The propaganda team formed by the Red Guards of the Beijing Mechanical Engineering Institute recite in unisson the quotations from President Mao Zedong’s thought on Tienanmen Square in Beijing 02 November 1966. Since the Cultural Revolution was launched in May 1966 at Beijing University, Mao’s aim was to recapture power after the failure of the “Great Leap Forward”. The movement was directed against those “party leaders in authority taking the capitalist road”.
