from PL Magazine, Special Issue Vol. 8 No. 3 (November, 1971).
Editorials (Not included in this Internet edition)
ROAD TO REVOLUTION III is the third major attack on revisionism by the Progressive Labor Party. This summary article attempts to draw many lessons -- positive and negative -- from the practice of the international communist movement. Particularly under attack is the current right wing leadership of the Mao Tse-tung group in China. Another impoertant section deals with some of the errors of our party. It is our hope that we can learn from them and move the cause of the working class to socialism.
THE GREAT PROLETARIAN CULTURAL REVOLUTION (GPCR) is analyzed to see why and how it was reversed. In this important piece an effort is made to understand the class forces at play. A serious try is made to sort out -- based on evidence -- the right from the left. In addition, the left and its efforts are dealt with in an attempt to prevent repetition of its mistakes by our party and all revolutionaries.
This LETTER BY THE IRANIAN STUDENT ORGANIZATION indicates their revulsion at the invitation of the enemies of the Iranian people in China. The CCP is playing footsie with fascists all over the world and this letter indicates the growing disgust with Mao Tse-tung's policies.
The STRATEGY AND TEACTICS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST MOVEMENT since its inception are dealt with in this article. This herculean effort will certainly stir up thinking and controversy. The article deals at some length with how the initiators of the international movement and various followers went wrong on the "National Question." This error has invariably taken the working class right back into the arms of their oppressors.
This article on the SEVENTH WORLD CONGRESS shows how concessions to the "better" imperialists wipe out the advances of the workers and peasants. The article also shows the inter-relationship between these concessions and nationalism. New Democracy, the current line of the CCP, is exposed as a crude application of the Seventh Congress line.
REPORT ON SECTARIANISM by the PLP National Committee