The following is a statement from the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Many U.S. progressives and liberals are supporting the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan opposition to the People’s Republic of China. So are George W. Bush, Rush Limbaugh, the CIA, and every...
A chronology of class struggle in China
1839-42: First Opium War. British imported tea from China, and in return exported opium from India into China. In 1839, the Chinese government destroys 20,000 chests of British opium and prohibits its use. Britain retaliates militarily. 1842: Treaty of...
For the defense of China against counterrevolution, imperialist intervention and dismemberment
The following document is the result of almost two years of deliberation and discussion by members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. It was first distributed as part of pre-convention discussion for the party’s 2006 convention. At that convention and then...
What do socialists defend in China today?
For almost two years, members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation undertook an internal educational campaign, discussion and review of the current government of the People’s Republic of China from the perspective of the struggle for socialism and the interests...
Zhang Chunqiao: Communist leader of China’s Cultural Revolution
Veteran Chinese communist Zhang Chunqiao died of throat cancer on April 21, 2005, at the age of 88. The official New China News Agency announced his death on May 10. Despite Zhang’s distinguished career as a communist theoretician and organizer, his death was given no...