Chairman Mao pointed out: "Making use of novels for anti-Party activities
is a big invention." Revisionist chieftains like Kao Kang, Liu Shao-ch'i
and Lin Piao all used literature and art for activities in anti-Party
conspiracies. However, the "gang of four" step by step placed the entire
literature and art work under their control in a well-programmed,
well-planned, and well-organized way, reducing them to literature and art
monopolized by their gang and also tools to be used for their anti-Party
conspiracy, Such an evolution has no precedent in the history of our
Party and in the history of our country's cultural development, It is
unprecedented in terms of their width of scope, the violence of their
onslaught, the venomousness in the stratagems they resorted to as well as
the meanness of their objective.

As the "gang of four" frantically cooked up conspiratorial literature
and art and pressed on with the counterrevolutionary revisionist line,
an unheard of strange phenomenon surfaced in literature and art circles.
The entire department of literature and art, including the various

forms of movies, dramas, novels, prose, poetry, serial pictorial story,
even children's literature, was only allowed to write about one subject:
"the struggle against the capitalist roader;" to depict one kind of
"hero," that is, bourgeois careerists who struggle against the so-called
“capitalist roaders;" to portray one type of circumstance, namely, the
layer after layer of rule under the capitalist roaders' "sinister line,"
Literature and art were only allowed to travel along one path--the blind
alley of creation geared to the service of the "gang of four's" conspiracy
to usurp the Party and seize power, Its objective was to turn our Party
into a revisionist party, to change the color of our state and alter the
nature of our literature and art, The extreme serious nature of the
conspiratorial literature and art warrants our attention. There is no
construction without destruction, no flow without damming and no motion
without rest, In the political arena we have uprooted the batch of
bourgeois careerists and conspirators of the "gang of four." Likewise,
in the field of literature and art we should also resolutely smash this
kind of reactionary literature and art which has injured the country and
brought calamity to the people, We must be firm in liquidating all their
pernicious influence so as to enable the socialist literature and art in
our country to radiate with an even more youthful brilliance.

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'NANFANG DAILY’ ON MOBILIZING SOCIALIST ENTHUSIASM
Canton Kwangtung Provincial Service in Mandarin 1100 GMT 8 Nov 77 HK

(NANFANG DAILY Editorial: "Fully Mobilize the Socialist Enthusiasm of the
Masses of Cadres and People”, date not given]

[Summary] Under the guidance of the line of the 11th National Party Congress,
all areas in this province are energetically fighting the emancipation battle
of agriculture. This year's late rice is growing well, and we are hopeful of
a bumper late rice harvest. In this excellent situation, the people want to
know the decisive factor in doing a good job of fighting the emancipation
battle of agriculture.

"Our great leader and teacher Chairman Mao said: 'The revolutionary war is
a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and rely-
ing on them.' To do a good job of fighting the emancipation battle of agri-
culture, we must organize tens of millions of grassroots cadres and the masses
of peasants throughout this province, and under the guidance of the line of
the 11th Party Congress, and in accordance with the demand on building the
great socialist agriculture, fight a people's war against the natural world.
We should mobilize and rely on tens of millions of grassroots cadres and the
masses of peasants in this province and mobilize their great latent socialist
enthusiasm, thus enabling them to use the high initiative spirit for going in
for socialism in a big way. For party committees at all levels, grasping the
issue of mobilizing the enthusiasm of the cadres and people means grasping
the decisive factor in doing a good job of fighting the emancipation battle
of agriculture."

The "gang of four's" serious interference and sabotage suppressed and hurt
the socialist enthusiasm of cadres and people. Thus we should firmly grasp
the key link of exposing and criticizing the "gang of four" and successfully
solve the problems concerning line, policy and style of work.

In order to eradicate the "gang of four's” pernicious influence, the rural
area's communes and production brigades should launch the "three publicities"
like Taching has done.

"In order to fully mobilize the socialist enthusiasm of the cadres and people,
it is imperative to use the exposure and criticism of the 'gang of four' as

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'HUPEH DAILY' URGES CRITICIZING "GANG OF FOUR"
Whuhan Hupeh Provincial Service in Mandarin 1300 GMT 8 Nov 77 HK

(HUPEH DAILY 8 November Editorial: "Do a Good Job of Integration and
Criticize and Work Hard in a Big Way"]

[Summary] In his political report at the 11th National CCP Congress, wise
leader Chairman Hua pointed out: "We must integrate still more closely the
struggle to expose and criticize the 'gang of four' with the mass movements
+o learn from Taching and Tachai and unfold them in a still more penetrating
fashion."

At present, the third battle to expose and criticize the "gang of four" has
begun. ‘The party committees at all levels must follow Chairman Hua's instruc-
tions, draw up plans concerning the struggle to expose and criticize the “gang
of four" and the movements to learn from Taching and Tachai, design fine
arrangements and organically integrate then.

"T+ should be pointed out here that among the leadership at all levels, some
comrades have had a correct understanding of the exposure and criticism of
the ‘gang of four,' learning from Taching and Tachai and the internal rela-
tionship between them, and they have done a good job in integrating them in
their practical work. Yet there are some comrades who have verbally shouted
about integrating, but no integration has come about in their actual work.
They have even put the two things in opposition and are confused by the
complicated matters. Very often, they end up not being able to attend to
everything at once, and not being able to do a good job in firmly grasping
either of them. It is.ziecessary for these comrades to solve for themselves,
in understanding and practice, the questions of why there should be integra-
tion, whether it is possible to have integration and how to carry out inte-
gration.

The struggle to expose and criticize the "gang of four" and the movements to

learn from Taching and Tachai can and must be integrated. This is because
the principal contradictions they want to solve are identical."

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levels must take the lead in study and also train backbone elements, and
rectify and build the force of theorists.

We must do a thoroughly good job of investigation work. Unless this is
done thoroughly, we cannot fully expose the crimes of the "gang of four"
and their followers or completely destroy the bourgeois factional network.

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The first to raise the slogan of "portraying capitalist roaders" were
Chiang Ch'ing and Chang Ch'un-ch'iao, the two arch conspirators, Two
days before Chang Ch'un-ch'iao wrote the infamous poem "Thoughts on
February 3," namely, on February 1, 1976, Chiang Ch'ing, called her
confidents Yu Hui-yung and others whom she had planted in the Ministry
of Culture for a secret meeting, Chiang said to them: "Right now plays
staged by the model performing troupes are all out-of-date. They

seldom deal with topics of the socialist period and none of them has a
content of struggling against capitalist roaders." "You must quickly
assign the various performing troupes to adapt the films "Split," "Spring
Sprouts," "The Second Spring" and "Fight at the Building Berth" into
Peking operas." Finally she disclosed to them her cards, saying: "I
have talked with Ch'un-ch'iao, These are all films portraying the struggle
against capitalist roaders and can fit in with the current struggle."

The so-called "fitting in with the current struggle" was but to fit in
with the "gang of four's" conspiracy of stepping up their efforts to
usurp the Party and seize power.

The great leader and teacher Chairman Mao had long been aware of the
"gang of four's" conspiracy to usurp the Party and seize power and had
waged a tit-for-tat struggle against them, After the demise of Premier
Chou, Chairman Mao personally made the proposal, which was also approved
by the Central Committee Politburo, to appoint Comrade Hua Kuo-feng acting
premier of the State Council in charge of work at the Center, This wise
decision of Chairman Mao struck a powerful blow against the "gang of four's"
conspiracy to usurp the Party and seize power, Refusing to take their
defeat lying down, the "gang of four" launched a frenzied counterattack,
openly dishing up the counterrevolutionary political program that "all

old cadres are democrats, and democrats are but capitalist roaders" in

a vain attempt to usurp the top authority of the Party and state. To
achieve this purpose, various kinds of mass media under the control of
the "gang of four" began attacking on all fronts to wantonly create
counterrevolutionary public opinion, The conspiratorial literature of
"portraying capitalist roaders" was a natural product of the counter-
revolutionary, political program set forth by the "gang of four," and

was closely coordinated with the counterrevolutionary arrangements

which the "gang of four" had made in their attack against the Party,

According to the counterrevolutionary, political program of the "gang of
four," the major targets of their attack were the so-called "democrats
in the past and capitalist roaders today." Flagrantly they spread the
notion that "at present the targets of revolution are those democrats
who had eaten bran in the old society, been wounded during the Anti-
Japanese War, fought in the Liberation War and crossed the Ya-lu River
during the struggle to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea,"" Those who
had to be knocked out now were "capitalist roaders who had climbed the
snowcapped mountains and crossed the grasslands," In accordance with
the demands set forth in this counterrevolutionary, political program
of the "gang of four," Chang Ch'un-ch'iao held on February 6 another secret



INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT IN WUCHOU--In Wuchou Prefecture, 13 factories and mines
have fulfilled this year's production quotas or value of production. By the
end of September, the whole prefecture fulfilled 74.5 percent of the annual
plan of the total industrial output value, an increase of 18.5 percent com-
pared with the same period last year. [Nanning Kwangsi Regional Service in
Mandarin 1100 GMT 24 Oct 77 HK]

INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT IN POSE--Between January and September, the value of the
total industrial output in Pose Prefecture increased by 19.4 percent compared

with the same period last year, [Nanning Kwangsi Regional Service in
Mandarin 1100 GMT 24 Oct 77 HK]

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BRIEFS

HONAN MUNICIPALITIES CRITICIZE GANG --After the holding of the enlarged
meeting of the standing committee of the Honan Provincial CCP Committee,
the people in Chengchow, Loyang, Kaifeng, Pingtingshen, Hsinhsiang, Anyang,
Chiaotso and Hopi municipalities held rallies to transmit and implement the
spirit of the enlarged meeting. They all vowed to support the important
instructions of Chairman Hua and the party Central Committee on the Honan
problems, to implement the spirit of the enlarged meeting, and to continue
to expose and criticize the "gang of four" and their followers in Honan.
CCP committees of these municipalities also vowed to fully mobilize the
people to expose and criticize the "gang of four," to strengthen leadership
over the movement and to grasp revolution and promote production. [Chengchow
Honan Provincial Service in Mandarin 1100 GMT 29 Oct 77 HK]

KWANGSI'S EDUCATION TEAM--Kwangsi's eighth work team of education in the
party's basic line went to Tungnan, Iaipin, Napo, Chinghsi, Tahsin, Lungchou,
Ningming counties and Tunghsing Autonomous County as well as 20 factories,
mines and enterprises on 26 September to propagate the documents of the 11th
National Party Congress, implement the line of the congress and conduct edu-
cation on the party's basic line. The work team comprised 2,100 people. On
16 September, the autonomous regional party committee held a mobilization
rally of members of the work team in Nanning. Responsible comrades of the
regional party committee Chiao Hsiao-kuang, Liu Chung-kuei, Tu I and Hsiao
Han listened to a report by the head of the work team and issued important
directives. [Nanning Kwangsi Regional Service in Mandarin 1100 GMT 28 Sep 77
HK]

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'KIANGSI DAILY' EDITORIAL CRITICIZING GANG
Nanching Kiangsi Provincial Service in Mandarin 1100 GMT 9 Nov 77 HK

(KIANGSI DAILY Editorial: "Resolutely Fight Well the Third Battle of the
Struggle To Expose and Criticize the 'Gang of Four,'” date not given]

[Summary] The third battle of exposing and criticizing the "gang of four"
has begun. "The main tasks of this battle include taking as guidance Chair-
man Hua's political report at the 11th National Congress of the party, the
constitution of the CCP, Vice Chairman Yeh's report on revision of the con-
stitution of the party, and Vice Chairman Teng's closing speech, penetrating-
ly exposing and vehemently criticizing the true ultrarightist nature of the
"gang of four's" counterrevolutionary revisionist line and their manifesta-
tions in all aspects, conducting criticism in the theory of philosophy,
political economics and scientific socialism and eliminating the remnant
poison and influence of the “gang of four" in all aspects."

In the previous stage, in accordance with the strategic plan of the party
Central Committee and under the leadership of the Kiangsi Provincial CCP
Committee, the cadres and masses in our province concentrated the forces

to fight the first battle of exposing and criticizing the conspiracy of

the "gang of four" and their confederates in Kiangsi to usurp party and
state power. Subsequently, they fought the second battle of exposing and
criticizing the "gang of four's” counterrevolutionary political appearance
and their criminal history. They scored very geat achievements. "The third
battle is the continuation of the first and second battles, and the crucial
battle in winning complete victory in the struggle to expose and criticize
the “gang of four.” Whether or not we can fight this battle well has a
bearing on whether or not we can hold high Chairman Mao's great banner and
persist in continuing the revolution under the dictatorship of the proletar-
iat, on whether or not we can consolidate and expand the fruits of the first
and second battles and consolidate and develop the great victory in the llth
line struggle, and on whether or not we can thoroughly eliminate the "gang
of four's" remnant poison and influence, and closely follow wise leader Chair-
man Hua to win great victory in grasping the key link in running the country
well.

