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| Andy Brooks speaking at the Wanshou Fourm |
By New Worker
correspondent
Communists
from Britain, Scandinavia and North America sent a solidarity message to the
beleaguered Bolivarian revolutionary government in Venezuela at the close of a
joint mission to People’s China for a series of seminars on the economy and the
development of socialism in China today.
NCP leader Andy Brooks and Peter Hendy
from the Central Committee were part of the British communist contingent that
included Rob Griffiths, the general secretary of the Communist Party of Britain,
and a number of his comrades as well as some members of the CPGB (ML).
The international delegation spent the
first few days in Hangzhou, the capital and most populous city of Zhejiang
province in East China. There they visited the Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial
Museum and saw the historic “Red Boat” on the South Lake – the wooden boat
where communist delegates met to establish the Communist Party of China in
1921. They later went to Yiwu city to see the former house of Chen Wengdao, the
famous Chinese scholar who translated the Communist Manifesto into Chinese in
1921.
The comrades saw the remarkable
achievements of Chinese e-commerce and other new industries when they were
taken around the headquarters of the Alibaba Group, a Chinese multinational
conglomerate specialising in e-commerce, retail, Internet and high technology,
and they took part in a number of round-tables with Chinese communist cadres,
local officials, economists and academics.
In the capital, Beijing, the united
delegation joined comrades from Latin America for meetings with the All-China
Women’s Federation and the leadership of the Communist Youth League. They
visited the Central Party School for a briefing on the new development concepts
of the Communist Party of China and saw the giant strides that the people’s
government has taken over the past 40 years at an exhibition at the National
Museum of China in Tiananmen Square.
Later delegates joined students and
academics at the 27th Wanshou Forum at the Renmin University of
China (RUC) that was founded by the Communist Party of China and focuses on the
humanities and the social sciences. The Forum was initiated by the
International Department of the Communist Party of China in early 2016 and it
aims to provide an open and inclusive international exchange for Chinese and
overseas political leaders, think-tank scholars and academics to help build a
community with a shared future for humanity and a better world.
Three delegates, Andy Brooks, Runa Evensen
from the Communist Party of Norway and Luis Villanueva, the general secretary
of the Communist Party of Peru (Unity), took part in the closing ceremony. And
in his concluding remarks Andy Brooks said: “We call on communists, socialists
and all class-conscious workers to close ranks, organise and rally workers in
the struggle for peace and socialism in the 21st century”.
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