Image Chen Jiongming: Anarchism and the Federalist State An article examining the connections between Chen Jiongming and the Chinese anarchist movement in the wake of the Xinhai revolution.
Image International Correspondence (no. 2, October 1984) Second issue of a Hong Kong-based left communist journal written by L.L. Men, who was in correspondence with left communist groups in Europe.
Image Capitalism under the Red Banner: Seventy Years of the People's Republic of China Seventy years ago, on 1 October 1949, the People's Republic of China was proclaimed by Mao. Here we…
Image Class Struggle in China The role of China in the imperialist pecking order has been covered many times on our website (leftcom.org). Here we deal with China’s evolution…
Image The Chinese revolution 1925-1927 A short account of the mass struggles in China from 1925 up to the Shanghai insurrection of 1927 and its crushing by the nationalist forces of…
Image The Other Cultural Revolution Wu Yiching's book "The Cultural Revolution at the Margins. Chinese Socialism in Crisis" gives a fascinating account of a period that was decisive…
Image An anarchist in love with Mao’s China - Herbert Read’s ‘letters from China’ ... Plus a list of dubious accounts of ‘successful’ revolutions, from Russia to Rojava In the second year of the Great Leap Forward famine – in which perhaps 30 million…
Image State capitalism: the wages system under new management - Adam Buick & John Crump Adam Buick and John Crump's book critiquing the post-revolutionary Russian and Chinese economies as…
Image The mythology of the great proletarian cultural revolution and the Chinese ultra-left - Donald Parkinson An account and critique of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, which portrays the …
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…
Image Wild Lily - Wang Shih-wei Written in 1942 at the Communist base camp in Yenan, Wang Shih-wei criticises the hierarchical structure and privilege of the nascent Maoist…
