Greg Benton is Greg is the acknowledged leading expert on the history of the Chinese Communist Party and especially China’s Trotskyist opposition and isEmeritus Professor at Cardiff University.Last month marked the centenary of the foundation of the Chinese Communist Party. Just a quarter of a century later, it was already in power. Today it is ruling a population of a billion and a half – almost … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2021
SOUTH AFRICA:
Debating a Workers' Programme for Reconstruction Less than three decades since the ANC came to power, South Africa has been convulsed by possibly the greatest upheaval in its history. Desperate poverty has driven tens of thousands in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng to looting, extensively and repeatedly. Trucks, factories and malls have been set alight, and ports and railways in KwaZulu-Natal … [Read more...]
Iran in Crisis
Aman Kafa (UCU member, Worker-Communist Party of Iran - Hekmatist [official line]) gives an up-to-date report and analysis of events from Iran.Three years ago, there were mass protests across more than eighty cities in Iran. Now the recent presidential election has exposed more clearly than ever the hollowness of the regime. Iran's new president is the "hanging judge" responsible in the 1980s for … [Read more...]