• Editorial: Why nationalism is no solution to genocide
    Thursday, November 30, 2023 from Challenge Newspaper
    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...
  • CUNY’s liberal fascism: Workers & kids we will liberate - Bury the bosses & their state
    Thursday, November 30, 2023 from Challenge Newspaper
    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,...
  • Arab, Jewish, Black, Brown, white: To smash genocide, we must unite!
    Thursday, November 30, 2023 from Challenge Newspaper
    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...
  • From Cop City in Georgia to genocide in Gaza: SMASH LIBERAL FASCISM
    Thursday, November 30, 2023 from Challenge Newspaper
    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...
  • Workers reject imperialist war & genocide
    Thursday, November 30, 2023 from Challenge Newspaper
    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...
  • Pakistan: in capitalist crisis, workers organize
    Thursday, November 30, 2023 from Challenge Newspaper
    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...
  • Letter: Chicago’s Black Friday- Shut this genocidal system down
    Thursday, November 30, 2023 from Challenge Newspaper
    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...
  • Letters . . . December 13, 2023
    Thursday, November 30, 2023 from Challenge Newspaper
    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...
  • Red Eye On The News . . . December 13, 2023
    Thursday, November 30, 2023 from Challenge Newspaper
    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...
  • Editorial: Palestinian holocaust in the name of imperialism
    Thursday, November 16, 2023 from Challenge Newspaper
    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...
  • The US invaded the island of Granada 40 years ago. The legacy of revolution lives on | Bhaskar Sunkara
    Wednesday, October 25, 2023 from Communism | The Guardian
    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...
  • Look back at Giorgio Napolitano: learn the limits of dogma and the potential of good leaders to change lives | Martin Kettle
    Friday, September 29, 2023 from Communism | The Guardian
    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...
  • Giorgio Napolitano obituary
    Sunday, September 24, 2023 from Communism | The Guardian
    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...
  • Rishi Sunak and the Chinese dragon – cartoon
    Saturday, September 16, 2023 from Communism | The Guardian
    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...
  • Isabel Crook obituary
    Monday, August 21, 2023 from Communism | The Guardian
    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...
  • Kerala is rolling out free broadband for its poorest citizens. What’s stopping your government? | Oommen C Kurian
    Monday, June 19, 2023 from Communism | The Guardian
    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...
  • ‘We in the west were blinded’: China crackdown on business has Maoist roots
    Sunday, May 21, 2023 from Communism | The Guardian
    ‘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...
  • What a Czechoslovakian doll taught me about happiness – and its dark side | Lea Ypi
    Sunday, May 14, 2023 from Communism | The Guardian
    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...
  • House on the Volcano review – silent classic of Soviet Armenia glories in machine age
    Monday, May 1, 2023 from Communism | The Guardian
    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...
  • ‘The GDR was safe for me’: Disney drama tells story of former East Germany’s first black police officer
    Tuesday, April 25, 2023 from Communism | The Guardian
    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...
  • The shunned Polish communist heroine who sailed solo around the world
    Friday, April 14, 2023 from Communism | The Guardian
    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...
  • Dachau concentration camp established – archive, March 1933
    Wednesday, March 22, 2023 from Communism | The Guardian
    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...
  • Western democracy is weaker in this new cold war than it was in the first one | Rafael Behr
    Wednesday, March 22, 2023 from Communism | The Guardian
    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...
  • Hans Modrow obituary
    Sunday, February 12, 2023 from Communism | The Guardian
    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)...
  • Siblings by Brigitte Reimann review – rebel with a cause
    Saturday, February 11, 2023 from Communism | The Guardian
    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...
  • The Guardian view on the history of feelings: a serious subject | Editorial
    Sunday, February 5, 2023 from Communism | The Guardian
    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...
  • ‘Truth is one of our rights’: victims of Indonesia’s bloody past want more than regret from their president
    Thursday, January 12, 2023 from Communism | The Guardian
    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...
  • George Johannes obituary
    Monday, January 2, 2023 from Communism | The Guardian
    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...
  • Alison Selford obituary
    Sunday, January 1, 2023 from Communism | The Guardian
    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...
  • Top 10 books about the iron curtain
    Wednesday, December 28, 2022 from Communism | The Guardian
    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...
  • 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...
  • An extra mile: Filipino communists go back to war
    Thursday, February 9, 2017 from Communism
    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: ...
  • Orthodox Christmas: Russia’s church is poised between two pasts and an unknown future
    Friday, January 6, 2017 from Communism
    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...
  • The will to power: The life and times of Fidel Castro
    Saturday, November 26, 2016 from Communism
    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...
  • The conscience keeper: Obituary: Andrzej Wajda died on October 9th
    Thursday, October 27, 2016 from Communism
    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: ...
  • Past and future: Take care of Russia
    Thursday, October 20, 2016 from Communism
    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...
  • Karl Marx: False consciousness
    Thursday, August 25, 2016 from Communism
    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. ...
  • Central European cinema: Love and longing after the fall of the Iron Curtain
    Wednesday, August 17, 2016 from Communism
    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...
  • Politics in Nepal: An ex-revolutionary becomes prime minister—again
    Thursday, August 4, 2016 from Communism
    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...
  • Greece, Russia and religious diplomacy: Between Greece and Russia, faith and diplomacy connect in curious ways
    Sunday, May 29, 2016 from Communism
    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...
  • Apparat-chic: Communist kitsch, comic or clueless?
    Monday, May 16, 2016 from Communism
    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...
  • A new CPUSA.ORG is coming May Day!
    Thursday, April 28, 2016 from Articles » cpusa
    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
    Wednesday, March 23, 2016 from Articles » cpusa
    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,...
  • Super Tuesday and what's ahead
    Monday, March 7, 2016 from Articles » cpusa
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