The deadly August 26 suicide bombing at Kabul’s international airport was yet another gut punch to the stature of the United States, an imperialist world power in steep decline. After the ISIS-K small-time terrorists claimed...
LOS ANGELES, CA, September 7—Progressive Labor Party (PLP), families from police murder victims, and friends from here and Balitmore joined the PLP in Washington, DC for the National March Against Police Brutality. Communist...
BROOKWOOD, AL—City University of New York (CUNY) students and faculty in the revolutionary communist Progressive Labor Party (PLP) concluded a solidarity week in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, supporting 1,100 Black and white striking...
LOS ANGELES, September 7—The worldwide multiracial, antiracist upsurge in the wake of the police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many others was a positive development for the international working class. The mass...
Hurricane Ida ripped through the U.S. and exposed once again the utter failure of capitalism to provide even the most basic necessities for millions of workers. The latest in a long and rapidly growing list of capitalist-created...
BROOKLYN, September 4—“Same enemy, same fight! Workers of the world, unite!” rang through the streets of Flatbush neighborhood. As the bosses’ racist attacks on workers in Haiti continue unabated, more than 30...
NEW YORK CITY, September 8—As a new school year begins, working-class students and families are again faced with dangerous lose-lose conditions created by capitalism in crisis. Rising numbers of Covid-19 cases, crumbling school...
NEW YORK CITY, September 5—A Progressive Labor Party (PLP) struggle in the MTA's NYCT division (Metropolitan Transportation Agency/New York City Transit) to help a fellow train operator with a wrongful termination lawsuit has...
Retiree raises solidarity funds for workers in Haiti I’ve been politically active in a large union for over 50 years as a worker and a retiree. I have led struggles on the job and tried to connect those struggles to events around...
Classical composer famed for his film scores to Zorba the Greek and Serpico, and for his firebrand politics For those with only a nodding acquaintance with Greece and Greek music, the name of Mikis Theodorakis, who has died aged 96,...
Country has more ultra-wealthy people than any other – and president’s patience with them has run out Billionaires were probably not part of the plan for the founders of the Chinese Communist party. Nevertheless, extraordinary economic...
Soviet dissident who sacrificed his scientific career and was imprisoned for denouncing the state’s abuse of human rights Alone among Soviet dissidents of the Leonid Brezhnev years, Sergei Kovalev, who has died aged 91, went on to play a...
As the bigtime terrorists of U.S. imperialism suffer another humiliating defeat and leave Afghanistan to the small-time terrorists of the Taliban, the world is witnessing in real time the waning of a once-dominant empire. Thanks to...
20 August 1991: Boris Yeltsin rallies resistance as Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev is put under house arrest Boris Yeltsin , Russia’s president and most popular politician, was holding firm last night against the dawn coup which...
Chinese Communist party to crack down on almost weekly creation of billionaire company bosses China ’s president has vowed to “adjust excessive incomes” in a warning to the country’s super-rich that the state plans to redistribute wealth...
With various left and soft left groups on the sidelines, the party’s right is in the ascendant Recent developments in the Labour party have once again highlighted how, despite the leader’s promise to end factionalism, internal divisions...
South African anti-apartheid activist who went into exile after prison and torture but returned to help the new ANC government Norman Levy, who has died aged 91, was an anti-apartheid activist who suffered arrest, torture and...
Cuban officials blame the US for Sunday’s demonstrations as Biden calls on island’s leaders to hear citizens’ ‘clarion call for freedom’ The Cuban president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, has attacked the “shameful delinquents” he claimed were...
9 July 1974: Controversy over the place of secular philosophies in the religious studies syllabus Over the last few months, with very little national attention, a controversy has developed over religious education in Birmingham which is...
The history of the century-old party is far more interesting than its sanitised propaganda would suggest A new museum commemorating the history of the Chinese Communist party (CCP) opened in June in Beijing as part of the runup to the...
Few would have predicted the CCP’s triumph. Now it guards its power ruthlessly One hundred years ago, 13 young Chinese men and two Comintern representatives met secretly in Shanghai’s French Concession. Fearing discovery by police, they...
As China marks the centenary of its ruling party, we examine key episodes in its tempestuous history, including the Long March, Mao’s purges and Xi Jinping’s rise to the top of an emerging superpower Anyone visiting First Meeting Hall in...
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were sent to the electric chair for being Soviet spies, but their sons have spent decades trying to clear their mother’s name. Are they close to a breakthrough? “It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they...
Networking site tells users that references to Tiananmen Square, even as academic study, are prohibited content LinkedIn is blocking profiles from being viewed inside China if they mention politically sensitive topics such as the...
Key figure was imprisoned for more than six months for her role in the 2019 anti-government protests The Hong Kong democracy activist Agnes Chow has been released from jail after serving more than six months for taking part in...
Beijing’s attempts to obliterate the memory of the massacre are extending their reach When forgetting is compulsory, remembering can be a lonely business. Zhang Xianling’s 19-year-old son was shot in the head as Chinese troops bloodily...
The Chinese Communist party is promoting a campaign to study its history before the 100th anniversary in July. ‘Red’ tourism to historically significant hotspots like Yan’an and Xibaipo has increased accordingly Continue reading...
Massed mourners hail the dictator’s flower-clad body in a film that gives long-lost footage a new and unnerving lease of life For this very disquieting documentary, like a two-hour bad dream, Sergei Loznitsa has assembled hitherto unseen...
Founder of Keston College, which rattled the Soviet authorities by disseminating facts about religion behind the iron curtain Michael Bourdeaux, who has died aged 87, founded Keston College in Bromley, south-east London, in 1969 as a...
My friend Monty Meth, who has died aged 95, was both a reporter on the Daily Worker newspaper and, later, the industrial editor of the Daily Mail. Monty was born above a barber’s shop in Bethnal Green, east London, the youngest of three...
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,...