
The People’s Commune is good
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.
Topics and issues addressed throughout 1961 included:
- Sino-Soviet Solidarity
- China-Burma friendly relations
- Hands off Cuba!
- Two stages in Chinese Revolution
- China’s policy of Peaceful Coexistence
- Sino-Albanian Mutual Aid and Co-operation
- China condemns imperialism for murder of Lumumba
- China’s industrial progress
- state-monopoly capitalism of Old China
- 26th World Table Tennis Championships
- commemorating the Paris Commune
- 100 Schools Contend
- the Peasant Question in the Democratic Revolution
- ‘All out support for Cuba!’
- Kennedy lets the cat out of the bag
- State farms in China
- US manoeuvres in South Korea and South Vietnam
- Yugoslav agriculture on the capitalist road
- 40th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party
- Yugoslavia’s ‘Self-management of enterprises’
- fresh victory over imperialism and colonialism
- ‘September 18th’ – Never again!
- Lu Hsun – Great Writer-Revolutionary
- the 1911 Revolution – 50th Anniversary
- US Imperialism – biggest international exploiter
- Tibet forges ahead
- greetings to the 22nd Congress of the CPSU
- heroic Algeria forges ahead
- China stands foursquare behind Cuba
- heroic Albania strides ahead
- China warns against US aggression in South Vietnam
There’s an index in No. 26-27 for items to that time and another in No. 52 for the second part of the year.