“Talk on the Seizure-of-Power Incidents at the Wenwei
Bao and the Jiefang Daily”
(January 8, 1967)
This is a great revolution—a great revolution in which one class overthrows another. This momentous event will undoubtedly exert a tremendous impetus on the development of the Proletarian Cultural Revolution movement throughout East China and in all provinces and municipalities across the country.
Notes
Printed according to the January 19, 1967 issue of the People’s Daily.
[1] On January 4, 1967, the “Spark That Sets the Prairie Ablaze Revolutionary Rebel General Headquarters” of the Wenwei Bao published a “Letter to Readers” in that newspaper, announcing its takeover of the Wenwei Bao; on January 6, the “Revolutionary Rebel United Command Headquarters” of the Jiefang Daily issued a similar “Letter to Readers” in its own paper, declaring the seizure of control over the Jiefang Daily. This document consists of Mao Zedong’s remarks of January 8 concerning the two newspapers’ seizures of power. On January 19, the People’s Daily published an editorial titled “Let Mao Zedong Thought Occupy the Newspaper Front,” which quoted these remarks by Mao Zedong.