• Communist parties warn of 'new war danger' in Middle East
    Monday, September 16, 2019 from Home
    Six Communist and workers' parties have issued a joint statement in Paris warning against the continuing threat of a new war in the Middle East. Meeting at the Fete de l'Humanite, representatives of parties from Iran, France, Lebanon,...
  • Auto workers against racism
    Saturday, September 14, 2019 from Challenge Newspaper
    NEW YORK CITY, September 7 – One hundred and fifty members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union brought the message of international working-class solidarity to the NYC Labor  Day Parade. Comrades from Progressive Labor...
  • David Koch, rival capitalist and little fascist
    Saturday, September 14, 2019 from Challenge Newspaper
    David Koch, one half of the toxic Charles/David Koch billionaire brothers, died on August 23. The Koch brothers have been leaders of the domestic small fascist bosses challenging the big fascists who have historically run U.S....
  • David Koch, rival capitalist and little fascist
    Saturday, September 14, 2019 from Challenge Newspaper
    David Koch, one half of the toxic Charles/David Koch billionaire brothers, died on August 23. The Koch brothers have been leaders of the domestic small fascist bosses challenging the big fascists who have historically run U.S....
  • Communist revolution key to saving the planet
    Saturday, September 14, 2019 from Challenge Newspaper
    Climate catastrophies, including recent forest fires and hurricanes, have energized students and others in the fight against climate change. Capitalism causes nature’s disastrous events because its profit-seeking goals preclude...
  • Revolutionary potential of CUNY students
    Saturday, September 14, 2019 from Challenge Newspaper
    NEW YORK CITY, September 9— A part-time history instructor at the City University of New York (CUNY) offers a description of “back to school” first days. “Where does the anti-racist club meet? I want to...
  • Haiti education conference: ‘Fight to learn, learn to fight’
    Saturday, September 14, 2019 from Challenge Newspaper
    Haiti, September 10– As a new school year begins across the northern hemisphere, ruling classes across the globe herd working class teachers and students back to classrooms and school systems designed to reproduce capitalist social...
  • AMLO’s capitalist role in Mexico— Workers need communism
    Saturday, September 14, 2019 from Challenge Newspaper
    Last year in Mexico’s presidential election Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (aka AMLO) came to power in Mexico). He rode a wave of massive discontent with the previous president Enrique Pena Nieto. Also, he promised an end to official...
  • "A Mercy," a Marxist appreciation
    Saturday, September 14, 2019 from Challenge Newspaper
     Words of praise poured in for the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison when she died on August 5, 2019. She was lauded for her mastery of language, the depth of her characterizations, and her profound understanding of...
  • Ayotzinapa, a crime of capitalism
    Saturday, September 14, 2019 from Challenge Newspaper
    Guerrero, MEXICO—A massive demonstration on September 26 will commemorate the struggle for the return of the 43 students who disappeared in Ayotzinapa  five years ago. The details of this incident, part of the criminal history...
  • Communists urge focus on militant 'New Deal' campaign
    Thursday, September 12, 2019 from Home
    'While Brexit understandably dominated many of the debates at the TUC conference, other vital issues were neglected to a worrying extent', Andy Bain told the Communist Party's political committee on Wednesday evening.
  • Lisbon meeting calls for 'Europe of the peoples and workers', not the 'EU of big capital'
    Monday, September 9, 2019 from Home
    The European Union cannot be reformed in the interests of the workers and peoples of Europe, insisted an international panel of speakers at the huge ' Avante! ' festival near Lisbon, Portugal, at the weekend.
  • Su Shaozhi obituary
    Tuesday, September 3, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    Chinese political scientist who was forced into exile after the Tiananmen Square massacre The political scientist Su Shaozhi, who has died aged 96, was a campaigner for reform of the Chinese Communist party in the post- Mao years, until...
  • Welsh Communists warn of future Labour election defeat
    Sunday, September 1, 2019 from Home
    Welsh Labour is alienating potential support in working class communities on a scale that could contribute to the party's defeat at the next General Election, Welsh Communists warned at the weekend. 
  • From a picnic to the Berlin Wall: my 1989 summer of revolution
    Saturday, August 31, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    An award-winning foreign correspondent looks back on the human stories that helped bring down the Berlin Wall and East Germany’s regime It should have been a normal family chat in late midsummer in Berlin. Kerstin Falkner, 22, and her...
  • Communists call for Labour election victory and 'clean break' with EU
    Saturday, August 31, 2019 from Home
    The Communist Party of Britain issued the following statement on Friday, 30 August 2019, at 11.30 pm The Communist Party reiterates its call for Britain to leave the EU on terms that enable a democratic, left response to our country’s...
  • Kashmir: nationalism & regional rivalry on the rise
    Friday, August 30, 2019 from Challenge Newspaper
    On August 5, 38,000 paramilitary troops from India entered the “semi-autonomous” area of Kashmir, an open act of imperialist occupation. They were acting on orders from hyper-nationalist Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
  • How to Be an Anticapitalist in the 21st Century by Erik Olin Wright – review
    Thursday, August 29, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    An essential study of what is wrong with capitalism – and how to create a new socialist society As long as there have been people who called themselves socialists, there have been people arguing about what socialism is. Socialism is a...
