The Kurdish Question: Through the lens of Anarchist Resistance in the Heart of the Ottoman Empire 1880-1923 - Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt
Submitted by AES on Dec 31 2014 18:46
CONTENT NOTE: In 2015 it came to light that one of the authors of this work, Michael Schmidt, has advocated merging anarchist and white supremacist ideas both privately under his own name and publicly under pseudonyms. We are not aware of such themes in this work but readers should be advised.
The anarchist martyrs of Changsha
Submitted by Battlescarred on Feb 5 2014 18:14
A short account of the lives and activities of the Chinese anarchists Huang Ai and Pang Renquan
Chinese workers: A new history - Jackie Sheehan
This 1998 book traces the development of workers' struggles in China from the 1950s to the Tianenmen movement of 1989 and beyond. It looks at the role played by worker discontent in the direction taken by state campaigns such as the 1956-7 Hundred Flowers movement, the Cultural Revolution and the April Fifth Movement of 1976, as well as in the Democracy Wall movement and the 1989 Democracy Movement. The author is keen to demolish the myth of Chinese workers as politically conformist supporters of the Communist Party and makes a convincing case for a basic continuity in forms of workers' self-organisation and "economic" and "political" demands, right from the 1950s through to the 1990s.
The red closet: RCP and gay members
Submitted by Reddebrek on Oct 6 2013 23:06
Part two of what's turned into a very lengthy look at the US Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) and its history of homophobia. This part focuses on the parties actions in regards to its own members who failed to toe the line.
Red Evangelicals: Genesis
Submitted by Reddebrek on Sep 3 2013 14:28
First part of a series looking into the history of the RCP (USA) and its relationship with the LGBT community. This one deals with the origins of its policy on homosexuality.
The mythology of the great proletarian cultural revolution and the Chinese ultra-left - Donald Parkinson
Submitted by Steven. on Aug 28 2013 09:54
An account and critique of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, which portrays the "revolution" as a factional squabble within the Communist Party bureaucracy which enabled the working class to begin to assert themselves as an independent force for a time before being crushed by the state.
Whither China? - Sheng-wu-lien
The most famous text from 1968 by the Hunan Provincial Proletarian Revolutionary Great Alliance Committee (Sheng-wu-lien), the most influential of the ultra-left currents which developed during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. While it is politically problematic in some areas, for example despite being opposed to Mao's policies it does not escape the framework of Maoism, it does put forward a working class perspective.
Peru: The ideology of apocalypse Shining Path to what?
A 1993 article criticising the effect the Maoist Shining Path's decades long conflict has had on Peru and advocating instead a confederation of the Andes.
Why Mao?
Noel Ignatiev takes a look at the popularity of Mao among revolutionaries in the US.
Notes towards a critique of Maoism
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Oct 16 2012 08:03
Loren Goldner's 'bare-bones history' of Maoism.
