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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. -> read article... |
Germany
Reds, greens and ’reform’After 16 years of the liberal-conservative government of Helmut Kohl - which were, particularly at the end, ’years of lead’ - the electoral victory of the Social Democratic and Green coalition (SPD, Grünen) in autumn 1998, had engendered a certain climate of optimism, above all in trade union circles. -> read article... |
Fifteenth World Congress
For lesbian and gay liberationThe unanimous vote in favour of the resolution on lesbian/gay liberation at the Fourth International’s 15th World Congress culminated almost five years of work, and marked a big step forward in the International’s lesbian/gay work. -> read article... |
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