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Podcast: The Sound of Solidarity
Episode: Trotsky and the Chinese revolution
Description: The Chinese revolution of 1925-27 held out the possibility of social liberation for Chinese workers and peasants. Its success would also have tipped the balance of forces back in favour of the ailing Russian workers' state. The Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky wrote extensively on the way forward to victory, as Ian Rintoul explains.