Getting ready for military exercises
Peking Review – 1967
Peking Review was the weekly political and informative magazine published between 1958 and 1978. With issue No 1 of 1979 the magazine was renamed Beijing Review, the new name bringing with it a new direction in the People’s Republic of China and was an open statement of the reintroduction of capitalism in the erstwhile Socialist Republic.
The Cultural Revolution, that had begun in the middle of 1966, developed more momentum during 1967 with the development and establishment of more formal structures to spread the idea throughout the country and putting the workers, peasants and soldiers at the centre of all activity. Peking Review also played a role in the dissemination of some of the more pertinent works of Comrade Mao before they were made more widely available in both pamphlet form. 1967 was to see the beginning of the publishing of the Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung in Chinese and various other foreign languages. The magazine also published many of the most important documents, declarations and statements made by the Party as the the form and direction of the Cultural Revolution became more clear.
The issues and topics included in 1967:
- ‘Serve the people’ – Mao Tse-tung
- Cultural Revolution spurs new all-round leap in China’s economy
- Take firm hold of the Revolution, promote production and utterly smash the new counter-attack launched by the Bourgeois Reactionary Line
- Long Live the militant friendship between Chinese and Albanian peoples
- PLA firmly backs Proletarian Revolutionaries
- ‘On Correcting Mistaken Ideas in the Party’ – Mao Tse-tung
- On revolutionary discipline and revolutionary authority of the proletariat
- ‘In memory of Norman Bethune‘ – Mao Tse-tung
- Resolutely defend the correct policy of ‘Three-in-One’ combination
- Cadres must be treated correctly
- ‘The Foolish Old Man who removed the mountains’ – Mao Tse-tung
- A sinister US Imperialist meeting to expand the war of aggression against Vietnam
- China’s revolutionaries condemn top Party person in authority taking the capitalist road
- The nation’s revolutionary masses repudiate China’s Khrushchov
- Growing mass movement to criticise and repudiate the book on ‘Self-cultivation’ of Communists
- Peking Municipal Revolutionary Committee established
- The Revolution in Peking Opera – Chiang Ching
- Most urgent and strongest protest against bloody suppression of Chinese Compatriots in Hong Kong by British authorities
- Chairman Mao’s 5 militant documents on Literature and Art
- Firm support for Arab people’s fight against US-Israeli aggression
- Resolutely repel British Imperialist provocations
- ‘On the correct handling of contradictions among the people’ – Mao Tse-tung
- Down with slavishness – strictly observe proletarian revolutionary discipline
- People’s War is invincible
- Liquidation of armed struggle means shameful betrayal of proletarian revolutionary cause
- Carry revolutionary mass criticism through to the end
- ‘Long Live the victory of People’s War’ – Lin Piao
- ‘Bombard the Headquarters – my Big Character Poster’ – Mao Tse-tung
- Along the Socialist or the Capitalist road
- Bankruptcy of China’s ‘Devotee of Parliamentarianism’
- Comments on Tao Chu’s two books
- 40th anniversary celebration of Autumn Harvest Uprising
- The bourgeois reactionary line means, in essence, taking the capitalist road
- Sino-Albanian revolutionary friendship reaches new peak
- Mao Tse-tung’s Thought – banner of victory in scaling the heights of science and technology
- Soviet revisionist leading clique restores capitalism
- Advance along the road opened up by the October Socialist Revolution
- Some tentative programmes for revolutionising education
- Show up the counter-revolutionary features of Sholokhov
- Struggle between the Two Roads in China’s countryside
- Celebrating 23rd anniversary of Albania’s Liberation
- Comrade Mao Tse-tung is the leader of the world proletariat; the CPC is the vanguard of International Communist Movement
- Great leader Mao Tse-tung’s message of greetings to President Nguyen Huu Tho
Available issues of Peking Review:
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Beijing Review
From issue No. 1 of 1979 the weekly political and informative magazine Peking Review changed its name to Beijing Review. On page 3 of that number the editors made the open declaration of the change in the direction of the erstwhile ‘People’s Republic of China’.
By stating that the Communist Party of China (under the control then of Teng Hsiao-Ping/Deng Xiaoping ) sought
‘to accomplish socialist modernisation by the end of the century and turn China …. into an economically developed and fully democratic socialist country’
the CPC was openly declaring the rejection of the revolutionary path, which the country had been following since 1949, and the adoption of the road that would inevitably lead to the full scale establishment of capitalism.
For those who would like to follow this downward spiral into the murky depths of capitalism and imperialism in the issues of Beijing Review (complete for the years 1979-1990 – intermittently thereafter) you can do so by going to bannedthought – which also serves as an invaluable resource for more material about China during its revolutionary phase.
