Chapter 15 Against the "left" adventurism in the labor movement[1]

(February 5, 1948) It must be pointed out that until now, there are still quite a few party members, cadres, and trade union workers in the Chinese Communist Party, and even quite a few leaders who hold senior leadership positions, who do not understand the party’s industrial policy and The line of the labor movement.They only see the trees, not the forest.They only know the so-called "workers' interests" which are one-sided, narrow and short-sighted, and cannot look a little farther.They forget how much damage the "Left" adventurist industrial policy and labor movement line implemented in the period from 1931 to 1934 had done to the working class, the working people and the revolutionary government.They did not study at all the correct industrial policies and labor movement guidelines issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in the eleven years since 1937.They stubbornly resisted the party line.Many local leading organs of the party have not even formally discussed, propagated and explained the central line for a long time, so that comrades working in the labor movement do not understand the central line at all, and they have reached such a state of insensitivity.This situation can no longer continue.All local leading organs of the party must seriously discuss the line of the central government and all industrial policies and labor movement policies, resolutely correct all "Left" adventurist ideas, policies and methods that endanger the working class, working people and the revolutionary government, and promptly To make industrial construction and labor movement on the right track.Only in this way can we gather all our strength to overthrow the reactionary rule of imperialism and the Kuomintang, liberate the Chinese nation and Chinese people, and establish a new democratic China.

Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] This is an additional passage written by Mao Zedong in reviewing Xinhua News Agency's editorial draft commemorating the 25th anniversary of the 1923 Beijing-Hanzhou Railway Workers' Strike (February 7th Strike).Mao Zedong also changed the original title of this editorial from "The Direction of the Workers' Movement in Liberated Areas" to "Insist on the Correct Line of the Workers' Movement and Oppose "Left" Adventism" and added it where the editorial discussed the work attitude that workers should have He said: "Other labor conditions must not be set too high, and must not violate the limits permitted by economic conditions, and must not violate the general principles of developing production, prospering the economy, giving consideration to both public and private interests, and benefiting both labor and capital." This editorial was published in 1948. February 8, "People's Daily".