Proposer: Alexandros Schulman
Seconded by: Jon Maxted (or Temtsel Hao, Henry Knapper, Michael Zhang
MOTION ON ESTABLISHING A WORKERS FRIENDS OF CHINA GROUP
This congress pledges to establish to recognise an internal party group working to be known as the “Workers Party Friends of China”. This group takes inspiration from the Workers Party Friends of Pakistan and Bangladesh groups that were already established by the outgoing NMC earlier this year and aims to work on similar lines.
Alongside working to forge links with the British based Chinese diaspora and Chinese community, it will also work to challenging Western Sponsored propaganda narratives, such as the so-called Xinjiang genocide, the alleged suppression of democracy in Hong Kong and so forth that would set Britain and the collective West on an escalation ladder towards war.
All indications are that the new Trump administration, riddled with staunch China Hawks will shift focus away from the battlefields of Eastern Europe and repivot towards China, with numerous members of the Trump administration, most notably Marco Rubio wishing to replicate a Ukraine like situation in the Taiwan Straits and South China Sea. Therefore, the necessity to establish this group, which would complement both NO2NATO and our anti-imperialist efforts, becomes even more urgent.
Whilst acknowledging the achievements of the Peoples Republic of China, not least its unprecedented historical alleviation of over 800 million people from poverty, it is not this group’s purpose to act as a mouthpiece of the Communist Party of China, the government of China is an internal matter for the Peoples of China to decide upon and not us. However, we firmly believe that it is not in the British peoples interests to encourage a push to war and we demand a cessation of all such hostilities. We Instead believe that it is in the British working classes interests to benefit from greater trade relations with the worlds most industrialised and richest nation by purchasing power parity
In addition to complementing the informal ties we have with Friends of Socialist China (FoSC), with which many of our members are affiliated, this group would naturally extend the party’s existing outreach work regarding foreign relations and fact-finding missions throughout China and the BRICS organisation. These efforts have already been supported by party delegations from the outgoing NMC and have previously included visits by our Party Leader, George Galloway.
Excellent Motion. I will second if needed.
Kristian Carter
Excellent to have, and I would join.
You might also find useful material in what we in the Labour Affairs magazine have written, https://labouraffairsmagazine.com/m-articles-by-topic/#_Toc23413149. And some of my blogs, https://gwydionmadawc.com/my-blogs/
I for one, would be very willing to go to China on a fact finding mission.
Is it possible for a group of like minded persons to get together to arrange such a visit?
We’ve already sent party delegates out to both the PRC and Taiwan. I attended Beijing, Liaoning and Hangzhou as a party representative shortly before the last general election.
Great motion! I’d be very interested to join the working group!
Great motion that is a necessity given the extreme anti China propaganda of some elements of the British State. This is not helpful or honest. These same elements are at the forefront of reactionary circles in Britain who are fuelling the war against Russia and being almost to the point of no difference part of the Israeli government mass murder of innocents in Gaza.
I have a colleague who has travelled to mainland China as a educational ambassador for education, based here on Merseyside.
I’m sure he would be interested in sharing his expertise.
Fully Support
How about a sub-committee of the Friends of China group to explore the Chinese Special Economic Zone practices of the 1990s, contrast them to our current Freeport schemes and how these could be used to re-industrialise Britain better according to core Workers Party values?
On the basis of already having spent a significant fraction of my life ‘fact-finding’ in China, I urge Congress to reject this motion. The motion states, “it is not this group’s purpose to act as a mouthpiece of the Communist Party of China [CCP]” but then it goes on to do just that. ‘Workers Party Friends of China’ sounds good on paper but I believe the reality would be different. From the wording of the motion it is safe to assume the group would in reality be a ‘Workers Party Friends of the CCP’. If so it will have to find a way to ignore the fact that the CCP is responsible for a ruthless, repressive, totalitarian state that goes against everything the Workers Party of Britain claims to represent, not least in regard to China’s complete absence of meaningful trade unions or worker’s, or indeed any human, rights. Amicus meus, inimicus inimici mei, making an enemy’s enemy one’s friend, can make short-term pragmatic sense but, especially if it involves swallowing one’s principles, fighting alone often proves the wiser, and certainly nobler, path to take.
