Despite being offered the PM's post, Jyoti Basu declined—later calling it a 'historic blunder' and a missed opportunity for India's communist movement ...

It has probably always been difficult for younger socialists to understand how events just a few decades beforehand have shaped the outlook of the middle-aged comrades that lived through them. But ...

A reel-by-reel dovetailing of two films, one from Fascist Italy and the other from Soviet Russia, Record of War shows the Italian invasion of Ethiopia from radically opposed viewpoints. From our June ...

The band's original frontman talks about his poisonous split with former bandmates, why a reunion is never going to happen - ...

1."I married way up. I live in a nice, medium-sized city. The main road, the mall, the parks, and the schools are all named ...

June marked 5 years since the Beijing-imposed national security law was enacted in HK. Chief Executive John Lee and his ...

I’m Sam Jones, and from the Financial Times and Pushkin Industries, this is Hot Money: Agent of Chaos, Episode 5 — A Different Set of Rules.

At a 2021 conference of the Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA), Zohran Mamdani discussed various short-term reforms favored by the organization. But alongside offering his thoughts on the ...

1922—Samuel L. Gravely is born. Gravely became the first African Amer­ican admiral in the United States Navy and the first ...

Social justice advocates are creating a queer history archive that celebrates Bayard Rustin, a major organizer in the Civil ...

Ruth First, born 100 years ago, was a South African freedom fighter, journalist and scholar who worked against the racist ...

The People's Republic wants to build a massive new embassy in central London, and a lot of people aren't happy about it ...