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under the direct command of the “gang of four" and ganged up with the sworn
followers and remnant followers of the gang. In the 11th line struggle with-
in the party, they practiced revisionism and splitism, engaged in intrigues
and conspiracies and conducted various criminal activities in usurping party
and state power."

After comrades made speeches criticizing the remnant followers of the "gang
of four" and their bourgeois factional network in the State Physical Culture
and Sports Commission, the principal responsible comrade of the commission
made a speech. He said, "We have achieved much in our struggle, but we
should be sober enough to see that the State Physical Culture and Sports
Commission is one of the units seriously jeopardized by the deeply entrenched
"gang of four" and is a ‘seriously affected disaster zone.' The bourgeois
factional network in the State Physical Culture and Sports Commission has not
been thoroughly, wholly and completely destroyed, the task of investigation
has not been completed, and the job of eliminating the remnant poison of the
"gong of four's" counterrevolutionary revisionist line is most formidable.
Our combat task is still very heavy and in no way can we slacken our fighting
spirit or give up halfway. We must resolutely implement the instructions of
Chairman Hua and the Party Central Committee, carry forward the spirit of
pursuing the tottering foe with power and to spare, launch a new and more
fierce attack against the "gang of four" and their bourgeois factional net-
work in the State Physical Culture and Sports Commission, whip up a new
upsurge in the movement to expose and criticize the "gang of four" and strive
to win complete victory in this great struggle.”

The responsible comrade said in conclusion that "under the leadership of the
Party Central Committee headed by wise leader Chairman Hua, our physical
culture front must resolutely implement the line of the llth National CCP
Congress, hold high the great banner of Chairman Mao, resolutely adhere to
the party's basic line, grasp the key link in running the country well,
continue the revolution, vow to carry through to the end the great struggle
to expose and criticize the "gang of four," seize the hour, go all out to
make rapid headway, promote our socialist physical culture cause as fast as
possible and fight hard to build a modern and powerful socialist country."

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motive force, and launch an all-round attack against urban and rural capi-
talist forces. In his political report to the 11th Party Congress, our
wise leader Chairman Hua pointed out: 'To safeguard socialist public owner-
ship and smash the attacks of urban and rural capitalist forces involves
intense struggle.’ The ‘gang of four' are the chief representatives of
landlords, rich peasants, counterrevolutionaries and bad elements, and are
also the chief representatives of urban and rural capitalist forces. With
the support and connivance of the ‘gang of four,' capitalist forces in town
and country mounted fierce attacks thus causing serious harm. Therefore we
must closely integrate the great struggle to expose and criticize the 'gang
of four' with hitting hard at capitalist forces. We must relentlessly hit
hard at sabotage activities of class enemies, hit hard at embezzlers, graft-
ers and speculators, criticize capitalist forces and smash the 'gang of
four's' social basis. All areas must strengthen the concrete leadership
over the struggle to hit hard at capitalist forces in town and country, and
must grasp the struggle firmly."

The conducting of education in the party's basic line is just aimed at pene-
tratingly criticizing capitalism and going in for socialism in a big way.
However, the "gang of four" fanatically opposed education in the party's

basic line and described the criticism of capitalism as suppressing the masses.

All areas in the province are facing a problem of missing the point in crit-
icizing capitalism in varying degrees, which is due to the interference and
sabotage of the "gang of four." It is imperative to conscientiously solve
this problem. How can we criticize capitalism thoroughly and relentlessly?
To do so, we must connect the criticism with the realities of the rural area,
and clearly understand two things, namely, the nature of capitalism and the
way to criticize capitalism. We must not criticize those activities which
safeguard socialist public ownership and the state plan, and must not criti-
cize those activities which are in conformity with the party policy. We must
criticize those activities which weaken and disrupt socialist public ownership
and the state plan, and must criticize those activities which violate the
party policy.

"How to criticize? It is imperative to strictly distinguish contradiction
among the people from contradictions between ourselves and the enemy and
handle both correctly. The spearhead of struggle must be directed against
a handful of class enemies who engage in sabotage activities. It is impera-
tive to direct the spearhead against embezzlers, grafters and speculators.”

"We must use the democratic, persuasive and educative measures to solve the
problem of capitalist tendencies among the people."

We must conscientiously solve the various problems of policy in the rural
areas in accordance with the 60 articles of the people's commune.

"Due to the interference and sabotage of the 'gang of four,' quite a few
areas are facing quite a few problems in handling the relationship among

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CONTENTS (Continued) Page

Newspaper Denounces Use of Films by "Gang of Four"
(KUANG-MING JIH-PAO, 4 Nov 77) wscsssesceeesereerereee 27

Cadre Policy of "Gang of Four" Scored
(KUANG-MING JIH-PAO, 6 Nov 77) ..sssseeeee bee e ene sees 30

'HUPEH DAILY' Urges Criticizing "Gang of Four"
(Editorial; Hupeh Provincial Service, 8 Nov 77) ...... 32

"HUNAN DAILY' Editorial on Criticism of "Gang of Four"
(Editorial; Hunan Provincial Service, 8 Nov 77) ....+-+ 34

'NANFANG DAILY' on Mobilizing Socialist Enthusiasm
(Editorial; Kwangtung Provincial Service, 8 Nov 77)... 36

'RWANGSI DAILY' on Ideological Mobilization Work
(Kwangsi Regional Service, 31 Oct 77) ......- oe ceereee 39

'"SZECHWAN DAILY' Urges Advancing Criticism Movement
(Editorial; Szechwan Provincial Service, 31 Oct 77) .. 40

Liang Hsiao Scored by Historical Journal
(Chen Shih-Chih; LI-SHIH YEN-CHIU, 20 Aug 77) ..+-.+-- 42

One of Chang's Tricks Criticized
(Wang Yung-an; JEN-MIN JIH-PAO, 5 Nov 77) ....-++eeee- 44

"YUNNAN DAILY' on Conducting "Three Great Publicities"
(Yunnan Provincial Service, 2 Nov 77) ....+.+++ ee eeeee 45

'KIANGSI DAILY' Editorial Criticizing Gang

(Editorial; Kiangsi Provincial Service, 9 Nov 77) .... 47
Briefs
Honan Municipalities Criticize Gang 49
Kwangsi's Education Team 49
ECONOMIC
Briefs
New Tractor Developed 50
Increase in Savings Deposits 50
Hydroelectric Power Stations 50
Industrial Output 50
Electric Power in Wuchou 50
Industrial Output in Wuchou 51
Industrial Output in Pose 51
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CADRE POLICY OF "GANG OF FOUR" SCORED
Peking KUANG-MING JIH-PAO in Chinese 6 Nov 77 pp 1, 3 HK

[Article by the Mass Criticism Group of the Organization Department of the
Fukien Provincial CCP Committee: "Thoroughly Criticize the 'Gang of Four's'
Cadre Line of Appointing People According to the Needs of the 'Gang'"]

{Summary] “Our great leader Chairman Mao pointed out: ‘Throughout our
national history there have been two sharply contrasting lines on the subject
of the use of cadres, one being to ‘appoint people on their merit,’ and the
other to ‘appoint people by favoritism.’ The former is the honest and the
latter the dishonest way.' In order to rig up a counterrevolutionary bour-
geois factional network, and to usurp supreme party and state power, the
Wang-Chang-Chiang-Yao ‘gang of four' did their utmost to push a counterrevo-
lutionary revisionist line on cadres, i. e., appointing people by favoritism
and according to the needs of the 'gang.' Those who obeyed them prospered,
and those who defied them perished.” When we repudiate the towering crimes
of the "gang of four," we must thoroughly criticize the ultrarightist nature
of their line on cadres.

The “gang of four" racked their brains to work out a set of criteria for
selecting cadres. In addition to Chang Chun-chiao's three notorious criteria,
i.e., that one must be "familiar with the leaders, supported by the masses
and capable in work," they also took over revolutionary slogans and inserted
counterrevolutionary contraband into them. Let's see how they used revolu-
tionary slogans to serve their ulterior purpose.

First, they bellowed about “selecting those who have a high political aware-
ness of the line.” What they had in mind here were those "who followed them
in ‘overthrowing everything’ and provoking ‘all-round civil war' during the
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution; those who followed them in ‘firing
three arrows simultaneously in criticizing Lin Piao, Confucius and the Duke
of Chou! during the struggle to criticize Lin Piao and Confucius; and those
who followed them in frantically attacking and making false charges against
Vice Premier Teng in 1976." The "Gang of Four's" pawn in our province even
openly shouted: "We'd rather have Kuomintang members who have a high polit-
ical awareness of the line than communists with a low political awareness of
the line."

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CRITICISM OF BOURGEOIS RIGHTS BY "GANG OF FOUR" EXAMINED

Peking LI-SHIH YEN-CHIU (Historical Research) in Chinese No 4 20 Aug 77
pp 24-36 HK

[Article by Wu Ching-lien and Chou Shu-lien: "A Historical Examination of
the Theories of Bourgeois Rights"]

[Excerpts] In order to usurp party and state power and restore capitalism,
the “gang of four" made it their purpose to mystify Marxist theory and to
confuse the people's thinking. The problem of "bourgeois rights" under the
socialist system is one about which they have created great confusion.

The "gang of four" often styled themselves experts in "abolishing bourgeois
rights," posing as the most devoted critics of bourgeois rights. Was their
"criticism" of bourgeois rights made from a proletarian standpoint, from
the high level of communism? Absolutely not. They took over the mantle of
feudal socialism in a vain attempt to replace bourgeois rights with fedual
rights. On the one hand, they "criticized" bourgeois rights and, on the
other, vigorously advocated the legalism of our feudal society, styling
themselves “modern legalists.” What is the legalist "law?" It is common
knowledge that this is nothing but the rights system or concept of feudal
despotism. The "gang of four" lauded such a rights system or concept to
the skies, using such superlatives as "progressive," "advantageous to the
people," "giving peasants the power to take care of themselves," etc. They
also claimed that "legalists love the people,” and that those states follow-
ing the legalist policy "provide the people with relief supplies” and “are
mindful of the hardships of the people," and "the people look up to those
above." Out of gratitude to feudal emperors, what a beautiful picture they
drew of a fairyland "free from such defects as bourgeois rights." The "gang
of four" not only had supreme respect for the bourgeois rights of the land-
lord class, but energetically sought their revival in the China of today.
They vigorously promoted the gradation system.and privileges, in a vain
attempt to turn the emancipated laboring masses into their slaves.

A study of historical literature on bourgeois rights enables us to see more
clearly what the social essence is of the "socialism" promoted by the "gang
of four." They shouted the slogan of “abolition of bourgeois rights" with
a cry that resounded to the skies. In fact, what they wanted to “abolish”

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it penetrating enough. In particular, we have not done a good job of expos-
ing and criticizing the 'gang's' crimes in connection with the reality of
one's own front and unit. We have not done a good job of conscientiously
distinguishing between right and wrong in line and of restoring order."

"The 'gang of four's' interference and sabotage on the agricultural front,
and especially the 'gang's' crimes in adopting various methods to disrupt
the movement to learn from Tachai in agriculture, and disrupt the party's
various policies in the rural areas have not yet been thoroughly examined
and repudiated. Therefore, the pernicious influence of the ‘gang's' fal-
jacies is far from being eradicated. During the third round of the battle
of exposing and criticizing the 'gang of four,' we must act in accordance
with the spirit of the party Central Committee's directive, emphatically
expose and criticize the 'gang's' counterrevolutionary political program,
and thoroughly exposé their counterrevolutionary vicious intention and
their hazard to our country's revolution and construction. In connection
with the reality of every area and unit, we must correct, one after another,
the right and wrong in line, ideology and theory which was turned upside
down by the ‘gang of four.'”

“We must continue to firmly grasp the investigation work and thoroughly
investigate every person and matter connected with the ‘gang of four's'

plot to usurp party and state power. We must smash the ‘gang of four's'

and their remants' bourgeois factionalist network, and smash the bourgeois
factionalist activities of the 'gang's' handful of close followers, black

ace generals and black accomplices in our province. These are the important
contents of the third round of the battle of exposing and criticizing the
‘gang of four.' The investigation work concerns the purity of our party and
our revolutionary ranks, and concerns the consolidation of the victorious
fruits of the llth line struggle. We have won great success in the investi-
gation work. However, this task is still very arduous. If we do not carry
the investigation through to the end, we cannot thoroughly smash the ‘gang's'
and their remants' factionalist network, and a latent danger will continue
to exist. Whenever they see the chance, they will create earthquakes again.
Thus we must firmly grasp the investigation work, carry out the work in a
careful and deep-going way. We must not show mercy and must not gloss over
things. We must closely integrate the great criticism with the investigation,
and use the criticism to promote the investigation so as to deepen the invest-
igation work.”

