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   From: rolf.martens@comhem.se   
      
   For some detailed information about those two and about the periodical which   
   came to be controlled by a third phony"Marxist" organization, which at that   
   time - precisely up until October 1976, when it "cut its throat" politically by   
   openly supporting the then recently exposed and beaten 4-gang in China - was   
   likewise of some importance in Germany, I shall cite a (basically truthful)   
   note to that English translation of H. Dicke's article "Unvergeßliche   
   Kulturrevolution" of 08.09.2006 which I commented on in my Info #270en, of   
   05.02.2007.   
      
   This may be of some interest because it shows some of the circumstances under   
   which, and the "political environment" in which, the - still today - so very   
   important though also always so very small earlier "NE" "grew up", in the late   
   1960s and early/mid-1970s.   
      
   [QUOTE:]   
      
   Roter Morgen (Red Morning) – Marxist-Leninist periodical, founded in the summer   
   of 1967 unmistakably under the impression of the Cultural Revolution and its   
   radiation all over the world. Beginning with its first issue it stood closely   
   leaning on the Communist Party of China under Mao Zedong (former spelling Mao   
   Tse-tung) . The founder of this journal, Ernst Aust, had published the journal   
   ”Blinkfuer” until 1964, which up to then had been characterized also by sallies   
   against the Peoples’ Republic of China and revisionist propaganda. On Dec. 31,   
   1968, the KPD/ML (Communist Party of Germany/Marxist-Leninist) was founded   
   after some preparations, the Roter Morgen becoming its initially undisputed   
   central organ. After 1970, this journal stood for the direction represented by   
   Ernst Aust within the KPD/ML and the entire ML-movement, and it stands also as   
   a synonym for the KPD/ML (Roter Morgen) as different from, e.g.,   
   Zentralbuero-Rote Fahne and Neue Einheit (NE).   
      
   KPD/AO – an organization founded in 1970, its leading circles stemming mainly   
   from the former students’ movement. From 1972 on this organization officially   
   adopted the name KPD, thereby raising a particular and unjustifiable   
   pretension. During the seventies the organization with the strongest public   
   appearance. In this organization, too, were hundreds of people committed to the   
   cause. Several leaders of this organization had been decided opponents of the   
   Marxist-Leninist party concept before 1970, but when the ML-movement became   
   stronger and stronger in the end of 1969, they conducted a 180 º-turn, which   
   they carried through again, in the reverse direction, in 1978/79, when the   
   overthrow in China was accomplished. Especially from the circles of this   
   organization massive attempts were started in 1969-72 to prevent even the first   
   beginnings of our organization. We are using the token ”AO” (for   
   ”Aufbauorganisation”, organisation for building the party) also for the later   
   phase, in order to have a possibility for distinguishing.   
      
   KBW – Kommunistischer Bund Westdeutschlands (Communist League of Western   
   Germany), 1973-1985, an organization with a Trotskyite element, was able to   
   accomplish its foundation at the end of 1972 when the first parties and   
   formations connected to the KPD/ML were weakened. This organization was the   
   strongest in terms of membership in Western Germany. It conjoined in a   
   particularly strong way with the movement against nuclear energy plants. Even   
   after 1980 it was still a decided supporter of the Peoples’ Republic of China   
   after the overthrow. In 1985, the most part of this organization dissolved into   
   the Greens, corresponding to the suggestions by the higher forces of the state   
   (’best kept there’).   
      
      
   [END OF QUOTE]   
      
   ...   
      
   From some countries, more than one organization sent messages to the CPC on   
   this occasion. To indicate this, numbers (1/2), (2/2), (1/3), (2/3), or (3/3)   
   will be put behind the names of those on the list which weren't alone in the   
   country in question to send a message.   
      
   3 listed organizations in their messages explicitly condemned both the Gang of   
   Four and Deng Xiaoping, something which indicates a high level of understanding   
   of the situation in China on their part. These were (in addition to the   
   KPD/ML(NEUE EINHEIT)): The Colombian Marxist-Leninist League, the PCP in Peru   
   and the New Zealand Communist Party. Their names on the list are marked with a   
   note /G4, D/.   
      
   The present leadership of the PCP [in 1997] states that the one of that party   
   in 1976 was "opportunist", an assessment whose correctness I at present cannot   
   ascertain. This present PCP leadership, although it since 1980 leads a just   
   people's war against the reactionary regime in Peru, unfortunately since many   
   years back is making the error of maintaining that two of the 4-Gang members   
   were "the real revolutionaries" in China.   
      
   20 more organizations, out of the 48 listed, explicitly condemned the Gang of   
   Four, which likewise indicates a rather high level of understanding of the   
   situation. Their names on the list are marked with a note /G4/. [NOTE,   
   11.11.1997: Out of those 6 I failed to list in 1996, one explicitly condemned   
   the 4-gang. See below.]   
      
   The two phoney"Marxist" organizations in Germany, and no others, saw fit, on   
   this occasion of the recent important victory over the Gang of Four, explicitly   
   to condemn the long-since dismissed Deng Xiaoping, but in no way the 4-Gang, in   
   China. Their names on the list are marked with a note /D/.   
      
   The names of those organizations which made no explicit condemnation of either   
   the 4-Gang or Deng are marked with /-/.   
      
   A relatively small number of organizations with which the CPC at that time had   
   maintained relations obviously sent no messages of congratulations on that   
   occasion. The two most important of these (this stated with the reservation   
   that I cannot judge the possible importance of certain Third-World   
   organizations which existed at that time) were the infamous phoney"-Marxist"   
   parties the "Roter Morgen" of Germany (which unjustifiedly called itself "the   
   KPD/ML" and which in 1978 cut off Mao Zedong's head from the image of "the five   
   classics" on the front page of its newspaper and declared itself in favour of   
   the Hoxha revisionists) and the "RCP" of the USA, which from 1984 on was "uncle   
   party" in the subversive operation and phoney "International" the "RIM". (See   
   my postings "UNITE! Info #3en" of 01.01.96, "UNITE! Info #8en" of 25.04.96   
   [part 1/5 etc], and others.)   
      
   Below, the 48 organizations in the 37 countries  are listed continent by   
   continent. Sources: Peking Review issues 46/76, of 12.11.76, 48/76, of   
   26.11.76, 50/76, of 10.12.76, and 52/76, of 24.12.76.   
      
   [NOTE: 11.11.1997: The 6 messages I failed to include in this posting in 1996 -   
   see Note above - will be added below within brackets [ ]. They make the total   
   number of organizations which sent messages be 54, in 43 countries, and I also   
      
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