Victory to the Tibetans.

If Chinese workers begin to move against the regime and for freedom, Tibetans can win their country back.

That is a big if, but the Tibetan struggle for self determination could be a spark for Chinese workers to rebel, especially if the Tibetan struggle really does challenge the rule of the Communist party dictatorship and lasts for some time.

My previous post may have given a Tibetan chauvinist tinge to the struggle. Chinese and Tibetan people in the area have a common interest against the dictatorship. So a better way of saying it might be along the following lines.

Victory to Tibet.

If workers begin to move against the regime, Tibetans and Chinese people in Tibet can win their freedom.

That is a big if, but the struggle for self determination in Tibet could be a spark for workers across the country to rebel, especially if the struggle in Tibet really does begin to challenge the rule of the Communist Party dictatorship there and lasts for some time.

It is difficult to tell what is happening in Tibet right now.

One thing is clear. The regime will crack down brutally if need be. The Tibetans need to appeal to Chinese people who also have an interest in freedom and overthrowing the dictatorship.

Their immediate allies must be Han in Tibet. Their other allies should be workers in the major cities of China itself.

But since I do not know the balance of class forces on the ground, and the readiness of the underground trade union movement to take on the dictatorship, my comments may end up as mere dreams. We shall see.

Hey passy, maintaining a monologue with yourself is a bit sad, positively “passe”.

At least you will not have to bother with being challenged by yourself.

At the end of the day, what you promote never has and never will deliver the quality, expectations or aspirations of life possible and achieved under the libertarian capitalist system.

Enjoy, keep up the good work. I will pop back from time to time, when I am in need a belly laugh.

Thanks ColRouge. Actually I was writing for people like you.

The uprising in Tibet makes John's point even stronger. If the moveemtn for self determination does not link up with the most powerful section of Chinese society - Chinese workers - then it is in all probability doomed and the Tibetan people will suffer catastrophically.

Unlike you, ColRouge, I do not find the impending murder of thousands of Tibetans a belly laugh. Then again I guess that is where your so called "libertarian capitalism" (an Orwellian oxymoron) leads you.