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Peking Review – 1968

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.

1968 saw the further consolidation of the Cultural Revolution and the open exposure of the counter-revolutionary plotting of ‘China’s Khruschov’ Liu Shao-chi. In August of the year the Soviet revisionists showed their true colours with the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Peking Review also continued to publish important statements and articles written by Chairman Mao.

The issues and topics included in 1968:

• Soviet Revisionists’ plot to call counter-revolutionary International Meeting can only speed their own doom
• Kiansi Provincial Revolutionary Committee formed in excellent situation
• Strengthen the unity of the Army and the people on the basis of Mao Tse-tung’s Thought
• Revolutionary people throughout China hail Chairman Mao’s latest instruction on Party Rectification
• Chinese scientists survey Mt. Jolmo Lungma, the world’s highest peak
• Earnestly implement the principle of ‘Supporting the Left, but not any particular faction’
• Victory certainly belongs to the heroic Vietnamese People persevering in struggle
• To be loyal to Chairman Mao one must combine study with application
• A Directive from Chairman Mao concerning the great Strategic Plan for the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
• British spy case broken in Lanchow
• Financial crisis in the West testifies to further decay of Imperialism
• Revolutionary Committees are fine
• Statement by Comrade Mao Tse-tung, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, in support of the Afro-American struggle against violent repression
• Make a class analysis of factionalism
• ‘Stalin Group’ in Soviet Union acclaims China’s Great Cultural Revolution
• Chairman Mao Tse-tung on the Youth Movement
• Old scabs, new betrayal – a denunciation of the French Revisionist Renegade Clique
• President Nyerere of Tanzania visits China
• China reaps rich summer harvest
• Comrade Lin Piao warmly greets 25th Anniversary of founding of Albanian People’s Army
• The great power of revolutionary mass criticism and repudiation
• The Chinese and Albanian peoples and armies will fight side by side for ever
• Struggle between two lines on transforming capitalist industry and commerce
• Study Chairman Mao’s new contribution on Dialectics
• Firm pillar of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat – in celebration of the 41st anniversary of the founding of the Chinese people’s Liberation Army
• Soviet Revisionism and Czechoslovakia
• Resolutely take the road of integration with the workers, peasants and soldiers
• Chinese Government and people strongly condemn Soviet Revisionist clique’s armed occupation of Czechoslovakia
• The working class must exercise leadership in everything – Yao Wen-yuan
• ‘Serve the people’ – Mao Tse-tung
• Long Live the all-round victory of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
• On the re-education of intellectuals
• Chairman Mao celebrates National Day with the nation’s worker representatives and Peking’s Armymen and civilians
• Chairman Mao warmly congratulates Comrade Enver Hoxha on his 60th birthday
• Peking working class plays leading role in Cultural Revolution
• Absorb fresh blood from the proletariat – an important question of Party consolidation
• Soviet Revisionists step up capitalist restoration
• The Dictatorship of the Proletariat is dictatorship by the masses
• The nation launches angry tide denouncing arch-renegade Liu Shao-chi’s crimes
• Thoroughly settle accounts with the renegade, traitor and scab Liu Shao-chi for his towering crimes
• Conscientiously study the history of the struggle between the two lines
• Chinese Party, Government and Army delegation concludes visit to heroic Albania
• ‘Indigenous experts’ and revolution in agricultural education
• Thoroughly repudiate Liu Shao-chi’s counter-revolutionary revisionist line on party building

Available issues of Peking Review:

1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978

A full Index for the year 1968, issues 1-52, was included in issue No. 52.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

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