massacre of April 12th.
He was in Wuhan in July 1927 when Stalin's policy of continued collaboration with a 'left splinter' of the Kuomintang led to another massacre;
towards ultra-leftism, as 'Third Period Stalinism' which lasted until 1934.
Corrupted bv Stalinism in his first serious experience of the workers' movement. ine young, talented Chou became converted into ine prototype' or ine runctionaryadventurer, exchanging this role in 1949 for the even less admirable one or runctionary-daministrator• nientionis or nis carrer Dear out InIs narsn lucement. Chiang Kai shek Chou's greatest personal triumphs were dil inspire einer ov obeisance Stalinist machine or by the Lone effort to conciliate and join together different classes, internationally.
Mao's disgrace, the Autumn Harvest Uprising of 1927, Chou became the chief lieutenant of Li Li-san, the Stalin-appointed jead or ine party arter is tounding leaders, such as Ch'en Tu-hsiu and Peng Shuuse. were made scarecoaston failure of Stalin's policies in China.
ven L was ourced.
Chou adroitly switched loyalties to ine new Moscow on crac of Wang Ming. ¡hatcher mant in removino mao trom the post of military commissar of the so-called Kianasi soviet in August 1932 (Chou was rewarded by being given the post himself). however, just as supple in dropping his former leaders and submitting to Mao when at the Tsunyi conference in January 1935, into North China, eeded in defeating Wang Ming & taking over the party leadership.
Following the Seventh Congress of the Comintern in the summer of 1935 (wnich elected boin mao and chou to the Comintern Executive Committee), Cnou toune nis true niche as the ablest Chinese practitioner class-collaborationist reopie's rront line. His most famous single exploit ot the 1930s was his intervention in December 1936 to save the life of Chian Kai-shek after the revolutionary 'generalissimo' had been arrested by his own troops at sian tor sabotaging the resistence to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
known later Idea suc ane The both nationally & During the period of ionary: seeking to use the atter the tallure ot Ine in vanuary 1931, Chou acted as Wang's in July 1946, war thate utimatev lost Chou Chou was "New Democracy'), during the Long March Mao's taction succthe Korean war.
This true calling as the of the Chou. in fact, At the war's end in 1945 Chou again distinguished himself as the most energetic collaborator of American generals Hurley and Marshall in trying to persuade Chiang Kai-shek to accept the CCP as junior partner in his government. This was typical of the outlook of the Stalinist functmassive forces accumulated by the CCP in the anti-Japanese struggle as a bargaining counter in an effort to bring together the contending classes. It was through no fault of Chou's or of General Marshall's that this reinte•ramon tune cur-nelorerr¡tories into Chiang's government talled. It was ine aristocrarc and obdurate Chiang who launched military offensive against the CCP precipitating the civil entrusted by the CCP regime after 1949 with the abortive attempt to organise a capitalist coalition government (the explicit political content of Mao's heralded project that collapsed only in 1953 under the pressure of bourgeois sabotage of the government and economy during 'Peaceful Coexistence' From the early 1950s, Chou found diplomatic arbiter of Stalinist 'peaceful existencel with world capitalism. As the Chinese representative to the Geneva conference in 1954.he tried to placate Washington by pressurina the Vietnamese to concede to ine French the reoccupation of the south of their country after the Vietnamese military victory at Dien Bien Phu.
is credited for being the initiator of the formula - 'two Vietnams! - which laid the basis for ine genocidal American aggression of the 1960s and 1970s.
Chou's next 'triumph' was at the Bandung conference in 1955 where he hobnobbed with Nehru, Sukarno and other 'unaligned' bourgeois leaders •t ine semi-colonial woron involved here was not simply China's attemot to •reach ine American embargo or to offer support to oppressed nations fighting for genuine independence from imperialist domination. The something more Chou ottered that was characteristic of Stalinist diplomacy was реасети co-exisience witn capilalist regimes in exchange for trade ana alplomatic concessions.
The meaning of this formulation has since the Cultural Revolution. Under China has explicitly enous quidance. withdrawn support from revolutionary movements in countries whose governments are friendiv with rekind. examples range from Sri Lanka, where nou come mented une sandaranairt regime on its efficiency in suppressing its radicalised youth to Chile some years later where China was among the first governments in the world to recognise the military dictatorship of General Pinochet.
For the international working class, the Chinese • revolution remains a major progressive accomplishment. But the motor forces of the Chinese revolution do not reside in functionaries like Mao or Chou who were in the immensely powerful mass movement of the workers & peasants who will again resume their march toBased on an article by Les Evans in INTERCONTINENTAL PRESS as British Leyland.
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he took part in the Nanchang Uprising of August 1927 which marked a turn