The ''Red Flag'' () was a journal on political theory, published by the

Chinese Communist Party The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victorious in the Chinese Ci ...

. It was one of the "Two Newspapers and One Magazine" during the 1960s and 1970s. The newspapers were ''

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'' and ''

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''. '' People's Liberation Army Daily'' is also regarded as one of them.

History and profile

''Red Flag'' was started during the

Great Leap Forward The Great Leap Forward (Second Five Year Plan) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and social campaign led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1958 to 1962. CCP Chairman Mao Zedong launched the campaign to reconstr ...

era in 1958. The journal was the successor to another journal, ''Study'' (Chinese: ''Xuexi''). The title of ''Red Flag'' was given by

Mao Zedong Mao Zedong pronounced ; also Romanization of Chinese, romanised traditionally as Mao Tse-tung. (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the List of national founde ...

. Chen Boda was the editor of the journal, which served as a crucial media outlet during the

Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, and lasting until his death in 1976. Its stated goa ...

. In 1966,

Pol Pot Pol Pot; (born Saloth Sâr;; 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) was a Cambodian revolutionary, dictator, and politician who ruled Cambodia as Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea between 1976 and 1979. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist ...

formed a similar magazine with the same name in Cambodia in Khmer, '' Tung Krahom'', modelled on ''Red Flag''. During the 1960s, ''Red Flag'' temporarily ended publication, but was restarted in 1968. The frequency of the journal was monthly between its start in 1958 and 1979. It was published bi-monthly from 1980 to 1988. ''Red Flag'' covered theoretical arguments supported by the party. It also published articles on the views of the party about the Communist parties in other countries. For instance, in March 1963 the speech of Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the

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, at the 10th Congress was discussed and evaluated in detail. In May 1988 Chinese officials announced that the journal would be closed. Finally, it ceased publication in June 1988, and was succeeded by '' Qiushi'' (Chinese: ''Seeking Truth'').

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