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New and Recent Postings
BannedThought.net has now existed for a number of years and over that time it has gotten quite large with many postings from numerous countries which are spread across many separate web pages. And it continues to expand. At the suggestion of a friend of this site we have set up this index page with links to specific pages where new material has recently been posted. From now on, whenever any significant new postings are made anywhere on this site, this index page will also be updated. For that reason, when visitors come to this site they may want to first check this page.
2020 April 12 — Added the 4 missing 1976 issues of China Reconstructs magazine, plus one from 1952. The 100-page November-December 1976 issue is especially noteworthy. It is the memorial issue upon the death of Mao Zedong and includes a large number of photos of Mao throughout his life.
China/Magazines/China Reconstructs Page2020 April 3 — Added two contemporary books about the China’s economy before and during the Cultural Revolution: The Chinese Economy, by Jan Deleyne (1973), and Cultural Revolution and Industrial Organization in China: Changes in Management and the Division of Labor, by Charles Bettelheim (1974). (Both from the Internet Archive.)
China: Mao Era/Cultural Revolution Page, in the Contemporary Foreign Commentary section.2020 April 1 — Added two statements by the Communist Party of Greece (marxist-leninist), in English and German, on the corona virus pandemic and on the murder of the Filipino revolutionary Julius Giron and his wife.
Greece Page2020 March 27 — Added book The Cultural Revolution at Peking University, by Victor Nee with Don Layman, (1969).
China: Mao Era/Cultural Revolution Page, in the Contemporary Foreign Commentary section.2020 March 26 — Added the book “The Interkit Story: A Window into the Final Decaades of the Sino-Soviet Relationship” by James Hershberg, et al., (2011), a collection of documents from meetings by leaders of the state-capitalist Soviet Union with other revisionist parties, to promote an ideological campaign of propaganda and disinformation against Mao and China.
USSR Page, in the State-Capitalism/Criticism of China section.2020 March 15 — Added 2 collections of Lenin’s writings: Lenin On the Paris Commune and Lenin on Youth.
USSR Page.2020 March 13 — Added the book Inside a People’s Commune, by Chu Li & Tien Chieh-yun, (Peking: 1974).
China in the Mao Era Page, in the Countryside section.2020 March 6 — Added a dozen or more documents from or about Vietnam, mostly from the 1960s-1970s, during the period of the U.S. imperialist war against Vietnam (and the other countries in the region). Included are some more writings by Ho Chi Minh, Truong Chinh and General Vo Nguyen Giap, as well a number of documents about the vicious U.S. imperialist war itself.
Vietnam Page2020 March 1 — Added November 2019 interview of Jose Maria Sison on “Questions on Mao Zedong Thought/Maoism”. Includes criticisms of Gonzalo-ites, Alain Badiou, and some other academics who claim to be Maoists.
Philippines/CPP Page2020 February 29 — Added a number of recent magazines published by the Communist Party of India (Maoist):
Two issues of the Maoist Information Bulletin (#37 & #38), in English at: India/CPIMIB Page;
One new issue of Kranti [“Revolution”] in Telugu at: India/Kranti Page;
One new issue of Praja Vimukthi [“People’s Liberation”] in Telugu at: India/Praja Vimukthi Page;
And one issue of Janapath in Hindi at: India/Janapath Page2020 February 19 — Added book “上海工人美术作品选” [“Selection of Artistic Works by Shanghai Workers”], (Shanghai: 1974), a great collection of revolutionary paintings, with captions in Chinese.
China in the Mao Era Page, in the Arts/Painting section.2020 February 7 — Added new issue of “People’s March” (February 2020).
India/People’s March Page2020 February 6 — Added several academic documents criticizing the different regimes in Camboda (Kampuchea) since 1975, including the Pol Pot regime (1975-1979), the ten-year domination of Cambodia by Vietnam (1979-1989), and the vicious Hun Sen comprador regime which has existed since then.
Cambodia Page2020 February 4 — Added the article “The So-called ‘Lenin Testament’” by W. B. Bland (1991).
USSR Page, in the Lenin section.2020 February 1 — Added statement, “No Involvement of Our Country in the War in Libya!”, by the Communist Party of Greece (marxist-leninist), in English and German, January 2020.
Greece Page2020 January 4 — Added section on the Australia Page for documents, statements and other materials from the Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) with numerous initial items.
