The tribunal of The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) brought into the public domain translated submission such as the internal party documents and magazines of the ruling Communist Party of Kampuchea.
“The Party’s “Four-Year Plan” demonstrates that literacy training for the general population was part of its plan for overhauling Cambodian society. The Plan, a one hundred and ten page typewritten document, was drawn up at a meeting held between July 21 and August 2, 1976, by the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK). This meeting was attended by nine men and women, including Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary and Khieu Samphan. Although the document was never published or fully implemented, the activities it describes reveal the Party Center’s long-term objectives at the time of its writing.”
Source: George Chigas and Dmitri Mosyakov. Literacy and Education under the Khmer Rouge The Cambodian Genocide Program, Yale University
See also: Chandler, David, Ben Kiernan, and Chantou Boua, eds. And tr. Pol Pot Plans the Future: Confidential Leadership Documents from Democratic Kampuchea, 1976-1977. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asian Studies Monograph Series 33, 1988.
The following examples are party magazines (with indication of contents) drawn from the archives of the court’s documents e.g.
* Tung Padewat (Revolutionary Flag), a magazine published monthly in Democratic Kampuchea between 1974 and 1979.
* Yuvachun Nung Yuvunarie Padewat (Boys and Girls of the Revolution) (Revolutionary Male and Female Youths in translation of ECCC) that saw its first issue in January 1974 and its last issue in November 1978.
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Banners of Revolution
December 1975-January 1976
From National Democratic to Socialist Revolution
Straight-Line Short-Cut
The Class struggle within the State power and the Party Dictatorship
The Need for On-going Purification Under the new Constitution
Administrative Organization
Struggle Over Military line
Vietnamese and Chinese Objections
Negative Legacy of the National Democratic Phase and the Need for Organisational Measures
Revolutionary Flag – internal party magazine
1973 July Revolutionary Flag
(Article republished June 1974 by the Ministry of Political Military in Eastern Zone)
Strengthening and Improving the Party’s leadership Stance and Leadership Attitude
1975 August Issue 8
The Cadres, Party members, People and Troops of the Revolutionary Army must be in unity with the Party in assessing and evaluating the situation
Long live the Magnificent Revolutionary Army of the Communist party of Kampuchea
If we want to struggle to eradicate the stance of individual private property, we must struggle to temper ourselves in a concrete combat movement
Another important step in the success of the cooperatives and of our revolutionary movement
October-November 1975
Strengthen the revolutionary vigilant stance
Some key excerpts from the Party economic congress
What does 3-ton per hectare for 1976 mean?
Strengthen the stance to launch an attack in promoting the people’s living standard
Strengthen and extend the production cooperatives
February-March 1976 Issues 2-3
Correctly absorb and implement the new strategic political line
Go on constant mighty offensives at great magnificent leap speed
Prepare the preconditions for the 1976 rainy season offensive to achieve the goal of three tons per hectare
Whip up the campaign of criticism/ self criticism to build oneself and build the party to make it even mightier
June 1976 Issue 6
In tandem with the movement to grow rice, we must go on the offensive to plant other crops and vegetables densely everywhere
Extracts from the instructions of the Comrade Party organisation representative during a zone conference
July 1976 issue 7
Slogans for mid-1976
Always be absolutely and constantly determined to continue making a profound socialist revolution
Launch even mightier storming attacks in accordance with the most correct and effective action lines
Whip up a movement constantly to study the Party statutes in order to strengthen and expand even mightier internal party unity
September-October 1976
Excerpts of the speech of the comrade party representative on the occasion of the great victory of the 16th anniversary ceremony of the birth of the Communist Party of Kampuchea
Honing the ideology of the proletarian class to its sharpest and mightiest
November 1976 Issue 11
Standing upon the great victory of the 1976 plan, resolve to go on the offensive to implement the 1977 plan of the party even more strongly
The Party’s Second Nationwide Economics Conference
Strengthening and expanding party leadership during the new period of socialist revolution and socialist construction
December 1976-January 1977
The Shining Victories of 1976 and the Clear Bright Future of 1977
The Presentation of the Comrade Party representative on the Occasion of the 9th Anniversary of the Brave, Strong, Skilled and magnificent Revolutionary Army of Kampuchea
April 1977
Congratulations on the Second Anniversary of the marvellous Great 17 April Victory and the birth of Democratic Kampuchea!
