A STRUGGLE TO DEFEND THE LIFELINE.

The article focuses on the social movement in Sha-shi-yü village in China during 1960s. In 1966, during the high tide of the movement to "Learn from Tachai in agriculture," the cadres and masses of commune members of Sha-shi-yü greeted the advent of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The entire mountain village boiled with revolutionary fervor as the people, armed with Chinese Premier Mao Tse-tung Thought and relating the vital issues of the controversy with the history of conflict between the two classes, the two roads, and the two lines in Sha-shih-yü itself, exposed and denounced the evil and criminal plot to restore capitalism hatched by the renegade, traitor, and scab Liu Shao-ch'i. Many old poor peasants, recalling their bitter history and contrasting past and present circumstances, adduced their own vivid personal experiences as they angrily and indignantly condemned the crimes perpetrated by Liu Shao-ch'i in his attempts to undermine and subvert the dictatorship of the proletariat.