Taiwanese Communist Party
Like the contemporary Taiwanese People's Party, its existence was short, only three years, but its politics and activities were influential in shaping Taiwan's anti-colonial enterprise.Following the draft, Lin Mu-shun [zh] and Hsieh Hsueh-hung secretly met in Shanghai with seven others, three of whom represented the Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Communist Parties, respectively, to form the nascent organization.The Republic of Formosa represented a revolutionary movement of feudal landowners, merchants and radical patriots, but it was doomed to failure given the immaturity of the native capitalist class.The party sought to organize workers in still-unorganized key industries, including the transportation and mining sectors in northern Taiwan.By 1931 the TCP-led Peasants' Union was secretly training farmers (many of Hakka ethnicity) in preparation for armed struggle to form a soviet, one that some believed would soon elicit support from the Chinese Communist Party.The Comintern also initially favored communists uniting with "bourgeois forces"[citation needed] to wage an anti-imperialist war of national liberation.The Kuomintang's repression led a part of them to flee to Mainland China, where they merged into the ranks of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).