What qualifies me to be so rejective? I lived, worked and studied in the People’s Republic of China for a total of around five years, over a period of around a quarter of a century, starting with a year as a politics student in Beijing in the mid-80s. My university degree was in Chinese politics. In that time, I have travelled extensively, and unescorted, throughout China, and have visited pretty much every province. I have a deep affection for China and its people. The regions I know best are Tibet and Xinjiang, both of which, and their remotest parts, I have visited more times than I care to remember. I have also lived and worked in Hong Kong and have visited Taiwan, for work and travel, on numerous occasions. I was married to a Chinese citizen for some nine years, used to speak pretty fluent Mandarin and have also studied the Tibetan and Uighur languages. I was in China for most of 1989 and was in Tibet just before the imposition of martial law there. I was present for almost the entirety of the 1989 ‘democracy movement’; in Chengdu when it started and in Beijing when it approached its tragic, bloody end. I was also there for the first five months or so of the “white terror” that followed the People Liberation Army’s massacre of ‘the People’, when it murdered the countless Beijing workers, and other citizens, who came out to try and protect the students camped in Tiananmen Square. No one who was there can forget that time, and that brutality. And, in light of ongoing CCP attempts to airbrush the event from history, nor must they. And nor should the Worker’s Party.
I like to think I have good knowledge and much experience of China and the Chinese world. I’ve gained that knowledge over many years by being with ordinary people and speaking to them, away from officialdom, in their own language. I haven’t gained my impression by being wined, dined and lead around by the nose on short junkets carefully choreographed by CCP minders. Just like Israel, China spends billions on slick, propaganda efforts to dupe the easily dupable, and buy the easily bought. Those in the West who, perhaps dazzled by bright lipstick, collude in dispensing the CCP’s toxic propaganda need to carefully examine the sincerity of their motives. Giving praise and exclusive platform to CCP propaganda merchants such as Li Jingjing, whilst staying silent about those journalists and others in China who dare criticize the CCP, and thus remain subject to extreme abuse in Chinese jails, often without trial, is disgraceful and dishonest. It brings the Party, and its correct stances on issues such as Palestine, into disrepute.
How on earth as a Party can the WPB condemn the evil of settler-colonialism in Palestine and then applaud the same, or very similar, settler-colonial crime when it takes place in Xinjiang and Tibet? How can it condemn Islamophobia here in the West but then, when expedient, turn a blind eye to it, encourage it even, when it takes place in a country with whom we appear to be in danger of some kind of misguided, ideological alignment? It is hypocrisy born, at best, of ignorance. Yes, China is an important counterpoise to US hegemony. Yes, the CCP ended the ‘century of humiliation’ at the hands of the rapacious West. Yes, the CCP has lifted millions out of material poverty albeit, let’s not forget, chiefly through unbridled capitalism. But, in my experience, its methods to do all this has drastically impoverished the people in other, less quantifiable, ways. People in China are now enjoying the living standards long enjoyed by the people of Taiwan and Hong Kong where living standards were improved long ago without the society-warping nightmare that China suffered under Mao Zedong.
For a glimpse of what China could have been, without the aberration and terror of Mao’s “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution”, and its post-1989 return to totalitarianism, Party members should also go ‘fact-finding’ to Taiwan. There, traditional Chinese culture has, for the time being, thankfully survived. But best go there now, before the island’s currently free and happy face is, god forbid, stamped on by the dehumanizing boot of the Chinese Communist Party. To people who have experienced living in a free society, life under the CCP, however materially comfortable it might now have become, remains an Orwellian experience. Just ask, discretely, the people of Hong Kong. Just ask Jimmy Lai. Or any of the other countless people rotting in Chinese jails because they called for freedoms the rest of us, including presumably those proposing the motion, take for granted.
Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, the rule of law. They don’t exist in China. There is no individual security there without conformity to the Party’s dictates and no protection without obedience to its self-serving will. The political dissent which we are still able to exercise so readily here in Britain, not least as members of groups such as the WPB, in China is met with brutal, often deadly, repression. All of us would be in prison, or worse. The need for fundamental change within our own system is beyond doubt, but those whose ideological mindset allows the idea that there is something benign or admirable in the Chinese system that we should emulate are living in Cloud cuckoo land.
