China was hermetically closed for decades after the Communist Party came to power in 1949. Even today, access to primary sources, not least party archives, remains haphazard at best. The party ...

PERHAPS the best-known foundational Marxist text (and one of the easiest to read), the Communist Manifesto is a pamphlet written jointly by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and first published in ...

Legendary Polish anti-Communist Lech Wałęsa has slammed Donald Trump’s Oval Office attack on Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, comparing it to Soviet secret police tactics. Wałęsa, 81, signed a letter ...

In the Communist system, the top dog must also be top dogmatist. In seven years as the Soviet Union’s highly practical boss, Nikita Khrushchev has worked out a doctrine of coexistence between ...

The impossible story of communism. How do you tell the history of a global movement in all its hope and contradiction? The story of communism is one of the greatest tragedies in modern history. The ...

Few national organizations know better than the Communist Party, U.S.A., how to use—and abuse—the legal protections of U.S. citizenship. Thanks to the maneuvering skill of its leaders and their ...

After the second world war, Soviet intervention transformed China’s Communist Party from a battered, marginalised guerrilla force into a heavily armed military machine. Read histories approved by the ...

A puddle reflects the dome of the Capitol next to a classic American car on a rainy day in Havana, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024, after a prolonged nationwide blackout. This article is republished from The ...

Vietnam's ruling Communist Party convened Monday to begin their twice-a-decade congress, where leader To Lam is looking to tighten his grip on power less than two years after assuming the top role.

Comrade Manabendra Nath Roy: The Indian Revolutionary Who Founded Communist Parties in Mexico and India and Directly Challenged Lenin at the Comintern ...