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- 1. [left-hand side of top row] Study theory diligently, strongly criticize revisionism. [Slogan on the upper part of the image (recent Mao quotation)]: “What’s all this about ‘taking the three directives as the key’, security and unity doesn’t mean not requiring class struggle, class struggle is the key, the rest is just detail.” [Big-character poster in the process of creation]: ‘Taking the three directives as the key’ is an exercise in compromise and revisionism, its aim being a plan to restore …’
2. [second left, top row] We can ascend the nine heavens and grasp the moon, we can descend into the five oceans to seize turtles! (quotation from Mao’s recently-released poem “Reascending Jinggangshan”.) [Heading of their big-character poster]: Whoever dares to practice the restoration of capitalism, we will resolutely struggle against them. [Signed]: released by the workers’ amateur art group.
3. [third left, top row] ABSOLUTELY OPPOSE the revisionist agenda of ‘taking the three directives as the key.’ [Slogan at top]: ‘Class struggle is the key, the rest is just detail.’
4. [fourth left, top row] The proletariat is the main force in counter-attacking the rightist wind to overturn verdicts. [Slogan at top]: Condemn the revisionist agenda of ‘taking the three directives as the key.’
5. [fifth left, top row] Leading cadres should walk in the front rank if the movement, COUNTER-ATTACK ON THE RIGHTIST WIND TO OVERTURN VERDICTS. [Signed]: workers amateur arts group.
6. [right-hand, top row] Overturning verdicts does not gain people’s approval (recent quotation from Mao). Headline of poster display at back: Resolutely counter-attack the rightist wind to overturn verdicts.
7. [left-hand side of middle row] The capitalist roaders are still on the road, WE WILL RESOLUTELY FIGHT THEM! [Title of the big-character-poster being posted]: Thoroughly condemn the revisionist agenda of ‘taking the three directives as the key.’
8. [second left, middle row] The capitalist-roaders are still on the road! Capitulationists definitely [still] exist! [Poster being written]: Compromise is revisionism. [Heading of big-character poster display at rear]: Resolutely counter-attack the rightist wind to overturn verdicts Defend the proletarian cultural …
9. [third left, middle row] Condemn the revisionist agenda of taking the three directives as the key. [Title of poster repeated as heading of display behind, with added inverted commas around “taking the three directives as the key” and a final exclamation mark]. [Big-character poster being held by worker]: Take class struggle as the key, counter-attack the rightist wind to overturn verdicts.
10. [fourth left, middle row] Relentlessly attack the rightist wind to overturn verdicts, The revolution in education goes forward. [Header of display at rear]: Condemn the theory of [indecipherable], relentlessly attack the rightist wind to overturn verdicts. [Poster heading below]: the revolution in education is good. [Caption for image at lower right]: Welcome graduates of the Agricultural University returning to their villages.
11. [right hand, middle row] On the arts front the new defeats the old. [Heading of poster at front]: Do battle with the revisionist black line in the arts of the seventeen years (1949-66)!
12. [left-hand side of bottom row] THE PROLETARIAT is the leading force in counter-attacking the rightist wind to overturn verdicts! [Signed]: electro-mechanics arts group. [Slogan behind]: Condemn THE DOCTRINE OF THE UNIQUE IMPORTANCE OF PRODUCTIVE FORCES.
13. [second left, bottom row] Grasp class struggle, Criticize the doctrine of the unique importance of productive forces. [Heading of poster display]: Whatever you do, don’t forget class struggle (1962 Mao quote). [Poster heading]: We must not allow the Soviet Union’s tragedy of the sputnik ascending the heavens while the red flag falls to the ground to be re-enacted.
14. [third left, bottom row] Class struggle must be talked about daily When people change their ideology the land changes its appearance. [Slogan in large characters on the hillside]: Mobilize the whole Party to go in for agriculture in a big way.
15. [fourth left, bottom row] We are the masters of scientific research.
16. [fifth left, bottom row] Let’s go and watch the Model Theatrical Works. [Poster at back left and film title on screen back right are both for the opera Song of Dragon River. Banner in the centre: Study the (opera’s) heroine Jiang Shuiying! Promote the Dragon River spirit!
17. [bottom right] Publisher’s statement: 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.
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