"Defending the Right to Spread Mao Tse-Tung's Thought"
Peking Review, No. 45, November 3, 1967

A stirring incident showing the deep feeling cherished
by the American working people for Chairman Mao and
his invincible thought was given in a news report
in the September issue of ITAL Challenge, END organ of the
U.S. Progressive Labor Party.

One day not long ago, several members of the P.L.P. went
as usual to the Puerto-Rican neighbourhood in the western
part of New York to sell Spanish copies of the
ITAL Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-tung. END
They introduced to passers-by this book treasured by the
revolutionary people of the world. Many people, seeking 
revolutionary truth, bought copies.

Two reactionaries, however, came up to make trouble.
One of them shouted abuse, grabbed a copy out of 
the hands of one of the sellers and threw it on the 
sidewalk. Enraged by this provocation, a passing
Dominican workers straight away caught him by
the collar and shouted: 'Who the hell do you think
you are, doing that to a book by Chairman Mao!
Pick it up!' The second reactionary, embarrassed,
picked the book up and tried to run off with it.
However, he was immediately surrounded by more than 
a dozen workers who ordered him to give it back. The
two reactionaries were compelled to give back the book
and left the block thoroughly disconcerted.


[mim3@mim.org comments for MIM: In 1967, the 
Progressive Labor Party was the fraternal party 
within U.$. borders to Mao's Communist Party in 
China. Soon after the PLP abandoned Mao and the
Black Panther Party claimed fraternal status.]