Tibetan Communist Party

Tibetan Communist Party was a small communist group in Tibet, which functioned in secrecy under various names. The party was founded by Phuntsok Wangyal and Ngawang Kesang in the 1940s. The party had emerged out of a group called the Tibetan Communist Revolutionary Group created by Wangyal and other Tibetan students in Nanjing in the 1940s. [ [http://newleftreview.org/A2576 New Left Review - Tsering Shakya: The Prisoner ] ] [cite web|url = http://www.case.edu/news/2004/7-04/tibetbook.htm |title = Case anthropologist tells story of Tibet Communist Party founder |accessdate = 2008-06-21 |author = July 2 |coauthors = 2004 | For more information: Jeff Bendix (216)-368-6070]

The part sought to unite all Tibetans into one entity, compassing Kham, Amdo and Tibet proper. [Goldstein, Melvyn C. Goldstein/Sherap, Dawei Sherap/Siebenschuh, William R.. "A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye". University of California Press, 2004. p. xiii] The party contacted the embassy of the Soviet Union asking for its assistance as it began planning a socialist uprising in Tibet and Kham. Later Wangyal also contacted the Communist Party of China and the Communist Party of India. [Goldstein, Melvyn C. Goldstein/Sherap, Dawei Sherap/Siebenschuh, William R.. "A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye". Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. p. 42-44, 78-82]

The Tibetan communists prepared guerrilla struggles against KMT forces, whilst promoting democratic reforms inside Tibet.

In 1949, the party merged into the Communist Party of China, [cite web|url = http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9933.php |title = A Tibetan Revolutionary |accessdate = 2008-06-21 |author = Melvyn C. Goldstein |coauthors = Dawei Sherap, and William R. Siebenschuh] at a time when the 1931 Constitution of the CCP gave minority territories of the former Chinese Empire, such as Tibet, the right to independence and secession. [cite web|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wDqlbKQhFIQC&pg=PP12&lpg=PP12&dq=%22anthony+aris%22&source=web&ots=Co7vj0nwNu&sig=_P3tgkU2kcUBen4wWmITxe1DzeY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=32&ct=result#PPA195,M1 |title = Japanese Agent in Tibet |accessdate = 2008-08-10 |author = Hisao Kimura]

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