Continue to strengthen and expand great victories of early 1977 to become even mightier in order to sweep the enemy clean and continue to completely implement and even surpass the Party’s 1977 Plan
June 1977 Issue 6
The letter presenting the honorary red flag of the central committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea to all cadres, combatants and peasant people in the cooperatives in Prasaut district, kampong Tralachleu district and Tram Kakk district
Studying experiences regarding political, ideological and organisational stances
Instructions of the Party on several important matters during the second half of 1977
August 1977 Issue 8
The Presentation of the Party Organisation Representative regarding a number of instructions in building, strengthening and expanding Party leadership on the occasion of the West Zone Cadre Conference 25 July 1977
August 1977 Special issue
Celebrating the 18th anniversary of the great victory of the founding of our Communist party of Kampuchea by striving to fight to build revolutionary stances following the ten criteria of the Party
15 years in the typhoon of the great Kampuchean Revolutionary movement under the red banner and always victorious flag of the Communist Party of Kampuchea
1 September 1977 Special Issue
The Presentation of the Party Organisation Representative on the occasion of the 17th Anniversary of the Great victory of the founding of the Communist Party of Kampuchea and on the occasion of the official domestic and international public announcement of the Party.
October-November 1977
The Current Situation of the Kampuchean Revolution and the Building Up of Every level pf the Party’s Cadre
Further Raise the Quality of the Party leadership in Order to Lead in Defence Duties and the Duties of Continuing the Socialist Revolution and Building Socialism
Learning in Abbreviated form from the History of the Kampuchea Revolutionary Movement Under the Leadership of the Communist Party of Kampuchea
Learning From Our Four-Year Plan
July 1978 Issue 7
The national Duties of All of Us
Pay Attention to Sweeping Out the Concealed Enemy Boring From Within Even More
Absolutely Cleanly
Strengthen Leadership by Resolving Contradictions on Target
Another Step in Our Cooperatives’ Victories
Revolutionary Male and Female Youths
1976 March issue 3
Work more, gain more, but spend less capital
In managing and reeducating the male-female youths at present, must pay the attention on political and ideological works in particular
The sacrifice of our combatants (continued and final)
The revolutionary male-female youths news
Poem
1974 August-September
The Communist Kampuchea Youth League is the right hand of the Party
To eliminate the wrong pride, build up the pride of being servant of the people
The interaction of materialism and history of materialism
The revolutionary female youth at the rear battleground determines to complete the task of food production up to 200%
Summary on the military victory for the period of 2 months
Revolutionary Youth
1975 July
Revolutionary Youth Are determined to go down into the fray of productive labour in order to forge and strengthen their revolutionary stance and activity to defend and build up the nation
Eliminate ideologies of Individual and Personal property, so that they are cleaned out once and for all.
Absolutely Determined to Live and die with the Poor People
Revolutionary youth news
1975 September issue no.10
Kampuchean youth must forge and re-fashion themselves in the movement to strengthen and expand production cooperatives
In the current phase of the Revolution, our youth must constantly strengthen their stance of absolute and seething class struggle
Revolutionary Sentiment
Revolutionary Youth News
Poem
October 1975
Cambodian youth Must Forge and Refashion Themselves in the Movement to strengthen and Expand Production Co-Operatives
Never-Ending Class Struggle in the Co-Operatives Through Rectification
Ideological Problems Among Communist youth
Absolute Class struggle
Overthrow of the Feudal and Capitalist classes: A Qualified Success
A Two-Class Society of Equality in Hard Work
Manifestations of Enemy Ideologies in the Revolutionary Ranks
Revolutionary Sentiment
Re-Educating youth to Eliminate Old Society Worldviews
Mobile Production Units
Ponhea Kraek, Sector 20, east Zone: A Model Again
1975 November issue no. 11
The revolutionary male-female youths must help to solve the people livelihood directly
To eliminate the individual and private possession decisively and strengthen and expand the collective possession forcefully
The life struggling in the great revolutionary storm
The revolutionary male-female youths news
The revolutionary poem
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For overseas consumption there were the embassy issued news bulletins and magazines e.g.
News Bulletin 1978 February , DK Press Agency
1978, December 8 no.9
https://archive.org/details/DemocraticKampucheaIsMovingForward
and, Democratic Kampuchea, a workers’ and Peasants’ state in south east Asia https://d.dccam.org/Archives/Documents/pdf/Bulletin_of_the_Embassy_of_Democratic_Kampuchea_in_Berlin_GDR_March_1977.pdf
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