"Tn order to do a good job of fighting the third round of the battle of
exposing and criticizing the 'gang of four,’ party committees at all levels
must further mobilize the masses and strengthen leadership over the movement.”

"Let us mobilize, plunge into the battle, do a good job of fighting the third
round of the battle, eradicate the 'gang of four's pernicious influence and
win still greater victories in the great struggle to expose and criticize
the 'gang of four.'”

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PRC SPORTS COMMISSION HOLDS MEETING TO CRITICIZE GANG
Peking TIYU PAO (Physical Culture) in Chinese 21 Oct 77 p 1 HK

[Report by Tiyu Pao correspondent: “The State Physical Culture and Sports
Commission Calls a General Meeting to Expose and Criticize the "gang of four”
antiparty clique and their remant followers"]

(Summary] On the afternoon of 19 October, the State Physical Culture and
Sports Commission called a general meeting in Peking to expose and criticize
the crimes of the "gang of four" antiparty clique and their remnant followers
in the State Physical Culture and Sports Commission. Attending the meeting
were responsible comrades of the state physical culture and sports commission
and of departments concerned and the cadres and the masses of the State
Physical Culture and Sports Commission. Representatives of the Peking Muni-
cipal Physical Culture and Sports Committee System and the Physical Culture
and Sports units of the PLA in Peking also participated. Over 10,000 persons
attended.

Facts and concrete evidence cited at the meeting further exposed the counter-
revolutionary crimes and reactionary features of the ringleader and backbone
members of the bourgeois factional network formed by the remnant followers of
the "gang of four" in the State Physical Culture and Sports Commission and
marked the total collapse of this reactionary factional network. "The ring-
leader of this bourgeois factional network was a remnant follower of the

"gang of four” directly linked with the gang in seizing party and state power
in the State Physical Culture and Sports Commission. The No 2 man was a so-
called old cadre who had political ambitions and attached himself to the "gang
of four." On the instructions of the “gang of four,” he promoted another set
of rules in the State Physical Culture and Sports Commission and played a
decisive role in conducting criminal activities to usurp party and state power.
Another ringleader was the "returning mountain tigress" who was directly linked
with the "gang of four." She was the most capable accomplice among the gang's
remnant followers and their vanguard in negating everything, overthrowing
everything and pushing a counterrevolutionary revisionist line. They recruit-
ed a group of confidants to form a backbone force to act in collusion. It was

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Second, they peddled "the present criterion for cadres is that they must be
rebels." The "gang of four" were typical representatives of the bourgeoisie
and of the Chiang Kai-shek Kuomintang inside our party. "To them, 'to rebel’
was to engage in counterrevolutionary activities and practice capitalist
restoration. In order to gather 'rebels' of this kind, they, like Lin Piao,
resorted to ‘enticement with offices, emoluments and favors; and preached
the fallacy that 'rebellion is justified and those who rise in rebellion are
eligible for party membership and should get an official post. '" The pawn
of the "gang of four" in our province brazenly vaunted: “We are wasting our
efforts if we can't get an official post after rising in rebellion." These
kinds of "rebels" were out-and-out counterrevolutionaries.

Third, they talked about "having the courage to go against the tide." The
"gang of four” "deliberately obliterated the class content of going against
the tide, and actually regarded ‘directing the spearhead upwards against the
leadership' as the criteria of ‘going against the tide.' They wanted people
to oppose the tide of revolution and to oppose party leadership.” Vice Chair-
man Yeh said in his report on the revision of the party constitution: “By
going against the tide, Chairman Mao meant going against the adverse tide of
revisionism, splittism and conspiracy.” However, what the ‘gang of four'
meant by going against the tide was to whip up one counterrevolutionary
adverse current after another. This was most sharply manifested in their
practice of counterposing "going against the tide" to the observance of party
discipline. Their pawn in our province maliciously attacked party discipline
as "restrictions and fetters" and slandered the party members and cadres who
observed discipline as "little lambs" and "weak-kneed fellows." The reason
why they were so against party discipline was that they wanted to oppose the
party's revolutionary line.

Fourth, they preached that "everything must be based on need." Wang Hung-wen
said: "In times of need, even appalling political records don't matter any
more. Everything must be based on need.” These words explained why there
were so many monsters and freaks in the bourgeois factional network of the
‘gang of four.' The line on cadres is determined by the political line. The
"gang of four" frenziedly pushed their counterrevolutionary line on cadres
precisely for the purpose of satisfying the "needs" of their counterrevolu-
tionary revisionist political line.

"We must relentlessly criticize the 'gang of four's' counterrevolutionary
revisionist cadre line of ‘appointing people according to the needs of the
'gang,' foster and select cadres according to Chairman Mao's five require-
ments for successors, and make sure that leadership at all levels is firmly
in the hands of those who hold high the great banner of Chairman Mao, who
are loyal to Chairman Mao's revolutionary line and who resolutely obey the
party Central Committee headed by Chairman Hua. We must carry on the great
struggle to expose and criticize the ‘gang of four' and carry through to the
end the proletarian revolutionary cause pioneered by Chairman Mao.”

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dove to a new "depth." This new "depth" was manifested most sharply in
the following two aspects:

1. The "capitalist roaders" they desired to portray were "capitalist
roaders" of even higher ranks and whose faults were beyond remedy, Such
“capitalist roaders," upwardly, were in direct contact with the Party
Center, and downwardly, were "in league with" the "counterrevolutionary
organizations" in society, They used the Center as their behind-the-
scenes boss, while they themselves served as the "sinister behind-the-
scenes bosses" for all the landlords, rich peasants, counterrevolutionaries
and bad elements in society,

2, Shamelessly these works overtly chanted the praises of the "gang of
four" themselves and their major confidants, and glorified their life
and virtues so as to prepare for them "political assets" in their efforts
to take over the country belonging to the proletariat,

During this period, representative works of the conspiratorial literature
and art like Counterattack and A Gala Festival all strongly displayed
these two features.

In the process of creation, the official post held by the negative pro-
tagonist Han Ling in Counterattack was raised step by step in accordance
with the "gang of four's"” political needs in that period. At first they
planned to write Han Ling as secretary of a university Party committee.
Later his role was changed to that of head of the Bureau of Education and
secretary in chargeof culture and education in a provincial Party com-
mittee, Finally it was decided to portray Han as the "first secretary

of a provincial Party committee who refuses to mend his ways." Through
the lips of this first secretary, the film refers to the "Center" with an
ulterior motive to attack and slander the leading comrades in the Center.
The "Four Modernizations" were put forward by Chairman Mao and made

public by Premier Chou at the Fourth National People's Congress, However,
the film uses the "Four Modernizations" as the code name for a "counter-
revolutionary organization," deliberately directing its spearhead Premier
Chou, With premeditation, the film describes the first secretary as having
become the behind-the-scenes boss for a "counterrevolutionary organization"
and having ganged together with counterrevolutionaries to engineer counter-
revolutionary incidents, This is a most vicious plot designed to completely
turn upside down the role of the major leading cadres from our Party's
Center down to localities, depicting them as counterrevolutionaries who
were totally opposed to the dictatorship of the proletariat. Thus the
ferocious "gang of four" could find a good excuse to suppress the old
generation of proletarian revolutionaries and major leading cadres at
various levels. Ch'ih Ch'un, one of the sinister lieutenants of the

“gang of four" said with his teeth gnashing: "We should arrest a few

such people and execute them, It is a pity China does not have such a

law yet." The deliberate portrayal by the "gang of four's" conspiratorial
literature and art of the so-called "capitalist roaders" ganging up with

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"A year has elapsed since the smashing of the 'gang of four', but why is

the struggle to expose and criticize the 'gang of four' developing so slowly
in some localities? Why is the bourgeois factional network in some locali-
ties still not destroyed? Why is it that the fine tradition and work style
of the party cannot be quickly restored? Why is it that even now management
work in some enterprises has not improved, and labor discipline is slack and
production cannot rise? The fundamental problem is that the struggle to
expose and criticize the 'gang of four' has not been properly grasped, the
ultra-right counterrevolutionary revisionist line of the 'gang of four' has
not been thoroughly exposed and criticized, and its pernicious influence has
not been eliminated. In response to the great call of Chairman Hua and the
party Central Committee, we must concentrate our forces to fight a people's
war to eliminate the pernicious influence of the ‘gang of four', criticize
their counterrevolutionary political program, and eliminate the poison and
influence of their revisionist line in the fields of philosophy, political
economy and scientific socialism. We must keep on raising our consciousness
to the Marxist-Leninist level and implementing Chairman Mao's revolutionary
line in the struggle, and fight with unflagging effort for the realization
of the line of the llth Party Congress."

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roaders and can work in close coordination with the current struggle.” On
6 February, Chang Chun-chiao summoned Yu Hui-yung and said: “We must make
arrangements for the literature and art circles to write plays with both
scope and profundity about the struggle with the capitalist roaders. This
is necessary for the current struggle." On 16 February, Chiang Ching again
hurriedly came out into the open to comment on an article which sang the
praises of 'The prelude’ and called for adapting some of its works into
films and plays. These sinister instructions were mobilization orders for
making conspiratorial films. Dancing to the baton of their masters, Yu
Hui-yung and other henchmen of the ‘gang of four' in the Ministry of Culture
successively convened meetings to make arrangements for "writing about the
struggle with the capitalist roaders." Followers of the 'gang' in other
departments and localities also made the greatest effort to grasp film making.
"In this way, conspiratorial films became an integral part of an organized,
planned and programmatic attack against our party."

Coerced by the "gang of four," the film studios all added "the struggle with
the capitalist roaders" to their scenarios, with themes set in the period of
the socialist revolution. "Statistics show that of the 36 feature films
planned for 1976, 32 (89 percent) were about ‘the struggle with the capital-
ist roaders.' Of the scenarios being written and intended for shooting in
1977, a greater percentage is about 'capitelist roaders.'"

"In order to achieve their counterrevolutionary aim of usurping party and
state power, the 'gang of four' incited people to ferret out ‘democrats’ and
‘capitalist roaders' at all levels. They wanted to throw the whole country
into chaos, so as to fish in troubled waters and seize power. But their
spearhead was still directed against 'a layer of persons,’ i. e., revolution-
ary leading cadres holding important posts in the party, government and army,
the party Central Committee headed by Chairman Mao in particular. This
criminal intention was most sharply manifested in the conspiratorial films
which they dished up. When Chang Chun-chiao issued his counterrevolutionary
mobilization order for concocting ‘works with themes on the struggle with the
capitalist roaders,' he also raised the issue of 'profundity.' In carrying
out Chang's sinister instructions, Yu Hui-yung categorically stated: ‘The
higher the ranks of the capitalist roaders we write about, the better.' 'We
can write about not only a province or a ministry but also about the vice
premiers.'"

The "gang of four" resorted to all kinds of dirty and underhand tricks in
concocting conspiratorial films. One of the tricks was insinuation. For
example, in naming a counterrevolutionary organization the "four moderni-
zations," as announced at the Fourth NPC, they directed their spearhead at
Chairman Mao and Premier Chou. Their second trick was to accuse others by
name. When they instructed their henchmen in the Ministry of Culture to
make a film “On the Subject of Railroads," they explicitly called for por-
traying the minister of railroads. In some of their films they even invented
stories and accused Comrade Teng Hsiao-ping by name. Their third trick was
to use the blacklist information they collected as "subject matter" for
writing scenarios.

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COMMENTARY ON EXPOSURE, CRITICISM OF "GANG OF FOUR"
Shanghai City Service in Mandarin 0000 GMT 4 Nov 77 OW

[Excerpts of } November LIBERATION DAILY commentator's article: "What
Should Be Exposed and Criticized First?"]

[Text] In the third battle to expose and criticize the "gang of four,” we
must penetratingly expose and criticize the ultrarightist essence of the
"gang's" counterrevolutionary revisionist line and the various ménifestations
of this line in all fields. We must also criticize this line in the fields
of philosophy, political economy and scientific socialism. Our tasks are
arduous and complex. What should we grasp first? The practice of many units
is to concentrate their efforts in exposing and criticizing the counterrevo-
lutionary political program of the "gang of four." This practice is correct,
and it is compatible with the guidelines given by the central authorities.

The counterrevolutionary political program of the "gang of four" represented
by the "gang's" slogan: "Veteran cadres are democrats and democrats are
capitalist roaders" is a counterrevolutionary sinister banner under which

the “gang" engaged in various criminal activities to usurp party and state
leadership. It deeply reflected the ultrarightist essence of the "gang's"
counterrevolutionary revisionist line, and also represented the basic inter-
ests of the landlords, rich peasants, counterrevolutionaries and bad elements,
as well as the newborn bourgeoisie at home, and of the imperialists, revision-
ists and reactionaries abroad. It spoke for all the reactionary classes whom
our party had overthrown in the democratic revolution and socialist revolution,
and who were always looking for an opportunity to gain revenge and stage a
comeback. It served the "gang's" counterrevolutionary political objective of
overthrowing a large number of leading party, government and army cadres,
destroying our party and army, subverting the dictatorship of the proletariat
and restoring capitalism.

