Stalinism

China: is capitalist restoration inevitable? -- Eva Cheng

by Eva Cheng

[This article appeared in Links magazine Number 11, January-April, 1999. Eva Cheng is a left activist from Hong Kong, where she worked as a journalist for 10 years. Now living in Australia, at the time of writing she was a journalist for Green Left Weekly and a member of the Democratic Socialist Party, until expelled in May 2008.]

Theses on the class nature of the People's Republic of China -- DSP document

[This resolution was adopted by the 18th Congress of the Democratic Ssocialist Party of Australia, held in Sydney, January 5-10, 1999. It was printed in Links magazine Number 12, May-August 1999.]

Theories of the USSR in light of its collapse -- Barry Sheppard

by Barry Sheppard

[This article was published in Links magazine 18, May-August 2001.]

The collapse of “really existing socialism” in the USSR and Eastern Europe a decade ago came as a shock to all tendencies in the workers’ movement and the political representatives of the capitalist class worldwide. No-one predicted such an outcome beforehand—no-one alive, that is. Why was this so?

To answer this question, it would be useful to review the differing views on the character of the USSR.

The Class Nature of the Chinese State

By Doug Lorimer

[The general line of this report was adopted by the 18th DSP Congress, January 5-10, 1999.]

The purpose of this report is to motivate the adoption by the party of the "Theses on the Class Nature of the People's Republic of China" approved by the National Committee at its October plenum last year.

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