Tibetan Communist Party | |
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Leader | Phuntsok Wangyal |
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Founded | 1943 |
Dissolved | 1949 |
Merged into | Chinese Communist Party |
Ideology | |
Political position | Far-left |
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Tibetan name | |||||||
Tibetan | བོད་གུང་ཁྲན་ཏང | ||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||
Traditional Chinese | 西藏共產黨 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 西藏共产党 | ||||||
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The Tibetan Communist Party[a] was a small communist party in Tibet which functioned in secrecy under various names. The group was founded by Phuntsok Wangyal and Ngawang Kesang in 1943. It emerged from a group called the Tibetan Democratic Youth League, formed by Wangyal and other Tibetan students in Lhasa in 1939.[1][2]
The party sought to establish an independent and socialist Tibet encompassing the three traditional regions of Tibet: Ü-Tsang, Kham, and Amdo.[1][3] The party contacted the Soviet embassy in Beijing and asked for the Soviets' assistance as it began planning a socialist uprising in Tibet. Wangyal later contacted the Chinese Communist Party and the Communist Party of India.[4]
The Tibetan communists prepared guerrilla struggles against the ruling Kuomintang while promoting democratic reforms inside Tibet.
In 1949, the party merged into the Chinese Communist Party.[5]
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