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Some of the more popular pages

Obituary

Wang Fanxi

(1907-2002)

On December 30, 2002, the Chinese Trotskyist leader Wang Fanxi died of heart failure in Leeds, Britain, aged 95. Born in Xiashi near Hangzhou in 1907, he joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1925, abandoning his literature studies at Beijing University for the revolution. In 1931, he was expelled from the CCP and helped set up the Left Opposition led by Chen Duxiu, the CCP’s founder and a giant of modern Chinese thought and letters.

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Asian Social Forum

A great movement is born

The first Asian Social Forum (ASF) - just-concluded - saw a unique confluence of grassroots social movements, people’s organizations and radical NGOs which interrogate globalization and counter pose equality, human rights and justice to the shop-worn agendas of trans-national big business.

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Debate

Towards a new International?

The ’Fifth International’ is not the "spectre haunting Europe and the world" of which Marx wrote in the ’Communist Manifesto’, but is an idea that is beginning to circulate.

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