How can the motion expect to be taken seriously when it uses the phrase “the alleged suppression of democracy in Hong Kong” at the same time as claiming not to be a “mouthpiece” of the CCP? By its wording does the motion really expect the Party to identify itself with the uniformed thugs of a police state instead of the brave young demonstrators who made that last heroic, swan song, stand for freedom in 2019/20. And who were supported in doing so by the vast majority of Hong Kongers? The term “Chinazi” was not used by those demonstrators without good reason. They correctly understood the true nature of the CCP beast, and what was coming, in a way that the proposers of this motion I suspect don’t. What may, or may not, have been good for China proper has been a disaster for Hong Kong. I’m not sure if it exists as a phrase but ‘out of the cream, into the crap’ would seem an apt one to describe what has happened there.
But Hong Kong’s fate is dwarfed by what has happened to the Tibetan and Uighur nations who, whether you want to use the term ‘cultural genocide’ or not, and I agree ‘genocide’ in the Gaza or Holocaust sense is far too strong, have certainly been the victims of an unprecedented ‘cultural annihilation’. Racism, Han chauvinism, and the cruel, bullying nature of the CCP underpin their experience. I have personally witnessed that tragedy unfold, behind doors largely closed to the world’s press, over a period of decades. It has been an appalling crime against humanity, a terrible cultural loss to the world and, until this genocide in Gaza, the saddest, cruelest thing I’ve seen in my life.
As for the Uighurs, please note, they are no more “Chinamen”, as some have referred to them as, than the Scottish are “Englishmen”. Those who refer to either as such are displaying a regrettable ignorance or a worrying malevolence. We deserve better from those privileged to have our attention. The Uighurs are the proud descendants of the first Turkic nomads in Central Asia to settle down as they did a millennia or more ago in the oases they found around the Tarim basin. Their fellow Turks in the former Soviet Union all now have their own independent states, their ‘’stans’, and, if there was any justice in the world, so too would the Uighur nation. And at times in their history, an independent East Turkestan has indeed been a reality. The Uighurs incidentally, the people who have actually lived in ‘Xinjiang’ all these years, in their own language refer to their homeland, as East Turkestan, though doing so can lead to imprisonment. ‘Xinjiang’ is the name given to it by people who historically haven’t lived there, apart from in military occupation, namely the Han Chinese. Tellingly, in Mandarin, ‘Xinjiang’ means ‘New Border’. Just like Palestinians wish Palestine to be free of Zionists, so too do Uighurs wish their land to be free of government by Han Chinese outsiders. In private, I’ve never met a Uighur, or Tibetan, who didn’t. Sadly, they do not have the freedom to safely express their wishes in public. But the idea that Uighurs, or indeed Tibetans, are at all happy at being swamped by a completely alien people, language and culture, whatever any accompanying material benefits, is complete nonsense. What nation has ever been happy with such an oppressive situation?
The Tibetans, almost to a man, or woman, still today see the Dalai Lama as their true leader. Uighurs see their cultural capital as being Istanbul, not Beijing, and their ‘spiritual’ capital is, of course, Mecca. That is why there are Uighur ‘terrorists’ in Syria. Because ’terrorism’ grows out of injustice and there are few greater injustices in the world than those being visited upon the Tibetan and Uighur nations by the CCP. The Uighurs are predominantly Moslems who, whatever Chinese propaganda might tell you, are abused and unable to practice their religion freely, and whose religious culture and ‘hardware’, i.e. mosques and graveyards, are being desecrated and physically destroyed by their non-Moslem masters. Just like in Palestine.
And just like in Palestine, those Uighurs who remain in their homeland, on the whole, refuse, at least in their hearts, to submit to alien domination. That’s the reality that I found. That is why Beijing has had to resort to such extreme measures to try and suppress Uighur Moslem identity through the extensive system of detention or re-education centres. It has tried to use what is effectively a hammer of bullying and brainwashing to beat “Turkmen” into being “Chinamen”. The only difference with Israel is that the CCP is trying to assimilate by force rather than just exterminate. The treatment I have witnessed of Uighurs and Tibetans by the CCP since 1985, especially those who resist, has in general been cruel, barbaric and racist. To deny the awful truth of what is happening, and has happened, is to deny reality and I believe it would shame the Worker’s Party to participate in that denial, to be selective about which Moslems, and other oppressed minorities, deserve justice and support, and which don’t. The Party is in danger of becoming another of China’s “useful idiots”. Just because the BBC is lying about Palestine and Ukraine doesn’t necessarily mean it’s lying about the Uighurs. For a change, in the bare bones of what it is saying, it isn’t. If it is then let China open up the doors of Xinjiang and allow the world’s media freely in to prove that. But the CCP would never dare do that. Behind Li Jingjing’s propaganda make-up, it has a face it has good reason to try and hide.