If we concentrate our efforts on exposing and criticizing the counterrevolu-
tionary political program of the "gang of four," we will be able to grasp
the essence of the "gang's" conspiratorial activities against Chairman Mao's
revolutionary line, and to see through the ultrarightist essence of the coun-
terrevoltuionary revisionist line peddled by the "gang of four." Thus, we
will be able to thoroughly expose the “gang's” counterrevolutionary schemes
and the serious damage they have done to the revolution in our country.

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The readjustment of organization and the transfer of cadres indicate a
process of metabolism in the Communist leadership in China. The "27 cadres"
who joined the party during the anti-Japanese war will assume a very impor-
tant position in 5 or 10 years. This should be viewed as a natural process
with the advance of time rather than the result of factional struggles.

Purges within the party are going ahead unabated. Ups and downs in the
struggles were reported in several provinces including Szechuan, Honan,
Hupei, Kirin and Kiangsi. The group formed by reinstated cadres are con-
tinuing the purge of remnant followers of Lin Piao and Chiang Ching, some
of whom are members of the llth Central Committee. ‘The Lin and Chiang
cliques had many followers in the army and among senior party and government
officials. The purge is likely to continue for some time. The people's
daily in an article by its commentator not long ago told cadres "to have
deep hatred towards the cliques and factions that had brought havoc to the
nation and the people."

Lin Piao has since long been disgraced, but the purge against his followers
had not been carried out seriously before the fall of the "gang of four.”
lin Piao and Chiang Ching were close collaborators during the cultural rev-
olution. The purge of Lin should have been directed at Chiang Ching as well,
but it was not for obvious reasons. Obstruction to the purge has now been
removed and the day of reckoning for the two has finally arrived.

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POLITICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL

HONG KONG PAPER COMMENTS ON CHANGES IN CHINESE LEADERSHIP
Hong Kong MING PAO in Chinese 11 Nov 77 p 5 HK

[MING PAO English translation of its 9 November editorial: "National People's
Congress in Session Next Spring"]

[Text] Party congress meetings of provincial level are being held or about
to be held in various parts of China. ‘The meetings in Hunan and Tibet have
just wound up their business and elected new provincial party committees.
Following provincial party congress meetings, provincial people's congress
meetings will be held towards the end of this year to elect new revolutionary
committees of the provinces as part of the preparations for the convocation
of the National People's Congress early next year. The National People’s
Congress is to elect a new standing committee of the NPC and appoint a new
State Council. It is expected that the struggle against the "gang of four"
will come to an official end when the NPC draws to a close. The nation will
then enter a new stage of production and reconstruction. However, followers
of the "gang of four" will still have difficult days ahead.

Among the eight officials elected to the new Hunan party committee, Wan Ta
and Sun Kuo-che were provincial party secretaries in 1966, and Chang Li-hsien
had been a political cadre of divisional-level before the cultural revolution.
The remaining five embers had been secretaries of Hsien (county) or district
party committees. Of the five, Chao Tzu-chi and Wang Tze-kuo once served as
secretaries of the Hsiangtan District Party Committee, both being "junior
brothers" to Hua Kuo-feng. The newly elected members are all between 50 and
55, about the same age as Hua Kuo-feng, and joined the Chinese Communist
Party during the anti-Japanese war.

New leaders of other provinces have not yet been announced. Among the more
active ones in various provinces, many are younger cadres who have been pro-
moted from district party committee members. Among senior cadres in the
Party's Central Committee and the State Council, many are of the age group
between 50 to 60. These cadres who joined the party during the anti-Japanese
war are playing an increasingly important role. The most notable among this
group are Politburo members Hua Kuo-feng, Chi Teng-kwei, Chao Tse-yang, Chen
Mu-hua and Peng Chung.



counterrevolutionary organizations was utilizing literature to create a
theoretical basis for enforcing a fascist law when the "gang of four"
took power, a theoretical basis for bringing down the entire set of
cadres in our Party and army. In their wishful thinking, they calculated
that when the right moment came and they were able to project these anti-
Party films on the screen, they would stage a bloody massacre and frenzied
repression against the cadres of our Party, plunging the fine sons and
daughters of our Party into a bloodbath,

The "major heroic characters" in the conspiratorial literature and art

at this time also greatly escalated, They were no longer such people

as barefoot doctors, women leaders of production teams or deputy chiefs
figures in "Spring Sprouts" or The Joyous Little Liang River. The "heroes"
then were bourgeois careerists such as the "gang of four" themselves and
their major confidants, In Counterattack both Chiang Ch'ing and Ch'ib Ch'un
were praised as the most lofty "heroes," And in A Gala Festival Wang Hung-
wen was portrayed as a "lofty and consummate leader" of the working class,
while Chang Ch'un-ch'iao was glorified as its "saviour." Precisely because
this batch was prepared to immediately stage a coup in a conspiracy to
usurp the top power of the Party and state, they brooked no delay in trying
to present themselves on the screen as "protagonists" and "heroes"
beforehand ,

In this way the "gang of four's" conspiratorial literature and art came
to their anti-Party, anti-people and counterrevolutionary zenith, and
became the undisguised political declaration of the "gang of four" for an
all round seizure of the Party and power,

The Short-Lived Conspiratorial Literature and Art

Things turn into their opposites when reaching their extremes, In con-
junction with the "gang of four's" activities to usurp the Party and seize
power, the conspiratorial literature and art of the "gang of four" also
reached its climax, At a time when the "gang of four" wanted to bombard
the proletariat with works of conspiratorial literature and art as heavy
bombs one after another, the proletariat had no choice but to sweep away
this handful of pests and tolled their death knell,

From the start of concocting the short-lived conspiratorial literature

and art to their complete collapse was a history in which we see the

hatred that this batch of sinister counterrevolutionaries of the "gang

of four" harbored against the Chinese Communist Party and to what a frenzied
extent it developed, We see how step by step they implemented their
counterrevolutionary program in an increasingly brutal effort to cope

with our Party and destroy the elite of our Party, The entire history

of the conspiratorial literature and art tells us that this counter-
revolutionary clique which Chairman Mao had described as the "gang of

four" was the most ferocious enemy of our Party, our army and our people.

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the call that 'we must carry the great struggle to expose and criticize
the 'gang of four' through to the end' sounded by Chairman Hua at the 11th
Party Congress. The delegates used a huge number of facts to repudiate
point by point the counterrevolutionary fallacies spread by the ‘gang of
four.' They point out:

I. "The allegation made by the 'gang of four' that over 70 percent of the
old cadres were ‘democrats’ and 'present targets of the revolution’ is a
malicious distortion, and shameless slander of our party history, and an
out-and-out ultra-right fallacy opposing communism, the people and the
revolution." Based on this reactionary theory, the henchmen of the "gang
of four" in Shansi Province and Taiyan Municipality cried: "All cadres
over 50 are democrats”; "All those who earn more than 100 yuan are cap-
italist-roaders”; "Those who worked as cadres before the great cultural
revolution are restorationists"; "Those who implemented policies and
arranged work in 1975 belong to the verdict-reversing faction." They
called for grasping capitalist roaders from among those with the halos of
old cadres, old revolutionaries, old heroes and old labor models around
their heads.

II. "The ‘gang of four’ and their henchmen vilified the old cadres, who
devoted their whole lives to socialist revolution and socialist construc-
tion, as capitalist-roaders ‘immersed in economic construction, in grain
production and in intellectual education,’ and ‘imbeciles' who ‘cared only
about grain, cotton and oil but paid no attention to distinguishing enem-
des from friends'. This was not only a deliberate slander of the broad
masses of old cadres, but also a sinister conspiracy to topple China's
socialist economy and disintegrate the material base of the dictatorship
of the proletariat.”

III. "The 'gang of four' and their henchmen uttered nonsense, saying that
‘people holding power will turn revisionist, and the oppressed are most
revolutionary, and that directing the spearhead at the higher level is
always justified." This was how they openly instigated the target of the
dictatorship of the proletariat to rebel against the dictatorship of the
proletariat, and to seize power from the proletariat in a vain attempt to
pring about a rightist epoch-making change."

Iv. "The 'gang of four’ and their henchmen frenziedly clemored that they
must adopt the ‘iron fist' toward the revolutionary old cadres, ‘carry out
a major surgical operation’ on the leading body at various levels, and elim-
inate so-called 'muddled ideas' in ‘ideology, theory and line'. Everybody.
pointed out that in the past few years, under the influence ‘of the counter-
revolutionary public opinion of the ‘gang of four’, the thinking of the
people had been confused and the line of distinction between right and wrong
upside down. We can never underestimate their pernicious poison and influ-
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PEKING SPORTS PAPER CALLS FOR CONTINUED STRUGGLE
Peking TIYU PAO (PHYSICAL CULTURE) in Chinese 21 Oct 77 p 1 HK

[Article by Li Ping: "In the Manner of Hitting Foreign Devils and Chiang
Kai-shek"]

[Summary] The major victory won by the State Physical Culture and Sports
Commission in exposing and criticizing the "gang of four" is a heart-stirring
event on the physical culture front.

But the "gang of four's" remnant followers, lieutenants and flunkeys will not
docilely lay down their arms and surrender for some time to come. "We must
fight a long battle to thoroughly eliminate their remnant poison in regard
to line, theory and ideology.”

The struggle has educated us. "To be kind to the enemy is to be cruel to
the people. If we don't fight resolutely, there will be no end of trouble.”
Termites which wormed their way into the revolutionary camp, the "gang of
four" rabidly sabotaged socialist revolution and construction in all fields.
"If we don't completely eliminate these pests, there will be a great retro-
gression in the history of China, capitalism will be restored and the revo-
lutionary people will suffer."

In the manner of hitting foreign devils and Chiang Kai-shek in former years,
we must continue our fierce attack against the bourgeois factional network
of the "gang of four" and their remnant followers and "smash it to smithereens.”

In the manner of hitting foreign devils and Chiang Kai-shek in former years
and with deep class hatred, we must expose, criticize and denounce their tow-
ering crimes in usurping party and state power, uncover the persons and events
connected with the "gang of four's"- conspiratorial activities and shatter
their ultrarightist counterrevolutionary revisionist line.

In the manner of hitting foreign devils and Chiang Kai-shek in former years,
we must have the determination and courage to fight to the end. “We must not
only thoroughly smash them organizationally, but must also penetratingly and
completely criticize and discredit them in regard to line, theory and ideology,
clean up the mess they left behind and fight the third battle well."

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upon by Chairman Mao himself, to feudal secession in Chinese history. The
article thus threatened the unified central leadership of the state. Another
antiarmy article written in the same vein was published in RED FLAG No 3 of
1974 and entitled "What Was the Decisive Factor For Chin To Unify the Six
States?"

Harboring ulterior motives and pleading ignorance of historical facts, Liang
Hsiao equated the wars between the Han central government and tribal chief-
tains with those between "China" and "foreign countries” and between “aggres-
sion and counter-aggression." He did this to find an excuse for Soviet in-
roads into China and to brand others as "traitors," so that he could present
the "gang of four" and their followers as "patriots."

In June 1974, Chiang Ching specifically instructed Liang Hsiao to ferret out
a "big contemporary Confucian" and to embellish Empress Iu and Wu Tzu-tien
in a vain attempt to topple Premier Chou and have him replaced.

Liang Hsiao contributed two articles to RED FLAG No 10 of 1974, one attacking,
"Following the Routine" and another criticizing, "Small States Should Follow
the Examples of Big States." In the first article, he equated the "legalists"
with "Marxist revolutionaries." In terms of internal and external policies,
these two articles were clearly directed at Premier Chou and other leading
central comrades.

The "gang of four's" plot to "form a cabinet” was foiled by Chairman Mao in
a timely way. This occurred in November 1974, prior to the convocation of
the Fourth NPC, thus upsetting the “gang's” plan to topple Premier Chou.

In RED FLAG No 3 of 1975, the same article "Following the Routine” took a
new title: "“Criticize Following the Routine and Persist in Continuing the
Revolution." In that article the "gang of four," their plot to "form a
cabinet" having been thwarted, maliciously attacked Premier Chou on issues
regarding "extending bourgeois rights" and "undermining stability and unity.”
The concluding part of the article revealed the "gang of four's" reluctance
to reconcile themselves to their defeat.

In short, what Iiang Hsiao did during those 3 years as the "gang of four's"
mouthpiece serves as concrete evidence of his total betrayal of Marxism-

Leninism-Mao Tse-tung thought and of the party's basic line in the histori-
cal stage of socialism.

