Chinese Revolution

An article examining the connections between Chen Jiongming and the Chinese anarchist movement in the wake of the Xinhai revolution.

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.

Seventy years ago, on 1 October 1949, the People's Republic of China was proclaimed by Mao. Here we…

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…

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…

Wu Yiching's book "The Cultural Revolution at the Margins. Chinese Socialism in Crisis" gives a fascinating account of a period that was decisive…

In the second year of the Great Leap Forward famine – in which perhaps 30 million…

Adam Buick and John Crump's book critiquing the post-revolutionary Russian and Chinese economies as…

An account and critique of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, which portrays the …

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…

Written in 1942 at the Communist base camp in Yenan, Wang Shih-wei criticises the hierarchical structure and privilege of the nascent Maoist…