ABSTRACT
The next venue for these ongoing ideological battles over the China policy would be the Comintern’s Seventh Expanded Plenum, which met during November 1926 soon after the conclusion of the Fifteenth Party Conference. One of the most important issues at the plenum was the revolution in China. Events in China were linked once again with the workers’ strikes in Britain and the plenum was advised that:
It ought to co-ordinate the great events of our day, the Chinese revolution and the struggle of the English proletariat, with the problems of the world Communist movement in general. “The English strikes and China” ought to be and will be the red thread which runs through the work of the plenum.1
