gang of four

Shenzhen, China February 21st, 1976 The truck rumbled on into the darkness with its headlights off so as not to alert a soul; its path was guided only by a small gas-powered lantern, which the man in the passenger seat hung out the window. Under the rumble of the engine, one could hear...

RED AUGUSTUS: the Cultural Revolution as a global revolution timeline (Painting by Cheng Conglin) Raise high the great red flag of Mao Zedong Thought, unite the Party Central and Chairman Mao, and crush all kinds of restraints and subversive plots of revisionism; to eliminate resolutely...

So as we know, the Gang of Four seized power in China in 1977, having purged the pragmatists like Hua Guofeng and reformists like Deng Xiaoping and Chen Yun a year earlier. The Cultural Revolution was still ongoing as of 1985, at the brink of the Second Chinese Civil War, and only officially...

Mainland China today has a population of 1,6 billion people, it has the 2nd largest army on earth, just behind the Russian one. it got one of the 10 most developed cities in asian (Hong Kong, since 1997). And is still so dissapointing, it's GDP is at the same level as Algeria, and China is...

For those not in the know, in the 1970s the British Labour Party moved further and further to the left, to the point where a "Gang of Four", four senior moderate Labour politicians split off from Labour to create the centrist Social Democratic Party, which then proceeded to form an electoral...