Enclocure &
Extract from the Canton Gazette of 22.1.1926
OVER 100,000 PEOPLE EXCLAIM:
"LONG LIVE LENIN!"
to a victorious end, all of them
are the teachers and
In spite of the chilly weather, have taught the Chinese re- thousands of people thronged volutionists the lesson of the Canton University grounds abnegation, courage, sincerity to celebrate. the memory of and organizing power. All of Liebknecht, Rosa Luxembourg them and Lenin. The ground was friends of the oppressed and the decorated with Kuomintang exploited. banners. 3 platforms were built. Across the central platform hung a long streamer with the words: "Long live Leninism!" This was presented by the Inter- national Association of the
Pressed Peoples.
The crowd was so large that the organizers were obliged to, put up several improvised plat forms from which to address them. Thousands of handbills and portraits of Lenin and Dr. Sun were distributed. Nearly all the delegates from the II Congress attended the meeting, which was presided over by members of the CEC of the Kuomintang.
The programme WAS follows:
(1) Military Bund
(2) Reading of Dr.
testament,
Having related the life and work of Liebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg, the speaker said the following about Lenin: What Karl Marx had said in theory, Lenin has applied in practice. He has called upon the toilers of the world to fight. against their exploiters and oppressors. The life of Lenin is an example for revolutionists. He lived as simply as a worker. He worked 16 hours a day. He devoted all his energy to the cause of the toilers.
Furthermore, there is a strik- ing similitude between Lenin and his party, and Dr. Sun and the Kuomintang. When Leoin! died, the imperialists were over. joyed, thinking and hoping that his party would die, too. When Sun's our late President was dead, the
(3) The life and work
Liebknecht, Rosa Luxem bourg and Lenin,
Revolutionary slogans. Friends Of The Oppressed
(4)
as
same imperialists were foretell-
of
a
ing the end of our party. But the great leaders have laid down so great and solid foundation for their parties that, instead of dying to please the imperialists, the Communist 2. Addressing the masses,
party in Russia and the Kuo- comrade. Kan Un-ban said:
mintang in China become "These great, revolutionists were
stronger and greater everyday! the leaders not only of the
Comrade Kan concluded his German and Russian Revolution; speech by saying: "To but they were the guides of the tuate their memory, it is not perpe. World Revolution. Although enough to learn their glorious the one has succeeded, while the history. We must follow their others have failed in bringing teachings and example!” the revolution in their countries,
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