Wang Fanxi
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Wang Fanxi (Template:Zh; March 16, 1907 – December 30, 2002) was a leading Chinese Trotskyist revolutionary.
Born near Hangzhou in Zhejiang province,Template:Sfn he joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), then an illegal organization, in 1925.Template:Sfn In 1927, he went to Moscow to study at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East. There he became a supporter of Trotsky and the International Left Opposition. On his return to China, Wang worked for the CCP and became a leading member of the Trotskyist October Group,Template:Sfn and then the Chinese Left Opposition.Template:Sfn He was jailed for most of the period from 1931 and 1937,Template:Sfn and was expelled from the CCP for his views.Template:Cn
In 1941, the Chinese Left Opposition split and Wang and others formed the Communist League (Internationalist), which became the Internationalist Workers Party of China in 1949.Template:Cn That year, he was sent to Hong Kong to act as an international link for the group, but was soon exiled to Macau.Template:Cn He wrote extensively and remained an influential figure, aligned with the United Secretariat of the Fourth International.Template:Cn In 1975, he was forced to move again, and he emigrated to Leeds, England, where he died on December 30, 2002.Template:Sfn
WorksEdit
- Mao Zedong Thought
- Template:Sic: Chinese Revolutionary, Memoirs 1919-1949
- Studies on the Thought of Mao Tse-Tung
- Problems of Chinese Trotskyism