For some detailed information about those two and about the periodical
which
came to be controlled by a third phony"Marxist" organization, which at
that
time - precisely up until October 1976, when it "cut its throat"
politically by
openly sup****ting the then recently exposed and beaten 4-gang in China -
was
likewise of some im****tance in Germany, I shall cite a (basically
truthful)
note to that English translation of H. Dicke's article "Unvergeßliche
Kulturrevolution" of 08.09.2006 which I commented on in my Info #270en, of
05.02.2007.
This may be of some interest because it shows some of the cir***stances
under
which, and the "political environment" in which, the - still today - so
very
im****tant though also always so very small earlier "NE" "grew up", in the
late
1960s and early/mid-1970s.
[QUOTE:]
Roter Morgen (Red Morning) – Marxist-Leninist periodical, founded in the
summer
of 1967 unmistakably under the impression of the Cultural Revolution and
its
radiation all over the world. Beginning with its first issue it stood
closely
leaning on the Communist Party of China under Mao Zedong (former spelling
Mao
Tse-tung) . The founder of this journal, Ernst Aust, had published the
journal
”Blinkfuer” until 1964, which up to then had been characterized also by
sallies
against the Peoples’ Republic of China and revisionist propaganda. On Dec.
31,
1968, the KPD/ML (Communist Party of Germany/Marxist-Leninist) was founded
after some preparations, the Roter Morgen becoming its initially
undisputed
central organ. After 1970, this journal stood for the direction
represented by
Ernst Aust within the KPD/ML and the entire ML-movement, and it stands
also as
a synonym for the KPD/ML (Roter Morgen) as different from, e.g.,
Zentralbuero-Rote Fahne and Neue Einheit (NE).
KPD/AO – an organization founded in 1970, its leading circles stemming
mainly
from the former students’ movement. From 1972 on this organization
officially
adopted the name KPD, thereby raising a particular and unjustifiable
pretension. During the seventies the organization with the strongest
public
appearance. In this organization, too, were hundreds of people committed
to the
cause. Several leaders of this organization had been decided opponents of
the
Marxist-Leninist party concept before 1970, but when the ML-movement
became
stronger and stronger in the end of 1969, they conducted a 180 º-turn,
which
they carried through again, in the reverse direction, in 1978/79, when the
overthrow in China was accomplished. Especially from the circles of this
organization massive attempts were started in 1969-72 to prevent even the
first
beginnings of our organization. We are using the token ”AO” (for
”Aufbauorganisation”, organisation for building the party) also for the
later
phase, in order to have a possibility for distingui****ng.
KBW – Kommunistischer Bund Westdeutschlands (Communist League of Western
Germany), 1973-1985, an organization with a Trotskyite element, was able
to
accomplish its foundation at the end of 1972 when the first parties and
formations connected to the KPD/ML were weakened. This organization was
the
strongest in terms of member****p in Western Germany. It conjoined in a
particularly strong way with the movement against nuclear energy plants.
Even
after 1980 it was still a decided sup****ter of the Peoples’ Republic of
China
after the overthrow. In 1985, the most part of this organization dissolved
into
the Greens, corresponding to the suggestions by the higher forces of the
state
(’best kept there’).
[END OF QUOTE]
....
From some countries, more than one organization sent messages to the CPC
on
this occasion. To indicate this, numbers (1/2), (2/2), (1/3), (2/3), or
(3/3)
will be put behind the names of those on the list which weren't alone in
the
country in question to send a message.
3 listed organizations in their messages explicitly condemned both the
Gang of
Four and Deng Xiaoping, something which indicates a high level of
understanding
of the situation in China on their part. These were (in addition to the
KPD/ML(NEUE EINHEIT)): The Colombian Marxist-Leninist League, the PCP in
Peru
and the New Zealand Communist Party. Their names on the list are marked
with a
note /G4, D/.
The present leader****p of the PCP [in 1997] states that the one of that
party
in 1976 was "op****tunist", an *****sment whose correctness I at present
cannot
ascertain. This present PCP leader****p, although it since 1980 leads a
just
people's war against the reactionary regime in Peru, unfortunately since
many
years back is making the error of maintaining that two of the 4-Gang
members
were "the real revolutionaries" in China.
