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UNITE! Info #36en: Remember Tiananmen '89 and
'76
[Posted: 04.06.97] Note / Anmerkung / Note / Nota / Anm�rkning:
On the UNITE! / VEREINIGT EUCH! / UNISSEZ-VOUS! / �UNIOS! / F�RENA ER! Info en/de/fr/es/se series: See information on the last page / Siehe Information auf der letzten Seite / Verrez information � la derni�re page / Ver informaci�n en la �ltima p�gina / Se information p� sista sidan. [INTRO NOTE, 1997: On the 8th anniversary of the infamous Tiananmen
massacre in 1989, I'm reposting, and now as part of the "UNITE Info" series,
something that I wrote and sent precisely a year ago.
Since then, the revisionist dictator mainly
responsible for that massacre, Deng Xiaoping, has died. The sentences below
addressed directly to him today may be taken as
addressed to his successor, Jiang
Zemin.
In this posting, the bigger part however consists
of a descrip-
tion and an assessment of that earlier and likewise historical event on Tiananmen Square in central Beijing, China, the de- monstrations on 05.04.1976 and the suppression of
those
demonstrations. For the Marxist-Leninists in
particular, still
today, this event IMO contains some even more
important
lessons than the 1989 one.
Below, I've added some sub-titles to the original
posting.
- RM]
REMEMBER TIANANMEN 4.6.1989 AND ALSO 5.4.1976 1. A HEINOUS CRIME The peoples of the world should remember the events
at
Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, on 4 June 1989
and also
those on 5 April 1976. Both those days are symbols
of the
resistance of the Chinese people against
revisionist, phoney-
"Marxist" and in reality fascist forces and arch
enemies of
socialism.
On 4 June 1989, military forces of the Deng
Xiaoping clique
massacred people who were protesting against its revisionist oppression and demanding democratic rights and an end to the enormous price rises after the re-establishment of capi-talism in China. This was a historical crime which very clearly exposed the fascist character of that regime to the whole world. Bourgeois propagandists all over the world have
been saying that this was repression by a "socialist" regime. It wasn't. Those
bourgeois propagandists themselves at that time had long been applauding the
overthrow of socialism in China in 1976-78 and supporting the Deng Xiaoping
revisionists' rule.
They all hated the successful socialism in China
which was
guided by the correct Marxist-Leninist line of Mao Zedong and which was a brilliant example to the great majority of people in the world. 2. WHAT DID DENG SAY IN 1974? As for the revisionist traitor and present dictator
Deng Xiao-
ping, the peoples of the world should remember something which he himself said 22 years ago, when on 10
April 1974 he, as representative of the then
still socialist China, held a
speech before the U.N. General Assembly.
This happened to be an important speech. In it,
Chairman
Mao's correct analysis of the world as then divided
into three
parts, or three worlds, was presented publicly for
the first time.
In this speech, the later traitor Deng Xiaoping
among other
things also said (I quote from my posting "UNITE! Info #11en" on 27.05.96, in which excerpts from a 1974 pamphlet pub- lished by Foreign Languages Press, Peking, were
repro-
duced:)
"If capitalism is restored in a big socialist country, it will inevitably become a superpower. The Great Prole- tarian Cultural Revolution, which has been carried out in China in recent years, and the campaign of critici- zing Lin Piao and Confucius now under way throughout China, are both aimed at preventing capitalist restaura- tion and ensuring that socialist China will never change her colour but will always stand by the oppressed peop- les and oppressed nations." "If one day China should change her colour
and turn into
a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant in the world, and everywhere subject others to her bullying, aggression and exploitation, the people of the world should identify her as social-imperialism, expose it, oppose it and work together with the Chinese people to overthrow it." Well spoken, Mr. present dictator Deng! I hope that you're reading these lines, or that some secretary of yours is. Here I offer you some salt:
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and some pepper:
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and invite you to eat up that statement of yours 22
years
ago. It really was very good - whoever suggested
that it be
included in that speech of yours. My own guess is
that it was
Chairman Mao.
He knew about the constantly existing danger of a
capitalist
restauration. He and the other genuinely communist leaders in China at that time were combating both that openly-Rightist deviation which you somewhat later, from autumn 1975 on, correctly were criticized for leading and also the contending deviation which in reality also helped you in your efforts to undermine socialism in China, that likewise bour-geois one of the Gang of Four, which was camouflaged with a lot of phoney"Left" demagoguery. 3. ZHOU ENLAI IN 1973 ON NECESSARY STRUGGLE ON TWO FRONTS Only a few months before that speech of yours, Mr.
Deng,
comrade Zhou Enlai had very correctly stated, in
his report to
the important Tenth National Congress of the
Communist Party of China, in August 1973, on the
work of the Central Committee, i.a., concerning
the question of combating bourgeois tendencies in
the party:
"It is imperative to note that one tendency
covers an-
other. The opposition to Chen Tu-Hsiu's Right opportu- nism which advocated 'all alliance, no struggle' covered Wang Ming's 'Left' opportunism which advocated 'all struggle, no alliance'. The rectification of Wang Ming's 'Left' deviation covered Wang Ming's Right deviation. The struggle against Liu Shao-chi's revisionism covered Lin Piao's revisionism." (Documents of CPC 10th Con- gress, Peking Review 35-36/1973, p. 21) Covering each other, in part also contending with
each other, and both being supported in several ways by the main inter-national
reactionary forces at the time, US imperialism and Soviet social-imperialism,
those two reactionary tendencies and bourgeois headquarters in China, yours and
that of the Gang of Four, only some 3-5 years later most unfortunately for the
peoples in the whole world succeeded in bringing about the overthrow of
socialism in China.
