Schlagwort: China

  • Lynn Walsh: Kampuchea – Who is responsible?

    [Militant No. 478, 9th November 1979, p. 10] By Lynn Walsh Kampuchea [formerly Cambodia] is a devastated country. A majority of its remaining four to five million people face imminent starvation. Eighty or ninety per cent of the country’s children are suffering from malnutrition. Diseases like malaria, dysentery, and even anthrax – which can be…

  • Lynn Walsh: The Chinese Puzzle

    [Militant International Review, No 56, March 1994, p. 26-32] How can China’s ‘economic miracle’ and since Tiananmen, its apparent political stability, be explained? Lynn Walsh looks at The Chinese Puzzle. China, it seems, is different. Since 1989 the advanced capitalist countries have been experiencing recession and only feeble economic recoveries. Most of the economically underdeveloped…

  • Lynn Walsh: China: The First Act

    [Militant International Review, No 41, Autumn 1989, p. 27-30, 48] The bloody massacre in Tiananmen Square has provoked worldwide horror and anger. Lynn Walsh analyses the magnificent uprising against the bureaucracy, which marks the opening of China’s political revolution. The upsurge against the bureaucracy arose from a period of rapid economic growth. The political crisis…

  • Leo Trotzki: Brief an Frank Glass

    [29. Januar 1934, eigene Übersetzung des russischen Textes. Korrekturen von russischen Muttersprachler*innen wären sehr willkommen] 29. Januar 1934. Werter Genosse, Ihr Brief vom 20. Dezember und Ihr Bericht über die Lage in China sind für uns von riesigem Interesse. Ich bemühe mich, Ihren Bericht aus diesem oder jenem Blickwinkel für unsere internationale Presse zu verwenden.…

  • Lynn Walsh: Dengs Aufstieg an die Macht

    [Eigene Übersetzung des Artikels in „Militant“, 17. Oktober 1986, nachgedruckt in der Broschüre „China. The Tradition of Struggle“, Juni 1989, S. 27] Die Kulturrevolution begann im Wesentlichen als eine von Mao eingeleitete Säuberungsaktion gegen Spitzenpolitiker*innen wie Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping und die Gruppe, die den Apparat zu dieser Zeit beherrschte. Sie hatten Mao nach dem…

  • Lynn Walsh: Deng’s Rise to Power

    [Published in Militant, 17 October 1986, abbreviated reprint in the pamphlet China. The Tradition of Struggle, June 1989, p. 27] The Cultural Revolution began essentially as a purge launched by Mao against top leaders like Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping, and the group which dominated the apparatus at that time. They had excluded Mao from direct…

  • Peter Taaffe: The Cultural Revolution

    [Published in Militant, February 1967, Reprinted in the pamphlet China. The Tradition of Struggle, June 1989, p. 24-26] Within the last month events within China have taken a dramatic turn. Reports of fierce clashes between forces for and against Mao Zedong, strikes, allegations of ‘sabotage’ etc, have been splashed across the pages of the capitalist…

  • Peter Taaffe: The 1944-9 Revolution

    [Edited transcript of a speech given by Peter Taaffe at a Marxist education school in 1980, printed in the pamphlet China. The Tradition of Struggle, June 1989, p. 13-20] It is impossible to understand the Chinese Revolution of 1944-49 without charting, at least in broad outline, the events which followed the defeat of the revolution…

  • Peter Taaffe: The 1925-7 Revolution

    [Edited transcript of a speech given by Peter Taaffe at a Marxist education school in 1980, printed in the pamphlet China. The Tradition of Struggle, June 1989, p. 7-12] The Chinese revolution, particularly the revolution of 1925-27, is one of the greatest events in the whole history of mankind. Here was a people kept virtually…

  • Peter Taaffe: China

    [This pamphlet reproduces the three articles on China published in ‘Militant’ in July 1979. Some minor alterations and corrections have been added by the author. Printed August 1979] Contents The Meaning of the Cultural Revolution Workers Fight Bureaucratic Stranglehold The Foreign Policy of the Bureaucracy The Meaning of the Cultural Revolution There has been an…