Communism

Georgina Harding, Author of Orange Prize for Fiction Shortlisted Painter of Silence (VIDEO)

Crane.tv | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Author, Orange Prize for Fiction, Fiction, Writer, Travel, Ceausescu, Stalism, London, Novel, Painter of Silence, Georgina Harding, Communism, Eastern Europe, Romania, crane.tv, Book, World War, Video, Arts News

Painter of Silence, Georgina Harding's third novel -- recently shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction -- is set in Romania in the early fifties ...

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We Can Free Cuba Now

Fernando Espuelas | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Glasnost, Americas, Cuban Revolution, Chinesecommunist, Castro, Democracy, Chinese, Chavez, Communism, Raul Castro, Embargo, Oil, Exiles, Fidel, Latinamerica, Europe, Asia, Miami, China, Cuba, Latino Voices News

Fifty-two years after U.S. policy first sought to break the communist dictatorship with an economic embargo, the Castro regime is still in power, lording over the Cuban people, enjoying trade and diplomatic relationships with countries across the globe.

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Greece and the Beanstalk

Amalia Negreponti | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Communism, Germany, Eurozone, Greece, Greece Debt Crisis, European Union, Eurozone Debt Crisis, Anarchists, Europe, Greek Politics, Alexis Tsipras, Greek Elections, World News

"Jack and the Beanstalk" is a story about how Jack and a terrible ogre finally compromise, learning to live together because they fear one another too much to risk doing otherwise. A similar hope of compromise is what lies at the heart of Greek voters.

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Press Coverage of the Cambodian Genocide: An Analysis

Sharon Wu | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Thesis Project, Civil War, Thesis-Project, War, Khmer Rouge, Cambodian Genocide, Communism, Pol Pot, Southeast Asia, Cambodia, College Thesis, Marxism, College News

American politicians and the public lacked the necessary information to devise a viable solution. There was definitely enough press about mass deaths to alarm the public, but journalists simply couldn't provide enough information to persuade anyone to take action.

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10 Things You Didn't Know About Martha Stewart's Family Tree

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Communism, Slavic, Martha Stewart, Jersey City, Heritage, Poland, Ancestry, Family Tree, Immigration, Genealogy, Family History, Ellis Island, Martha Stewart Family, Martha Stewart Living, Martha Stewart Daughter, Celebrity News

Martha's grandfather, Frank Kostyra, owned a tavern in Jersey City. On the 4th of July 1929, two boys stuck a piece of dynamite in the foundation of the tavern, causing an explosion. It's somewhat remarkable that the building is still a tavern today.

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'To Capitalism We Will Never Return'

Reuters | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Communism, Video, Cuba Labor Day, May Day, Fidel Castro, Cuba Communism, Raul Castro, Havana, Cuba, Cuba May Day Parade, Cuba May Day, Reuters, World News

By Jeff Franks HAVANA, May 1 (Reuters) - A red-tinged sea of Cubans marched through Havana's Revolution Square on Tuesday in a May Day...

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Allen West Triples Down On 'Communists'

Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Communists, Communism, Allen West Democrats, Video, Allen West Op-Ed, Bv-Politics, Allen West, Allen West Democrats Communists, Allen West Communists, Slidepollajax, Politics News

Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) is out with an op-ed this week again defending his claim that a number of House Democrats are actually members of the Communi...

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Czechs Rally After Havel

Ben Barber | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Communism, Vaclav Havel, Dissidents, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Prague, World News

Tens of thousands of Czechs rallied in the streets of Prague April 21 to protest budget cuts, higher taxes and corruption -- the largest protest since the 1989 Velvet Revolution swept out communism.

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Q&A: Playwright Amy Herzog on Family History, Political Activism, and the Culture of Capitalism

ARTINFO | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Lincoln Center, Communism, Amy Herzog, Artinfo, 4,000 Miles, Playwright, Family, Performing Arts, Arts News

Amy Herzog, a promising young American playwright, is pregnant and due to give birth to a daughter on May 1 of this year. The date has more than a lit...

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Dictator's Widow Brands Regime's Victims 'Criminals'

The Huffington Post | Mark Hanrahan | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Communism, Video, Iron Curtain, Gdr, Eastern Europe, Stasi, Margot Honecker, Erich Honecker, Berlin Wall, Cold War, German Democratic Republic, Fall of Berlin Wall, Soviet Union, World News

Margot Honecker, the widow of East Germany's communist dictator Erich Honecker, has given a defiant interview in which she defends her late husband an...

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Artist Yevgeniy Fiks Asks the Question, Once More, "Is Modern Art Communistic?"

ARTINFO | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Communism, Artinfo, Modern Art, Paris, Galerie Sator, Art, Arts News

Yevgeniy Fiks Galerie Sator, Paris January 14-March 3 The two decades that have passed since the Soviet Union's demise have rendered many aspects of ...

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Albania's New Pavilion Sheds Light On Communist Abuses

AP | LLAZAR SEMINI | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: National Museum, Communism, Repressive Regime, Albania, Internment Camps, Enver Hoxha, Anti-Communism, Art Museums, Arts News

TIRANA, Albania — Albania's National Museum opened a new wing Monday on the abuses of the former communist regime, timing the dedication to the ...

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Artistic Execution of 'Dear Leaders'

Edward Goldman | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Perestroika, Communism, Soviet Artists, Gao Brothers, Wende Museum, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Arts News

During the Stalin era, it would be totally suicidal for Soviet artists to make posters such as these on display here.

