Remembrance:mao

Those path finders who have guided us through..some short portraits of International and National Communist Stalwarts. And links to sites relating to study on them. The archive is under developement and in no way complete.

International

	Karl Marx, visit Internet Marx Archive
	Friedrich Angels, visit Angels Documents
	V I Lenin, visit Lenin Internet archive
	J Stalin, visit Internet Archive
	Mao Zedong Mao Documentation Project
	Ho Chi Minh
	Che Guevara Cyber Che Links

National

	EMS Nambooridabad
	BT Ranadive
	MV Basavpunnaiah
	P Sundarayya
	AK Gopalan
	Muzaffar Ahmad
	Pramod Dasgupta
	Saroj Mukherjee
	Harekrishna Konar

Comrade Mao Zedong was the gigantic leader of the most populous country in the world who stood at the helm of its great revolution and the construction of new powerful Socialist China.

Comrade Mao Zedong contribution to the theory and practice of democratic revolutions in colonial and semi-colonial countries is of immense significance. The combination of a strong Communist Party, a united front of all anti-imperialist and anti-feudal classes under the leadership of the working class and armed struggle which led to the success of China's revolution was a creative application of Marxism-Leninism to the specific conditions of China and enrichment of the Marxist-Leninist theory and practice of democratic revolution.

Comrade Mao Zedong made significant contributions to modern Chinese literature as a poet, and had clear, views from the working-class angle on the role of art and culture in society.

Comrade Mao Zedong was born on December 26, 1893 in Hunan province. In 1911, while he was a student, he participated in the Republican Revolution that overthrew Manchu Power in Central and South China. He was devoting most of his time to student political activities, organising strikes and on one occasion even an attack on the Provincial Parliament dominated by the landlords.

In 1917, he became a cofounder of a radical youth group, the New People's Study Society. Next year he joined the Marxist Study Society established by Li Ta-chao, under whom he was then working as assistant librarian in the Peking University, and Che'en Tu-hsiu. In 1919 he was editor of Hunan's student paper. "Hsiang Chiang Review" which was anti-imperialist, anti-militarist and pro-Russian Revolution. Next year, he organised the Hunan branch of the Socialist Youth Corps, and helped found the Cultural Book Study Society. The same year, guided by the influence of Marxist theory and the Russian Revolution, Comrade Mao Zedong began organising workers politically.

On July 1, 1921, the Communist Party of China was founded and Mao along with Li Ta-chao and Che'en Tuhsiu, was among the 12 founder-members of the Party.

In 1927, after Chiang Kai-shek's betrayal and massacre of Communists, the Party was driven underground.

Comrade Mao Zedong was already organising a work-peasant revolutionary army, and in 1928, he joined forces with Chu The in Chingkangshan, Hunan, and formed the first Red Army of China and the local Soviet. Chou En-lai joined them four years later.

In January 1935. Comrade Mao Tse-tung was elected effective leader of the Party and the army and the Long March of 6000 miles to North-West China was decided on and undertaken.

By 1936, Japan had already entered Inner Mongolia and the danger of a massive aggression by fascists was imminent. Though Chiang Kai-shek was even then preparing his sixth annihilation campaign against the Red Army, the Communist Party offered to end the civil war and form a united front to fight Japanese aggression. But the Communist Party was fully conscious of the character of the Chiang regime and when after the surrender of Japanese imperialism, the Party's talk with the Kuomintang for a Coalition Government failed, the liberation war began in June 1946. Three years later after the liberation war started, in March 1949 the Central Committee of the Party led by Mao made their triumphant entry into Peking after the final victory of the liberation war. On October 1, 1949, the People's Republic of China came into existence with Comrade Mao Zedong as its Chairman.

In 1959, Comrade Mao Zedong stepped down from the chairmanship of the People's Republic but continued as Chairman of the Party.

At the time of his death, Comrade Mao Zedong was Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Chairman of the Military Commission of the Central Committee of the Party and Honorary Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.