On this day, 12 April 1927, the Shanghai massacre began, with thousands of communists, workers, and students murdered or “disappeared” by the nationalist Kuomintang nationalist movement led by Chiang Kai-shek. The Chinese Communist Party and the Soviet Union, as well as some anarchists, had joined forces with the Kuomintang against domestic warlords and foreign imperial powers to try to unite and modernise China. Over the next year, more than three hundred thousand people would be killed in the Kuomintang’s anti-communist purges.
Despite the killings, a minority of Chinese anarchists maintained their involvement with the Kuomintang and attempted to recruit others to join them. This was rejected by most of the movement, including Hua Lin, who argued that militants who entered into a relationship with the Kuomintang effectively stopped being anarchists. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1692979270887216/?type=3