Paul Lafargue was a French revolutionary Marxist socialist journalist, literary critic, political writer and influential member of the French and Spanish socialist movements; from an orthodox Marxist perspective he wrote on topics such as women's rights, economics and anthropology.
More unrest in China following further layoffs in the industrial heartland.
From July-September 1918, Japan was swept with a wave of riots from rural fishing villages to major industrial centres and coal fields, in what was the largest upheaval in Japan to date, and the widest ranging popular disturbances since the unrest during the Meiji restoration of 1868.
