Inter-imperialist rivalry has reignited genocide in the Horn of Africa. Workers in Sudan, Ethiopia, and Eritrea are trapped in nationalist conflicts that are stealing their homes, their future, and their lives. Spurred by...
November 29, PELHAM, NY—On Sunday, more than 40 faculty, students, and staff from the City University of New York (CUNY) marched to the home of Félix (Felo) Matos-Rodriguez, the CUNY Chancellor. Like liberal fascists around the world,...
BRONX, NY, November 18- Amidst hundreds of other anti-genocide protests across the nation and the world during the past several weeks, 150 protesters rallied outside of a Starbucks in the Bronx and later took over the streets to demand a...
NOVEMBER 29, ATLANTA, GA – This year's American Public Health Association (APHA) annual conference was held in Atlanta, a hotbed of ongoing class struggle against the expansion of the ruling class’s racist police state and environmental...
NOVEMBER 29, OAKLAND, CA—Class consciousness and anti-capitalism were on full display during the past weeks of actions to shut down business as usual in the San Francisco Bay Area. Tens of thousands marched in Oakland, San Francisco and...
Workers in Pakistan are grappling with a dire economic situation. Inter-imperialist rivalry is heating up, particularly in dependent countries like Pakistan. It depends upon the financial capital of Saudi Arabia, China, the United Arab...
On November 24, I joined three other comrades at the "Save Gaza," Black Friday March on Chicago's Michigan Avenue, the "Magnificent Mile," of expensive shops and restaurants. Several progressive groups were present at the event such as...
No shackling of patients November 14 was a busy day for U.S. PLP members and friends at the American Public Health Association (APHA) meetings in Atlanta, Georgia. We joined protests against Cop City in Atlanta and Israel’s genocide of...
Biden kept “baby-killers" propaganda in speech Al Jazeera, 11/27–US President Joe Biden reportedly rejected the advice of staff to refrain from repeating unverified reports that Hamas had beheaded babies during its attack on Israel on...
In the night, when the nazi Israeli military viciously bombed Gaza’s largest hospital-turned-shelter, they forced 60,000 displaced workers and children to flee. This is just one atrocity in what can only be described as a genocide of the...
Why we must remember Maurice Bishop and the Grenadian revolution You wouldn’t have guessed he was in enemy territory. Addressing 2,500 people at New York’s Hunter College one June night in 1983, Maurice Bishop won the crowd over with...
The former Italian president was a communist who learned that utopianism does not work and the common good involves compromise It’s not every day that you see a pope paying tribute to a former communist – but it happened this week in...
President of Italy who steered three prime ministers into government, none of whom had led their party to election victory An Italian president does not have the direct, executive powers of a US or French head of state. Sometimes the...
Armed with his trusty table knife, the prime minister takes on the Chinese Communist party • You can order your own copy of this cartoon Continue reading...
Canadian anthropologist who joined Mao Zedong’s rural revolution and stayed on to build a ‘new China’ The pioneering anthropologist Isabel Crook, who has died aged 107, was the last survivor of that generation of sympathetic westerners...
The pandemic showed us how digital divides worsen inequality - this project shows they’re not inevitable Digital poverty and exclusion hide in plain sight. In an era of hyper-connectivity, millions are left in the shadows, even in the...
‘Anti-spying’ raids on consulting firms and attacks on tech companies are being driven by party ideology, says academic Chris Marquis To many western investors, China under president Xi Jinping is a tough nut to crack. While Chinese...
As a child in communist Albania, I yearned to play with her. But as soon as she was within reach, I didn’t want her any more When I was a child in communist Albania, happiness was called Aniushka. Aniushka was a large Czechoslovak doll...
Amo Bek-Nazaryan’s black and white film, a tale of betrayal in an oilfield, has a plaintive beauty and operatic intensity Machinery itself has star quality – of the most monumental and anti-heroic sort – in this fascinating 1928 silent...
Samuel Meffire was the face of an ad campaign to show a different side to the former GDR but later served time for armed robbery In the dying days of the German Democratic Republic, a group of peace activists gather in a church in...
