Commentary on the Forwarding of the Jinan Municipal Party Committee’s Report on the Five-Anti Campaign (February 10, 1952) To all Central Bureaus, with copy to the party committees of major and medium-sized cities under their jurisdiction:  We are now transmitting to you for your guidance and for publication in the Party journal the Jinan Municipal Party Committee’s report of February 5 concerning the Five-Anti Campaign [1]. The leadership skills of the Jinan Municipal Party Committee are well developed. As the Five-Anti Campaign is currently being carried out in various cities, it is essential that you study the experience of our comrades in Jinan.

Mao Zedong February 10 Based on the manuscript print.

Refers to the report of the CPC Jinan Municipal Committee dated February 5, 1952, on holding labor-management meeting sessions during the Five-Anti Campaign.  The report states that the Five-Anti movement among industrial and commercial circles in Jinan has entered the stage of comprehensive inspection. Drawing on more than a month’s experience, the key to successfully carrying out this work lies in strengthening grassroots trade union activities and fully mobilizing and relying on the working class. Both within the self-confession deadline and during post-deadline inspections, labor-management meeting sessions should be held at the level of individual factories and shops. If these two rounds are conducted effectively, the capitalist side can be completely brought to heel; coupled with timely and vigorous administrative pressure from the government and efforts to sow division and disintegration within the bourgeoisie, it will be possible to utterly defeat the bourgeoisie’s frenzied offensive and at the same time provide the working class with vivid and powerful education and mobilization through the struggle.

The main practices for holding labor-management meeting sessions are as follows: (1) Thorough ideological and organizational preparations must be made, especially by employing a variety of methods to enhance the working class’s understanding of the great significance of the Five-Anti Campaign and to stimulate their enthusiasm for participating in it. (2) Special attention must be paid to work among senior employees, with the aim of securing the active involvement of the majority, if not all, in the Five-Anti Campaign. This is of crucial importance to the overall course of the struggle. (3) In general, labor-management meetings should meet the following conditions: (a) relatively sound grassroots trade union organizations; (b) the majority of workers already mobilized; (c) adequate policy and tactical education provided to cadres and workers; and (d) a fairly comprehensive and sufficient body of factual material available. (4) Prior to the labor-management meeting, the capitalist side should first submit a self-confession, so that both sides know each other thoroughly and have a clear grasp of the situation. Firepower must be tightly organized, accompanied by appropriate propaganda and agitation. Unified command is required. The first meeting should be brought to a suitable conclusion after the full deployment of firepower, pointing out the problems and instructing the other side to prepare another self-confession. Following the meeting, experience should be summarized, firepower reorganized, and preparations made for a second meeting. (5) When inspection teams go down to the shop and factory level, they too must hold well-prepared grassroots labor-management meetings in order to ensure the success of the inspection.