Australia Page
2019 December 25 — Added essay by Jose Maria Sison on the question of the “universality of People’s War”, and also about 20 recent issues of Ang Bayan published by the Communist Party of the Philippines.
Philippines/CPP Page2019 December 24 — Added 5 issues of the old RCP,USA theoretical journal Revolution (from 1977 & 1980) at:
U.S.A./RCP/Journals Page; and about 15 more issues of the Revolutionary Worker newspaper (from the 1980s & 1990s) at: U.S.A./RCP/RW Page2019 December 10 — Added two Comintern documents from the 1930s and also some academic papers about the Comintern (Communist International).
Comintern Page2019 December 8 — Added 3 academic papers about the Communist movement in Japan, the anti-Communist violence of the Japanese state, and the Japanese Communist attitude toward the Chinese revolution in the Interwar period.
Japan Page2019 December 8 — Added the book We are Neither Visionaries nor Utopian Dreamers: Willi Münzenberg, the League Against Imperialism, and the Comintern, 1925-1933, by Fredrik Petersson (2013).
Germany Page2019 December 4 — Added statement, “Stop the massacre of the Bolivian people!”, by the Communist Party of Greece (marxist-leninist), November 2019.
Greece Page2019 November 17 — Added book Understanding Maoists: Notes of a Participant Observer from Andhra Pradesh, by N. Venugopal (2013).
India General Information Page.2019 November 16 — Added Guerra Popular en el Peru, el Pensamiento Gonzalo (1989) and several other documents by or about the revolutionary war in Peru during the 1980s. (In Spanish or English.)
Peru Page2019 November 8 — Added Message from the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) for December 2nd, in Hindi and Telugu. (English version not yet available.)
India/CPI-Maoist Documents Page2019 October 29 — Added latest issue of Lal Pathaka, the Hindi edition of the theoretical journal People’s War published by the Communist Party of India (Maoist), #15 (June 2019). [The English and Telugu editions were previously posted.]
India/CPI (Maoist) People’s War Page2019 October 10 — Added Red Star, issue #4 (Summer 2019), published by the Revolutionary United Front (U.S.A.).
U.S.A./Revolutionary United Front Page.2019 September 24 — Added some of recent statements by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) including the CC message on the 50th anniversary of the Party. In addition, the important volume Political and Organisational Review, adopted by the CPI(Maoist) at its 9th (Unity) Congress in 2007 is now available on BT for the first time (in English, Hindi and Telugu).
India/CPI-Maoist Documents Page2019 September 23 — Added a recent issue of Kranti [“Revolution”] magazine in Telugu at: India/Kranti Page
2019 September 23 — Added brief report of actions in Thessaloniki, Greece, exposing and condemning Hindu fascism in India.
Greece Page, in the Other Reports section.2019 September 22 — Added two issues of the theoretical journal People’s War published by the Communist Party of India (Maoist), #15 (June 2019) and also an older issue #8 (July 2012).
India/CPI (Maoist) People’s War Page2019 September 15 — Added statement, “The Planet is Burning! Capitalism-Imperialism Destroys!”, by the Communist Party of Greece (marxist-leninist) about the massive forest fires currently aflame in Brazil and around the world.
Greece Page2019 September 7 — Added a pamphlet by the Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist from around 1991, and also an independent article summarizing the early Communist movement in Turkey.
Turkey Page2019 September 6 — Added two pictorial volumes about Tibet published in 1956: One about the visit of the Dalai and Panchen lamas to Beijing [in Chinese & Tibetan], the other about the opening of the first road to Lhasa in 1953 [in German].
China in the Mao Era Page, in the Nationalities section.2019 August 27 — Added new statements in support of the Kashmir people by the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), in Hindi and Telugu.
India/CPI-Maoist Documents Page2019 August 19 — Added new issue of “People’s March” (August 2019).
India/People’s March Page2019 August 2 — Added the Turkish language edition of Selected Works of Ibrahim Kapakkaya. (The English language translation is already posted.) Also added several recent issues (in Turkish) of the central organ of the TKP/ML.
Turkey Page2019 July 27 — Added the July 2019 issue of Maoist Outlook and two recent statements by the Communist Party of Nepal (Revolutionary Maoist), along with a large number of recent issues of their newspaper Bargadristi (in Nepali).