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Cambodian Artist Khin You (1947-2009)

James Scarborough | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: 20th Century Cambodian Art, Jessica Portillo, Khmer Rouge, Slidepollajax, Communism, Social Engineering, Muoy You, Khin You, Arts News

Marcus Aurelius writes it's not the thing that passively defines us but our active reaction to the thing. In Cambodian artist Khin You's case, the thing is the horrific atrocities wrought by the Khmer Rouge.

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Cuba: No 'Concession To The Enemy'

AP | By PAUL HAVEN | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Communism, Cuba Reforms, Cuba Communist Party, Cuban Communist Party, Cuban Economy, Raul Castro, Cuba, Raul Castro Cuban President, World News

HAVANA -- President Raul Castro delivered a full-throated defense of Cuba's one-party political system on Sunday, and a sharp warning to Communist Par...

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Does Mitt Romney Need a Sistah Souljah Moment?

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Communism, Bill Clinton, House of Representatives, Sistah Souljah, John McCain, Tea Party, President Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Republican Primary, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Bush Tax Cuts, Romneycare, Communists, 2012 Campaign, Sistah Souljah Moment, Health Care Reform, Birthers, Rick Perry, Republican Party, Obamacare, Elections 2012, 2012 Election, Mitt Romney 2012, Politics News

Twenty years ago, Bill Clinton demonstrated his centrist credentials by criticizing controversial rapper Sistah Souljah. Expressing a similar statement about the Tea Party, Rush Limbaugh or some other visible right wing figure would help Romney accomplish the same thing.

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Emerging GOP View: Communist China Is Model for American Capitalism

Jason Salzman | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Michele Bachmann, Mike Coffman, China, Capitalism, Mitt Romney, Communism, Gop, Great Society, Denver News

If three is a trend in politics, then we've got a trend going of GOP politicos pointing to communist China as the modern success story of capitalism that America should emulate.

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China's New Cultural Revolution

Michael Levy | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Steve Jobs, Communism, Apple, Hu Jintao, Steven Spielberg, Jesus, Madison Avenue, China, Hollywood, Culture, World News

One thing we can count on is a revamped effort at censorship, Big Brother surveillance, and thought control. This may sound like hyperbole, but it isn't; President Hu Jintao has, in fact, been very blunt on these points.

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PHOTOS: Gallery Asks: Are Corporations People?

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Massara | Posted 01.06.2012

Read More: Winkleman Gallery, Communism, Coca-Cola, Letters, Art, Apple, Controversy, Corporations, Yevgeniy Fiks, Coca Cola, New York Gallery, Capitalism, Are Corporations People, Arts News

In 2005, the Moscow-born, New York-based artist Yevgeniy Fiks mailed copies of "Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism" by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ...

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Will Vaclav Havel's Legacy Last?

AP | By VANESSA GERA | Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Communism, East Bloc, Iron Curtain, Vaclav Havel, Romania, Europe Democracy, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic, World News

WARSAW, Poland -- When Czech playwright Vaclav Havel was thrown in prison for his anti-communist writings, life for people across the East Bloc was sh...

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North Korea's Surprising Sense of Vulnerability and Hopes for Change

Vishakha N. Desai | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Communism, Negotiations, Art, Nuclear Program, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Power, Arts, Nuclear Proliferation, Kim Jong Il, China, North Korea, Culture, Kim Jong Un, World News

Last June we met with North Korea's Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs. It was perhaps among the last substantial, non-classified contact between Westerners and high-level North Korean officials of the regime of Kim Jong Il. We were surprised by what transpired.

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Evo Quietly Consolidates Power

Joel D. Hirst | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Communism, Bolivia, Evo Morales, Bolivia Politics, Arrest, World News

As the Bolivians are finding out, the institutions of 21st century authoritarianism offer them no better protection for their fundamental, inalienable, irreversible and un-renounceable human rights than did those of the last century.

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Remembering Vaclav Havel

Andrew Nagorski | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Communism, Remembrance, Eastern Europe, Vaclav Havel, Poland, Solidarity, Free Speech, Czechoslovakia, Velvet Revolution, Dictatorship, Soviet, Newsweek, Playwright, Czech Republic, World News

Looking back at my encounters with Havel, I'm struck by three dominant character traits: his moral courage, his ability to recognize and live with the contradictions of human behavior, and his sense of the absurd.

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Tracking Vaclav Havel: From Orwell To Vermont And Into Prague

Lucas Kavner | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Communism, Christopher Hitchens, Vaclav Havel, The Memorandum, Prague Spring, Middlebury College, Czech Republic, Democracy, Why Orwell Matters, Prague, Forum 2000, George Orwell, Hitchens Orwell, Culture News

This past week we lost a writer and a major intellectual, and we lost a brutal, confounding dictator. We also lost a playwright, a rebel, a rockstar, a chain-smoker, a renowned artist, a non-profit leader, and one of the most beloved presidents in history.

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15 Things That Even Liberals Should Be Willing To Admit

John Hawkins | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Communism, Conservatives, Liberals, Anwr, Racism, Conservative, Liberal, Obama, Occupy, Media, Tea Party, Voter ID, Politics News

Sometimes you have to wonder whether conservatives and liberals are just talking past each other. Do we really agree on more issues than we think?

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