Hong Kong Cheng Ming No. 12 in Chinese Oct. 78 pp 59 HK
Article by Sun Ping-yu: "Anti-atrocity in Hong Kong" and "The Opposition by Lin and
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(Translation by HK Office of US Foreign Broadcast Information Service.)
The 1967 "Anti-British, anti-atrocity" struggle in Hong Kong and the Peking Red Guards setting fire to the Office of the British Charge d'Affaires were world-shaking events that year. They contravened the general principle of CCP strategy and were exploited by Lin Piao and the Gang of Four to oppose Chou En-lai. They were therefore erroneous.
It was absolutely true that the "Anti-atrocity" struggle in Hong Kong was exploited by Lin Piao and the Gang of Four to oppose Chou. It is only in connection with the political situation in the summer and autumn of 1967 in Peking that we can correctly understand the so-called "Anti-atrocity struggle" in Hong Kong.
Experiencing a great deal of peace and chaos
Chou En-lai was a revolutionary of the older generation who greatly won the people's support. In the days when Lin Piao and the Gang of Four ran wild, serving as a pillar of strength, he maintained the overall situation. Hundreds of millions of people pinned their hopes on him. It was because of this that Lin Piao and the Gang of Four regarded him as a thorn in their flesh and as their main obstacle to usurping party and state power.
They wouldn't be happy until he was removed.
At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, Chen Po-ta, head of the Cultural Revolution Group, laid down a regulation: "All but Chairman Mao, Vice Chairman Lin and Comrade Chiang Ching can be bombarded!" Tao Chu, Group Adviser, added one more person to the namelist, four altogether: Comrade Chen Po-ta, head of the group, could not be bombarded. One person said that Mao, Lin and Chiang could not be bombarded while another said that Chen could not be bombarded either. What they did not say was as clear as if they had said it: Chou En-lai could be bombarded.
In late 1966, through Wang En-yu and Wu Chuan-chi of the Academic Department, Kuan Feng and Chi Pen-yu of Kang Sheng's system fabricated public opinion and put forward the so-called contradiction "Between the new Cultural Revolution and the Old Government." The "Old Government" was the State Council. After seizing the great party and Government power in Shanghai, through the Shanghai Municipal People's Council, Chang Chun-chiao and Yao Wen-yuan of the Shanghai clique "ordered" Chou to abolish all ministers of the State Council and to change their names to "Orderlies." These people all coveted and hankered after the power of the State Council. The old marshals created a tremendous uproar in the Huaijen Hall in February 1967 and sharply denounced Lin Piao and Chiang Ching for striking blows at veteran cadres by dint of the Cultural Revolution. Chou "compromised" on both sides and played a part in protecting the "February counter- current." Lin, Chiang and Company violently hated and attacked Chou, saying he was the "Greatest Royalist" and the State Council was a "sinister den for hiding bad people."
Although they gnashed their teeth, they dared not go into action immediately.