Word: anti-maoist
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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...week of Mao Tse-tung's proclamation of a Chinese Communist state, Correspondent John Cantwell crossed into Mao's stricken land for TIME. An Australian who speaks both Cantonese and Mandarin, Cantwell spent several days in the big South China city of Canton, the scene of recent anti-Maoist riots and disorders. He found the city of 2,500,000 relatively quiet on the surface but seething underneath with barely repressed violence. His report...
Vicious & Cruel. Indeed, Mao's efforts seemed to have fanned the revolt. Nearby regional commanders were reported siding with General Chen. Chen in turn was supplying arms and troops up and down the Yangtze to aid other anti-Maoist rebels. According to the Shantung provincial radio, two cities in that province struck at Maoist groups in coordination with Wuhan's seizure of Mao's envoys...
...Linyi, anti-Maoist party officials "instigated large numbers of peasants to enter the city and encircle, attack and beat up" Red Guards and Maoist officials. A similar "vicious and cruel suppression" was meted out to cultural revolutionaries in Tsaochwang. Fighting was also reported in Hunan, Mao's home province, and in Kwangtung and Szechwan provinces...
Though Liu soon dropped from sight, he became a symbol and rallying point for Red China's anti-Maoists. The Red Flag announcement may have signaled the end of his personal power, but the anti-Maoist forces that he championed must still be reckoned with...
...questions about the army too. It is divided into political factions, and half of its officers have been hauled up before one type of revolutionary committee or another and scolded for not being Red enough. Red Guards in Honan province last week complained that soldiers stood by while anti-Maoist workers beat them...