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On China's 1989 Tiananmen Upheaval
Seymour, Joseph
http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/1070/tiananmen.htmlPublisher: Worrkers Vanguard Year Published: 2015 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX17902 The bourgeois media falsely portray the events in the spring of 1989 as a movement for capitalist counterrevolution under the banner of Western-style "democracy." The social explosion was triggered by protests initiated by students in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, which increasingly drew in groups of workers and spread throughout the country. Far from seeking a return to capitalism, Chinese workers overwhelmingly directed their anger at the sharply rising economic inequalities, rampant corruption and inflation encouraged by Deng’s program of "building socialism with capitalist methods." Subject Headings |