwan. We must heighten our vigilance a hundredfold against the rapacious U.S. imperialists and Soviet modem revisionist renegade clique. Should the enemy dare to impose

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war on us, we will wipe him out resolute­ly, thoroughly, wholly and completely.

The Plenary Session holds that, as Com­rade Mao Tse-tung has pointed out, the world revolution has entered a great new era. The revolutionary movement of the people in all countries is developing vigorously. ,

Riddled with contradictions and beset with difficulties both at home and abroad, the imperialists headed by the United States and the modern revisionists headed by the Soviet revisionist renegade clique are disintegrating; they are at the end of their tether and they are becoming more isolated than ever.

While both colluding and struggling with each other, the U.S. imperialists and the Soviet revisionists are trying in vain to redivide the world. In their war of aggression against Vietnam, the U.S. impe­rialists enjoy the tacit consent and support of the Soviet revisionists, while in turn the Soviet revisionist renegade clique

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e n j o y s t h e t a c i t c o n s e n t a n d s u p p o r t o f t h e U . S . i m p e r i a l i s t s i n - o p e n l y d i s p a t c h i n g t r o o p s t o o c c u p y C z e c h o s l o v a k i a . T h e i r d i r t y p o l i t i c a l d e a l h a s b e e n t h o r o u g h l y e x p o s e d b e f o r e t h e p e o p l e o f t h e w o r l d . T h e i r n a k e d l y a g g r e s s i v e a c t i o n s h a v e d e e p e n e d t h e i n t e r n a l c o n t r a d i c t i o n s w i t h i n t h e i m p e r i a l i s t a n d t h e r e v i s i o n i s t b l o c s a n d h e l p e d p r o m o t e t h e p o l i t i c a l c o n s c i o u s ­ne s s o f t h e o p p r e s s e d m a s s e s i n t h e h o m e ­l a n d s o f U . S . i m p e r i a l i s m a n d S o v i e t r e v i ­s i o n i s m a n d , a t t h e s a m e t i m e , t h e y a r e s t i r r i n g u p a g r e a t n e w u p s u r g e i n t h e s t r u g g l e o f t h e p r o l e t a r i a t a n d t h e p e o p l e t h r o u g h o u t t h e w o r l d a g a i n s t U . S . i m p e ­r i a l i s m a n d S o v i e t r e v i s i o n i s m . N o m a t t e r h o w t o r t u o u s t h e c o u r s e o f t h e s t r u g g l e , n o m a t t e r w h a t r u b b i s h t h e U . S . i m p e r i a l ­i s t s a n d S o v i e t r e v i s i o n i s t s h a v e c o l l e c t e d t o o r g a n i z e a n a n t i - C h i n a a n d c o u n t e r ­r e v o l u t i o n a r y " h o l y a l l i a n c e " , , t h e y a r e i n e v i t a b l y "lifting a rock only to drop it on their own feet". W e a r e n o t i n t h e l e a s t i s o l a t e d , f o r t h e p e o p l e w h o w a n t

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revolution, comprising over 90 per cent of the world's population, are our friends. The wheel of history can assuredly never be turned back, imperialism, revisionism and all other reactionary forces are bound to be smashed by the revolutionary peo­ple, and all the oppressed people and oppressed nations of the world will def­initely achieve complete emancipation through their struggle!

The Chinese Communist Par ty and the Chinese people under the leadership of Comrade Mao Tse-tung uphold prole­tarian internationalist principles and policies, unite with the genuine Marxist-Leninists of all countries, firmly support the heroic Albanian people's struggle against imperialism and revisionism, firm­ly support the heroic Vietnamese people in carrying their war of resistance against U.S. aggression and for national salvation through to the end, and firmly support all the just struggles of the peoples of the world against imperialism, revisionism and

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a l l o t h e r r e a c t i o n . T h e C o m m u n i s t P a r t y o f C h i n a h o l d s t h a t a l l p e o p l e s o p p r e s s e d b y U . S . i m p e r i a l i s m , S o v i e t r e v i s i o n i s m a n d t h e i r l a c k e y s s h o u l d f o r m a b r o a d u n i t e d f r o n t t o s m a s h t h e p l o t s h a t c h e d b y U . S . i m p e r i a l i s m a n d S o v i e t r e v i s i o n i s m i n t h e i r v a i n a t t e m p t t o d o m i n a t e t h e w o r l d , so a s t o w i n v i c t o r y a n d l i b e r a t i o n m o r e q u i c k l y . • T h e _ P l e n a r y S e s s i o n w a s c o n v e n e d i n

a n e x c e l l e n t d o m e s t i c a n d i n t e r n a t i o n a l s i t u a t i o n . T h i s w a s a s e s s i o n o f m o b i l i z a ­t i o n f o r t h e s e i z u r e o f a l l - r o u n d v i c t o r y i n t h e g r e a t p r o l e t a r i a n c u l t u r a l r e v o l u t i o n , a s e s s i o n o f u n p r e c e d e n t e d u n i t y i n t h e w h o l e P a r t y u n d e r t h e l e a d e r s h i p o f t h e p r o l e t a r i a n h e a d q u a r t e r s w i t h C h a i r m a n M a o as i t s l e a d e r a n d V i c e - C h a i r m a n L i n a s i t s d e p u t y l e a d e r , a s e s s i o n f u l l o f p r o ­l e t a r i a n r e v o l u t i o n a r y v i t a l i t y . T h e P l e n a r y S e s s i o n i s c o n v i n c e d t h a t t h e c o m r a d e s o f t h e w h o l e P a r t y , t h e p e o p l e o f t h e w h o l e c o u n t r y a n d t h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y p e o p l e s o f t h e w h o l e w o r l d w i l l a l l r e j o i c e o v e r t h e

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success of our session and that those who fear this session are but the handful of imperialists headed by U.S. imperialism, modern revisionists headed by the Soviet revisionist renegade clique, and other reac­tionaries at home and abroad.

Let us closely follow our great leader Chairman Mao and courageously march forward! Victory will be ours.

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