Taking class struggle as the key, counter-attack the rightist wind to overturn verdicts: selected fine-arts big-character posters by the workers of Yangquan, 以阶级斗争为纲,回击右倾翻案风, and Yi jieji douzheng wei gang huiji youqing fan’anfeng: Yangquan gongren meishu dazibao xuan
Subject:
Civil-military relations, Industries, Social conflict, Deng, Xiaoping, 1904-1997, and Industrial productivity
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Resource Type:
Text
Extent:
1 poster
Edition:
First edition of 200,000.
Geographic Coverage:
China--Shaanxi Sheng
Coordinates:
36, 109
Collection:
Chinese Propaganda Poster Project
Provenance:
From the collection of Richard King.
Provider:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:
posters
Date Digitized:
2011-06-07
Transcript:
Publisher’s statement [at bottom right]: Wind and thunder shake, standards and banners are raised, such is the world of men [two lines from Mao’s 1965 poem “Chongshang Jinggangshan” (Reascending Jinggangshan), first released in January 1976]
The great struggle to counter-attack the rightist wind to overturn verdicts personally launched and led by the Great Leader Chairman Mao is in the process of deepening and development. The unrepentant capitalist-roader within the Party has thrown forth the revisionist agenda of “taking the three directives as the key,” and stirred up a rightist wind to overturn verdicts, attacking Chairman Mao’s proletarian revolutionary line, counter-attacking and settling old scores with the proletariat, overturning the verdict on the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, and scheming to achieve the heinous goal of restoring capitalism.
In order to protect Chairman Mao’s revolutionary line, to consolidate and develop the great achievements of the Cultural Revolution and the movement to Criticize Lin Biao and Confucius, and to exercise comprehensive dictatorship over the bourgeoisie, Yangquan’s worker-artists have taken up their paint-brushes and created a number of fine-arts big-character posters and propaganda paintings, posting them throughout factories and mines, and thereby forcefully condemned the revisionist line of the unrepentant capitalist-roader within the Party, to give a powerful rejoinder to the rightist wind to overturn verdicts! We have made a selection from them to be used as headers for reports and to be displayed.
[signed] The editors. March 1976.
Technical Note:
Scanned using the Betterlight TTI, edited by KMercer and CDeWolfe, metadata provided by R.King and KMercer. Migration metadata by KD.