Tibetan Communist Party
Tibetan Communist Party ཕུན་ཚོགས་དབང་རྒྱལ 西藏共產黨 | |
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Leader | Phuntsok Wangyal |
Founder | Phuntsok Wangyal |
Dissolved | 1949 |
Merged into | Communist Party of China |
Ideology |
Communism Marxism-Leninism |
Political position | Left-wing |
Tibetan Communist Party (Tibetan: ཕུན་ཚོགས་དབང་རྒྱལ ; Chinese: 西藏共產黨 Xīzàng Gòngchǎndǎng) was a small socialist group in Tibet, which functioned in secrecy under various names. The group was founded by Phuntsok Wangyal and Ngawang Kesang in the 1940s. It had emerged from a group called the "Tibetan Democratic Youth League" created by Wangyal and other Tibetan students in Nanjing in the 1940s.[1][2]
The part sought to unite all Tibetans into one entity, compassing Kham, Amdo and proper Tibet.[3] The party contacted the embassy of the Soviet Union asking for its assistance as it began planning a socialist uprising in Tibet and Kham. Later Wangyal also contacted the Communist Party of China and the Communist Party of India.[4]
The Tibetan communists prepared guerrilla struggles against the ruling Kuomintang, whilst promoting democratic reforms inside Tibet.
In 1949, the party merged into the Communist Party of China.[5]
References
- ↑ New Left Review - Tsering Shakya: The Prisoner
- ↑ "Case anthropologist tells story of Tibet Communist Party founder". July 2, 2004. Retrieved 2008-06-21.
- ↑ Goldstein, Melvyn C. Goldstein/Sherap, Dawei Sherap/Siebenschuh, William R.. A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye. University of California Press, 2004. p. xiii
- ↑ Goldstein, Melvyn C. Goldstein/Sherap, Dawei Sherap/Siebenschuh, William R.. A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. p. 42-44, 78-82
- ↑ Melvyn C. Goldstein; Dawei Sherap; William R. Siebenschuh. "A Tibetan Revolutionary". Retrieved 2008-06-21.