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The communist political movement that devastated China decades ago is unfolding in America, warned Xi Van Fleet.

To this day, I am not sure why the Chinese government approved my request to visit the PRC in the summer of 1966.On a hot and humid early August Sunday, a fellow student from the University of Hawaii and I walked across the border in Hong Kong at Lo Wu to the then-sleepy village of Shenzhen, where we boarded a train to Guangzhou. We were to spend three weeks in China visiting

An account and critique of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, which portrays the "revolution" as a factional squabble within the Communist Party bureaucracy which enabled the working class to begin to assert themselves as an independent force for a time before being crushed by the state.

A short history of a short-lived uprising of coal miners in Croatia following an attack by Italian fascists, by Steven Johns.

The “voluntary” insurance at the entrance had cost just two yuan, about thirty-five cents, but I had been fleeced all the way from Beijing and somehow this was the final straw. Why did everything have to be so crass and commercialized? I whined to myself. I knew the answers—all the nuanced reasons why so many religious sites in China had been reduced to a carnival—but was in

Bright Sheng is a much-honored Chinese-American professor of music composition at the University of Michigan.

A short account of the Anarchist Black Guards and their suppression by the Bolsheviks in Moscow in 1918

<strong>John the Revelator</strong> | Fight Club captured the radical zeitgeist of American culture with prescient imagery echoing 9/11.

Alongside the Russian workers' attempts to create socialism -- not as some abstract far-off utopia in a political party program, but through confronting and changing the concrete reality of their everyday life -- were the activities of socialist parties, supposedly sympathetic to working class aspirations. This pamphlet tells the story of the Russian workers' struggle, in particular the efforts of the factory committees.