Nepal/CPN (Revolutionary Maoist) Page2019 July 24 — Added the 50-volume set of “Works” of Kim Il Sung, together with some individual statements of his, along with a number of recent magazines from the DPRK (North Korea).
Korea (DPRK) Page2019 July 22 — Added a news article about fascist government actions in Indonesia: “Sing a Protest Song or Insult a Company? In Indonesia, Go to Jail”.
Indonesia Page2019 July 12 — Added English translation of the Declaration of the First Party Congress of the TKP/ML.
Turkey Page2019 July 5 — Added some pamphlets about the Soviet Union, from both the socialist period and the state-capitalist, social-imperialist period.
USSR Page.2019 June 20 — Added the book The Pattern of Soviet Power, by Edgar Snow (1945), focusing on the Soviet Union in World War II, but with chapters on China, Eastern Europe, etc.
Journalists Page, in the Edgar Snow section.2019 June 20 — Added the pamphlet “Impressions of Taching Oilfield”, by Chiang Shan-hao, (Peking: FLP, 1978).
China in the Mao Era Page, in China’s Socialist Economy section.2019 June 12 — Added a statement from the Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan.
Afghanistan Page.2019 June 12 — Added A Marxist Looks at the History of Ceylon, by N. Sanmugathasan, 1974.
Sri Lanka Page, in the Sanmugathasan section.2019 June 11 — Added several statements from the Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist, including two statements about their recent First Party Congress held in April 2019.
Turkey Page2019 June 7-8 — Added a large number of statements from the Communist Party of India (Maoist) in English, Hindi, and/or Telugu, mostly from 2017 and 2018.
India/CPI-Maoist Documents Page2019 June 6 — Added 5 statements from the Communist Party of India (Maoist) in English, Hindi, and/or Telugu; 2 from 2019, and 3 from earlier years.
India/CPI-Maoist Documents Page2019 June 5 — Added recent issues of two more magazines published by the Communist Party of India (Maoist):
Three issues of the theoretical journal People’s War in English, Telugu (and in one case also in Hindi): #12, #13 & #14, at: India/CPI (Maoist) People’s War Page;
Three issues of the Maoist Information Bulletin in English, #33, #34 and #36, at: India/MIB Page2019 June 3 — Added a number of recent magazines published by the Communist Party of India (Maoist):
Four issues of Prabhat [“Dawn”] in Hindi at: India/Prabhat Page;
One new issue of Kranti [“Revolution”] in Telugu at: India/Kranti Page;
Five issues of Praja Vimukthi [“People’s Liberation”] in Telugu at: India/Praja Vimukthi Page2019 June 1 — Added the book Maoist Economics and the Revolutionary Road to Communism: The Shanghai Textbook, ed. with an Introduction and Afterword by Raymond Lotta, (NY: 1994). This is the portion of the famous Shanghai Textbook of Maoist political economy devoted to the political economy of socialism specifically.
U.S.A./RCP Page, in the “Works by Other Prominent Members” section. Direct link.2019 May 30 — Added Aeschylus and Athens: A Study of the Social Origins of Drama (3rd ed.), by George Thomson.
Britain Page, in the CPGB Books and Pamphlets section.2019 May 27 — Added Red Star, issue #3 (Spring 2019), published by the Revolutionary United Front (U.S.A.).
U.S.A./Revolutionary United Front Page.2019 May 27 — Added new issue of “People’s March” (April 2019).
India/People’s March Page2019 May 25 — Added a number of old pamphlets and documents of the CPUSA from the 1930s to 1950s, showing their revisionist degeneration during this period, and for reference purposes.
U.S.A./CPUSA Page2019 April 2-7 — Added more than a dozen different statements and documents from the Communist Party of India (Maoist) from 2019 and 2018, and in various languages including English, Hindi, Telugu and Gondi.
India/CPI-Maoist Documents Page2019 March 27 — Added 3 recent issues of Ang Bayan (in English and/or Pilipino), and two older issues (one from 1972!). Ang Bayan is published by the Communist Party of the Philippines.
Philippines/CPP Page2019 March 25 — Added all the available documents and statements issued by Mass Proletariat, an MLM organization in the United States, from its beginnings in 2016 up to the present. Some multimedia materials also posted.
U.S.A./Mass Proletariat Page.2019 March 15 — Added the book “The Call of the Fledgling and Other Children’s Stories”, by Hao Jan, (Peking: 1974).
