In Commemoration of the Forty-Fifth Anniversary of Comrade Qu Qiubai's Noble Sacrifice

Abstract

A forum was convened this afternoon in the West Room of the Great Hall of the People to commemorate the forty-fifth anniversary of Comrade Qu Qiubai's martyrdom. The deputy minister of the CCP Central Committee Department of Propaganda and chairman of the Chinese Literary Federation, Zhou Yang, spoke to the assembly. … In his wide-ranging speech, Zhou Yang evaluated Qu Qiubai's many contributions to the Chinese revolution most highly. (See full text below.) Shen Yanbing [Mao Dun], Tan Zhenlin, and Li Weihan recalled the glorious history of our party's revolutionary struggle and spoke of Comrade Qu Qiubai's historic achievements in the cause of the Chinese people's revolution. Cao Ying, in his talk, recounted Qu Qiubai's life history and refuted the slanders of Lin Biao and the Gang of Four about Qu Qiubai. He stated that after Qu was captured he did nothing that in the least would endanger the party or the revolution, but held fast to Marxism, fearlessly upheld our great cause, proclaimed the revolution, ...