20 more organizations, out of the 48 listed, explicitly condemned the Gang
of
Four, which likewise indicates a rather high level of understanding of the
situation. Their names on the list are marked with a note /G4/. [NOTE,
11.11.1997: Out of those 6 I failed to list in 1996, one explicitly
condemned
the 4-gang. See below.]
The two phoney"Marxist" organizations in Germany, and no others, saw fit,
on
this occasion of the recent im****tant victory over the Gang of Four,
explicitly
to condemn the long-since dismissed Deng Xiaoping, but in no way the
4-Gang, in
China. Their names on the list are marked with a note /D/.
The names of those organizations which made no explicit condemnation of
either
the 4-Gang or Deng are marked with /-/.
A relatively small number of organizations with which the CPC at that time
had
maintained relations obviously sent no messages of congratulations on that
occasion. The two most im****tant of these (this stated with the
reservation
that I cannot judge the possible im****tance of certain Third-World
organizations which existed at that time) were the infamous
phoney"-Marxist"
parties the "Roter Morgen" of Germany (which unjustifiedly called itself
"the
KPD/ML" and which in 1978 cut off Mao Zedong's head from the image of "the
five
classics" on the front page of its newspaper and declared itself in favour
of
the Hoxha revisionists) and the "RCP" of the USA, which from 1984 on was
"uncle
party" in the subversive operation and phoney "International" the "RIM".
(See
my postings "UNITE! Info #3en" of 01.01.96, "UNITE! Info #8en" of 25.04.96
[part 1/5 etc], and others.)
Below, the 48 organizations in the 37 countries are listed continent by
continent. Sources: Peking Review issues 46/76, of 12.11.76, 48/76, of
26.11.76, 50/76, of 10.12.76, and 52/76, of 24.12.76.
[NOTE: 11.11.1997: The 6 messages I failed to include in this posting in
1996 -
see Note above - will be added below within brackets [ ]. They make the
total
number of organizations which sent messages be 54, in 43 countries, and I
also
list them separately here [Added in 2008: Not listed separately now]:
List of organizations which sent congratulatory messages to the CPC in
Oct-Nov
1976:
CONTINENT;
Org. number
Org. No.
in country (if more than 1)
Condemned 4-gang: /G4/;
Condemned Deng: /D/
ASIA:
11 organizations in 9 countries
01.
CC of Communist Party of Burma
/G4/
02.
General Secretary Itai of Japanese Workers' Party
(1/2)
/G4/
03.
General Secretary Sanmugathasan of Ceylon Communist Party
(1/2)
/-/
04.
CC of Communist Party of Thailand
/G4/
05.
CC of Japanese Communist Party (Left)
(2/2)
/-/
06.
CC of Communist Party of Malaya
/G4/
07.
Nadunga, Member of Secretariat of CC of Communist Party of Sri Lanka (M-L)
(2/2)
/-/
08.
Kim Il Sung, General Secretary of the CC of the Workers' Party of Korea
/-/
09.
Khieu Sampan, Nuon Chea and Polpot, President of the Presidium of the
State of
Democratic Kampuchea, Chairman of the Permanent Congress of the People's
Congress of Kampuchea, respectively Prime Minister of the Government of
Democratic Kampuchea
/G4/
10.
Ton Duc Thang, Le Duan, Trong Chinh and Pham Van Dong, Le Duan signing as
First
Secretary of the CC of the Viet Nam Workers' Party
/-/
11.
Kaysone Phomvihane and Khamtay Siphandone, General Secretary of the CC of
the
Lao People's Revolutionary Party respectively Secretary of the Military
Commission of the CC of that party
/-/
EUROPE, EAST:
3 organizations in 3 countries
12.
General Secretary Mijal of Polish Communist Party
/-/
13.
Enver Hoxha, First Secretary of the CC of the Albanian Party of Labour
/-/
14.
Nicolae Ceausescu, General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party
/-/
EUROPE, WEST:
25 organizations in 17 countries
15.
