In June 1964, amid a massive crisis pregnant with revolutionary possibilities, the Pabloite LSSP entered into Madame Bandaranaike’s Sri Lanka Freedom Party government. This was the first time that a party claiming to be Trotskyist and historically associated with the Fourth International had entered into a bourgeois government.
Prophets Unarmed: Chinese Trotskyists in Revolution, War, Jail, and the Return from Limbo. Greg Benton editor. Brill Historical Materialism Series, 2015; Haymarket Books, 2017, xvii + 1289 pages, $55 paperback.
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Zheng Chaolin (1901-98), the veteran leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese Trotskyist movement, devoted his entire life to the cause of the liberation of the Chinese workers and peasants. Now at last Zheng Chaolin’s Selected Writings have been translated and published. Gregor Benton, who translated and edited these texts andProphets Unarmed (2015), deserves huge praise for making the writings available in English.