[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] - Russian-language edition (April 16, 1968) by Mao, Tse-Tung - 1968

Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1968. 5p., staplebound booklet, covers mildly soiled and worn, 3.5x5 inches. Title page has the rubberstamp of the Russian section at the Renmin huabao she. 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...