By Mao Zedong (Mao Tsetung) A GREAT revolutionary storm has
spread through Asia, Africa and Latin America since World War
II. Independence has been proclaimed in more than fifty Asian
and African countries. China, Viet Nam, Korea and Cuba have
taken the road of socialism. The face of Asia, Africa and Latin
America has undergone a tremendous change. While revolution in
the colonies and semi-colonies suffered serious setbacks after
World War I owing to suppression by the imperialists and their
lackeys, the situation after World War II is fundamentally
different. The imperialists are no longer able to extinguish the
prairie fire of national liberation. Their old colonial system
is fast disintegrating. Their rear has become a front of raging
anti-imperialist struggles. Imperialist rule has been overthrown
in some colonial and dependent countries, and in others it has
suffered heavy blows and is tottering. This inevitably weakens
and shakes the rule of imperialism in the metropolitan
countries. The victories of th