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This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.
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Zhang Chunqiao, member of "Gang of Four" dies at 88

Zhang Chunqiao, a member of the so-called "Gang of Four," died of cancer at the age of 88 on 21 April 2005, according to official reports released on 10 May.

Zhang was a member of the so-called "Gang of Four" and key figure in the Cultural Revolution. Together with Mao and other members of the "Gang of Four" Zhang led the struggle to keep the bourgeoisie within the Communist Party from seizing power. The counterrevolutionary Hua Guofeng imprisoned Zhang and the other members of the "Gang of Four"--including Jiang Qing (1)--one month after the death of Mao, paving the way for the restoration of capitalism in China.

Subsequent events have borne out the predictions that Mao and the "Gang of Four" made of what would happen should capitalist-roaders like Hua and Deng Xiaoping ever seize power: exploitation of the workers and peasants has returned; the oppression of wimmin has increased; and the government of the Peoples Republic of China has turned into a fascist dictatorship, as witnessed by the June, 1989 Beijing Spring massacres.(2)

Zhang was the author of "On Exercising All-Round Dictatorship over the Bourgeoisie," which describes the class struggle that occurs under socialism against capitalist restoration.(3) Readers interested in learning more about the material basis for a new bourgeoisie under socialism and how that bourgeoisie overturned revolutionary socialism in China can read "The Political Economy of Counterrevolution in China."(4)

Notes:
1. Listen to obituary of Jiang Qing here: www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/ma/radio/mimnotescomm.html. A longer political biography of Jiang Qing can be found in MIM Notes 13.
2. http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/faq/tiananmen.html
3. http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/classics/text.php?mimfile=allround.txt
4. http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/countries/china/pecc88/index.html