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, 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 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 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 OSPREY Victor
China, May 1937. A left-wing revolutionary is arrested by Kuomintang special agents. Dragged into an interrogation chamber, the special agents demand that he give them the addresses of a few of his comrades. Refusing to do so, he is smashed in the back of the head with a thick piece of wood. One (…)
, by BENTON Gregor, ROUSSET Pierre
On December 30, 2002, the Chinese Trotskyist leader Wang Fanxi died of heart failure in Leeds, Britain, aged 95. Born in Xiashi near Hangzhou in 1907, he joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1925, abandoning his literature studies at Beijing University for the revolution. In 1931, he was (…)
, by BARUCH Hirson
Gregor Benton, Interviews with Wang Fanxi on Tang Baolin’s History of Chinese Trotskyism. Leeds East Asian Papers, 1995, pp. 20
IT WAS sometime in the 1940s when Max Shachtman wrote about the interrogation he had to undergo leading to his expulsion from the Communist Party of the USA. Among (…)
, by SAKAI Yohichi, WANG Fanxi / Wang Fan-hsi, WATARU Yakushiji
The interview with the late Chinese Trotskyist Wang Fan-hsi [王凡西] (1907-2002) was produced when Wataru Yakushiji, a member of the Japan Revolutionary Communist League (JRCL: Fourth-International group), visited Hong Kong and Macao in the summer of 1972.
This new version presentation has been (…)
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