Publish as is.
The number of workers drafted should generally be around one-tenth of the local industrial
workforce, or even less, so as not to hinder production. They can be rotated. Propaganda
teams should not be armed, and workers from factories that have not yet achieved the
Great Revolutionary Alliance and the Three-in-One Combination, or those that have not yet
cleansed their class ranks, should not participate.

[1] On August 25, 1968, Zhou Enlai and others wrote a report to Mao Zedong and others,
stating: "Comrade Yao Wenyuan, following the Chairman's instructions, drafted this notice
and made some revisions at the Central Cultural Revolution meeting." "Please approve it,
Chairman." This first paragraph appears in the report Zhou Enlai and others submitted. This
second paragraph is a revision of a paragraph in the draft notice submitted by Zhou Enlai and
others for review by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the State
Council, the Central Military Commission, and the Central Cultural Revolution Group
regarding the dispatch of workers' propaganda teams to schools. The text, printed in Song
typeface, contains additional text by Mao Zedong. The draft notice submitted by Zhou Enlai
and others stated that the Beijing Workers' Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Teams,
stationed in universities in accordance with Chairman Mao's instructions, had achieved
remarkable results and had a huge impact nationwide. The Central Committee believed that
the time had come to rectify education. All regions should follow Beijing's example and
gradually take control of universities, middle schools, and primary schools in large and
medium-sized cities. In large and medium-sized cities where revolutionary committees have
been established, where a great revolutionary alliance has been established among workers,
and where the work of purging the class ranks has achieved remarkable results, Mao Zedong
Thought propaganda teams, primarily composed of outstanding industrial workers and in
collaboration with members of the People's Liberation Army, should be formed under the
leadership of the revolutionary committees. These teams will be sent to schools in batches
and phases. Pilot programs should be implemented first, experiences summarized, and then
gradually universalized. Universities should be advanced, followed by middle and primary
schools. Schools without factional organizations or armed conflict should also be visited.
Before and after entering schools, members should earnestly study and correctly grasp



Chairman Mao's policies. Chairman Mao's latest directives and the July 3rd and July 24th
Announcements should be widely and thoroughly publicized. Careful ideological work
should be conducted to help promote the two revolutionary mass organizations in those
areas where a great revolutionary unity has not yet been achieved, and to achieve a great
revolutionary unity based on Mao Zedong Thought. Where armed conflict occurs, it should
be resolutely stopped. Investigations and research should be conducted regarding both
factional organizations, and positions should not be hastily or rashly expressed. Once Mao
Zedong Thought propaganda teams enter schools, they should be adept at identifying and
uniting active individuals among students, teachers, and workers who are determined to
carry the proletarian educational revolution through to the end, working together to
advance the educational revolution. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of
China, the State Council, the Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, and the
Central Cultural Revolution Committee issued this notice that day.