Communists
On this day: Communist Bulgaria downs El Al flight 402, killing all 58 people onboard
On this day in 1955, Bulgarian MiG fighters brought down El Al Flight 402, killing all 58 people aboard and setting off a Cold War dispute over responsibility and justice.
From McCarthy to Trump: How the politics of fear made a comeback - opinion
The ‘secret’ behind the success of the CPC, the world’s largest governing party - opinion
'Murderer NATO': Over 100 anti-NATO protesters detained in Turkey ahead of Ankara summit
Chinese visit 'red' sites ahead of 100th Communist Party anniversary
The push to study the party's history this year is a boon to tourism in red tourist hot spots like Yanan and Xibaipo, say officials. But the trend is not new.
The end of the Castro era provides new opportunities on Cuba - opinion
As Raúl Castro exits the scene, ending 62 years of Castro tyranny, many questions abound. One thing, however, is perfectly clear: Decades of US sanctions have failed. And miserably.
Did Sean Hannity use an antisemitic trope in 'Bolshevik Bernie' tweet?
In far-right politics, the antisemitic canards of "Jewish Bolshevism" and "Jewish Communism" are catchwords falsely asserting that communism is a Jewish conspiracy.
Castro era in Cuba to end as Raul confirms he's retiring
Older Cubans said they would miss having a Castro at the helm, although most acknowledged it was time to pass on the baton.
Jewlia Eisenberg, musical intellectual and Jewish radical, dies at 50
Her music often explored Jewish themes and aesthetics within a self-invented genre she dubbed nerdy-sexy-commie-girly music.
Why did Stalin vote for a Jewish state?
The Soviet UN vote helped Israel for a moment in time. That was all.
The cross and the dragon – how Pope Francis is lining up with Xi Jinping
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s five-year policy of “Sinification” requires that religious believers be more loyal to the Communist Party than to their religion.
The rise of totalitarianism in America
The difference between democracy and dictatorship dawned on me in eleventh grade.
The 30th anniversary of the outbreak of the Gulf War: A Cuban perspective
At the end of July, we were on a family vacation in Havana. We had flown from Mexico with a boisterous group of young Danish Communists on their way to cut sugar cane in the Marxist paradise.
Trump administration weighs travel ban on Chinese Communist Party members
Such a ban, if implemented, could hit the ruling Communist Party from the highest levels down to its rank-and-file and would be certain to draw retaliation against Americans who travel to China.