China in the Mao Era Page, Children’s literature section.2019 March 6 — Finished posting all the issues of Zhao Xia (Morning Glow) magazine from 1974-1976, in Chinese. This was an important journal of revolutionary literature and criticism published in Shanghai during the late Cultural Revolution period.
China/Magazines/Zhao Xia (Morning Glow) Page2019 February 25 — Finished posting all the 37 issues of Xuexi Yu Pipan (Study and Criticism) magazine we have, published by the Communist Party of China in Shanghai from 1973-1976, in Chinese.
China/Magazines/Study and Criticism Page2019 February 24 — Added 4 recent issues of Ang Bayan (in English and/or Pilipino), published by the Communist Party of the Philippines.
Philippines/CPP Page2019 February 13 — Added 2 recent statements by Jose Maria Sison, the founding chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines.
Philippines/CPP Page2019 February 12 — Added two issues of Xuexi Yu Pipan (Study and Criticism) magazine, published by the Communist Party of China in Shanghai from 1973-1976, in Chinese.
China/Magazines/Study and Criticism Page2019 February 11 — Added an issue of the China Policy Study Group Broadsheet, Vol. 7, #8, Aug. 1970.
China Policy Study Group Page2019 February 5 — Added the issue of China Pictorial magazine from March 20, 1959. This is a scan of the personal copy of this issue owned by W. E. B. Du Bois, and includes an article about the recent visit by him and his wife to revolutionary China.
China/Magazines/China Pictorial Page2019 February 3 — Added statement by the Communist Party of the Philippines, “On the Social Media and Website Attacks” (Feb. 2, 2019) about how the Philippine government is attempting to block and/or corrupt public statements and documents of the CPP.
Philippines/CPP Page2019 January 30 — Added 22 issues of the Communist Party of Nepal (Revolutionary Maoist) newspaper Bargadristi (in Nepali), from August 2018 through January 2019.
Nepal/CPN (Revolutionary Maoist) Page2019 January 26 — Added news article “Seven Maoist Students Detained in Beijing After Talking to Foreign Media”.
China in the Capitalist Era Page2019 January 14 — Added the pamphlet “Survey of the Japanese Communist Party” (1952), by the American anti-Communist writer J.P. Napier, who was part of the American Occupation of Japan after World War II.
Japan Page.2019 January 13 — Added the book Assignment China: An American journalist’s Report of Four Years in Red China, by Julian Schuman (1956), in WinDjView format.
China/Contemporary Commentary (Misc.) Page.2019 January 11 — Added the book Four Months of War (Shanghai: 1937), by the North China Daily News, representing the perspective of British and other foreigners living in China about the war. Surprisingly, at this early point in the war, it seems almost “neutral” in its attitude toward the Japanese attack!
China/Pre1949 Page (in the War with Japan section).2019 January 9 — Added the book Yo Banfa! (1952), by Rewi Alley.
China/Individuals Page (in the Rewi Alley section).2019 January 6 — Added Red Star, issue #2 (Winter 2019), published by the Revolutionary United Front (U.S.A.).
U.S.A./Revolutionary United Front Page.2019 January 1 — Added the document by the Communist Party of the Philippines, “Celebrate the Party’s 50th Anniversary and Lead the Philippine Revolution to Greater Victories” (Dec. 26, 2018); and also an essay by Jose Maria Sison on the 50th anniversary of the CPP; and about 10 of the most recent issues of the CPP news magazine Ang Bayan.
Philippines/CPP Page
2018 December 31 — Added the article “What Does It Mean to Be a Marxist? Hari Sharma and the Marxist Tradition” (2013) by Jan Myrdal.
Journalists Page, Jan Myrdal section.2018 December 30 — Recently posted about 3 dozen more issues of the RCPUSA newspaper Revolutionary Worker, mostly from the early 1980s.
USA/RCP/RW Index Page2018 December 29 — Added news article “Marxist Students Detained, Manhandled by Security Guards at Peking University”, about further attempts by the fascist regime in China to suppress all revolutionary ideas and activity.
China in the Capitalist Era Page2018 December 28 — Added news item “Maoists in Kerala Shun Mobile Phones to Prevent Tracking by Agencies” from the newspaper The New Indian Express.
