Day: December 13, 2022

‘How Stalin-Bucharin Destroyed the Chinese Revolution: An Appeal to all the Comrades of the Chinese Communist Party’ by Chen Duxiu, 1929.

Originally From: https://revolutionsnewsstand.com/2022/12/06/how-stalin-bucharin-destroyed-the-chinese-revolution-an-appeal-to-all-the-comrades-of-the-chinese-communist-party-by-chen-duxiu-1929/ “Guangzhou Uprising” by He Kongde and Zheng Hongliu An important document in the history of Chinese Communism. Chen Duxiu, founder and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1921-1928, looks back at the last years of failure and bloodshed (the alliance with the KMT, the KMT massacres in Shanghai, the repressed Guangzhou Uprising, etc), and regrets his role in carrying out the Comintern, then led by Bukharin, mandate during the revolutionary crises of the 1920s. Written shortly after Chen was expelled from the party and the Comintern for ‘Trotskyism’ and published over five issues of…
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Capitalism—Red in tooth and claw

Capitalism—Red in tooth and claw

Written by Tommy McKearney on 7th November 2022 Originally From: https://socialistvoice.ie/2022/11/capitalism-red-in-tooth-and-claw/ There is a German word, schadenfreude, meaning to take pleasure from another’s misfortunes. Watching the convulsions wracking the British Conservative Party, this writer is surely not alone in experiencing a large degree of that same feeling. Not since the Suez crisis of 1956 has a British government found itself in such turmoil; never before has the Tory party been subjected to such self-inflicted ridicule. It could hardly be otherwise. Daily U-turning, Cabinet ministers sacked within weeks of taking office, the spectacle of physical-force, yes, physical-force Conservatism, employed to whip reluctant MPs through the parliamentary…
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