Comrade Kang Sheng:
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Mao Zedong
August 11

The anti-popular and anti-revolutionary activities carried out by U.S. imperialism and its lackeys in various countries are spurring the revolutionary activities of the people of all countries. U.S. imperialism and its lackeys in various countries appear powerful but are in reality very weak. In the long view, they are all paper tigers.

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The Eleventh Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee calls upon the workers, members of the people’s communes, commanders and fighters of the People’s Liberation Army, revolutionary cadres, revolutionary intellectuals, revolutionary teachers and students, and scientific and technical personnel throughout the country to hold still higher the great red banner of Mao Zedong Thought, unite with all those who can be united, overcome the resistance coming from the quarters of counterrevolutionary revisionism and “Left” and Right opportunism, overcome difficulties, overcome shortcomings, overcome mistakes, overcome the dark aspects in the Party and in society, carry the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution through to the end, carry the socialist revolution through to the end, and strive to fulfill the Third Five-Year Plan and build our country into a powerful socialist state.

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We must heighten our vigilance a hundredfold and guard against surprise attacks by U.S. imperialism and its accomplices. If they dare to impose war on us, the 700 million Chinese people, under the leadership of Comrade Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party, will certainly break the backbone of the aggressors and resolutely, thoroughly, wholly, and completely wipe them out.