EVENT INFORMATION

5
Februari
1967

The Shanghai People’s Commune challenges established city governance

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📅 5 Februari 1967 📍 China

Radical activists declared a commune modeled on the Paris Commune after taking power from municipal authorities. The experiment raised questions about workers’ authority and political representation, but lasted only weeks before central leaders replaced it with a revolutionary committee. Economic administration in Shanghai was disrupted as competing organizations struggled over factories, transport and supply chains.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Zhang Chunqiao

Wang Hongwen

Shanghai workers

Organisaties in dit Evenement

Shanghai People’s Commune

revolutionary committees

state enterprises