1925-27: When China's workers challenged for power

One hundred years ago, a massacre of protestors in Shanghai led to one of the greatest revolutions of the twentieth century, as workers, peasants and students in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shanghai rose up to throw out the British and other colonial regimes and briefly take power for themselves.

It could have been the start of a genuine socialist revolution in China, but was betrayed by the Stalinist regime in Moscow. The defeat of this revolt led China’s communists to embrace a strategy of peasant guerilla warfare that led to the establishment of a form of state capitalism instead.

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