  • Sidney Rittenberg obituary
    Wednesday, August 28, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    American translator who was a senior member of the Chinese Communist party and an adviser to Mao Zedong Sidney Rittenberg, an American from South Carolina, was one of the few non-Chinese people to become a senior member of the Chinese...
  • Atom spy Klaus Fuchs was motivated by conscience | Letter
    Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    John Green says it’s simplistic to describe as a ‘traitor’ the physicist who supplied information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union Graham Farmelo’s review of a new book by Frank Close about the atom spy Klaus Fuchs (...
  • Corbyn and Communists in Machynlleth
    Sunday, August 18, 2019 from Home
    Jeremy Corbyn received a standing ovation from a large crowd at the 'El Sueno Existe' ('The Dream Exists') festival in Machynlleth, mid-Wales, at the weekend. 
  • Left and Labour must resist 'Very real threats', say Communists
    Thursday, August 15, 2019 from Home
    The labour movement and the left face three very real threats from the British ruling class, Mollie Brown declared at the Communist Party's political committee on Wednesday (August 14).
  • Dóra Maurer review – the dissident who rebelled in colour
    Monday, August 5, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    Tate Modern, London From black and white films made in her kitchen to glorious geometric designs, the Hungarian artist’s career has blossomed since the end of communist rule Dóra Maurer’s impressive creativity since the end of Soviet...
  • Philip Pocock’s best photograph: Miriam the Berlin punk – and her rat Bestia
    Wednesday, July 31, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    ‘The punks were sceptical of my presence. One guy even headbutted me. In retrospect, I think it was a sign of acceptance’ I was in my mid-20s when Cornell Capa, director of the International Center of Photography in New York, recommended...
  • CR 92 - Summer 2019
    Monday, July 29, 2019 from Home
    Learning to plan: Revisiting the Soviet Experiment by CP Chandrasekhar; Pasokification: Social Democracy in Crisis by Pierre Marshall; Economics and Suicide by C Ritchie ; HM Athens: Greeks bearing gifts by Michael Roberts; Reviews by...
  • Welsh Communists demand EU powers for Wales
    Sunday, July 21, 2019 from Home
    Welsh Communists have slammed the Welsh government and Assembly Members for voting to keep decision-making powers in Brussels instead of bringing them to Cardiff.
  • Attacks show Establishment 'terrified' of Corbyn victory, Communists say
    Thursday, July 18, 2019 from Home
    Hysterical attacks on Labour over accusations of anti-Semitism and a renewed drive to force the party to back staying in the EU show the Establishment remains terrified of the possibility of a Corbyn-led government, the Communist Party’s...
  • Jerome Ch’en obituary
    Thursday, July 18, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    Historian of modern China, cut off from his roots, who rued the rise of the military and the Communist conquest The early life of the historian Jerome Ch’en, who has died aged 99, ran in parallel with the upheavals in modern China that...
  • A Faded Empire Strikes Back
    Thursday, July 18, 2019 from Home
    US statesman Dean Acheson famously remarked that “Great Britain had lost an Empire and had yet to find a role.” Apparently though, Great Britain has managed to recover rights to Hong Kong and, according to multiple Tory politicians and...
  • Hong Kong opposition and the Trump administration
    Thursday, July 18, 2019 from Home
    One of the traditional weaknesses of the British left has been its inconsistent responses to international crises. This becomes particularly acute when British imperialism is itself strategically involved and the pressures of public...
  • Hong Kong and the politics of extradition
    Thursday, July 18, 2019 from Home
    Over the past few weeks hundreds of thousands in Hong Kong have protested against the proposed introduction of a global extradition bill. The largely peaceful demonstrations filled the front pages and the airwaves of the Western...
  • Ballet legend Beryl Grey: 'It’s amazing what the human body can take'
    Thursday, July 18, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    She did Swan Lake on her 15th birthday, collaborated with the combustible Rudolf Nureyev and was the first westerner to perform with the Bolshoi. The dame reflects on a life in dance ‘It’s such a shame they moved Covent Garden market,”...
  • Experience: I tunnelled under the Berlin Wall
    Friday, July 12, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    My real fear was the border guards and Stasi, who were listening for movement beneath the ground and digging their own tunnels to intercept ours In 1961, I was 21 and studying civil engineering in East Germany. I was desperate to escape...
  • Vladimir Putin’s Russia is rehabilitating Stalin. We must not let it happen | Irina Sherbakova
    Wednesday, July 10, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    An archive of artefacts from Stalin’s brutal reign should stand as evidence against Putin’s vision of a ‘heroic’ Soviet past • Irina Sherbakova was a founding member of the human rights organisation Memorial Great expectations...