Working Committee of Norwegian Workers' Communist Party (M-L)
/-/
16.
Standing Committee of Political Bureau of CC of Communist Party of Germany
(1/2)
/D/
[Note 6]
17.
E. G. Vilar of CC of Communist Party of ****tugal (M-L)
/-/
18.
Chairman Scocozza of Communist League Marxists-Leninists of Denmark
/-/
19.
CC of Marxist-Leninist Party of the Netherlands
(1/3)
/-/
20.
CC of Spanish Workers' Revolutionary Organization
(1/2)
/-/
21.
First Secretary Lefebvre, Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Belgium
(1/2)
/-/
22.
Central Leading Organ of Marxist-Leninist Organization of Italian
Bolshevik
Communists
(1/2)
/-/
23.
CC of Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of France
(1/2)
/-/
24.
Political Secretariat of Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary Communist Party of
France
(2/2)
/G4/
25.
CC of Labour Party of Spain
(2/2)
/-/
26.
Chairman Pettersson of Executive Committee of Communist Party of Sweden
(1/2)
/G4/
27.
Executive Committee of Marxist-Leninist Groups of Finland
/G4/
28.
Secretary Schmierer of CC of Communist League of West Germany
(2/2)
/D/
[Note 7]
29.
Secretary Lindner of Communist League of Austria
/G4/
30.
Chairman Andersson and General Secretary Gudlaugsson of Communist Party of
Iceland (M-L)
/-/
31.
General Secretary Cala of Party of Socialist Revolution of Italy
(2/2)
/G4/
32.
Executive Committee of Communist Federation of Britain (M-L)
/G4/
33.
CC of Communist Party of Switzerland (M-L)
/G4/
34.
CC of Organization of Marxist-Leninists of Greece
/-/
35.
General Secretary Boer of CC of Communist Unity Movement of the
Netherlands
(M-L)
(2/3)
/G4/
36.
Political Bureau of "All power to Workers (AMADA)" of Belgium
(2/2)
/G4/
37.
Political Bureau of Communist League of Luxembourg
/-/
38.
CC of League of Dutch Marxist-Leninists
(3/3)
/-/
39.
General Secretary Thomas Lindh of Marxist-Leninist Union of Struggle of
Sweden
(2/2)
/G4/
LATIN AMERICA:
8 organizations in 7 countries
40.
First Secretary Zamora of Communist Party of Bolivia (M-L)
/-/
41.
Colombian Marxist-Leninist League
/G4, D/
[Note 1]
42.
CC of Revolutionary Communist Party of Argentina
(1/2)
/-/
43.
Political Bureau of CC of Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Honduras
/G4/
44.
Secretariat of CC of Uruguayan Revolutionary Communist Party
/-/
45.
CC of Communist Party of Peru
/G4, D/
[Note 4]
46.
President of Delegation Abroad of Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) of
Argentina
(2/2)
/-/
47.
Political Committee of Red Line of Dominican "June 14" Revolutionary
Movement
/G4/
NORTH AMERICA:
2 organizations in 2 countries
48.
CC of Canadian Communist League (M-L)
/-/
49.
CC of U.S. October League (M-L)
/-/
OCEANIA:
5 organizations in 5 countries
50.
Chairman Wen Ming Chuan, Communist Party of North Kalimantan
/G4/
51.
CC of Communist Party of Philippines
/G4/
[Note 2]
52.
Delegation of CC of Communist Party of Indonesia
/G4/
[Note 3]
53.
General Secretary Wilcox of New Zealand Communist Party
/G4, D/
[Note 5]
54.
Chairman E. F. Hill of Australian Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
[Speech at
visit to China; Peking Review 51/1976]
/G4/
(AFRICA:)
(0 organizations in 0 countries)
SUM, WORLD:
54 organizations in 43 countries
Here is not counted the message from the KPD/ML (NEUE EINHEIT) in Germany,
which was suppressed. See Appendix 2 above.
_____________________
Message posted by:
Rolf Martens
Malmö, Sweden
Phone and fax:
+46 - 40 - 124832;
rolf.martens@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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