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    William Hinton was an American author and activist who dedicated over 50 years of his life to supporting the Chinese Revolution. He lived in China from 1948-1952, deeply integrating with the people and documenting his experience in his influential book "Fanshen." When back in the US, he faced repression and legal battles for his pro-communist views. Hinton went on to write several other books analyzing and supporting China's revolutionary process under Mao. He was a vocal critic of Deng Xiaoping's reforms and remained actively involved with revolutionary movements internationally until his death. The Communist Party of the Philippines and National Democratic Front honor Hinton as a great proletarian internationalist for his lifelong dedication to revolutionary causes.

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    William Hinton was an American author and activist who dedicated over 50 years of his life to supporting the Chinese Revolution. He lived in China from 1948-1952, deeply integrating with the people and documenting his experience in his influential book "Fanshen." When back in the US, he faced repression and legal battles for his pro-communist views. Hinton went on to write several other books analyzing and supporting China's revolutionary process under Mao. He was a vocal critic of Deng Xiaoping's reforms and remained actively involved with revolutionary movements internationally until his death. The Communist Party of the Philippines and National Democratic Front honor Hinton as a great proletarian internationalist for his lifelong dedication to revolutionary causes.

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    A Tribute To William Hinton: National Democratic Front of The Philippines

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    William Hinton was an American author and activist who dedicated over 50 years of his life to supporting the Chinese Revolution. He lived in China from 1948-1952, deeply integrating with the people and documenting his experience in his influential book "Fanshen." When back in the US, he faced repression and legal battles for his pro-communist views. Hinton went on to write several other books analyzing and supporting China's revolutionary process under Mao. He was a vocal critic of Deng Xiaoping's reforms and remained actively involved with revolutionary movements internationally until his death. The Communist Party of the Philippines and National Democratic Front honor Hinton as a great proletarian internationalist for his lifelong dedication to revolutionary causes.

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    A TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM HINTON

    May 22, 2004


    National Democratic Front of the Philippines
    The Communist Party of the Philippines and the National Democratic Front of the
    Philippines convey their heartfelt condolences to the family, relatives and friends of
    William Hinton who died on the 15th of May 2004.

    We join them and so many revolutionaries throughout the world in mourning the
    death of this great proletarian internationalist. William Hinton served the Chinese
    Revolution for more than half a century. He integrated deeply with the Chinese
    people, learned from their experiences as well as shared his own skills and
    experience. He participated in the daily revolutionary tasks. From his integration into
    the life of the people in Long Bow Village, he wrote his classic work, Fanshen: A
    Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village. He carried his voluminous Fanshen
    notes for months. He walked with Chinese comrades out of the Taihang Mountains in
    1948, all the way to Chengding which was out in the Hebei Plain, about 150 miles,
    carrying those notes on his back.

    When he returned to the United States in 1952, it was the height of the McCarthyite
    anticommunist repression. Customs officials seized his papers. He courageously
    faced the Senate International Security Subcommittee headed by Senator Eastland
    and fought lengthy court battles until he got back his notes in 1958. After six years of
    working on the manuscript, his book was ready for publication. But all the major New
    York publishers turned it down. Almost three years after, the Month Review Press
    eagerly published it. More than two hundred thousand copies were sold.

    William Hinton wrote a sequel to Fanshen in 1971: Shenfan: The continuing


    revolution in a Chinese Village, as well as Iron Oxen: A revolution in Chinese

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    Farming (1970), Hundred Day War: The Cultural Revolution at Tsinghua University
    (1972), Turning Point in China: An Essay on The Cultural Revolution (1972).

    He sharply criticized the policies of Deng Hsiao Ping and came out with his book in
    1990: The Great Reversal: The Privatization of China, 1978-1989.

    At a conference in India in 1996, he was the keynote speaker sharing his rich
    experiences with over nine hundred Indian activists and mass leaders as well as
    international guests. His narrations on the victory of the new democratic revolution
    and the painstaking and complex twists and turns in the socialist revolution and
    construction achieved by the Chinese people under the leadership of Chairman Mao
    Zedong held the attention of his listeners. Deep into the night, the activists gleaned
    valuable lessons and drew inspiration from his first hand account of the Chinese
    Revolution.

    William Hinton gladly shared his deep insights and rich experiences. In 1997 he
    joined the Anti-APEC Conference and mass actions in the Philippines, mingling with
    Filipino activists deeply involved in the struggle for national and social liberation. He
    demonstrated his firm support for the Philippine revolutionary movement.

    William Hinton has left a potent weapon for proletarian revolutionaries. He has put
    down in written form the concrete details of the great achievements of the Chinese
    people in the new democratic revolution and socialist revolution and construction
    under the leadership of Chairman Mao Zedong. The impact of his writings is
    intensified by his exemplary life as a proletarian internationalist who was not only an
    outstandingly effective writer on revolution but most importantly was an active
    participant in the revolution. His life and works has had and will have far-reaching
    effects for present and future generations of proletarian revolutionaries.

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    The Communist Party of the Philippines, the National Democratic Front of the
    Philippines and the entire Philippine revolutionary movement render the highest
    tribute and honor to William Hinton, a great proletarian internationalist.

    Communist Party of the Philippines and National Democratic Front of the Philippines

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