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5 June 2009
Tiananmen Square 1989: Counter-revolution crushes China's democracy movement
ON 3-4 June 1989, Deng Xiaoping and other aged leaders of China's so-called 'communist' party, ordered 200,000 troops to crush a two-month long movement of workers and students against bureaucratic rule and for workers' democracy...
27 May 2009
Nanjing college students in clashes with police
THOUSANDS OF students fought with police in the southern Chinese city of Nanjing after the city's administration officers beat up student vendors...
20 May 2009
Tiananmen 1989: Seven weeks that shook the world
ON 15 APRIL 1989 Hu Yaobang, the former general secretary of the Communist Party of China, died of a heart attack. This became the start signal for one of the biggest mass movements in modern history, a movement that soon grew beyond the wildest expectations of its initiators and came close to toppling the dictatorial regime of the so-called 'communist' party, writes Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info.
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