socialism
Socialist feminist revival
August 12, 2009I just returned from a workshop on gender-based violence organised by the Ministry of Women's Affairs in Venezuela and the UNDP. Speakers at the workshop included Maria Leon, Minister of Women's Affairs and Nora Casteneda President...
Read morePoll: Many Americans prefer socialism over capitalism
April 10, 2009This poll made our day. According to a recent Rasmussen Report, only 53 percent of American adults believe capitalism is better than socialism.
Read moreWe must incriminate the basic rules of capitalism: An interview with Paul Boccara
March 22, 2009Communist economist Paul Boccara has just published a book about the transformations and the crisis of global capitalism, in which he deals with the financial crisis, among other topics. Paul Boccara puts forward proposals to initiate...
Read moreBlogging from India #7 Meet the Communist governor of West Bengal
April 9, 2008COIMBATORE, India — West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya is a leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and attended the party's 19th Congress here in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Read moreEDITORIAL: Happy birthday, Lenin
April 21, 2006More than 60 years ago, the African American poet Langston Hughes wrote, “Lenin walks around the world, Frontiers cannot bar him … Lenin walks around the world, Black, brown and white receive him.”
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