‘The World Historical Importance of the Events in Shanghai’ by Grigory Zinoviev from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 5 No. 2 No. 51. June 18, 1925.

‘The World Historical Importance of the Events in Shanghai’ by Grigory Zinoviev from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 5 No. 2 No. 51. June 18, 1925.

Zinoviev, Chair of the Executive Committee of the Communist International from its founding March, 1919 until his replacement by Bukharin in November, 1926, greets China’s May 30th Movement, which saw a wave of strikes, including Shanghai’s monumental general strike, in reaction to the massacre of demonstrators against imperialist occupation in Shanghai on May 30, 1925. […]