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in line cannot be correctly oriented, and the initiative of the masses of
cadres and people cannot be brought into full play. What is even more
serious is that if we cannot completely eradicate the evil, the backbone
factional elements who participated in the ‘gang of four's' counterrevolu-
tionary conspiratorial activities to usurp party and state power will be
able to change their tactics and create an "earthquake" beneath our feet.
The 'gang of four' lost the confidence of the people, and it is impossible
for them to make a comeback. However, if we do not completely destroy
their bourgeois factional network, then it is not impossible for them to
resurrect themselves in a new guise and with a new look in some units.

We can never be negligent in this regard."

"The party Central Committee headed by Chairman Hua calls for achieving
initial success in grasping the key link in running the country before the
end of this year. There are only 2 months left. Investigation work should
be completed by stages and in groups before the end of the year or shortly
afterwards."

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COMPLETE ERADICATION OF EVIL OF "GANG OF FOUR" URGED
Peking JEN-MIN JIH-PAO in Chinese 2 Nov 77 p 1 HK
(Short commentary: "The Evil Must Be Completely Eradicated"]

[Summary] The Ministry of the Metallurgical Industry has achieved initial
success in grasping the key link in running the country well. The bourgeois
factional network of the confidants of the "gang of four" in the Ministry of
the Metallurgical industry has been destroyed and the production of steel,
which had been interferred with and sabotaged by the "gang of four" and
which had been stagnating and even declining, is now increasing. This is
a great victory won by the masses of staff and workers on the metallurgical
front in determinedly responding to the call of wise leader Chairman Hua to
t

grasp the key link in exposing and criticizing the ‘gang of four'.

"The 'gang of four’ were a most evil counterrevolutionary conspiratorial
clique. Our struggle against them is a continuation of the protracted
struggle waged by the masses of revolutionary people under the leadership
of the communist party against the Kuomintang reactionaries. We can never
show the slightest mercy toward these new and old counterrevolutionaries
who are evil and baneful. Experience shows that exposure and criticism of
the bourgeois factional network of the 'gang of four' and their remnant
followers is impossible without the determination to completely eradicate
this evil."

"The determination to completely eradicate this evil is necessary for winning
complete victory in the political revolution to expose and criticize the ‘gang
of four.' The 'gang of four' extended their sinister tentacles into many
localities and units throughout the country. They arranged posts for their
confidants in these localities and units. They recruited followers and
created a complicated bourgeois factional network. For a long time, the
‘gang' had taken the place of the party in these localities and units, and
falsehood was looked upon as truth, Chairman Mao's revolutionary line could
not be implemented, stability and unity could not be realized and production
could not be increased. If we do not completely destroy the bourgeois fac-
tional network of the 'gang of four' and their remnant followers, the class
alignment cannot be correctly distinguished, the question of right and wrong



'KWANGSI DATLY' ON IDEOLOGICAL MOBILIZATION WORK
Nanning Kwangsi Regional Service in Mandarin 1100 GMT 31 Oct 77 HK

[KWANGSI DAILY short commentary: "Conduct Careful Ideological Mobilization
Work," date not given]

[Text] Chairman Mao taught us: "The revolutionary war is a war of the
masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them."
Deeply exposing and criticizing the "gang of four," and thoroughly eradi-
cating their pernicious influence on all fronts are now the pivot of the
struggle between the two classes and the two roads, and will be so for some
time to come. They are protracted and arduous tasks. It is imperative to
extensively mobilize the masses and energetically wage a people's war to
deeply expose and criticize the “gang of four." Only by doing so, can we
win victories. The "gang's" pernicious influence is very great. Every unit
and every person is affected by the influence in varying degrees, thus their
attitudes towards and concepts of criticizing the "gang of four" and unfold-
ing the three publications are different. Theredore, in conducting ideolog-
ical mobilization work and in light of the various concepts, we must adopt
the method of opening different locks with different keys. Only by doing so,
can we work well on every person and can we mobilize 95 percent of the cadres
and masses to participate in the three publicities. Only by doing so, can we
realize the goal of eradicating the pernicious influence and of correcting the
right and wrong in line which was turned upside down by the "gang of four."

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NEWSPAPER DENOUNCES USE OF FIIMS BY "GANG OF FOUR"
Peking KUANG-MING JIH-PAO in Chinese 4 Nov 77 p 2 HK

[Article by the Mass Criticism Group of the Cinematography Bureau of the
Ministry of Culture: "Revealing the Inside Story of Conspiratorial Films
Concocted by the 'Gang of Four'”]

{Sumary] "Lenin pointed out that films were the most important of all art
forms. Every class must invariably use films to make propaganda about its
own political views." "In 1969, before the production of feature films had
resumed, Chang Chun-chiao bellowed: ‘We must concentrate on films.’ In
1974, Chiang Ching burst out in hysterics: ‘After all these years, IT cannot
stand it any longer.' Hence they assigned that arrogant and filthy henchman
who knew nothing about films to tightly control the film industry of our
country. Exploiting this important mass media, they frenziedly pushed their
counterrevolutionary political program which equated veteran cadres with
'democrats' and 'democrats' with ‘capitalist roaders,' thus turning prole-
tarian films into conspiratorial films serving their usurpation of party and
state power.”

Between 1973 and 1976, the “gang of four" concocted large numbers of poison-
ous films, including "counterattack," "The Grand Festival” and "Spring Shoots."
These films recreated the images of "capitalist roaders” in different periods
(before, in the early days of and after the cultural revolution). "A feature
common to these ‘capitalist roaders' was that they were all veteran cadres
with a revolutionary past." The "gang of four" equated these veteran cadres
with "capitalist roaders" and made them the targets of the socialist revolu-
tion. After these films were dished up, they set in motion all organs of
propaganda under their control to sing their praises.

"In February 1975, when the ‘gang of four' were launching rabid attacks on
the party amid counterrevolutionary outcries for ‘replacing the old talisman
of the new year with a new one,' they successively issued three sinister
instructions on ‘writing about the struggle with the capitalist roaders' in
a short span of half a month.” On 1 February, Chiang Ching told Yu Hui-yung
and other henchmen in the Ministry of Culture: "Hurry up and arrange several
Peking Opera troupes to adapt the films ‘Spring Shoot,’ 'The second Spring'
and ‘battle in the shipyard' as Peking operas, I have talked this over with
Chun-thiao. These plays are all about the struggle with the capitalist

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ONE OF CHANG'S TRICKS CRITICIZED
Peking JEN-MIN JIH-PAO in Chinese 5 Nov 77 p 2 HK

[Article by Wang Yung-an of the logistics department of the Kunming PLA
units: "Denouncing 'Be 30 Percent to the "Left" in Everything'"]

[Text] Chang Chun-chiao once told his confederates about the counterrevo-
lutionary trick, "Be 30 percent to the 'left' in everything." The cunning
of this counterrevolutionary double-dealer was revealed in this one phrase.
This was what Chang Chun-chiao actually did.

Chang Chun-chiao said: "As long as class struggle is grasped, it doesn't
matter if the land yields no crops.” "We prefer uncultured laborers to
spiritual aristocrats with culture." He also screamed: "Run factories
without rules and regulations," etc., how strangely "left"!

Lenin pointed out that when truth goes a step further it becomes fallacy.
Aside from covering up his ultrarightist features, Chang Chun-chiao's trick
was also an important way for him to revise Marxism-Leninism-Mao-Tse-tung
thought. This is a significant aspect of the rampant metaphysics under the
"gang of four."

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The counterrevolutionary political program of the "gang of four" had fund-
amentally tampered with Chairman Mao's great theory of continuing the revo-
lution under the dictatorship of the proletariat, totally reversed the
relations between the enemy and ourselves, and changed the class line of the
party in the entire historical period of socialism as formulated by Chairman
Mao. Over a long period of time, the “gang of four” also put the news media
under their control and created tremendous ideological and theoretical con-
fusion. If we concentrate our efforts in exposing and criticizing the "gang's”
counterrevolutionary political program, we will be able to safeguard the pur-
ity of Chairman Mao's great theory of continuing the revolution under the
dictatorship of the proletariat, distinguish right and wrong in the realm of
ideology, and correctly and fully understand Mao Tse-tung thought.

To penetratingly expose and criticize the "gang's” counterrevolutionary polit-
ical program, we must study well Chairman Mao's great theory of continuing
the revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat, the political report
delivered by Chairman Hua at the 11th National CCP Congress, the report deliv-
ered by Vice Chairman Yeh on the revision of the party constitution, and Vice
Chairman Teng's closing speech. By using them as our ideological weapons, we
will be able to penetratingly expose and criticize the "gang's" counterrevo-
lutionary political program, and to understand how reactionary and absurd the
"gang's" counterrevolutionary political program is.

To penetratingly expose and criticize the "gang's" counterrevolutionary
political program, we must also maintain close touch with reality. If we

do not penetratingly expose and criticize the "gang's" political program in
close connection with the actual conditions in all circles, departments and
units, and on all the fronts, we will not be able to eliminate its pernicious
influence.

To penetratingly expose and criticize the "gang's" counterrevolutionary
political program, we must do a good job in carrying out investigations.

In fighting the third battle to expose and criticize the "gang of four,"

the party committees at all levels must continue to strengthen their invest-
igative work. We must thoroughly destroy the bourgeois factionalist set-up
formed by the "gang of four" and their followers, and go into every person
and matter implicated in the "gang's" conspiratorial activities in usurping
party and state leadership. We must not become soft-hearted and give up

halfway.

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"GANG OF FOUR'S" FALLACY ON CLASS RELATIONS CRITICIZED

Peking JEN-MIN JIH-PAO in Chinese 27 Oct 77 p 2 HK

[NONA Report: "Severely Criticize the ‘Gang of Four's' Fallacy on "New
Changes in Class Relations'"]

[Summary] "More than 1,400 advanced producers, advanced workers, old heroes,
old labor models and representatives of advanced collectives attending the
Taiyuan Municipal Conference on Learning From Taching in Industry have, in
light of the reality of the struggle between the two classes, and the two
lines in Shansi Province and Taiyuan Municipality, angrily criticized the
counterrevolutionary political program of the ‘gang of four,' set right the
relationship between the enemies and ourselves turned upside down by them,
‘united with our real friends in order to attack our real enemies’ and
advanced courageously toward the great goal of four modernizations."

When our esteemed and beloved Premier Chou passed away in February 1976, the
"gang of four" pounced on the party and the people. They cast forth the
counterrevolutionary political program claiming that "old cadres are 'demo-
erats' and 'democrats' are ‘capitalist-roaders'." Chang Tieh-sheng, the new
counterrevolutionary raised by the "gang of four," went to Shensi and uttered
drivel in Hsiyang County and Taiyuan Municipality, wantonly distorting the
basic line of the party throughout the historical period of socialism. He
advertised the reactionary fallacy of "new changes in class relations" and
nonsensically said that "over 70 percent of the old cadres are guilty of
mistakes of the revisionist line,” and "there have appeared among them many
capitalist-roaders, sinister gangsters, bourgois elements and capitulation-
ists." The clamors made by this counterrevolutionary were resolutely rebuffed
by the Shansi Provincial CCP Committee, the poor and lower-middle peasants of
Hysiyang and the people of the whole province. ‘The provincial party committee
decided not to transmit the speech of Chang Tieh-sheng and not to release his
recorded broadcast, but to lock them up and report the matter to the Central
Committee.

"Looking back on this alarming struggle, the delegates attending the Taiyuan
Municipal Conference on Learning From Taching in Industry saw more clearly
the malice hidden in this counterrevolutionary political program of the ‘gang
of four,' and more profoundly comprehended the far-reaching significance of



were such rights as “labor equality” and "distribution equality" paid for
by the working class' blood over a long period. For their part, they wanted
to extend bourgeois rights to the area of ownership of the means of produc-
tion, in a vain attempt to swallow the state economy and the collective
economy of the people's commune which have already become the common property
of the laboring people. If their plot to usurp party and state power had
succeeded, they would have turned our socialist system of public ownership
into the state monoply captialist system of ownership of the "gang of four's
version of a fascist state. Besides, the “gang of four" were not satisfied
with just the general restoration of bourgeois rights. They wanted to
create a certain kind of "communism" under the reign of "an empress" so that
they could lord it over the 800 million people of the whole country and do
as they please. Therefore, if it can be called socialism, theirs is a
socialism of the feudal emperor kind.

The debate on the problem of bourgeois rights has continued since the early
days of contemporary history. Since the victory of the October Revolution
and the founding of the first socialist state, a heated debate has revolved
around how to treat the problem of bourgeois rights under the socialist sys-
tem. This is nothing strange, because different classes have different
theories of rights. As far as this problem is concerned, the "gang of four"
played a most disgraceful role. Running entirely counter to Marxism-Leninism-
Mao Tse-tung thought, they picked up the shopworn bourgeois and feudal theor-
ies on rights to rabidly attack the socialist system. They did this to pro-
mote their counterrevolutionary revisionist line, which could not have been
more to the right, to subvert the dictatorship of the proletariat and restore
capitalism. Therefore, we must penetratingly expose and criticize the "gang
of four," thoroughly smash their counterrevolutionary revisionist line,
clarify the confusion they created in regard to bourgeois rights and safe-
guard Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsestung thought and the dictatorship of the
proletariat.

