China: Strengthening Sun's Positions

Strengthening the positions of the Sun Yat-sen government on the basis of the Kuomintang and the CPC, as well as its progressive measures to create an anti-imperialist revolutionary base in Guangdong province, served as a backbone on the path leading to national unification, freedom and independence of China. In such circumstances, the Beijing government of Duan Qizhui was forced to invite Sun Yat-sen to the capital for a conference on the unification of China. Sun Yatsen, who left Guangzhou on November 13, 1924, fell ill on the way and died March 12, 1925 in Beijing.

In his dying message to the Soviet Union, he expressed deep faith that "the time will come when the Soviet Union as the best friend and ally will welcome the mighty and free China, when in the great battle for the freedom of the oppressed nations of the world, both countries will go hand in hand and Will achieve victory. "

The acuteness of foreign policy and internal political contradictions, the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal upsurge of the workers 'and peasants' movement, the united front of the main political parties of the country - the CPC and the Kuomintang - were objective factors that contributed to the ripening of one of the biggest events in China's modern history - the national liberation revolution of 1925-1927. China: Strengthening the Positions of Sun ...

The revolution was made by the masses of the workers, peasants and the urban petty bourgeoisie, but its ideological and political leadership, carried out under the anti-imperialist slogans of the struggle for China's national independence, was in the hands of the national, mostly middle-scale commercial and industrial bourgeoisie, acting on behalf of the Kuomintang national revolutionary party.

On May 30, 1925, massive anti-imperialist demonstrations and rallies of Shanghai workers, the urban petty bourgeoisie, students and other social strata of the Chinese people were held in Shanghai against the economic and political management of the imperialists in China. The movement "May 30", which included almost all the commercial and industrial centers of the country, marked the beginning of the revolution of 1925-27. The most concentrated anti-imperialist upsurge of the people, under the leadership of the Communists, was the general anti-imperialist strike in Shanghai on June 1-2, 1925, affecting about half a million people, and the 16-month (June 19, 1925 - December 1926) Hong Kong (Hong Kong) -Guangzhou anti-imperialist strike of workers And the sailors of Hong Kong (Hong Kong) and Guangzhou with the participation of more than 250 thousand people. In solidarity with the strikers, the Soviet workers provided them with moral and material support under the slogan "Hands off China!"

China: Strengthening Sun's Positions