Speech to the Congress

Abstract

A heated debate concerning China at the Sixth Comintern Congress was conducted by Bessa Lominadze, Heinz Neumann, two Comintern representatives to China in the latter part of 1927, and John Pepper, an American delegate to the Congress. The following is an excerpt from a speech made by Lominadze at the Fourteenth Session. Here, Lominadze rejected the contention that the Canton uprising was a putsch and described the event as "the last link in a whole chain of revolutionary struggles which had mounted particularly high in the middle 1927, and slowly declining, had ended with a last mighty flare-up in the Canton uprising."