India/CPI-Maoist Documents Page, in the News Reports section.2018 December 27 — Added news article “Chinese Police Detain Marxist Student Leader on Mao’s Birthday”, about how a student leader at Peking University was arrested on his way to a memorial meeting he had helped organize for the 125th anniversary of the birth of Mao Zedong. Also posted on the same page is the new issue of the bourgeois journal Made In China, with an article about the pro-Mao Jasic Workers Mobilization movement in China.
China in the Capitalist Era Page2018 December 26 — Added statement by the Communist Party of Greece (marxist-leninist) about the announced U.S. withdrawal of troops from Syria.
Greece Page2018 December 18 — Added news article “Turkey Leads the World in Jailing of Journalists” (Dec. 13, 2018).
Turkey Page (in the Press Freedom section).2018 December 8 — Added a collection of Mao’s “In Camera” statements from 1943-1966 (most being from the late 1950s), unofficial translations of a Red Guard collection from the early GPCR.
China/Individuals Page (in the Mao section).2018 December 6 — Added Letter from Mao to Jiang Qing (July 8, 1966) and a large number of speeches by Lin Biao from 1966-1970.
China/Individuals Page (in the Mao and Lin Biao sections).2018 December 5 — Added statement condemning the censorship of BannedThought.net in India issued by the International Relations Section of the Communist Party of Greece (marxist-leninist). [We at BannedThought.net thank the CPG(m-l) for this condemnation of such political censorship in India! We also thank other organizations and individuals for their comments about this banning of BannedThought.net.]
Greece Page2018 November 19 — Added “A Glimpse at the Joint Statement of the Eight Latin American Maoist Parties and Organizations”, a critical commentary by the Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan, June 2018.
Afghanistan Page2018 November 14 — Added new section on India page for miscellaneous banned books and documents in the Telugu language.
India/Telugu-Docs Page2018 November 13 — Added news article “Police Detain Maoist Labor Activists on Campuses Across China”, as the work initiated by young Maoists in the Jasic Workers’ Solidarity Group wins support throughout China.
China in the Capitalist Era Page2018 November 12 — Put announcement on BannedThought.net home page of the impending blocking of this website in India (at least with regard to the material about India).
BT Home Page.2018 November 11 — Edgar Snow’s China: A Personal Account of the Chinese Revolution Compiled from the Writings of Edgar Snow (1981), by Lois Wheeler Snow, with hundreds of rare photographs.
Journalists Page, Edgar Snow section.2018 November 6 — Added news item “Ganapathy Steps Down as Maoist Chief” from the newspaper Telangana Today.
India/CPI-Maoist Documents Page, in the News Reports section.2018 November 2 — Added 5 documents about the Maoist movement in Bangladesh from 2004, 2005 and 2013.
Bangladesh Page2018 October 30 — Added news article “Cornell Cuts Ties With Chinese School After Crackdown on Students”, about how the stuggle of Chinese workers led by young Maoists in China has generated student support at Chinese universities, how this in turn has led to punishment for students by the bourgeois authorities, and then to international criticism of that fascist-like punishment.
China in the Capitalist Era Page2018 October 27 — Added the large book The Battle for Asia (1941), by Edgar Snow.
Journalists Page, Edgar Snow section.2018 October 26 — Added news article “Maoists Call on China’s Official Union to Stand Up for Workers”, in the continuing story of the Chinese government’s attempted fascist suppression of the Jasic Workers’ Solidarity Group and other working class struggles. Also, a new issue of Made In China magazine has been posted on the same web page.
China in the Capitalist Era Page2018 October 23 — Added Red Star, issue #1 (Sept. 2018), published by the Revolutionary United Front (U.S.A.).
U.S.A./Revolutionary United Front Page.2018 October 22 — Added “Liu Hu-lan” (1978), a book for young people (and everyone!) with beautiful paintings by Meng Ching-chiang, about a brave young woman who died for the people in 1947 at the age of just 16.
China/MaoEra Page in the Children’s Literature section.2018 October 21 — Added India’s Simmering Revolution: The Naxalite Uprising, by Sumanta Banerjee (1984).
India General Information Page.2018 October 21 — Added China Pictorial, 1952, #2 and #3 in DJVU format.
China/Magazines/ChinaPictorial Page2018 October 20 — Added Jangalnama: Travels in a Maoist Guerilla Zone, by Satnam (2010).
India General Information Page.2018 October 18 — Added Scripting the Change: Selected Writings of Anuradha Ghandy (2011).
