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| | Blick: Letter - Canton Commune |
 | | In its resolution of 15 December 1927 on the Canton events, the Executive Committee of the Communist International demanded that workers “hasten to the help of the Chinese Soviets” and proclaimed, as one of its two slogans, “Long live Soviet power in China!” However, there is no mention, as yet, of a Commune. |
 | | The Ninth ECCI Plenum (25 February 1928) described the “Canton uprising” (not ‘commune’) as an “heroic attempt to organise Soviet power in China”, a policy which despite the uprising’s failure, was said to be still the task of the day. |
 | | Defending the policy which produced the Canton tragedy, the Resolution declared that “the Nanchang insurrection, the Autumn Harvest uprising, and especially the Canton Commune, did not constitute adventurism...”. |
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