Xi Jinping at the ceremony for Song Ping -- image via the State Council of the PRC On Tuesday, March 10, Chinese leaders including Xi Jinping and Li Qiang paid their respects to the legendary Communist Party veteran Song Ping at a ceremonial event in Beijing. The ceremony took place at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing, where the remains of Song Ping were cremated following his death on March 4 at the age of 109. Current top leaders Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Q

By Bisharat Abbasi Today we commemorate the birth of Comrade Chairman Mao Zedong (1893- 1976) one of the greatest revolutionary figures of the twentieth century and a giant of anti-imperialist history. Mao was not merely a Chinese leader; he was a world-historical figure who fundamentally altered the global balance of forces by smashing semi-colonial subjugation, defeating imperialism and feudalism, and founding the People’s Republic of China in 1949. For the oppressed nation