Cultural Revolution

Documentary about the killing of the school teacher Bian ZhongYun in the beginning of the formation of the Red Guards and the Cultural Revolution.

Yiching Wu's pathbreaking 2014 book, providing key insights into the contradictions of Mao-era…

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

Repost of an informative reflection on the lessons to be learned from China's "Cultural Revolution"…

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…

Detailed study into the rise and development of the Chinese 'ultra-left' during the Cultural Revolution which found itself often in highly…

The ghost of Bakunin appears in a Chinese courtroom to haunt bureaucratic Maoism! The incident described below occurred in the aftermath of the Chinese 'Cultural Revolution'. The power…

The Situationists analyse the Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. The Maoist regime was confronted with both faction fighting within its…

Cajo Brendel discusses the Chinese revolution and conflicts between the Chinese Communist Party and the working class and peasantry, and…