During the Cultural Revolution, a Rebel Faction was a group or a sociopolitical movement that was self-proclaimed "rebellious". Composed of workers and students, they were often the more radical wing
Rebel groups of Red Guards marching in Shanghai, 1967
Rebel workers at Harbin Forestry Machinery Factory, 1967
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The Red Guards were a mass, student-led, paramilitary social movement mobilized by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966 until their abolition in 1968, during the first phase of the Cultural Revolution, which h
Rebel Faction (Cultural Revolution)
…group or a sociopolitical movement that was self-proclaimed "rebellious". Composed of workers and students, they were often the more radical wing of the Red Guards and grew around 1967, but were accompanied by further splits and sectarianism. The rebel students largely continued the Red Guard movement of 1966, but…
Red Guards on Tiananmen Square in Beijing. They were holding the Little Red Book containing quotations from Mao Zedong.
Political slogan by Red Guards on the campus of Fudan University, Shanghai, China says "Defend Central Committee with (our) blood and life! Defend Chairman Mao with (our) blood and life!"
Red Guards in 1966
A public appearance of Chairman Mao and Lin Biao among Red Guards, in Beijing, during the Cultural Revolution (November 1966)