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"HUNAN DAILY' EDITORIAL ON CRITICISM OF "GANG OF FOUR"
Changsha Hunan Provincial Service in Mandarin 2330 GMT 8 Nov 77 HK

{Excertps of HUNAN DAILY Editorial: "Resolutely Fight Well the Third Battle
of Exposing and Criticizing the 'Gang of Four'," date not given]

[Summary] Fighting well the third battle of exposing and criticizing the
"gang of four" is the battle call which the party Central Committee headed

by wise leader, Chairman Hua has issued to the whole party, the whole army

and the people of the whole country, and is the major important political

task facing party organizations at all levels, the armymen and people through-
out the province. Since the "gang of four" was smashed, under the leadership
of the provincial CCP committee, in compliance with the unified arrangements,
and in close connection with the reality of Hunan, the armymen and people have
fought the first battle of exposing and criticizing the conspiracy of the "gang
of four" to usurp party and state power, and fought the second battle of expos-
ing and criticizing the "gang of four's” counterrevolutionary activities and
criminal history. They have scored brilliant achievements.

"Pacing victory, we must by no means relax our fighting spirit. We must
clearly see the seriousness of the 'gang of four's' interference and sabotage,
and the acuteness and complexity of the struggle to expose and criticize the
‘gang of four.' We must thoroughly track down the people involved in, and
events connected with, the 'gang of four's' conspiratorial activities of
usurping party and state power. We must thoroughly destroy the bourgeois
factional network of the 'gang of four' and their remnants. We still have

a great deal of work to perform. Penetratingly exposing and thoroughly
criticizing the 'gang of four' in line and theory, and thoroughly eliminat-
ing their remant poison and influence are still arduous and protracted
tasks. In compliance with Chairman Hua's instruction, we must, at present
and for some time in the future, firmly grasp the key link of exposing and
criticizing the 'gang of four,' seriously sum up the experiences in fighting
the first two battles, further strengthen party leadership, give free rein
to the masses, carefully organize and resolutely fight well the third battle

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"te main tasks and orientation of the third battle are to penetratingly
expose and vehemently criticize the true ultrarightist nature of the ‘gang
of four's' counterrevolutionary revisionist line and their manifestations
in all aspects. We must also conduct criticism in philosophy, political
economics and scientific socialism." For a long time, the "gang of four”
waved the Marxist banner, wore the cloak of revolution and pushed through
the ultrarightist counterrevolutionary revisionist line. They had tampered
extensively with Chairman Mao's great theory of continuing the revolution
under the dictatorship of the proletariat. They dished up the counterrevo-
lutionary political program of equating veteran cadres with democrats and
democrats with capitalist-roaders. They attempted in vain to topple a large
number of revolutionary cadres of the party, army and government, destroy
our party and our army, overthrow the dictatorship of the proletariat and
restore capitalism.

"Mme third battle of exposing and criticizing the 'gang of four' is the
continuation and deepgoing development of the first two battles, and the
crucial battle in winning complete victory in the great political revolution
of exposing and criticizing the 'gang of four.' Only by fighting this battle
well can we eliminate the remnant poison and influence of the ‘gang of four's'
counterrevolutionary revisionist line in all aspects, guarantee the complete
and correct implementation of Chairman Mao's revolutionary line, effectively
heighten the cadres’ and masses' awareness of the class struggle line struggle,
and continue the revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat, and
impel our socialist cause to move ahead with greater, faster, better and more
economical results."

The black hand which the "gang of four" stretched into Hunan and a small
number of people whom the bourgeois careerists and conspirators recruited
were a gang of most vicious vermin. We must be determined to destroy evil,
leaving no chance for its revival. Chairman Mao's great theory of continuing
the revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat and the important
documents of the 11th Party Congress are our powerful ideological weapons

for fighting the 3rd battle well. We must closely link study and criticism,
completely and accurately grasp the system of Mao Tse-tung thought, profoundly
understand the basic spirit of the political report made by Chairman Hua at
the llth Party Congress, penetratingly criticize the "gang of four's" counter-
revolutionary political program and thoroughly smash the theoretical foundation
of their counterrevolutionary revisionist line.

In the third battle, we must strictly distinguish between and correctly handle
two different kinds of contradictions. We must help more people by educating
them and narrow the target of attack. We must save all people who have made
mistakes, including serious mistakes, and who are willing to correct themselves.
We must isolate and strike blows at the "gang of four" and their faithful fol-
lowers whose crimes were serious and who are not willing to correct themselves
and to repent.

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ECONOMIC

BRIEFS

NEW TRACTOR DEVELOPED--Kirin has succeeded in building a 36-horsepower
tractor of Tung-fang-hung brand, This success was achieved through the
collaboration of many units, including Changchun tractor plant, Yushu diesel
engine plant, Kirin oil pump plant, Kirin farm machine research institute
and Kirin rural electric power experimental station, This tractor will play
an important role in bringing about mechanized farming in Kirin, It is
noted for its great power, smooth operation, lack of vibration, easy-to-
start engine, high productivity and fuel conservation, It can be used for
sowing, weeding, plowing, field. transportation and other jobs, [Changchun
Kirin Provincial Service in Mandarin 1100 GMT 22 Oct 77]

INCREASE IN SAVINGS DEPOSITS--During the first 9 months of 1977, cities and
towns of Liaoning Province increased their total savings deposits in banks
by 14.7 percent over that of the corresponding period of 1976, achieving
the highest level since the founding of the People's Republic. In the past
few years, members of the 4th company of the first battalion of PLA unit
No 81850 have continually increased their savings deposits in banks.
[Shenyang Liaoning Provincial Service in Mandarin 1100 GMT 2 Oct 77]

HYDROELECTRIC POWER STATIONS--Kannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture has
scored achievements in building small hydroelectric power stations, By

the end of 1976, 119 such stations had been built with a total capacity

of 13,994 kw and generating 17.89 million kwh per year. Eighty percent of
its communes now have electricity. [Peking NCNA Domestic Service in Chinese
0119 GMT 23 Oct 77 OW]

INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT--By the end of September, the value of the total industrial
output of Ichang Municipality increased by 27 percent compared with the same
period last year, The amount of profits the municipality submitted to the
state went up by 127 percent over the corresponsing period last year.

(Wuhan Hupeh Provincial Service in Mandarin 1300 GMT 24 Oct 77 HK]

ELECTRIC POWER IN WUCHOU--Wuchou Prefecture in Kwangsi has increased elec-

tric power generating capacity by more than 11,000 kw annually in the past
il years. [Peking Domestic Service in Mandarin 2230 GMT 28 Oct 77 OW]

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'ANHWEI DATLY' COMMENTATOR'S ARTICLE ON CRITICISM OF "GANG OF FOUR"
Hofei Anhwei Provincial Service in Mandarin 1100 GMT 2 Nov 77 EK

[ANHWEI DAILY commentator's article: "Fight Well the Third Battle of Expos-
ing and Criticizing the 'Gang of Four',--date not given]

(Summary] In the great struggle to penetratingly expose and criticize the
"gene of four," Chairman Hua and the party Central Committee have issued a
new battle call. The third vigorous battle of exposing and criticizing the
"gang of four" is being waged throughout the province. “This is the contin-
uation and deepgoing development of the previous two battles and a key battle
of this great political revolution. With high fighting spirit, party com-
mittees at all levels must lead the cadres and masses to actively plunge into
this struggle. We must fight hard and win new victory in exposing and crit-
icizing the 'gang of four.'"

"To fight the third battle of exposing and criticizing the 'gang of four'
well, we must grasp the vulnerable point of the counterrevolutionary political
program, dished up by the ‘gang of four,' of equating veteran cadres with
democrats and democrats with capitalist-roaders. We must penetratingly expose
and thoroughly criticize it in politics, ideology, organization and line. We
must fully expose and criticize the serious crimes perpetrated by the ‘gang
of four' in frantically pushing through this counterrevolutionary political
program in various spheres. We must fully expose and criticize various reac-
tionary fallacies dished up and preached by the ‘gang of four' for the pur-
poses of pushing through this counterrevolutionary political program. On

this basis, we must penetratingly expose and vehemently criticize the true
ultra-rightist nature of the 'gang of four's' counterrevolutionary revision-
ist line and their manifestations in all aspects. We must also criticize the
‘gang of four' in the theory of philosophy, political economics and scientific
socialism. We must put in order the right and wrong reversed by the 'gang of
four' in line, ideology and theory. We must thoroughly eliminate their rem-
nant poison and influence and implement still better the line of the 11th
Party Congress."

"To fight the third battle of exposing and criticizing the 'gang of four'

well, we must link it closely with the reality of Anhwei. The former prin-
cipal leader of the provincial CCP committee who closely followed the ‘gang

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30 November 1977

TRANSLATIONS ON PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

No. 405 -

CoNTENTS PAGE

POLITICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL

Hong Kong Paper Comments on Changes in Chinese Leadership
(Editorial; MING PAO, 11 Nov 77)ececeeececcesceeceecetees 1

"Gang of Four's" Fallacy on Class Relations Criticized
(JEN-MIN JIH-PAO, 27 Oct 77) wececccccccccccececseeseeees 3

Complete Eradication of Evil of "Gang of Four" Urged
(JEN-MIN JIH-PAO, 2 Nov 77) wcccccceccccececeecceeeeeeeee 6

"Gang of Four's" Conspiracy in Literature, Art Reviewed
(Liu Tsai-fu, Yang Chih-chieh; KUANG-MING JIH-PAO,
8 Oct 77) wcccccceeccceee Bee e cere eee e ewe rere eereenenene 8

Criticism of Bourgeois Rights by "Gang of Four" Examined
(Wu Ching-lien, Chou Shu-lien; LI-SHIH YEN-CHIU, Aug 77). 16

PRC Sports Commission Holds Meeting To Criticize Gang
(TIYU PAO, 21 Oct 77) ...seeeeeeeeeceens cece eceeeeesecees 18

Peking Sports Paper Calls for Continued Struggle
(Li Ping; TIYU PAO, 21 Oct 77) seceseecssececeeaee seceeee 20

"NANFANG DAILY' on Criticizing the "Gang of Four"
(Editorial; Kwangtung Provincial Service,

BL Oct 77) sedeceecceeseeee 21

"ANHWEI DAILY' Commentator's Article on Criticism of "Gang of
Four"
(Anhwei Provincial Service, 2 Nov 77) ..cceeseecceeceeees 23

Commentary on Exposure, Criticism of "Gang of Four"
(Shanghai City Service, 4 Nov 77) .eeccccecceccceeereeees 25

-an (III - cc - 80 S & T]



LIANG HSIAO SCORED BY HISTORICAL JOURNAL

Peking LI-SHIH YEN-CHIU (Historical Research) in Chinese No 4 20 Aug 77
pp 3-11 HK

[Article by Chen Shih-Chih: "Commenting on Liang Hsiao, Spokesman of the
‘Gang of Four'”]

[Summary] Using many pseudonyms and calling himself an absolutely "correct"
"Warxist' theoretician, Liang Hsiao dominated the mass media from the winter
of 1973 to the "gang of four's" dowmfall in October 1976. During this period
he wrote over 200 articles. Out of the 181 published items, no fewer than 36
were picked by Chiang Ching and Yao Wen-yuan.

With the "gang of four's" number one spokesman playing @ prominent role in
academic, political and economic spheres, during those 3 years Liang Hsiao's
fallacies and absurdities spread far and wide to undermine the revolutionary
cause and to usurp party and state power. With Chairman Mao, Premier Chou.
and later Chairman Hua and Vice Chairman Teng as implicit targets, Liang
Hsiao, a leading member of the "mass criticism group of Peking and Tsinghua
Universities," vigoriously carried out sinister activities under Chiang
Ching's explicit instructions.

Under the pretext of criticizing Lin Piao and Confucius, Liang Hsiao moved
into Lin Piao's former residence to compile dossiers and to withhold mater-
jals unfavorable to Lin and those implicitly connecting Chiang Ching with
him. In the article "Confucius the Man," which was cleared by Chiang Ching,
Chang Chun-chiao and Yao Wen-yuan, Premier Chou was singled out for the "gang
of four's" venomous attacks. The article on Confucius contained unmistakable
allusions to Premier Chou, such as phrases "bedridden at the age of 71," "a
hypocritical and crafty political swindler” and "expounding his views but
publishing no writings at all.”

