Socialist Appeal
The Marxist voice of Labour and youth
Today marks 100 years since the foundation of the Chinese Communist Party. Daniel Morley examines the history of the CCP, its role in the Chinese revolutions of the 1920s and 1949, and the party’s conversion to capitalism in recent decades.
On 4th June 1989, the mass movement of students and workers in Tiananmen Square that had shaken the Chinese regime was repressed into submission. Daniel Morley looks at the lessons of these titanic events.
China, from Permanent Revolution to Counter Revolution, a new book written by John Peter Roberts and published by Well Red books, charts the development of the Chinese Communist Party from its founding to the reintroduction of capitalism. We publish here the foreword to the book by Fred Weston of the IMT.
In the final part of his series on the development of Maoism, Daniel Morley looks at the impact of the Japanese invasion of China and the hated Chiang Kai-shek regime, which caused a shift to the left in Chinese society that was reflected by growing support for the Chinese Communist Party.
The question of the Chinese revolution would be an unsolvable riddle if abstracted from the world revolution and imperialism. In the latest part of his series on the history of the Chinese Communist Party and the development of Maoism, Daniel Morley looks at the impact of world events on the revolutionary process inside China.