India/CPI-Maoist Documents Page, in the Books section.2018 October 16 — Added China Pictorial, 1952, #1 (January) in DJVU format.
China/Magazines/ChinaPictorial Page2018 October 9 — Added “How Can Socialism Ensure the Full Liberation of Women?” (1997), by Joan Hinton.
China/MaoEra Page in the Women’s Liberation section.2018 October 9 — Added new Chile page, with the “Open Letter of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Chile to the Communist Party of China” (1977), and a document about the CIA machinations in Chile in 1970.
Chile Page2018 October 8 — Added Social Imperialism: The Soviet Union Today (1977), a collection of articles from Peking Review in 1975-1976.
China/MaoEra/Great Debate Page2018 October 7 — Added “Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement”, by Anuradha Gandhi, c. 2006.
MLM-Theory in the Women’s Liberation section.2018 October 6 — Added “The Revisionism of Jose Maria Sison” by the Mass Proletariat organization (U.S.A.).
Philippines/CPP Page, in the Sison section.2018 September 26 — Added the book Engels as a Military Critic (his articles on military affairs from the 1860s); and a book about Engels’s Origin of the Family, Property and the State.
MLM-Theory in the War & Peace, and State and Class Dictatorships sections.2018 September 24 — Added “Marx, Engels and Lenin on the Dictatorship of the Proletariat” (Peking: 1975); and The Dictatorship of the Proletariat, articles and extracts from the works of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin (NY: International, 1936).
MLM-Theory in the State and Class Dictatorships section.2018 September 22 — Added several documents used for political study by the erstwhile Communist Party of India (M-L) [People’s War], including: “Caste Question in India—Our Perspective”; A History of India; “Outline History of the Communist Party of India—Before Naxalbari” (by Prakash); “Marxist Philosophy—An Introduction”; “Marxist Political Economy—Introductory Course”; and “Our Approach to the Women’s Question”.
CPI(ML)[PW]/Educational Materials Page2018 September 22 — Added several issues of Ang Bayan, the twice-monthly organ of the Communist Party of the Philippines, some in English, some in Pilipino (Filipino).
Philippines/CPP Page2018 September 20 — Added “China’s Emerging Role in the International Financial System”, speech by Chen Yuan, Governor of the China Development Bank, Nov. 10, 2008.
China in the Capitalist Era Page2018 September 19 — Added “Selected Translations On Rightist Opportunism in Communist China”, 3 articles from 1959 translated by the U.S. JPRS from the Chinese language journal Political Study.
China/Magazines Page2018 September 18 — Added “Stop U.S. Germ Warfare! Part II”, (Peking: 1952). About American bacteriological warfare during the Korean War.
China Foreign Policy Page2018 September 18 — Added “A Chronicle of Principal Events Relating to the Indo-China Question, 1940-1954”, translated from the Chinese language magazine World Culture, and issued as a pamphlet in 1954.
China Foreign Policy Page2018 September 18 — Added “More on the Historical Experience of the Proletarian Dictatorship”, by the Communist Party of China, Dec. 29, 1956. Focuses on the question of Stalin.
China-USSR “Great Debate” Page2018 September 15 — Added Glimpses of West Africa, by Feng Chih-tan, (Peking: FLP, 1963).
China Foreign Policy Page2018 September 13 — Added Lenin on Imperialism and Imperialists (1973).
MLM-Theory/Political Economy of Capitalism Page2018 September 10 — Added Selections from V. I. Lenin and J. V. Stalin on the National and Colonial Question.
MLM-Theory in the National Question section.2018 September 1-9 — Added 5 new issues of New Albania magazines, 1971, #3-6, and 1972, #1.
Albania Page2018 August 26 — Added The Ivory Comb (1968), a collection of 7 short stories by 5 different Vietnamese writers, issued by an anti-imperialist publishing house in South Vietnam.
Vietnam Page2018 August 20-25 — Posted 8 additional issues of China Reconstructs magazine from 1979, and also provided conversions of many older issues from DJVU format to PDF format.
China Reconstructs Page2018 August 22 — Added news article “China’s Government Censors Shut Down References to Mao-Inspired Labor Movement”, in response to the recent events in Guandong.
China in the Capitalist Era Page2018 August 21 — Added 4 recent issues of Kranti magazine published by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) in the Telugu language.
India/Kranti Page2018 August 21 — Added two more issues of New Albania magazine, from 1971.
