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Peking Review – 1969

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 issues and topics included in 1969:

• China successfully conducts new Hydrogen Bomb test
• Big scab Liu Shao-chi is the mortal foe of the working class
• A co-operative medical service greatly welcomed by poor and lower-middle peasants
• African patriotic armed forces grow in strength
• Growth of a contingent of rural technicians in water conservancy and power generating
• A school managed by workers and linked up with a People’s Commune and a PLA unit
• ‘Council for Mutual Economic Aid’ – Soviet Revisionist tool for pushing neocolonialism
• How to look at intellectuals correctly
• Grasp revolution, promote production and win new victories on the industrial front
• The nation strongly condemns Soviet Revisionists’ intrusion into China’s territory – Chenpao island
• Soviet Revisionist renegade clique can only be digging its own grave in rapidly opposing China
• Press Communique of the Secretariat of the Presidium of the Ninth National Congress of the Communist Party of China
• Chairman Mao Tse-tung On Party Building
• Full length documentary ‘New Tsars’ Anti-China Atrocities’ showing throughout China
• ‘The Orientation of the Youth Movement’ – Mao Tse-tung
• Theory of ‘International Dictatorship’ is a gangster theory of Social-imperialism
• China is now a Socialist country without internal or external debts
• Tear off the wrappings from Soviet Revisionists’ ‘Definition of aggression’
• CC of Communist Party of China send message to CC of Albanian Party of Labour and Comrade Enver Hoxha
• Working class triumphantly leading the struggle-criticism-transformation in the superstructure
• Hold aloft the banner of unity of the Party’s Ninth Congress and win still greater victories
• Loyang tractor plant advances along the road of self-reliance
• Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun
• Strengthen revolutionary unity to win still greater victories
• Long Live the Communist Party of China – in commemoration of the 48th Anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China
• Great victory for Mao Tse-tung thought on financial and monetary front
• Politics is in command of economics, revolution is in command of production
• Working class leadership in everything is fine
• The People’s Army is invincible – in commemoration of the 42nd anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army
• Firmly grasp revolutionary mass criticism
• Aggressive nature of Soviet Revisionism’s ‘New Stage of Economic Integration’
• CC of Communist Party of China sends message of condolences to CC of the Vietnam Workers’ Party on passing away of President Ho Chi Minh
• The essence of ‘Theory of productive Forces’ is to oppose proletarian revolution
• Chairman Mao on Continuing the Revolution under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
• 20th Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China
• Document of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of People’s republic of China – refutation of Soviet Government’s statement of June 13, 1969
• China’s road of Socialist Industrialisation
• Chinese Air Force downs US imperialist pilotless high-altitude reconnaissance plane
• Palestinian people’s Armed Struggle and new awakening of the Arab people
• Intensified US-Soviet collaboration against China
• Mao Tse-tung Thought guides us in conquering nature
• Cadres should persist in taking part in collective productive labour
• Long Live the militant friendship between Chinese and Albanian peoples
• Chairman Mao’s military thinking is the magic weapon in defeating the enemy
• Ghost of Confucius’ shop and actual class struggle
• The revolutionary friendship between Chinese and Albanian Parties is indestructible
• Modern Revolutionary Peking Opera – ‘Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy’

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

Issue No. 26 includes an Index for numbers 1-26 and issue No. 52 one for issues 27-52.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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