Who are the Five Revolutionaries in the R2TK Banner?

The five revolutionaries in the Return to the Source banner are, from left to right:

(1) Mao Zedong, Chinese Communist Party

(2) Deng Xiaoping, Chinese Communist Party

(3) Mengistu Haile Mariam, Workers Party of Ethiopia, the Derg

(4) Thomas Sankara, The Council of Popular Salvation (Burkina Faso)

(5) Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF)

While Return to the Source will eventually feature articles pertaining to each of these five revolutionaries, the following articles, books, and sources are recommended for those interested in understanding their contributions to Marxism-Leninism.

Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong

• Mobo Gao, The Battle for China’s Past: Mao & the Cultural Revolution, 2008, Pluto Press
• Han Suyin, The Morning Deluge: Mao Tse Tung and the Chinese Revolution, 1893 – 1954, 1972, Little, Brown & Company
• Han Suyin, Wind in the Tower: Mao Tse Tung & the Chinese Revolution, 1949 – 1975, 1976, Little, Brown & Company
• Dongping Han, “Farmers, Mao, and Discontent in China: From the Great Leap Forward to the Present,” Monthly Review, 2009, Vol. 61, Issue  07, http://bit.ly/lpbjmJ
• Joseph Ball, “Did Mao Really Kill Millions in the Great Leap Forward?” Monthly Review, http://bit.ly/j7mOmy

Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping

• Vince Sherman, “China & Market Socialism: A Question of State & Revolution,” Return to the Source, May 20, 2011, http://bit.ly/l1vPfd
• Deng Xiaoping, “Uphold the Four Cardinal Principles,” March 30, 1979, http://bit.ly/m2SOEA
• Erwin Marquit, “Class Struggle and a Socialist Market Economy,” April 10, 2007, Political Affairs, http://bit.ly/khhj7l

Mengistu Haile Mariam

Mengistu Haile Mariam

• Christopher Clapham, Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia, 1988, Cambridge University Press
• Christopher Clapham, “Revolutionary Socialist Development in Ethiopia,” April 1987, African Affairs, Vol. 86, No. 343, pg. 151-165, http://bit.ly/latWVP
• Ahmed Khan, “Defend Comrade Mengistu! On the struggle of our Ethiopian brothers,” November 19, 2008, Red Diary, http://bit.ly/jbYhks

Thomas Sankara

Thomas Sankara

• Robin Shuffield, Director, Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man, Documentary produced by CreateSpace, http://amzn.to/iJV3Uu
• Thomas Sankara, Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983-1987, December 1, 1988, Pathfinder Press
• Thomas Sankara, “The ‘Political Orientation’ of Burkina Faso,” October 2, 1983, Re-Published in the Review of African Political Economy, April 1985, No. 32, pg. 48-55, http://bit.ly/lMRh7d
• Victoria Brittain, “Introduction to Sankara & Burkina Faso,” April 1985, Review of African Political Economy, No. 32, pf. 39-47, http://bit.ly/j2heQn

Robert Mugabe

Robert Mugabe

• Vince Sherman, “New Democracy & ZANU-PF: Zimbabwe’s Revolutionary Path,” April 22, 2011, Return to the Source, http://bit.ly/kJd4uC
• Ian Scoones, Nelson Marongwe, Blasio Mavedzenge, Jacob Mahenehene, Felix Murimbarimba, Chrispen Sukume, Zimbabwe’s Land Reform: Myths & Realities, 2010, African Issues, Weaver Press
• Mahmood Mamdani, “Lessons of Zimbabwe,” December 4, 2008, London Review of Books, Vol. 30, No. 23, http://bit.ly/jxbOsj