Albania Page2018 August 20 — On http://www.massline.org, 10 missing issues of Beijing Review from 1989 have now been posted. These present the excuses by Deng Xiaoping and the other capitalist-roaders in China for their recent massacre of students at Tienanmen Square.
China Magazines Page (Provides link to Massline.org.)2018 August 15 — Added news article “Maoist Labor Campaigner Kidnapped, Believed Detained, in China’s Guandong”, about Shen Mengyu who with her comrades got jobs at a factory to help the workers there in their struggles.
China in the Capitalist Era Page2018 August 15 — Added “On the Causes of World War I, 1900-1914” (Jan. 2018), by an American Maoist.
MLM-Theory in the War and Peace section.2018 August 14 — Added 3 articles by an American Maoist on Chinese foreign policy during the Maoist era: with regard to Vietnam, Latin America and Palestine.
China in Mao Era Foreign Relations Page
Plus an article by the same author on American relations with the Chinese Communist Party during World War II.
China — Pre-1949 Page
Plus an article by the same author on the Korean War.
Korea (DPRK) Page
Plus an article by the same author on the Anti-Displacement Movement in India.
India General Information and Mass Struggles Page2018 July 31 — Added better copy of the 2017 document “Form of Nepalese Society and Party’s General Line”, by Kiran, Chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Revolutionary Maoist), plus 3 recent issues of the CPN (RM) newspaper Bargadristi (in Nepali).
Nepal/CPN (Revolutionary Maoist) Page2018 July 30 — Added news article “Dozens Detained Amid Maoist-Led Rights Campaign at Chinese Factory”.
China in the Capitalist Era Page2018 July 27 — Added the essay “The Late Cultural Revolution” (2016), by a Maoist in the U.S., focusing on the struggles between revolutionary and revisionist forces in China in the 1969-1976 period, and on how this played out in both China’s domestic and foreign policies.
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution page2018 July 25 — Posted an improved translation of the article about the Maoist demonstration in Hong Kong on May 16, 2018; plus a new issue of the magazine Made In China about contemporary labor in capitalist China.
China in the Capitalist Era Page2018 July 22 — Added “The Opium Trail: Heroin and Imperialism” (New England Free Press: 1972).
U.S.A. Page in the new “Social Problems in the U.S.” section.2018 July 17 — Added several recent statements about International Women’s Day and other topics from the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
India/CPI-Maoist Documents Page2018 July 16 — Added the history of the CP of China published by the capitalist-roaders in 1994: A Concise History of the Communist Party of China, ed. by Hu Sheng. Of course this huge 885-page volume is biased against Mao and his revolutionary followers and is not to be trusted.
China in the Capitalist Era Page [CPC in the post-Maoist era section.]2018 July 15 — Moved the works of the journalists Jan Myrdal, Agnes Smedley, Edgar Snow and Anna Louise Strong from the China/Individuals section of BannedThought.net to the new Journalists page. Also replaced Anna Louise Strong’s “The Stalin Era” with a better (unmarked) copy.
Journalists Page2018 July 15 — Added the book “Trotskyism: Counter-Revolution in Disguise”, by M. J. Olgin (1935).
MLM Theory Page, in the new Trotskyism section.2018 July 11 — Added the book “Democracy With a Tommygun” (1946) by Wilfred Burchett, in the new Journalists section of BannedThought.net.
Journalists Page2018 July 11 — Added two more issues of “New Albania” magazine from 1970.
Albania Page2018 July 10 — Added “Constitution and Program of the Communist Party of the Philippines”, adopted at the Second Congress of the CPP in 2016, along with the “Communiqué” from that Congress and a few recent CPP statements.
Philippines/CPP Page
2018 July 8 — Added “Jose Maria Sison: From Marxist-Leninist to Revisionist” (2014) a polemic against Sison from a Maoist perspective.
Philippines/CPP Page in the section on Sison.
One section of this paper, “Jose Maria Sison’s Evaluation of Stalin, the CPSU and the United Front Against Fascism” is also posted at:
USSR Page, in the section on the “Stalin Question”.2018 July 1 — Added pamphlet “Great Victory for the Military Line of Chairman Mao Tsetung — A Criticism of Lin Piao’s Bourgeois Military Line in the Liaohsi-Shenyang and Peiping-Tientsin Campaigns [of 1948]” (1976).
