This film explores the industry and culture of the cities of Tianjin and Beijing. The Great Leap Forward of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and social plan used from 1958 to 1961 which ostensibly aimed to use China’s vast population to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy into a modern communist society through the process of agriculturalization, industrialization, and collectivization. Mao Zedong led the campaign based on the Theory of Productive Forces, and intensified it after being informed of the impending disaster from grain shortages. Chief changes in the lives of rural Chinese included the introduction of a mandatory process of agricultural collectivization, which was introduced incrementally. Private farming was prohibited, and those engaged in it were labeled as counter revolutionaries and persecuted. Restrictions on rural people were enforced through public struggle sessions, social pressure, and violence. Food rationing was introduced, in some cases leaving rural Chinese with less than 250g (half a jin, 8.82 ounces) of grain per day. The Great Leap ended in catastrophe, triggering a widespread famine that resulted in possibly more than 20 million deaths. “china great leap forward 1958″, “great leap forward”, china, chinese, 1958, “mao zedong”, “mao tse tung”, “chinese great famine”, starvation, hunger, execution, “chinese cultural revolution”, “cultural revolution”

This is an experimental video put to the song entitled “The Great Leap Forward Poured Down Upon Us One Day Like A Mighty Storm, Suddenly And Furiously Blinding Our Senses” by Red Sparowes. This song is about The Great Leap Forward that took place in Mao Zedong-era China.

Great leap forward by good riddance All rights reserved to fat wreck chords Lyrics: Standing for something with True strength and heart But the old manifesto has splintered apart Driven from homes to the depths or despair Hear the cries of the innocent Ring through the air Genocide a new class warfare Pushed aside to make all the people one Drop dead because freedoms a cancer And state sponsored terror’s The new land reform Blinded by pride and national impulse Weaned on the doctrines of Lenin and Marx A blood red scar on the new face of china Exploding like tinder too close to the spark This time it’s genocide And the terror comes from within Nobody’s safe from the latest wave As the new republics in We’ll do away with agrarian notions Bleed the population into fear You can’t stop our populist expansion Because you’ve got no freedoms here

Billy Braggs – Waiting for the Greap Leap Forwards. Cover by Paul Smyth

Billy plays an in-store at HMV on Bloor st. in Toronto. June 17, 2008.

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Live at Keele University Union 20th November 2011

From: Workers Playtime

Seattle falls into chaos and NTAC is forced to look to Promise City for help. Meanwhile, Isabelle is ordered to murder Kyle Baldwin and Jordan attempts to escape from The Marked.