(January 23, 1967)
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution has entered a new stage. The principal characteristic of this new stage is the great alliance of the proletarian revolutionaries to seize power from the handful of Party persons in authority taking the capitalist road and the diehards who cling to the bourgeois reactionary line. This struggle to seize power is a general counter-offensive by the proletariat against the frenzied attacks of the bourgeoisie and its agents within the Party over the past 17 years. This is a nationwide, all-round class struggle, a great revolution in which one class overthrows another.