[MC5 comments: On March 18, 1968, 
there was a conference 
attended by many of the major 
Cultural Revolution leaders. In 
additon to the premier Zhou Enlai 
(Chou En-lai), there was Ch'en 
Po-ta, K'ang Sheng, Chiang Ch'ing, 
Yao Wen-yuan, Yeh Ch'un, 
Hsieh Fu-chih, Wu Fa-hsien, Hsu 
Shih-yu and Tu P'ing.

The meeting was to discuss what 
needed to be done in Chekiang 
for the revolution. Jiang Qing 
(Chiang Ch'ing) said that P'eng 
Chen's allies in Chekiang were 
causing trouble. P'eng had bugged 
Mao's and Lin Biao's residences. 
The leaders called for the public 
security, procuratorate and justice 
systems in Chekiang to be 
smashed.

Zhou Enlai himself called for 
smashing of some of the people that 
came to power after Mao died, 
including Peng Zhen and Yang 
Shangkun. He also admitted "in the 
past, the Military District 
Command had made mistakes, and even 
now some individual comrades of the 
Military Control Committee have 
also made mistakes. Mistakes made 
can be rectified."

Jiang Qing correctly denounced Yang 
Shangkun during the Cultural
Revolution. Yang was one of the few 
people denounced as a capitalist-
roader in power. In a stadium of 
10,000 people he was paraded with
"X" through his name to indicate 
that he belonged in history's 
dustbin.

Yet, with the death of Mao and the 
imprisonment of Jiang Qing and
other Cultural Revolutionaries, 
Yang Shangkun and Peng Zhen took to
power. Yang Shangkun and his son 
were directly responsible for the 
military crackdown in Tiananmen 
Square in 1989. Li Peng was the 
state authority behind the 
crackdown and Deng Xiaoping was the 
party authority behind Tiananmen. 
It was the people criticized as 
"capitalist-roaders" during the 
Cultural Revolution who took power 
and carried out the Tiananmen
massacre. None of the Cultural 
Revolutionaries named above lasted 
in power.

We make this document available to 
show that the Cultural 
Revolutionaries knew who was going 
to restore capitalism in China. The 
people they targeted as capitalist-
roaders later carried out the 
Tiananmen massacre.]


The excerpt below is from K'ang 
Sheng.

"The major event of the Great 
Cultural Revolution is the 
ferreting out of traitors and enemy 
agents hidden in the Party. Liu 
Shao-ch'i is a big traitor. The 
first time Liu Shao-ch'i was 
arrested was in Changsha: After he 
was arrested, he gave himself up. X 
X X sent him the ITAL Four Books 
and Five Classics. END In 1927, he 
surrendered his arms in Wuhan and 
gave himself up to Wang 
Ching-wei. In 1929, while in 
Manchuria he was arrested by the 
Japanese and surrendered to the 
Japanese imperialists. On another 
occasion, in 1935, he was arrested 
in Shanghai. The fifth time he 
was arrested was in 1936 when he 
was working in the North China 
Bureau. You comrades are aware that 
he had surrendered to the 
enemy long ago and yet he describes 
himself as a veteran revolutionary. 
Essentially he is a veteran 
counterrevolutionary.

"His wife is a U.S. spy as well as 
a spy for Japan and for the 
Kuomintang. Wang Kuang-mei is a 
Kuomintang secret agent. 
Through P'eng Chen, Liu Jen, and Wu 
Kuang, the United States 
had her try to topple Vice Chairman 
Lin. After she had arrived in 
Yenan, she married a big traitor 
and veteran counterrevolutionary.

"Teng Hsiao-p'ing is a deserter, a 
real deserter. He has still failed 
to explain some major problems, and 
he is not only a deserter. . .

"T'ao Chu is a traitor, and P'eng 
Chen is an enemy agent and 
traitor. Lo Jui-ch'ing has never 
joined the Party; he is a spy. Down 
with Liu, Teng, T'ao! P'eng Te-
huai, having illicit relations with 
foreign countries, colluded with 
Khruschev.

"Ho Lung is a native bandit. As the 
young fighters have revealed, 
he surrendered to the Kuomintang 
after the Nanchang uprising, and 
the Kuomintang promised to give him 
a high position but did not 
do so in the absence of one certain 
condition. A Kuomintang 
representative lived in his house 
for more than a month and they 
changed places. 

"Lu Ting-i is a big renegade; long 
ago he had accepted an 
assignment from the Kuomintang 
espionage organ. He worked 
with Hu K'e-shih, who gave him a 
thousand ITAL yuan. END

"Yang Shang-k'un is a traitor who 
has had illicit connections with 
foreign countries.

"The Chairman says that the Great 
Cultural Revolution is a 
continuation of the civil war."

"Then Chiang Ch'ing added 'Evidence 
has been collected to prove 
that T'an Chen-lin, the creator of 
the February adverse current, is a 
traitor. We once protected him, and 
it is the young fighters who 
exposed him for all his 
intrigues.'"

Source:
Harold C. Hinton, ed., The People's 
Republic of China 1949-1979, 
vol. 4 1967-1970 The Cultural 
Revolution Part II, p. 1947.