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Disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai made 'chairman for life' of new political party
Supporters of China's disgraced senior politician Bo Xilai, who has been jailed for corruption, have set up a political party, two separate sources said, in defiance of a decades-old de facto ban on new political parties. The Zhi Xian Party, literally "the constitution is the supreme authority" party, was formed on 6 November, three days before the opening of a key meeting of top Communist Party leaders to discuss much-needed economic reforms, the sources said.
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The Transparent Chinese
A government critic and professor at the Beijing Film Academy, Mr. Hao signed Charter 08, a 2008 manifesto modeled on Charter 77, the 1977 document that helped usher in the end of one-party rule in Czechoslovakia. He has participated in forums about democracy and the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, where his cousin died from a bullet wound.
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Siberia's biggest city turns Red as Communists win mayoral election
Communist candidate Anatoly Lokot won 43.75% of the vote to secure victory as mayor of Novosibirsk, according to preliminary results after all ballots were counted. He defeated acting mayor, Vladimir Znatkov, a member of United Russia, in the election. No other candidate achieved more than 4% of the vote and 2.01% of ballots were found invalid.
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The Communist Chic Hotel, for all your Stasi Nostalgic Needs
There is a phenomenon that exists called ‘Eastalgia’ (or ostalgie), referring to a wistful longing for the Cold War era, Berlin Wall-separated, Stasi-policed German Democratic Republic of the 1970s and 80s. Seriously.
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The curious survival of the US Communist Party
Like fellow movements around the world, the US Communist Party suffered a crippling blow with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. But a small group of die-hard members persevered. Not far from Wall Street, on the seventh floor of an elegant eight-storey building on West 23rd Street, is the headquarters of an improbable political survivor - the Communist Party USA.
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Son of purged reformer Zhao Ziyang tells of China's 'shame', 25 years after Tiananmen
The late liberal leader Zhao Ziyang, who was purged for opposing the Tiananmen crackdown 25 years ago, never regretted his own fate. But he was heartbroken that society became more corrupt than ever after his political reform plan was sabotaged, according to one of his sons.
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Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland’s last communist leader, dies
Wojciech Jaruzelski, the expressionless Polish general behind dark glasses who imposed martial law in 1981 to crush the independent trade union Solidarity and nearly eight years later participated in the negotiated revolution that led to the fall of communism in Poland, died Sunday at a military hospital in Warsaw. He was 90.
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Times Coverage of Tiananmen Square 25 Years Ago
It was 25 years ago Wednesday that Chinese troops conducted a bloody crackdown on thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square. At the time, Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times’s Beijing bureau chief, reported that “by ordering soldiers to fire on the unarmed crowds, the Chinese leadership has created an incident that almost surely will haunt the government for years to come.”
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FBI monitored Nelson Mandela in 1990s over perceived communist threat
The FBI monitored the interactions between Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress and leftwing groups in the US through the 1980s and 1990s as part of its ongoing investigations into what the bureau deemed to be the communist threat to US national security, new documents reveal.
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China's Communist Party Admits It Has a Big Corruption Problem
Here comes a perhaps less-than-surprising conclusion from China’s Communist Party: When it comes to choosing and promoting its nearly 87 million members, it doesn’t do a very good job, the CCP’s organization department has admitted.
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Is Kim Jong Un the Last Bad Bond Guy?
The morning of July 1 last summer began like any other for Peter Hahn, a 74-year-old who had come to do extraordinary things in a place that he would never call godforsaken but which, nonetheless, is. Tumen, China, sits on the border with North Korea; it’s a gritty city of 140,000, more than half of which is ethnically Korean.
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Landscapes of Communism review – flights of fancy in an age of revolution
Owen Hatherley goes in search of socialism via an epic and insightful study of Eastern bloc architecture.
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L'Humanité in English: An English translation of the Communist French Daily
Translation in english of selected articles from the french daily newspaper L'Humanité.
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Marxists Internet Archive
The most complete library of Marxism with content in 62 languages and the works of over 720 authors readily accessible by archive, sujbect, or history.
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Kodao Productions | They came down the mountains for their shining red star
“Father” was the legendary rebel who punished the Philippine Army with telling blows for the better part of four decades in Southern Mindanao. He led the formation of the New People’s Army’s first battalion-sized unit that captured an enemy general in 1999 and held him as prisoner of war for weeks. He was Leoncio ‘Commander Parago’ Pitao, “the shining red star of the revolution.”
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Why Communists Support LGBTQ Liberation and Trans People of Color
The oppression of women, as well as of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people is built in to the capitalist-imperialist system. It is due to that fact that these oppressive traditions are rooted in capitalism, that Marxist-Leninists have been among the fiercest fighters for LGBTQI liberation.
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Contemporary Imperialism - Samir Amin
Lenin and Bukharin considered imperialism to be a new stage (“the highest”) of capitalism associated with the development of monopolies. I question this thesis and contend that historical capitalism has always been imperialist, in the sense that it has led to a polarization between centers and peripheries since its origin (the sixteenth century), which has only increased over the course of its later globalized development.
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SYRIZA - A Monumental Betrayal in Motion
Greece is to be placed under the direct control of EU officials. The function of Greece’s parliament will be to rubber-stamp the transfer of real authority to Brussels and Berlin. It has until Wednesday to pass a series of laws implementing the demands of German imperialism and the EU.
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Communist Tendency of SYRIZA calls for mass resistance to the Troika, the oligarchy and the capitulating government
The most crucial issue at the moment is to build a massrevolutionary working class “NO” movement, in order to stop the adoption of the new memorandum by parliament and to overthrow the parliamentary junta of "national unity".
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The extraordinary life of the first American to join China's Communist Party
Sidney Rittenberg probably knows more about China than any American alive today
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