Of course today’s China retains much of the territory of the Empire of China. The CCP didn’t make that empire but that doesn’t mean it stopped being an empire. And without doubt the CCP does currently have de facto sovereignty over Tibet and Xinjiang – unlike Mongolia which was fortunate enough to liberate itself from Chinese imperial rule in 1911. Despite flying in the face of what the indigenous population might want, China is also able to make a cogent, but far from watertight, claim to de jure sovereignty. But that’s not the point. It’s not about ownership, or whatever obscure historical events you come up with to stake your claim of ownership, it’s about what you do with what you rightly, or wrongly, claim to ‘own’. The Han-dominated CCP has used its military power to rape, and continues to rape, Tibet and Xinjiang. It has ridden roughshod over the wishes and interests of the indigenous inhabitants it effectively holds captive. Since 1949 China has systematically robbed both nations of their traditional identity, their culture, their history, their natural resources and most egregiously of their rights to self-determination.
Until a few decades ago, apart from the Chinese military, there were barely any Han Chinese at all in Tibet or Xinjiang/ East Turkestan. Back then the impact of CCP rule there, though malign, was mainly political. Since then however, the CCP has settled and colonized the regions, with a massive, unwelcome, population transfer of Han Chinese from the East, that has made the indigenous populations minorities in their own lands. It has done this partly as a means of crushing Tibetan and Uighur legitimate, and regularly expressed, aspirations to be free of CCP rule. To them, that rule is effectively rule by foreigners. Tibetans and Uighurs are largely treated as second class citizens by incoming Han settlers who have little or no respect for, or understanding of, their host’s culture and language. And the settlers can count on the PLA and the CCP’s police to turn a blind eye and protect them in case of conflict with non-Han locals. Sound familiar? Yes, in many ways it’s not much different to the experience of Palestinians. But in the case of Tibet and Xinjiang the Workers Party appears to be willing to turn an expedient blind eye and be on the side of the oppressor, instead of the oppressed. The Party, as a whole, needs to decide whether it is really OK with that?
As for Taiwan, do we want NATO in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Straits? No, ideally we of course don’t want NATO at all, anywhere. But nor must CCP rule be allowed to be imposed upon Taiwan by military force. I agree it is a difficult dichotomy! The people of Taiwan have seen what has happened in Hong Kong and the vast majority utterly dread rule from Beijing. What freedom-loving person wouldn’t? The CCP knows the wishes of Taiwan’s people, as democratically expressed, time and time again, and should respect them. But of course the CCP doesn’t respect them because in the end it doesn’t care about the interests of the people of Taiwan or their right to self-determination. Any more than the Zionists care about Palestinian rights. Taiwan has long enjoyed de facto independence. As long as the status quo remains, and there is no good reason why it shouldn’t, there is no great issue about de jure sovereignty remaining with China, if that is what they so badly want. Both sides have proved over many decades they can live without eachother and should be content. But until China can give cast iron assurances that the status quo is guaranteed, the international community has a moral duty to stand between the CCP and its vulnerable prey. Taiwan must stay free.
In conclusion, when it comes to its policy on Palestine, and on the disaster that NATO and Ukrainian ultra-nationalism has brought to Ukraine, the WPB is on the nail. That’s why I became a member, and stood at the last election, on a platform for Gaza. But when it comes to its stance on China, I strongly believe the Worker’s Party is wrong and needs to think again. I know others will differ but this is my honest analysis and lived experience and one that it would be amiss of me not to share. I therefore urge Congress to reject this motion and, more generally, come up with a better informed, and more sincere, policy towards China, and in particular towards Xinjiang and Tibet. It needs to be a respectable one that is more in keeping with, for example, the honesty and humanitarian principles that so admirably underpin the Party’s support for the Palestinians.
