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The Longest Night

Gregor Benton — 2024-11-27T12:17:40Z

The Longest Night: Three Generations of Chinese Trotskyists in Defeat, Jail, Exile, and Diaspora, Editors/Translators: Gregor Benton and Yang Yang, with an introduction by Gregor Benton.

This sequel to Prophets Unarmed delves into the tumultuous journey of Chinese Trotskyism after 1949, tracing its evolution through defeat, exile, and diaspora, while showcasing the enduring relevance of its revolutionary ideals through memoirs, theoretical writings, and historical analyses; this extract is taken from the introduction by Gregor Benton.

- Features / Fourth International, China

China's New Left: The Revival of Lost Traditions

Gregor Benton — 2023-02-27T22:38:50Z

But although the political reawakening of some young people in China and the Chinese diaspora is potentially important, their movement is only just beginning

- IV577 - February 2023 / China, Historical events and figures

Assessing Deng Xiaoping

Gregor Benton — 2019-01-30T10:27:21Z

Deng Xiaoping was one of the most important Communist leaders of the twentieth century. Celebrated by the West for his pro-market reforms, leftists should be more skeptical of his accomplishments.

- Reviews section / China, Reviews, Historical events and figures

Malaysia's “Second Emergency” (1968–89)

Gregor Benton — 2018-06-13T14:34:12Z

The impact of revolutionary developments in Vietnam and China on the May events of 1968 in France and other Western countries has long been acknowledged. Less notice has been paid outside Asia to their repercussions on other Southeast Asian countries, which also experienced a revolutionary high tide in 1968. The upsurge of armed struggle in Malaysia in 1968 is rarely mentioned in general studies on the period, and is not often talked about even in Malaysia.

- Features / Malaysia, Historical events and figures, 1968

Wang Fanxi

Gregor Benton, Pierre Rousset — 2003-03-07T00:00:00Z

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.

- IV348 - March 2003 / Obituary, Fourth International, China