[Statement by comrade Mao Tse-Tung, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, in support of the Afro-American struggle against violent repression] - Arabic-language edition (April 16, 1968) by Mao, Tse-Tung - 1968

Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1968. Pamphlet. 6p., staplebound booklet, 3.5x5 inches, staples added at spine, which are rusting; a reading copy only. Mao's statement was translated into many languages. The English version begins with the lines "Some days ago, Martin Luther King, the Afro-American clergyman, was suddenly assassinated by the US imperialists. Martin Luther King was an exponent of non-violence. Nevertheless, the US imperialists did not on that account show any tolerance towards him, but used counter-revolutionary violence and killed him in cold blood...