Volume 8, No. 4, April 2026
Editor: Rashed Rahman
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From the PMR Archives: December 2019
Is China still a revolutionary socialist country? – I
Rashed Rahman
Since Mao Tse Tung’s demise in 1976 and Deng Xiao Ping’s rise to paramount leader in 1978, China has been transformed in ways that have won open and enthusiastic acclaim by the capitalist world and even (sometimes grudging) admiration by Leftists globally.
From the PMR Archives: January 2020
Is China still a revolutionary socialist country? – II
Rashed Rahman
In the name of ‘socialist modernisation’, the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) since 1978 imposed markets on the economy by government fiat, forcibly broke up the communes in favour of family contracts on the land they tilled
From Marx to Mao – And After: V
Could the Rightist Coup have been prevented?
Ray Nunes
Overdoing Adulation
Of course, by this time a steadily growing anti-Mao campaign was underway, ostensibly to destroy the ‘cult’ that had grown up, which virtually accorded Mao divine status, in reality to prepare the ground for major policy reversals.
Remembrance
The Death and Life of Che
John J Simon
By the time Ernesto Che Guevara (1928-67) was executed on October 8, 1967 in La Higuera, Bolivia by soldiers under the direction of an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency, he had become a kind of ideological “fetish” for his Washington adversaries.
Marx and the Asiatic Mode of Production – II
Rashed Rahman
Marx and Engels say: “History does nothing, it possesses no immense wealth”, it “wages no battles. It is man, real living man that does all that, that possesses and fights; ‘history’ is not a person apart, using man as a means for its own particular aims; history is nothing but the activity of man pursuing his aims.”