27/8/66 Daxing Commune Red Guards, alongside Party. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. 27/8/66 Armed by the police with names and addresses, Daxing Red Guards hold violent struggle sessions for bad performers. Here are some oft-used quotes from the Little Red Book: Li was a Red Guard as well as a photographer, and does not deny that he also led 'struggle sessions' against innocent victims but his pictures reflect a deeper desire to record and. He reportedly called on the students to 'say Long Live in your months, hold the Quotations in your hands'. Marshal Lin promoted the book to the Red Guards during Mao's first rally with the students in 1966. Billions of copies were believed to have been printed during the Cultural Revolution. The book, first launched in 1964, came with different editions, but the compact ones that could fit into a pocket were the most popular. All dissent was to be crushed and stamped out. Some people even started their daily conversations with a Mao-quote. His struggle sessions in 1974 were under the watch of Guangdong province party chief Zhao Ziyang, a reformist who later became the country’s top party boss before being sacked for sympathising. These so-called struggle sessions were used to terrorize the entire population into complicity with the communist agenda. The Little Red Book, or Quotations from Chairman Mao, was the bible of the Red Guards, who often waved it while chanting the quotes as part of the ritual to show loyalty.

Red guard struggle session