Concerning the Broadcast of the Big-Character Poster
"What Are Song Shuo, Lu Ping, and Peng Peiyun
Really Doing in the Cultural Revolution?"
A Comment [I]
(June 1, 1966)

Comrades Kang Sheng and Boda [1]:

This article may be broadcast in full by the Xinhua News Agency and published in newspapers and journals across the country. It is extremely necessary. The reactionary stronghold of Peking University can from this point begin to be broken open. Please handle it as you see fit.

Mao Zedong
June 1

Note

--- Notes

[1] This comment was written on Issue No. 13 of the *Cultural Revolution Bulletin*, compiled and printed on May 27, 1966, by the General Editorial Office of *Red Flag* magazine and *Guangming Daily*. That issue of the bulletin carried a big-character poster written on May 25, 1966, by Nie Yuanzi, Song Yixiu, Xia Jianlei, Yang Keming, Zhao Zhengyi, Gao Yunpeng, and Li Xingchen from the Department of Philosophy at Peking University, titled "What Are Song Shuo, Lu Ping, and Peng Peiyun Really Doing in the Cultural Revolution?" This big-character poster was broadcast in full by the Xinhua News Agency on June 1, 1966, and published in *People's Daily* and other newspapers and journals on June 2. Song Shuo was then deputy head of the University Department of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China. Lu Ping was then president and Party secretary of Peking University. Peng Peiyun was then a cadre in the University Department of the Beijing Municipal Committee and deputy Party secretary of Peking University. Shortly thereafter, they were all erroneously removed from their leadership posts.
[2] Kang Sheng was then an adviser to the Cultural Revolution Group of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Boda, i.e., Chen Boda, was then head of the Cultural Revolution Group of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.