In the People’s War & Military Issues section on China/MaoEra Page2018 June 27 — Added Edgar Snow book, "Glory and Bondage" (1945).
China/Individuals Page2018 June 24-26 — Added a large number of items on the Vietnam Page, including a book on the history of the Communist Party of Vietnam, a book on the Constitutions of Vietnam, several pamphlets, 6 issues of Vietnam Courier magazine, an issue of Vietnamese Studies, two documents from Britain in support of the Vietnamese revolution, and links to a large number of relevant documents already posted on the China Pages of BannedThought.net.
Vietnam Page2018 June 19 — Added two commentaries (by Kiran and Basanta) on the merger of the so-called “CPN (Maoist Centre)” into the older revisionist party (the CPN-UML), and also 5 recent issues of the CPN (RM) newspaper Bargadristi (in Nepali).
Nepal/CPN (Revolutionary Maoist) Page2018 June 13 — Added “U.S. War Crimes in Vietnam” (Hanoi: 1968)
Vietnam Page2018 June 11 — Added “Pick Axe and Rifle: The Story of the Albanian People”, by William Ash (1974); and a couple improved scans of other items already posted on the Albania page.
Albania Page2018 May 26 — English translation (plus Chinese original) of a report on a pro-Maoist demonstration in Hong Kong on the 52nd anniversary of the start of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (May 16, 2018).
China in the Capitalist Era Page [Pro-Maoist Sentiment in Contemporary China section]2018 May 25 — Posted almost all the issues of Hóngqí [Red Flag], the theoretical journal of the Communist Party of China, for the years 1958-1976. [In Chinese]
China/Magazines/Hongqi Page2018 May 16 — Another large batch of new items from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), including a number of works on the rather strange ideologies of Juche and Songun; and several items about Kim Il Sung.
Korea (DPRK) Page2018 May 14 — Added 2 more recent volumes of Jose Maria Sison’s “Selected Writings” and all the available issues of Ang Bayan from 2017 and 2018.
Philippines/CPP Page2018 May 11 — Added 3 items on contemporary capitalist-imperialist China, including an article about the arrests of young leftists for organizing a study group; an article about the Chinese imperialist export of capital to Ethiopia; and a new issue of Made In China magazine.
China in Capitalist Era Page2018 May 10 — Added 7 volumes of “Selected Writings of Jose Maria Sison” (4 from the 1968-1991 period and 3 from the 1991-2009 period).
Philippines/CPP Page2018 May 9 — Five works (including 4 books) of the writings of Fidel Castro.
Cuba/Che Page2018 May 5 — Added documents of the Communist Party of Nepal (Revolutionary Maoist), including “Form of Nepalese Society and Party’s General Line” (2017); Special Issue of Maoist Outlook on the Centenary of the October Revolution; and about 90 issues of Bargadristi Weekly newspaper (in Nepali).
Nepal/CPN (Revolutionary Maoist) Page2018 May 3 — The first 3 issues of the new magazine Bargabodh (“Class Conscious”) in the Nepali language.
Nepal/CPN (Revolutionary Maoist) Page2018 May 3 — Joint May Day statements from the Communist Party of Greece (m-l) and the Communist Party of Turkey / M-L, at both:
Greece Page and Turkey Page2018 May 2 — Added numerous speeches by, and interviews with, Pol Pot, together with a few other new items about Democratic Kampuchea including the 1981 announcement of the dissolution of the CPK.
Cambodia Page2018 May 1 — Added 29 additional issues of Albania Today magazine (from 1984-1990).
Albania Page2018 April 26 — Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea): Works by Kim Il Sung including his 8-volume series Reminiscences: With the Century, and other items on Korean history and literature.
Korea (DPRK) Page2018 April 24 — Sri Lanka: Added a recent journal from the New-Democratic Marxist-Leninist Party, plus their 2013 statement commending Hugo Chavez’s struggle against US imperialism.
Sri Lanka Page2018 April 24 — Vietnam: “Selected Works of Ho Chi Minh, Vol. 1” (1922-1926).
Vietnam Page2018 April 18 — Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea): Books, pamphlets and magazines, mostly from the 2015-2018 timeframe. Dozens of new items.
Korea (DPRK) Page2018 Feb. 18 — Established Cambodia (Kampuchea) Page with an initial selection of materials from the Democratic Kampuchea era in the 1970s which was led by Pol Pot.
Cambodia Page