New book charts life of Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz, feted then cold-shouldered as first woman to make the voyage alone For a short while in the late 1970s, Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz was probably the most famous woman in...
On 22 March 1933, the first concentration camp built by Nazi Germany opened near this town in Bavaria. It was initially intended to house Hitler’s political opponents From our own correspondent 21 March 1933 Continue reading...
For democrats, a stubborn economic malaise is more existentially threatening than any example set in Moscow or Beijing Once again the world is divided into competing spheres of eastern and western power, but is it a new cold war or...
Last communist prime minister of East Germany whose proposals for a slow process of reunification were pushed aside Hans Modrow, who has died aged 95, was the last communist prime minister of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany)...
This intoxicating 1963 novel explores the tension between socialist ideals, self-fulfilment and repressive reality in East Germany As a young woman in East Germany, Brigitte Reimann claimed that she would rather live 30 wild years than...
Books and documentaries can not only tell us what happened in the Soviet Union and why – but why it matters “Eras have their surfaces,” writes the German historian Karl Schlögel . “They can be smooth or rough. They can vanish or...
After Joko Widodo acknowledged the mass killings of 1965-66, victims say compensation is the next step Ita Nadia is an Indonesian activist who lost her uncle, aunt and a nephew in the mass killings of 1965-66. Her husband, Hersri...
My friend and comrade George Johannes, who has died aged 77, was an African National Congress cadre who served for a time in its military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe. He was also a member of the South African Communist party and, following...
My mother, Alison Selford, who has died aged 102, was a journalist and author who began her career writing for the leftwing Daily Worker newspaper before being cured, as she put it, of communism. She then spent a period as a novelist and...
The dividing line between capitalism and communism which descended across Europe after the second world war inspired spy writers and historians, polemicists and memoirists The iron curtain bisected Europe from north to south between 1945...
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...
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: ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Print section Print Rubric: A 50-year-old conflict resumes Print Headline: An extra mile Print Fly Title: Communist insurgency in the Philippines UK Only Article: standard article Issue: ...
Main image: WHILE most Christians are putting away their Christmas decorations, a substantial minority of them are only now preparing to commemorate the Nativity of Jesus Christ. For some eastern Christians (those who refused...
Print section Print Rubric: Cuba’s communist leader, who outlasted ten presidents of the United States, has died at the age of 90 Print Headline: The will to power Print Fly Title: Fidel Castro UK Only...
Print section Print Rubric: Andrzej Wajda, Poland’s greatest film-maker, died on October 9th, aged 90 Print Headline: Obituary: Conscience-keeper Print Fly Title: Andrzej Wajda UK Only Article: ...
Print section Print Rubric: But Mr Putin is not setting about it in the best way Print Headline: Take care of Russia Print Fly Title: Past and future UK Only Article: standard article...
Print section UK Only Article: standard article Issue: Brave new worlds Fly Title: Karl Marx Main image: 20160827_BKP003_0.jpg Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion. By Gareth Stedman Jones. ...
THE FALL of the Berlin Wall in 1989 opened the door to newfound abundance and freedom, from supermarket shelves bursting with variety to the easing of travel restrictions. Yet for millions in the former communist bloc, life did not...
Print section UK Only Article: standard article Fly Title: Politics in Nepal WHEN Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli stepped down as Nepal’s prime minister on July 24th ahead of a no-confidence motion he was certain to lose, he...
ON THE face of things, the last few days have been a time of flourishing Greco-Russian amity, rooted in a common Orthodox Christian faith. As the ceremonial high point of Vladimir...
HIPSTER-STYLE Vietnamese food has become popular in Australia of late. But a Vietnamese restaurant in Brisbane was forced to change its name from “Uncle Ho”, after Australian Vietnamese protested against it as an insensitive slap to the...
In just a few days, we will be unveiling the new CPUSA.org. May Day is Launch Day! Tonight, April 28th, the CPUSA is hosting an online launch party that will feature a sneak preview. We've been working on developing the new site for a...
The Brussels terror attacks: between rage and resilience Workers' Party of Belgium (PTB) March 23, 2016 On Tuesday, March 22, the blind terror of Islamic State sent shock waves through Brussels, and far beyond. Terrorist bomb attacks,...