  • We built this city: the 90-year-olds who made a metropolis
    Tuesday, July 9, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    In 1947, 50,000 volunteers helped create Dimitrovgrad, a new city that symbolised the brave new world of communist Bulgaria. Many still live there Do you live in a city planned from scratch? Share your experiences In her flat overlooking...
  • The Paris Commune - from the archive, 1871
    Wednesday, June 26, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    On 28 May 1871, French soldiers crushed the Paris Commune, a socialist government that had ruled the city for two months. See how the Guardian and Observer reported the insurrection The Paris Commune was a radical, popular led government...
  • ‘A leftward shift’: Communist party USA sees chance as progressives surge
    Sunday, June 23, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    In Chicago, an American party derided and feared for 100 years looked eagerly to a brighter future As the Communist party USA kicked off its 100th anniversary celebration, Jarvis Tyner called for delegates and guests at the national...
  • Hong Kong, China and universal values | Letter
    Friday, June 21, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    Michael Minden says we must grapple with the different realities of those who think and feel not as we do I agree with Natalie Nougayrède’s point that “universalism is not a dirty word” ( Hong Kong’s struggles are ours too , Journal, 19...
  • The Guardian view on Hong Kong’s crisis: the people have spoken | Editorial
    Monday, June 17, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    The extradition bill and its mishandling have sparked such outrage that the process has been paused. What now? When hundreds of thousands of people have marched in what appeared to be the biggest protest in Hong Kong’s history , their...
  • Snipping away at the Iron Curtain: when Hungary opened its Austrian border - archive, 1989
    Wednesday, June 12, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    The cutting of the border fence between Hungary and Austria in June 1989 showed the division of post-war Europe was coming to an end, and heralded the region’s evolution On 27 June 1989, the then foreign ministers of Hungary, Gyula Horn...
  • I was 10 when communism fell in Poland. My world became colourful – but unstable
    Tuesday, June 4, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    Thirty years ago, democracy brought us Pepsi, Turbo gum and bananas, but also stress – and an end to our sense of security How come I remember 1989 so well, when I don’t remember what I was doing yesterday? Maybe it’s because the 1980s...
  • The Guardian view on Tiananmen, 30 years on: hope and terror | Editorial
    Friday, May 31, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    We should remember 1989’s protest movement, as well as the killings It’s inevitable that we view the past through the lens of the present. It’s odder that we tend to regard our current picture as the only possible one, and to believe...
  • Anna review – lies and surveillance in communist East Berlin
    Wednesday, May 22, 2019 from Communism | The Guardian
    Dorfman theatre, London Ella Hickson’s inventive thriller turns the audience into spies behind a glass wall, with fascinating but flawed results Created by Ella Hickson and sound designers Ben and Max Ringham, Anna is both an audio...
  • Monarchy and the Russian diaspora: Arcane arguments about Russia’s sovereigns could go mainstream
    Sunday, October 29, 2017 from Communism
    Main image:  AS A colleague writes in this week’s print edition, Vladimir Putin is in certain ways more comparable to an absolute monarch than to a constitutionally elected political leader, who might be hemmed by checks and...
  • Bagehot: Corbyn’s comrades and the Russian revolution
    Thursday, October 26, 2017 from Communism
    Print section Print Rubric:  The centenary of the Russian revolution is a good time to reflect on Labour’s leadership Print Headline:  Corbyn’s comrades Print Fly Title:  Bagehot UK Only Article: ...
  • Palace insiders: Many eastern Europeans feel nostalgia for the communist era
    Thursday, October 12, 2017 from Communism
    Print section Print Rubric:  Tourists revel in Iron Curtain kitsch Print Headline:  Palace insiders Print Fly Title:  Communist nostalgia UK Only Article:  standard article Issue:  China’s Xi...
  • Life and soul of the Party: Xi Jinping has been good for China’s Communist Party; less so for China
    Wednesday, October 11, 2017 from Communism
    Print section Print Rubric:  China’s leader has been good for the Communist Party but not for his country Print Headline:  Life and soul of the party Print Fly Title:  Xi Jinping after five years UK Only...
  • Charlemagne: Exorcising Marx in France: Emmanuel Macron is trying to change France’s psychology
    Thursday, September 7, 2017 from Communism
    Print section Print Rubric:  Emmanuel Macron is trying to change nothing less than France’s psychology Print Headline:  Exorcising French demons Print Fly Title:  Charlemagne UK Only Article:  standard...
  • Monumental propaganda: Engels returns to Manchester
    Thursday, July 20, 2017 from Communism
    Print section Print Headline:  Engels returns to Manchester Print Fly Title:  Monumental propaganda UK Only Article:  standard article Issue:  Britain faces up to Brexit Fly Title:  Monumental...
  • Bagehot: Labour is right—Karl Marx has a lot to teach today’s politicians
    Thursday, May 11, 2017 from Communism
    Print section Print Rubric:  The Labour leadership is right—Karl Marx has a lot to teach today’s politicians Print Headline:  The Marxist moment Print Fly Title:  Bagehot UK Only Article:  standard...
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