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, by Zhang Sheng
From 1950 to 1976, China’s stance on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict underwent a dramatic shift, evolving from potential diplomatic ties with Israel to staunch support for Palestinian liberation. Rooted in Maoist revolutionary ideals, China provided diplomatic, financial, and military support (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul, SHI Yongqin
Leon Trotsky’s works have long been repressed in China, but translator Shi Yongqin has dedicated his life to bringing them to a Chinese audience. Born in 1949, the year of the Chinese Revolution, Shi’s experiences reflect the latent dissatisfaction of Chinese intellectuals with mainstream (…)
, by BENTON Gregor
The Longest Night: Three Generations of Chinese Trotskyists in Defeat, Jail, Exile, and Diaspora, Editors/Translators: Gregor Benton and Yang Yang, with an introduction by Gregor Benton.
This sequel to Prophets Unarmed delves into the tumultuous journey of Chinese Trotskyism after 1949, (…)
, by ANDERSON Perry
Zhou Enlai: A Life by Chen Jian. Harvard, 817 pp., £29.95, May, 978 0 674 65958 2
Every modern revolution of significance, from 1789 to the present, has produced a diaspora. The exodus from Russia after the end of its ancien régime scattered minds of exceptional brilliance in the arts, (…)
, by DRESSER Sam , O’DWYER Shaun
Why did Japanese Confucians enthusiastically support Imperial Japan’s murderous conquest of China, the homeland of Confucius?
At the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (1946-48), convened to try Japanese military and civilian leaders for war crimes, one defendant delivered a (…)
, by LI Promise
Prophets Unarmed: Chinese Trotskyists in Revolution, War, Jail, and the Return from Limbo Gregor Benton, editor Brill Historical Materialism Series, 2015; Haymarket Books, 2017, xvii + 1289 pages, $55 paperback.
JUST OVER 70 years ago, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) extinguished the last (…)
, by HORE Charlie
Frank Dikötter is the best-selling popular historian of China today. In his latest work on the post-Mao years, Dikötter joins a long line of those predicting the speedy demise of the Chinese system, letting ideology get in the way of analysis.
Review of China After Mao: The Rise of a (…)
, by SHANGGUAN Ariel
Different translations show the nuances in the relationship between China and Russia over nearly a century.
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, China’s reaction in response to the Russian aggression has been fiercely debated in the western media. The majority of the discussions have focused (…)
, by AU Loong-yu
[EDITOR’S NOTE: ON July 6th, 2022, Trotskyist social movement activist and co-founder of Pioneer Group (先驅社) [formerly Sun Miu Group (新苗社)], Xiang Qing (向青), passed away in Macau at age 100. Xiang was born in 1922, studied at National Southwest Association University (西南聯合大學), encountering (…)
, by LI Promise
What does it mean to speak of Chinese Trotskyism, and what is its relevance for us today? While early leaders of the Left Opposition in China were some of the key founders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the most knowledgeable readers of Marx, this tradition had also been marginalized, (…)
, by LI Promise
What does it mean to speak of Chinese Trotskyism, and what is its relevance for us today?
While early leaders of the Left Opposition in China were some of the key founders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the most knowledgeable readers of Marx, this tradition had also been (…)
, by BARD Cooper
What is the relationship of leadership to revolution (and counter-revolution)? How do socialists adequately adjust their tactics to new and changing situations? What is the role of national liberation struggle in the international revolution? Can socialists struggle with classes other than the (…)
, by VAN ONZEN Fabian
Wang Fanxi, Mao Zedong Thought, Brill, Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume: 210, Leiden, 2020. 326 pp., €150.00 hb ISBN 9789004358904 Reviewed by Fabian Van Onzen
There has been a lot of interest in Maoism in recent years. A number of recent books have appeared that seriously engage (…)
A discussion and book launch for ’Mao Zedong Thought’ by Wang Fanxi published by Historical Materialism Book Series, Brill/Haymarket
Date and time: Tue, 7 September 2021 20:00 – 22:00 CEST
Recorded on YouTube: https://youtu.be/mz23H7iTaWM
There have been many books on Mao Zedong, but few (…)
, by BELLO Walden
The Communist Party of China led three revolutions of world-historic significance in its short 100-year-history: national liberation, the “Cultural Revolution,” and China’s rapid capitalist transformation.
July 1, 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Community Party, one of the (…)
, by MILANOVIC Branko
A review of Wang fan-hsi’s ’Memoirs of a Chinese Revolutionary’
, by A supporter of ACR in Hong Kong
A new generation is fighting back
The great 1989 democratic movement started as a student movement and then made common cause with the workers who joined the movement with the slogan “down with guandao” (bureaucrats involved in market speculation). The regime then realized that there was (…)
, by ROUSSET Pierre
The Chinese revolution is one of the major events of the twentieth century. Taken as a whole, it covers the entire period from the aftermath of the Russian Revolution to the end of the 1960s, when the People’s Republic descended into the conflicts of the ill-named “Cultural Revolution”. (…)
, by BENTON Gregor
Abstract
Lu Xun was a giant of modern Chinese literature and a fellow-traveller of the Chinese Communists, to whom he saw no alternative at a time of rampant fascism and the threat of war. However, he was also an admirer of Trotsky, although this fact has been expertly hidden from sight for (…)
, by SMITH Steve
In only two countries – Sri Lanka and Bolivia – did Trotskyists ever rise to prominence in national politics, and they did so in remarkably ‘unTrotskyist’ ways, not least by joining Popular Front governments. In the communist parties of China and Vietnam, however, Trotskyists (…)
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