Philip Colley
Hastings
You don’t sound at all knowledgeable. Xinjiang has always been ethnically mixed, for instance. Uighur was the name of a long-vanished tribe of nomads, borrowed by some sedentary speakers of Turkic languages who didn’t have another collective identity in this diverse region.
China was a complete mess before the CPC took over. The Kuomintang never allowed elections that they might lose, and Chiang Kai-Shek before fleeing to Taiwan was able to hand over the Presidency to a notable rival, but still be in complete control.
China now has most of the same civil rights. You cannot organise rival politics – but just look at the way some previous stable states have civil wars and misery after rival politics was allowed where there was no previous tradition. Former Yugoslavia is notable.
The issue in Xinjiang and Tibet is separatism. But many places would jail you for advocating separatism. Catalans for trying to organise a referendum. Even the most peaceful call for secession in the Republic of India, and many other places. Religion is fine, just so long as it is not used for opposition politics.
Having also lived in China and travelled the length and breadth of the country over a similar number of years , all be it more recently, (and indeed am currently writing this brief reply from China)I can only conclude that the above narrative littered with misinformation, historic untruths and pure propaganda could have have quite easily come straight from the NED handbook and voiced by the likes of fascists like Adrian Zenz.
I can’t win! Ukrainian nationalists, and their neo-con friends, accuse me of being paid by Moscow; Chinese nationalists accuse me of working for Washington. I wish they’d make their minds up. Just possibly though I’m not being paid or working for anyone. Certainly not, unlike some people, for Beijing – although I hear they do pay well. Just possibly I’m telling the truth, and very powerful interests, both American and Chinese, don’t want you to hear it. Believe it or not, some people still do have respect for the sanctity of truth. But the truth often hurts. And clearly I’ve touched a nerve here. That’s why these two smirking CCP stooges have had to go to such shameful, ad hominem lengths to twist, and try and discredit, what they know full well is true. Chinese, and for that matter Ukrainian, nationalists have an interest in, and a big budget for, whitewashing some very dark deeds from their past indeed. Their main argument here seems to be I’m faking my experience and getting my information from Wikipedia or the State Department or somewhere and that I can’t have been in Beijing for the student protests. I’m sorry to disappoint. The truth is I really have probably seen more of China than both of these two paid talking-heads put together. Do a bit of open source research and it’s all there. For a start, check The British Newspaper Archives. As well as my articles on Tibet published in the Guardian in the ealy 90’s, see the Nottingham Evening Post Tuesday 06 June 1989… “Student Phil Colley 24 left Tiananmen Square only hours before the tanks rolled in. “I felt at the time the students’ protest was petering out…” Who’s really lying here?
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1989-01-01/1989-12-31?basicsearch=phil%20colley&exactsearch=true&contenttype=article&retrievecountrycounts
=false&newspapertitle=nottingham%2bevening%2bpost
How ironic. Phillip is whining about being accused of receiving funding from foreign governments, yet he was never accused of this in the video. On the contrary, he did exactly what he’s complaining about—he accused others of the same thing. If he watched that video and thought the only arguments presented were the superficial points he mentioned in his reply, it’s no wonder he can also look at China and walk away with an assessment of China so out of touch with reality.
This kind of shameless regurgitation of Western Anti-China propaganda ought to be grounds for expulsion.
People having views which run contrary to the majority, or which contradict existing party policy, is not a grounds for expulsion in the present context. The context being an open and transparent discussion of the business being put before Congress for members to decide on.
“Though the accounts of [Carl] Zha and Grey are run by real people, there are hundreds of accounts within their network which appear to be inauthentic. These coordinated accounts, seen by Coda Story, all spout Chinese propaganda content claiming Xinjiang is happy and thriving. Some claim to be run by Uyghurs. If they were authentic Xinjiang Twitter accounts, their users would require a VPN to access them – a practice that can mean instant arrest in the region.”