Liang Hsiao published another article attacking Premier Chou in general, and
PLA regional commanders in particular, entitled: "Read 'the Debate on Salt
and Iron'--A Big Controversy Between Confucian and Legalist Schools During
the Western Han Period.” Taking the cue from Yao Wen-yuan, Liang Hsiao
likened the reshuffling of army commanders in early 1974, a move decided

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'SZECHWAN DAILY' URGES ADVANCING CRITICISM MOVEMENT

Chengtu Szechwan Provincial Service in Mandarin 2140 GMT 31 Oct 77 HK
[SZECHWAN DAILY Editorial: “Advance Victoriously and Fight Well the Third
Campaign in Exposing and Criticizing the 'Gang of Four,'" date not given]
[Summary] Szechwan has victoriously conducted two campaigns in exposing
and criticizing the "gang of four" and gained initial success in grasping

the key link in running Szechwan well. Under the guidance of the line of

the llth Party Congress, we must grasp well investigation work, the imple-
mentation of policies, and in particular mass criticism, and whip up a new
upsurge of exposing and criticizing the line of the “gang of four". We
must make a thorough success of fighting the third campaign.

We must expose and criticize the ultra-rightist essence of the "gang of

four's" counterrevolutionary revisionist line and its expressions in all

aspects. "The idea of 'the movement is almost completed’ and tendencies

to relax are wrong and harmful." We must criticize their fallacies and
crimes in tampering with Chairman Mao's theory of continuing the revolu-
tion under the dictatorship of the proletariat, tampering with the party's
basic line, dishing up a counterrevolutionary political program, inciting
people to drag out "capitalist roaders," and attempting in vain to overthrow
a large number of leading cadres of the party, government and army, and so
on. Exposure and criticism must be closely linked with reality in our own
areas, departments and units.

We must combine criticism with rectifying the party's style of work,
straightening out the enterprises and the communes and brigades, and achiev-
ing the revolutionization of the organs. We must destroy the sinister winds
of capitalism, anarchism, bourgeois factionalism and sectarianism stirred up
by the "gang of four,” and establish our party's fine traditions and style
of work, so that the activism and creativity of the cadres and masses can be
brought into full play and a lively and vivid political situation can rapidly
form.

We must, at present, seriously study Chairman Mao's great theory of continu-

ing the revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat and the documents
of the 11th Party Congress, so as to guide our criticism. Leaders at all

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talk with Yu Hui-yung and raised the theoretical issue of how to "depict
capitalist roaders" so that the sinister program of "portraying capitalist
roaders" in literature could be more closely geared to their sinister and
counterrevolutionary, political program,

The question Chang Ch'un-ch'iao raised was about the depth in literary
works "portraying capitalist roaders," Said he: "Right now there is

much need to assign literature and art circles to write in-depth plays
depicting the struggle against capitalist roaders, This can be regarded

as a need stemming from the current struggle and also the central theme

in the entire socialist period," And he added: "At present works which
genuinely deal with such themes are very rare, Probably "Spring Sprouts"
is the first one of this kind, isn't it? But it only depicts a commune
medical center, There is not much breadth in what it epitomizes nor much
depth in terms of ideology. They should write about an area, a municipality,
a province, or even a ministry, and that will play a much greater role."
The "depth" which Chang Ch'un-ch'iao referred to comprised two important
aspects: First, they should write about the so-called "capitalist roaders"
of even higher ranks, When implementing Chang's sinister instruction, Yu
Hui-yung had this to say: "There is more depth if capitalist roaders of
higher job ranks are depicted," In order to make clear his intention,
Chang Ch'un-ch'iao cited an example: "The Shanghai 'Feng-ch'ing Ship
Incident' is a subject worthy of depicting. It is a typical case in the
struggle against the capitalist roaders,."" To make a typical example of

the case was for the purpose of hitting at leading cadres at the central
level, Second, they should portray the essentials and characteristics of
the so-called "capitalist roaders," Said Chang Ch'un-ch'iao: ‘In portraying
the capitalist roaders it is necessary to depict the characteristics of
their stubbornness and deceitfulness." In compliance with Chang's in-
struction, Yu Hui-yung set up in the Ministry of Culture a “theoretical
studies group" to make a special study on the issue, delving into this

kind of "essentials and characteristics." In a parrot-cry, Yu said to the
functionaries concerned: "The most important question regarding works
portraying the capitalist roaders is, after all, how to grasp the essentials
and characteristics embodying the law and salient features of current
struggle." He stressed the need to depict the "stubbornness," "reactionary
character," "perilousness," and "deceitfulness" of the capitalist roaders,

What does it refer to when the above qualities are to be made concrete

and applied to the practice of creation? A remnant member of the "gang of
four" in Shanghai has become a rather "incisive" epitome of this, He said:
This means that we must portray the kind of capitalist roaders “who are
diligently engaged in grasping production," "who have no defects in terms
of personal character and are capitalist roaders with a clean slate," "who
joined the revolution early and did not betray the Party, who are capitalist
roaders with an invulnerable background," However, it was not allowed to
portray "capitalist roaders who are corrupt and degenerate, indulging in
eating and drinking," and "capitalist roaders who are not only renegades

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of “portraying capitalist roaders" in literature and art and during the
period when The Joyous Little Liang River was in the process of being
cooked up, Chang Ch'un-ch'iao personally wrote a letter to assign authors
and subject matter, demanding that "works of even greater depth" be
produced, The big poisonous weed The Judgment of History, which has

not yet come out into the open, is exactly the product of this sinister
letter by Chang Ch'un-ch'iao, This "masterpiece" of "portraying capi-
talist roaders" cooked up in keeping with Chang's idea about "depth

in literature" has as its protagonist an old cadre who had joined the
revolution when she was only 15 years of age, In the past she risked
her life for the revolution, today she still "works diligently" and keeps
close ties with the masses, maintaining the work style of the war time,
However, such a concoction in the story is only for the purpose of
illustrating her "deceitfulness." The more important the capitalist
roader, the more reason to have him or her knocked out. Consequently,
the story allows its "hero" to point out its theme by uttering the
nonsense: those who have "brought landlords and capitalists to the

bar of justice," if they "move against the trend of history," they will
be "ruthlessly judged by history like all other reactionaries." This

is the most typical example of "depth" as defined by the "gang of four."
It means the entire historical mission of the "gang of four" and their
conspiratorial literature and art was to put China's proletariat and its
vanguard the Chinese Communist Party, who had formerly passed judgment
on the landlords and capitalists, into a historical position of being
judged, This is nothing short of a reversal of heaven and earth by
turning the proletarian dictatorship into bourgeois dictatorship, What
insanity! What an out-and-out restoration! Isn't this kind of literature
and art completely restoration oriented, the kind of reactionary literature
and art of the landlords and capitalists? Aren't they the through-and-
through literature and art of the "home-going legions?" Can the Chinese
people pardon such a ferocious arch enemy who even dared to "try" our
Party?

Moving Toward the Climax of Insanity

As class struggle was intensifying, the conspiratorial literature and art
of the "gang of four" also became more and more fierce in nature.

On 7 April 1976, Chairman Mao personally made the proposal, which was
approved by the Central Committee Politburo, to appoint Comrade Hua Kuo-
feng first vice chairman of the Central Committee and premier of the State
Council, This was another heavy blow dealt against the "gang of four's"
conspiracy to usurp the Party and seize power, Not long after, Chairman
Mao's illness took a turn for the worse, At this juncture, the "gang of
four" calculated that they had arrived at an opportune time and frantically
pushed to a new climax their conspiratorial efforts to usurp the top
leadership of the Party and state, As the political conspiracy of the
"gang of four" moved forward, the conspiratorial literature and art also

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At present, the principal contradiction we face is the contradiction between
our party and the "gang of four." "At present, therefore, in learning from
Taching and Tachai, we must grasp the center of exposing and criticizing the
‘gang of four' and deepend the struggles between two classes, roads and lines
on the industry and agriculturefronts. Otherwise, we shall lose the key link
in learning from Taching and Tachai.”

In order to do a good job in integrating the two, the most fundemental thing
iis to enhance the spontaneity to grasp the key link. “At present, we must
grasp the counterrevolutionary political program dished up by the 'gang of
four,' penetratingly expose and criticize the ultrarightist nature of their
counterrevolutionary revisionist line and its expressions in various aspects,
and do a good job in fighting the third battle. In order to do a good job
in integrating the two, the key link lies in solving the question of connect-
ing with reality. We must closely connect exposing and criticizing the 'gang
of four' with solving the question of the class struggle in the localities
and the local units and the question of orientation and road of developing
industry and agriculture."

All localities and units must obtain a clear picture of what remnant poison
and influence the "gang of four" has in their places. They must divide the
questions into (?various sections), list special topics, and mobilize the
masses to expose and criticize the questions one by one, distinguish between
right and wrong in line on the questions, one by one, and eliminate the rem-
nant poison in various aspects one by one.

"The production struggle and the class struggle cannot be separated. We must
grasp the three great revolutionary movements simultaneously and integrate
the struggle to expose and criticize the 'gang of four' with the movements
to learn from Taching and Tachai. In this way, we shall be able to mobilize
in a still better way the socialist activism of the masses, and guide and
organize them in a timely fashion to develop socialism in a big way.

"We will certainly boost our enthusiasm, go all out, roll up our sleeves and
work hard in a big way. We will certainly struggle to fulfill and overful-
fill this year's tasks and build one-third of the enterprises in Hupeh into
Taching-type enterprises, and over one-third of the counties in Hupeh into
Tachai-type counties by 1980.

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'NANFANG DAILY' ON CRITICIZING THE "GANG OF FOUR"
Canton Kwangtung Provincial Service in Mandarin 1100 GMT 31 Oct 77 HK

(NANFANG DAILY Editorial: "Continue the Triumphant Advance, Do a Good Job
of Fighting the Third Round of the Battle of Exposing and Criticizing the
‘gang of four'," date not given]

[Summary] We must immediately take action and whip up a new upsurge through-
out the province in energetically exposing and criticizing the "gang of four.”

"We have won great victories in the struggle to expose and criticize the
‘gang of four.' In the past year, in accordance with the plan of the party
Central Committee and in connection with the reality of our province, we
have launched a great mass movement to expose and criticize the ‘gang of
four:' We have fought two battles, namely, the battle to expose and criti-
eize the 'gang's' plot to usurp party and state power, and the battle to
expose and criticize the 'gang's' counterrevolutionary criminal history.

In fighting these two battles, we also investigated every person and matter
connected with the 'gang's' plot to usurp party and state power. Thus we
have consolidated and developed the victorious fruits of smashing the ‘gang
of four' in the fields of politics, ideology, and organization.”

"The third round of the battle of exposing and criticizing the 'gang of four'

is aimed at defending Chairman Mao's great theory of continuing the revolution
under the dictatorship of the proletariat. This battle is an important battle
which is aimed at exposing and criticizing the 'gang of four' in the fields of
line, ideology and theory, and thoroughly eradicating their pernicious influ-

ence.”

"The 'gang of four' fanatically opposed Chairman Mao's revolutionary line,
spread rumors and attacked the party Central Committee headed by Chairman
Mao, and directed their spearheadagainst our great leader Chairman Mao, our
esteemed and beloved Premier Chou, Comrade Hua Kuo-feng and other leading
comrades of the central authorities. ‘They smeared and made false accusations
against Comrade Teng Hsiao-ping and went in for revisionism, splittism,
schemes and intrigues in a big way. We have criticized the 'gang's' crimes
mentioned above. However, the criticism is not systematized enough, nor is

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‘YUNNAN DAILY' ON CONDUCTING "THREE GREAT PUBLICITIES"
Kunming Yunnan Provincial Service in Mandarin 1400 GMT 2 Nov 77 HK

{Text of YUNNAN DAILY commentator's article: "The ‘Three Great Publicities'
Is a Good Way To Wash Away the Remnant Poison of the ‘Gang of Four,'" date
not given]

[Summary] "A number of districts and units in our province have learned
from the experiences of (Peiho) oil field and the Ministry of Petrochemical
Industry and have extensively conducted the mass activities of ‘three great
publicities.' They have further deepened the struggle to expose and criti-
cize the ‘gang of four.' Practice has proven that the ‘three great publi-
cities' is a good way to give free rein to the masses, closely connect with
the reality, penetratingly expose and criticize the ‘gang of four' and wash
away the ‘gang of four's' remnant poison.”

“In the activities of the 'three great publicities,' cadres and masses can
connect with the reality of their own units. They can greatly publicize
the fact that the party, the country, the units and the people suffered
during the time the 'gang of four' were running rampant. ‘They can also
publicize their experiences in waging a tit-for-tat struggle against the
‘gang of four.' With a well-defined objective in mind, it is essential to
actively and specifically mobilize the masses to draw a clear line between
Marxism and revisionism, and to correct the right and wrong reversed by the
‘gang of four.' It is necessary to eliminate the 'gang of four's' remnant
poison and influence in line, ideology and theory.”

