[In the last two issues we published extracts from the Soviet press giving the Soviet
assessment of the Cultural Revolution in China. We now publish extracts from two
recent Chinese documents — one, a speech by Lin Piao at a mass rally held in the
Great Hall of the People, Peking, on November 6, and two, a joint article by the
editorial boards of
People's Daily, Red Flag
and
Liberation Army Daily,
both
in commemoration of the October Revolution — which give the Chinese assessment
of 50 years of the Russian Revolution. Without staging a rival international commu
nist gathering in Peking, the Chinese used the occasion to make it quite clear that
they regard the present Soviet leaders as "renegades and scabs" who had betrayed
the "great October Socialist Revolution", and regard themselves, together with the
Albanicans, as the true successors to that Revolution. They also assert that the
centre of the world revolution has in fact shifted from Moscow to Peking, and that
Mao Tse-tung is its true leader, Ed.]
