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Tiananmen and the Question of Democracy, Part 1

It Could Happen Here

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Are the Relations Between Students and Workers in Tanmen Square So Bad?

The late eighties is the laihties. In hia, there's rampant inflation and rapid increase in prices. The development of niations led to a radicalization of action. Many workers started to build connections between factories prepare for a general strike. This was self liberation on an unprecedented level. A huge wave of self organization ensued. Membership grew expedientially in other workers organizations. Andye, like, this is a part of it that people don't talk about because it wasn't in the square. Because all everything that's happening inside the square right now is massing here inside the square with western press corps. Om they'd been trying to cleartto fortifications earlier

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