China
Theses on the class nature of the People's Republic of China
This resolution was adopted by the 18th Congress of the Democratic Socialist Party of Australia, held in Sydney, January 5-10, 1999.
I. Theoretical framework
1. For orthodox Marxists, as Lenin explained in his 1917 book The State and Revolution, the state is a centralised organisation of force separated from the community as a whole which enforces, through special bodies of armed people and other institutions of coercion, the will of one class, or an alliance of classes, upon the rest of society.
A preliminary report on China's capitalist restoration
By Liu Yufan
Liu Yufan is a leader of the Hong Kong socialist group Pioneer.
China: Our views and opinions of the current political landscape
A letter to General Secretary Hu [Jintao] from a group of veteran CCP
members, veteran cadres, veteran military personnel and intellectuals.
October 2004
Translated for Links with an introductory explanation
by Eva Cheng.
CONTENTS
A great opportunity to adjust the line
Not a question of 'ruling capability' but a question of the line
Our opinion on what sort of adjustment is needed on certain issues
Socialism and the market: China and Vietnam compared
By Michael Karadjis
This article first appeared in Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, No. 27, January-April 2005.