From: Pro-Beijing influencers and their rose-tinted view of life in Xinjiang
https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/influencers-xinjiang-denialism/
Young student who went to China on his gap year and wrote for the liberal establishment Guardian demands his media credentials are respected
China has done well in keeping US imperialism out of Tibet and Xinjiang. Taiwan is China, Taiwan acknowledges this in its constitution ‘There is only one China’. Western liberals will moan that parts of China should be more westernised by US military force if necessary. As the Workers Party of Britain grows ever bigger there will be reactionary forces infiltrating and establishment stooges looking to deflect us. That is a part of our growing success. They don’t like success that doesn’t bow to Washington. Well done China.
Astounding how so many on the left readily, and rightly, embrace Amnesty’s report on Apartheid in Palestine yet when it comes to Amnesty’s report on the appalling oppression of Moslem Uyghurs in Xinjiang they are able to don ideological blinkers and write it all off as ‘anti-China’ propaganda. Just like the Zionists write the Apartheid report off as being ‘anti-semitic’. Sometimes on the side of the oppressed, but if it suits, sometimes on the side of the oppressor…
Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, said:
“The Chinese authorities have created a dystopian hellscape on a staggering scale in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
“Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities face crimes against humanity and other serious human rights violations that threaten to erase their religious and cultural identities.
“It should shock the conscience of humanity that massive numbers of people have been subjected to brainwashing, torture and other degrading treatment in internment camps, while millions more live in fear amid a vast surveillance apparatus.
“China must immediately dismantle the internment camps, release the people arbitrarily detained in them and in prisons, and end the systematic attacks against Muslims in Xinjiang.
“The international community must speak out and act in unison to end this abomination, once and for all. The UN must establish and urgently dispatch an independent investigative mechanism with a view to bringing those suspected of responsibility for crimes under international law to account.”
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/chinas-uighur-muslims-truth-behind-headlines
I’m utterly sick of China haters trying to whip up anti-China pogroms that make it dangerous for people who look like me in the West. It speaks positively of British people that we haven’t yet reached the depths of the US where Chinese elders are attacked in the streets and Asian women are shot dead by a deranged gunman.
Mr Colley should read and digest the extensively researched papers produced by Jaq James on the ASPI disinformation campaign around resource-rich (!) Xinjiang which has rendered Uyghurs unemployable due to trade-war sanctions dressed up as human rights. Incidentally, as with other agencies targeting a rising China, ASPI is funded by spook agencies and the military industry. Plus there are always those juicy US bounties such as Biden’s $1.6 billion China propaganda budget to concentrate minds on the prize.
https://www.cowestpro.co/papers.html
Does everyone know that Mark Lewkowitz, the chief of the Better Cotton Initiative that accused China of forced labour in Xinjiang cotton, was the same person who headed up Supima, the marketing arm of the US cotton industry? Well, fancy that!
Mr Colley could then read the Wikileaks cables and contemporary articles that describe a very different event to the west’s narrative. It was Nancy Pelosi’s first major outing as gal on the spot, a career book-ended with her arrival in One-China Taiwan, an island province bristling with US missiles pointed at the mainland, stirring it up yet again. (Nancy’s market investments are notorious.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_US_arms_sales_to_Taiwan
Denigrating his detractors as stooges looks like projection, a failing strategy in a world where millions of Americans popped into Red Note last month and saw for themselves. What happened to conducting an argument with evidence? Horace Rumpole never had to rely on name-calling.
The war on the Golden Goose in the public sphere has been one long case for the prosecution with no space for a defence. How unsure you must be of your flimsy position.
Amnesty International is Western. And I suspect they never mentioned that Beijing was reacting to a secessionist movement that was engaging in terrorism. And the UN has repeatedly refused to support the organisation. Also a number of Muslim countries looked into it and found that action was just against secessionists, and that law-abiding Muslims were doing fine.
If a single standard could be applied on China, like xinjiang issues, Hong Kong riot, everything would be clear with not controversy. the problem is those reports from by british corporate medias have been mostly done by those hopelessly ignorant ideologues such as BBC’s stephen mcdonell in beijing, and some reporters before him, hence there are abundant lies and exagerations in british china reports, tha’t why we should have our china friends group and we have a lot work to do to counter anti-china propoganda and lies.
i was in Tiananmen square in 1989 and witnessed enough to see how much western journalists misrepresent the tiananmen incident. the exagerations and straight lies accumulated over decades sine 1989 have rewritten the true history, presenting an anti-capitalist student demonstration/movement as a pro-american colored revolution.