Word: maoists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan last week, he had to slip into the garage entrance of the New York Hilton an hour ahead of time to avoid some 3,000 pickets. Most were moderates, but some, spearheaded by the Students for a Democratic Society and a handful of radicals from the Trotskyite-Maoist Progressive Labor Party, came equipped with plastic bags of cow's blood and aerosol cans with orange paint. They were looking for trouble, and more than 1,000 New York policemen, though generally restrained, finally gave it to them. Thirty-four demonstrators were arrested, a dozen injured...
Among the openly subversive groups are the U.S. Communist Party, the Maoist Progressive Labor Party, various Black Power groups such as S.N.C.C., RAM and shaven-skulled Ron Karenga's Los Angeles-based US, plus the volatile cadres of the New Left, which are so concerned with internal disputes that some of their organizations cannot remain in existence for more than a month at a time. Unsophisticated pacifist or antidraft outfits and digger do-gooders from the hippie subculture are frequently suckered into the hard-line camp and end up unwittingly propagandizing as activists...
...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...
...army has also taken over the propaganda war against the anti-Maoists. Troops paste up posters; trucks patrol the streets, loudspeakers blaring Maoist slogans interspersed with reedy renditions of The East Is Red. From other trucks, troopers toss pamphlets and food packages to the crowds. While there seems plenty of fruit in Canton, meat and vegetables are scarce, despite the richness of the surrounding country, indicating a breakdown in China's system of food distribution. Outside the city, troops with fixed bayonets guard every bridge and railroad switching point...
...told that army troops were needed to throw Red Guards out of some buildings. The Red Guards have set up loudspeakers in some of the buildings they control, and so have rival Maoist groups. They indulge in loud verbal battles, with hysterically screaming girls pouring out torrents of abuse at each other and at "U.S. imperialist aggressors." As we inched through the masses at one point, a beautiful Chinese travel-service girl told me with a delightful smile: "Chairman Mao has taught us that we must crush the American aggressors. We must kill, crush, destroy all imperialist monsters." I asked...