Some days ago, Martin Luther King, the Afro-American clergyman, was
suddenly assassinated by the US imperialists. Martin Luther King was an exponent of nonviolence. Nevertheless, the US imperialists did not on that account
show any tolerance toward him, but used counter-revolutionary violence and
killed him in cold blood. This has taught the broad masses of the Black people
in the United States a profound lesson. It has touched off a new storm in their
struggle against violent repression sweeping well over a hundred cities in the
United States, a storm such as has never taken place before in the history of
that country. It shows that an extremely powerful revolutionary force is latent
in the more than twenty million Black Americans.
The storm of Afro-American struggle taking place within the United States
is a striking manifestation of the comprehensive political and economic crisis
now gripping US imperialism. It is dealing a telling blow to US imperialism,
which is beset with difficulties at home and abroad.
The Afro-American struggle is not only a struggle waged by the exploited
and oppressed Black people for freedom and emancipation, it is also a new
clarion call to all the exploited and oppressed people of the United States to
fight against the barbarous rule of the monopoly capitalist class. It is a tremendous aid and inspiration to the struggle of the people throughout the world
against US imperialism and to the struggle of the Vietnamese people against
US imperialism. On behalf of the Chinese people, I hereby express resolute
support for the just struggle of the Black people in the United States.

Racial discrimination in the United States is a product of the colonialist and
imperialist system. The contradiction between the Black masses in the United
States and the US ruling circles is a class contradiction. Only by overthrowing
the reactionary rule of the US monopoly capitalist class and destroying the
colonialist and imperialist system can the Black people in the United States
win complete emancipation. The Black masses and the masses of white working people in the United States have common interests and common objectives
to struggle for. Therefore, the Afro-American struggle is winning sympathy
and support from increasing numbers of white working people and progressives in the United States. The struggle of the Black people in the United States
is bound to merge with the American workers’ movement, and this will eventually end the criminal rule of the US monopoly capitalist class.
In 1963, in the Statement Supporting the Afro-Americans in Their Just Struggle Against Racial Discrimination by US Imperialism, I said that “the evil system of colonialism and imperialism arose and throve with the enslavement of
Negroes and the trade in Negroes, and it will surely come to its end with the
complete emancipation of the Black people.” I still maintain this view.
At present, the world revolution has entered a great new era. The struggle
of the Black people in the United States for emancipation is a component part
of the general struggle of all the people of the world against US imperialism, a
component part of the contemporary world revolution. I call on the workers,
peasants, and revolutionary intellectuals of all countries and all who are willing to fight against US imperialism to take action and extend strong support
to the struggle of the Black people in the United States! People of the whole
world, unite still more closely and launch a sustained and vigorous offensive
against our common enemy, US imperialism, and its accomplices! It can be
said with certainty that the complete collapse of colonialism, imperialism, and
all systems of exploitation, and the complete emancipation of all the oppressed
peoples and nations of the world are not far off.

On Class Analysis of Factionalism
April & May 1968
Source: Red Flag (Hongqi), 1968, No. 1, page 29.
Long Live Mao Zedong Thought (Wansui), 1968, Vol. 5, page 347.
Translation: Beijing Review, May 10, 1968, Vol. XI, No. 19, page 3-4.
We must make a class analysis of factionalism.
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Outside a party there exist other parties and inside a party there exist factions; this has always been the case.
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Apart from uninhabited deserts, wherever there are groups of people they
are invariably composed of the Left, the middle and the right. This will still be
the case after thousands of years.
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Any faction forms one wing of a class.