Fourth International Publications

The International’s English-language periodicals: World Outlook, Inprecor and their companions, 1958–1994

How Mao's Thought Reached New Zealand

World Outlook Vol. 5, No. 17, 28 April 1967 · p 455 · 123 words

China

REACHED NEW ZEALAND

Wellington

Australian and New Zealand students after visiting China in February said that most "Red Guards we met had never’heard of Winston Churchill, or even of Trotsky, though they know all about ‘Comrade Ted Hill' (head of Australia's tiny pro-Chinese Communist party)."

Another Maoist folk hero, Vic Wilcox, chairman of the pro-Peking New Zealand CP, disclosed privately that he went to China a few years ago when his party was wavering between Moscow and Peking. There he spent two days with a couple of top Chinese leaders who finally persuaded him of the rotten revisionism of the Soviet line. :

The two, it turns out, were Liu Shao-chi and Teng Hsiao-ping, now being purged for their "long standing" Khruschevist deviation.

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