"Various districts and units must conduct the mass activities of the ‘three
great activities' and vigorously wage a people's war of washing away the ‘gang
of four's' remnant poison. The practices of the earlier period indicate that
to conduct the mass activities of the 'three great publicities' and to score
the necessary achievements, we must deeply and carefully do a lot of ideolog-
ical and organizational work. It is imperative to have a correct understand-
ing. There are still some districts and units which have not conducted the
activities of the ‘three great publicities,' or have conducted the activities
put with no great achievements. An important factor is that some people in
those districts and units are worried that this means having everyone pass
the test, directing the spearhead downward, and punishing the masses. We

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"In addition, in the conspiratorial films they concocted the ‘gang of four’
and their henchmen also did their best to glorify themselves and to prepare
public opinion for their installation as 'empress,' ‘chairman of the NPC
standing committee’ and 'premier.' This was the case with big poisonous
antiparty weeds such as the film 'counterattack.'"

"Like the 'gang of four' on China's historical stage, conspiratorial films
also overran the film industry for some time. But following the complete
collapse of the counterrevolutionary clique of the ‘gang of four,' they too
died a ‘natural death.' However, people will never forget this historical
lesson because it is rare teaching material by negative example for the
revolutionary people. What deserves our attention is that the revisionist
germs spread by the 'gang of four’ when they concocted the conspiratorial
films have still not been eliminated, and we cannot underestimate their
pernicious influence on film making. The masses of film workers must
actively respond to Chairman Hua's call, make further efforts to thoroughly
eriticize the 'gang of four's' counterrevolutionary revisionist line in
literature and art, and rectify, one by one, all those things the gang turned
upside down, with regard to questions of right and wrong in line, in ideology
and in theory, so that our socialist film industry can develop soundly and
victoriously along the road indicated by Chairman Mao."

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the state, the collective and the individual. For instance, some areas do
not take concrete measures to insure the fulfillment of the policy of pur-
chasing agricultural and side-line products. Quite a few production teams'
burdens are too heavy. Also, they do not appropriately handle the relation-
ship between accumulation and consumption.”

The "gang of four" denied the collective sideline production in the rural
area and denied the appropriate domestic side-occupations of commune members.
They babbled that these place money in command.

"The ‘gang of four’ disrupted the normal circulation of commodities. On the
pasis of conscientiously making investigations and studies, we must solve all
these problems of policy as quickly as possible and one by one."

To fully mobilize the socialist enthusiasm of the cadres and people, we must
revive and promote our party's fine tradition and fine style of work in the
great struggle to expose and criticize the ‘gang of four.' We must emphati-
cally revive and carry forward the style of seeking truth from facts, and the
style of mass line. We must resolutely oppose subjectivism and the style of
divorcing ourselves from the masses. It is imperative to revive the party's
democratic centralism and oppose the practice of "what I say counts.” It is
imperative to revive the style of modesty, prudence, plain living and hard
work and oppose arrogance, impetuosity and love of personal comfort. We can
surely mobilize tens of millions of peasants and win great victories in the
emancipation battle of agriculture, so long as leading comrades at all levels
and the masses of cadres have a good style of work, go deep among the masses,
take the lead in energetically criticizing capitalism, and take the lead in
going in for socialism in a big way.

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for four' did his utmost to completely push through the 'gang of four's'
counterrevolutionary political program and their ultra-rightist line. He
caused great harm to all fronts throughout the province in politics, organi-
zation, ideology and style of work. In the 8 months or so between the smash-
ing of the ‘gang of four’ and the party Central Committee sending down its
instruction on solution of the leadership problem of the Anhwei Provincial
CCP committee antagonized the struggle to expose and criticize the ‘gang of
four' and did his utmost to cover himeself. He seriously interferred with
and sabotaged the first and second battles of exposing and criticizing the
"gang of four' in our province. Fighting the third battle of exposing and
eriticizing the ‘gang of four' well is therefore especially important in
our province. Our struggle tasks are especially arduous. We must not
underestimate this problem."

The key to fighting this battle well lies in leadership. leading comrades

of party committees at all levels must further heighten their awareness of
the line struggle and clearly understand the serious harm caused by the "gang
of four" and by the former principal leader of the provincial CCP committee.
Party committees at all levels must take a firm and clear-cut stand, further
give free rein to the masses, and fight a people's war in a big way. Mean-
while, they must thoroughly track down people involved in and events connected
with the "gang of four's" conspiratorial activities of usurping party and
state power.

In the course of the third battle, we must continue to assiduously study
Marxist-Leninist and Chairman Mao's relevant Party Congress and the instruc-
tions of Chairman Hua and the party Central Committee. We must completely
and correctly understand and apply the system of Mao Tse-tung thought and
implement Chairman Mao's proletarian revolutionary line.

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"GANG OF FOUR'S" CONSPIRACY IN LITERATURE, ART REVIEWED
Peking KUANG-MING JIH-PAO in Chinese 8 Oct 77 p 2

[Article by Liu Tsai-fu [0491 0375 5958] and Yang Chih-chieh [2799 1807
2638]: "The Ins and Outs of the Conspirational Literature and Art of
the 'Gang of Four'"]

[Text] In the later stages of the Proletarian Cultural Revolution, our
Party was locked in a life-and-death struggle with the "gang of four,"

a struggle between two classes and two lines, With a fanatical vengeance,
the "gang of four" put up a desperate fight against the proletariat by
resorting to all kinds of maneuvers, including the use of conspiratorial
literature and art of the most sinister and anti-Party nature,

The "gang of four's" conspiratorial literature and art attacked and defamed
the Party's leading cadres in a most unbridled way, closely linked up with
the "gang of four's" counterrevolutionary steps to usurp the Party and
seize power, The emergence, growth and extinction of this kind of liter-
ature and art were an ugly history serving as a typical example in mirroring
the extremely ferocious and teacherous tricks and reactionary features of
the "gang of four" who were a batch of bourgeois careerists and con-
spirators, This history also recorded the entire course in which this
counterrevolutionary sinister gang launched frenzied attacks against our
Party, pressed us step after step, made a last desperate effort in an

open onslaught, and eventually was punished by the Party and the people.

Fanning Up the Counterrevolutionary Sinister Wind

In order to alter the Party's correct line and hit at leading cadres at
various levels in our Party, the "gang of four" who had originally been in
league with the Lin Piao company, had, since the Party's Tenth National
Congress cooked up anti-Party literary works such as "Spring Sprouts"
"portraying the struggle against capitalist roaders." However, it was in
the eventful spring of 1976 that they fanned up in a programmed and planned
way the counterrevolutionary sinister wind of "portraying the struggle
against capitalist roaders,."



must correctly understand this issue. Our party's consistent tradition and
style is that both cadres and masses must continuously undertake self-
education and raise their level of Marxism and awareness of class struggle
and of the struggle between the two lines. Through undertaking eriticism
and self-criticism, they must help one another and march forward together.
Slandering self-education as having everyone pass the test, and stupidly
describing cadres and masses undertaking normal criticism and self-criti-
cism as directing the spearhead downwards and punishing the masses is a
vicious attack by the 'gang of four' against our party's fine tradition and
style. It also serves the ‘gang of four's' conspiratorial purpose of usurp-
ing party and state power, subverting the dictatorship of the proletariat
and restoring capitalism. Today, the 'gang of four' has been overthrown.
However, their remnant poison and influence still work in the minds of a
number of cadres: The above understanding is the reflection of the remnant
poison and influence."

"The key link to doing a good job in the 'three great publicities' lies in
the leaders, particularly in the number one and two men. Leading cadres

at all levels must be like the leaders of the Taching oilfield and the
Ministry of Petro-Chemical Industry. With profound hatred against the 'gang
of four.' The comrades who have unswervingly withstood and struggled against
the ‘gang of four's' counterrevolutionary revisionist line must take the lead
in learning and publicizing. Those comrades who have not completely withstood
the 'gang of four' because they were afraid of being scolded when the 'gang
of four' were running rampant, and when the pressure was very great, and those
who have said the wrong thing and committed mistakes must all the more take
the lead in learning and publicizing. This is the party's demand and the
masses' hope.”

"The starting point to conduct the activities of the 'three great publici-
ties' is penetratingly exposing and criticizing the 'gang of four' and wash-
ing away their remnant poison and influence. In these activities, it is
imperative to seriously implement the party's policy and strictly differen-
tiate and correctly handle the two different kinds of contradictions. The
spearhead of the struggle must be consistently directed against the ‘gang
of four' and their handful of close followers. In the 'three great publi-
cities,' we must thoroughly expose the ugly counterrevolutionary features

of the 'gang of four' and their company, the ultrarightist essence of their
counterrevolutionary revisionist line and their serious threat against the
party, revolution and people. It is necessary to penetratingly and thorough-
ly criticize their various reactionary fallacies."

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"Penetratingly exposing and criticizing the "gang of four' in line is the
basic major event of combating and preventing revisionism, consolidating
the dictatorship of the proletariat, preventing restoration of capitalism
and building socialism, and is a great movement of education in Marxism-
Leninism-Mao Tse-tung thought to enhance the cadres' and masses' awareness
of the class struggle, line struggle, and continuing the revolution under
the dictatorship of the proletariat. We must fully understand the great
and farreaching significance of this battle. We must be determined and
exert our greatest energy to fight the third pattle well. Meanwhile, we
must do a good job in tracking down work and win complete victory in the
struggle to expose and criticize the ‘gang of four.'"

To fight the third battle well, it is essential to continue to mobilize the
masses to expose and criticize the "gang of four," so that everyone criti-
cizes the four pests and eliminates the remant poison. Nos 1 and 2 men of
party committees at all levels must especially grasp exposing and criticiz-
ing the "gang of four." We must see: "The struggle to expose and criticize
the 'gang of four' in our province has not progressed very evenly. The com-
mon point of the places and units which have not carried out the struggle
well is that leadership has lagged behind the masses. Leading cadres of a
very small number of places and units have even covered themselves up, sup-
pressed the masses and protected the mountain strongholds and themselves."
This phenomenon must be quickly changed. Leading cadres at all levels must
stand in the frontline of the struggle. We must continue to carry out track-
down work and basically complete the tracking down task this year or shortly
thereafter.

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and ‘secret agents but also take to the capitalist road." They (the "gang

of four") argued that these two kinds of capitalist roaders were void of

the "significance of type," that is, they did not conform to the "essentials
and characteristics" of those who took to the capitalist road. In the

eyes of this batch of counterrevolutionary, sinister gangsters, the diligence
displayed by our Party's cadres, their quiet hard work, wholehearted
devotion to public duty, as well as the meritorious service they rendered

to the revolution were exactly the "deceitfulness" and "perilousness" they
posed, their adherence to the Party's excellent tradition and work style

was nothing but their "stubbornness," and their persistence in following

the socialist road and Chairman Mao's revolutionary line was precisely

their "reactionary character," Only when all these "qualities" were
portrayed in accordance with the "gang of four's'' stand and point of view,
and thus "exposed" and "criticized," were the works regarded as having
depicted the "essentials and characteristics" and having "depth," This
fully proves that the so-called "depth" of theirs was an attempt to attack
and defame through literary works those fine cadres of our Party and army

in accordance with the requirement of the "gang of four's" counterrevolution-
ary, political program, What they wanted to do was exactly to have our
Party and army totally destroyed, They launched a vindicative counterattack
not only against socialist revolution but also against democratic revolution,
It is right through this kind of conspiratorial literature and art that

the "gang of four" spoke aloud the minds of the overthrown landlord and
bourgeoisie classes who yearn for vengeance and resurrection,

Guided by Chang Ch'un-ch'iao's theory of "depth in literature and art,"
there appeared a batch of anti-Party, conspiratorial literary works having
extremely wicked and sinister contents, The Joyous Little Liang River,
for instance, even concocts a deputy chief Hsia, a character who is
supposedly equipped with the "essentials and characteristics of the capi-
talist roader," In light of the tone set by the remnant member of the
"gang of four," this deputy chief Hsia "had a family background of hired
farm hands for three generations," "joined the army in 1938 and fought
with the Japanese soldiers in bayonet charges. He participated in the
three big battles of Liao-shen, Peking-Tientsin and Huaihai, He shed
blood when fighting Chiang Kai-shek and dripped with sweat when carrying
land reform." "None of his friends and relatives are capitalists, As

for himself, he does not embezzle money or corrupt, nor has he ever had

a drink or a bite at a landlord's house..." Diligently and conscientiously,
he devotes himself to work; nevertheless, he, as luck would have it,
“knows nothing about socialist revolution," and his clean slate is but

his "deceitfulness,." Therefore there is all the more reason to have him
overthrown, No wonder the remnant member of the "gang of four"
maliciously lectured comrades who held different opinions: “We just

want to create capitalist roaders of this type. They have good family
backgrounds and have rendered meritorious service to the revolution. On
the surface they do not corrupt and are not degenerate, but politically
they are reactionary, Only thus can we achieve depth and the significance
of type." Not long after the "gang of four" set forth the sinister program

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