US singer and songwriter best known for his 1969 Woodstock performance of his anti-war I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag Although he released more than 30 solo albums as well as six studio LPs and two live albums with Country Joe and the...
On 25 February 1956, the Soviet leader made a speech in which he called Stalin a dictator who had led a regime of ‘suspicion, fear and terror’ Khrushchev’s ‘secret speech’ to the 20th congress of the Communist party of the Soviet Union...
A rare lymphoma diagnosis meant Giorgi Gagoshidze had to abandon a film project on the economic factors behind the USSR’s collapse – until he found new meaning in medical terminology In autumn 2022, Giorgi Gagoshidze was in the middle of...
Line handily sums up people’s bewilderment at state of world, but it isn’t quite what the Marxist thinker wrote At a time when geopolitical certainties of old are crumbling away , it has become the go-to quote to make sense of the...
Whether you blame the US or the communist regime, there is no doubt that this is an island spiralling into tragedy Felix Valdés García was nine years old when the revolutionaries came to blow up his trees. It was the verge of the 1970s...
Emissions have plunged 75% since communist times in the birthplace of big oil – but for some the transition has been brutal Once the frozen fields outside Bucharest have thawed, workers will assemble the largest solar farm in Europe: one...
The groundbreaking singer, actor and athlete became a victim of McCarthyism and saw his shining career destroyed and his legacy tarnished In August 1972, the front page of the New York Times arts section published a story titled, Time to...
Soviet invasions of allies helped destroy the Warsaw Pact – Trump’s dangerous rhetoric risks repeating the mistake inside Nato Donald Trump’s echoing of Russia’s talking points in its war against Ukraine has long been a cause for alarm...
Video shows Gen Xu Qinxian explaining why he refused to deploy troops to crush 1989 student-led demonstrations Rare footage of a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) general who defied orders to lead his troops into Tiananmen Square and crush...
As the first part of his acclaimed Blinding trilogy is released in the UK, the novelist talks about communism, Vladimir Nabokov – and those Nobel rumours In 2014, when he was travelling around the US on a book tour, Mircea...
My father, Peter Frost, who has died aged 79, was a journalist perhaps best known for his weekly Frosty’s Ramblings column in the Morning Star newspaper – a witty and fiercely political wander through wildlife, working-class history and...
Dissident publisher who smuggled presses, dollars, broadcasting equipment, books and audio cassettes into communist Poland Mirosław Chojecki, who has died aged 76, fought to liberate Poland from communism much as his parents had fought...
Czech novelist and playwright whose work was banned under communism Ivan Klíma, who has died aged 94, carried into the third decade of the 21st century his memories of four years in a Nazi concentration camp. That childhood, from 10...
The electroacoustic pioneer scored dozens of pictures – and communist propaganda. Too successful to be persecuted by the politburo but largely forgotten when he died, his music is being revived by a new archival series Zdeněk Liška...
First president of Romania after the fall of the Ceaușescu regime who was later charged with crimes against humanity during the revolution Ion Iliescu, who has died aged 95, served three terms as the elected president of Romania, setting...
In Chris Miller’s new film, a Smurf is told to ‘believe you were born great’. But does this approach contradict what Peyo’s original Smurfs stood for? Smurfs, a new Paramount Pictures CGI-spectacle directed by Chris Miller, has received...
Kremlin’s most prized spies were sent in to Czechoslovakia to whip up the 1960s reform protests in a move then replicated across the eastern bloc During the spring of 1968, as revolutionary sentiment began to grow in communist...
Dmitry Kalmykov is a Ukrainian scientist who has dedicated his life to investigating environmental disasters, first at Chornobyl and now in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan – formerly the Soviet Union’s primary nuclear weapons testing site. He...
Dmitry Kalmykov is a Ukrainian scientist who has dedicated his life to investigating environmental disasters, first at Chornobyl and now in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan - formerly the Soviet Union's primary nuclear weapons testing site. He...
On January 27, a drone attack by an Iran-backed militia killed three U.S soldiers and wounded more than 30 at an outpost in Jordan, near the border with both Iraq and Syria. It marked the first killings of U.S. troops since Israel’s mass...
NEW YORK CITY, January 20—Another spirited march – there are many every week - about the genocide in Gaza was held in uptown Manhattan involving over 500 demonstrators. It was organized by a coalition of groups demanding an immediate...
January 21, 2024 is the 100th anniversary of the death of the great revolutionary Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov. “Lenin” was his revolutionary name. He dedicated his life to the exploited and oppressed of the world: workers, peasants, women,...
Members of the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) , including college professors in the Bronx, joined with coworkers, students and community organizers in rallying against NYC’s Mayor Eric Adams last week. Adams came to the South Bronx to...
There has been a lot of organizing among workers and students against the U.S. backed Israeli bombing of Gaza. At the November Boston Teachers’ Union membership meeting a friend of the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) introduced a...
Since Israel started bombing Gaza, Progressive Labor Party (PLP) members have been actively participating in demonstrations against the genocide of the innocent workers of Palestine. At the beginning all these demonstrations seemed as...
Martin Luther King’s call to civil rights action, “the fierce urgency of now,” animated political action on Gaza at the January 2024 convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA). The MLA Radical Caucus—including core organizers...
Ecuador, January 31—Workers in Ecuador have found themselves caught between a turf war between drug gangs led by Jose Adolfo Macias, known by the alias “Fito” and the Ecuadorian state headed by new president Daniel Noboa. Workers of...
Late last year, the U.S. imperialist propaganda machine cranked out another “game” Call of Duty Modern Warfare III to encourage young workers to enlist in their bloodsoaked military and die for oil profits. The U.S. imperialists know...
Felt ‘urgency and emotional rawness’ I was impressed by the seriousness of the comrades at the recent cadre school. The school was proof the Party is developing young, working-class, Black and Latin, women leadership to lead the working...
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,...
Print section UK Only Article: standard article Fly Title: Lech Walesa Main image: 20160227_eup502.jpg LECH WALESA, the iconic leader of the Solidarity labour movement that brought down Poland’s communist...