But, as once upon a time you pointed out yourself,
Mr pre-sent dictator Deng, you and your allies and your successors in the long
run will not get away with it. The peoples in the whole world undoubtedly will
take "your" wise advise of 22 years ago, expose the revisionist regime in China,
oppose it and work together with the Chinese people to overthrow it. The
bourgeois exploiters and oppressors in China, and those in other countries too,
for instance here in Sweden, in reality have no future. Undoubtedly, although
they on the surface today may appear to be quite
strong, their rule will be over-thrown everywhere.
4. REMEMBER ALSO 05.04.1976 When remembering the reactionary suppression
against the
people on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, 7
years ago,
people and in particular the proletarian
revolutionary forces not only in China itself but
those in the whole world should, at the same
time, remember the suppression on the same square 20 years ago, in the spring of 1976.
These events, those of 5 April 1976, were less
bloody than
those of 4 June 1989. As far as is known here, they
didn't
cause any deaths. But it's important to remember in
the same context, and likewise to draw lessons
from, those events too. They were a case of
suppression against the people by a regime that
was, at the time, still socialist, and which had until then never engaged in such a thing but had only, in those cases
where dictatorship had to be exercized - and
under socialism, it sometimes does have to be
exer-cized - had done this against the
bourgeoisie and their resto-ration attempts, never against the masses. But that
time, the socialist regime in China was temporarily swayed by one of the
reactionary groups, the Gang of Four.
5. A CASE OF WRONGFUL SUPPRESSION, AND OF MISINFORMATION, BY THE GOVERNMENT OF STILL-SOCIALIST CHINA It was also the case that the events of 5 April
1976 were diffi-
cult to understand for people abroad at the time, also for in- stance for those who, like myself, were adherents of Mao Ze- dong's geuninely internationalist proletarian revolutionary po- litical line and thus took great interest in developments in China and considered themselves to be quite close friends and supporters of the people in that country. From the Chinese government, this time incorrect
information
was disseminated internationally, the 5 April '76
events being
described as "counterrevolutionary disturbances" by
"ad-herents of Deng Xiaoping's Right-deviationist
line" which were "justly suppressed". But
obviously, as later became clear, this was a falsification of what had actually taken place.
6. WHAT DID TAKE PLACE IN APRIL 1976? At the Tiananmen on 05.04.76, there obviously were
certain actions by pro-Deng Xiaoping forces too, trying to take ad-vantage of
the then situation. But this was only a secondary aspect of what took place. The
main thing on that day was that the people protested against their not being
allowed to pay tribute to the late Premier Zhou Enlai, who had passed away in
January 1976 but whose death the Gang of Four
went all out to prevent people from mourning,
since Zhou Enlai had been a genuine revolutionary, an important ally to Mao Zedong and a feared adversary of
the phoney"Left" Gang's.
The people in early April '76 had placed a great
number of
wreaths on a monument on Tiananmen Square, on the oc-casion of the Quangming Festival, to honour the late Premier Zhou. But on the morning of 5 April, those wreaths were re-moved by militia forces obviously acting on orders influenced by the Gang of Four, under the circumstances that Chairman Mao at that time was rather seriously ill and other leaders obviously not able effectively to counter the Gang. That Gang's actions also were covered by their ostensibly sup-porting the then ongoing public campaign to criticize Deng Xiaoping's renewed openly-Rightist bourgeois deviationism. The removal of the wreaths greatly angered the
people, hund-reds of thousands of whom demonstrated on the Tiananmen and who,
when their just demands for the return of their
tri-butes to Premier Zhou were refused, also took such action as to set fire to
a jeep and a small building. But then all were called on by the radio stations
etc in reality controlled by the Gang of Four to leave the square. And later,
militia were used to force those who didn't obey those calls off the square, in
an action of reactionary suppression.
7. THE CONSEQUENCES DRAWN BY THE CC OF THE CPC By a meeting two days later, on 07.04.76, of the
Political Bu-
reau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, two decisions were made which were, in themselves, quite correct, as seen from the standpoint of the great ma-jority of people: Deng Xiaoping was dismissed from all posts, and Hua Guofeng was appointed First Vice-Chairman of the CC of the CPC. The latter decision was a blow against the Gang of Four, who had wanted their "higher-ranking" member Zhang Chunqiao to get that post. But at the same time, that CPC Politbureau meeting
- from
which Mao Zedong because of his illness was absent
- ob-
viously in two respects was swayed by the Gang of
Four:
Firstly, also some decisions on state matters were
made, by-passing the People's National Congress
which, according to China's constitution, had
sole authority to decide on such
matters. And secondly, the people's demonstration
and revo-
lutionary protest actions on the Tiananman were
stated to
have been a "counter-revolutionary" incident which,
in the
main, obviously it was absolutely not.
Therefore, on this occasion, the CPC Political
Bureau in cer-
tain respects went against the people, which was a
serious
thing, in fact indirectly favouring the Right
deviationist line of
Deng Xiaoping too, since he got the "blame" for
something
that had in fact been in the main
correct.
8. THE 1976-1978 OVERTHROW OF SOCIALISM IN CHINA In October 1976, a month after Mao Zedong's death,
the Gang of Four correctly were dealt a big blow
by the forces of Hua Guofeng, who foiled the
Gang's coup attempt. But soon afterwards, those
forces too committed treason by teaming up with the forces of Deng Xiaoping, utilizing the people's great anger
against the Gang and their jubilation at the
vic-tory over it. And thus in the following two
years, capitalism was completely restored in
China, whith those disastrous consequences which have followed.
The people, and in particular the revolutionaries,
in all coun-
tries should draw important lessons both from the events of 4 June 1989 and also from those of 5 April
1976.
Rolf Martens
[So far the posting originally sent on
04.06.96.]
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