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Rejoice: China has now outlasted the USSR
Communist rule in China is now 74 years old — as well as analysing how this historic milestone was achieved where the Soviet Union failed, socialists across the world should allow ourselves a celebration too, writes ANDREW MURRAY
LONG-LASTING: Revellers wave CPC flags during a parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, 2019
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Labour councillor PAUL DONOVAN wonders why the right-wing party gets so much more media attention than it seems to merit
SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
A LANDMARK in socialist history passed largely unremarked this month.
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has now lasted longer than the USSR did, counting the latter’s lifespan, as one reasonably should, from the October Revolution of 1917 rather than the actual formation of the USSR in 1922.
Such milestones may mean little in and of themselves. But this one carries a freight of historical significance.
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