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The historic and contemporary significance of the 1871 Paris Commune On Saturday, the World Socialist Web Site marked the 150th anniversary of the 1871 Paris Commune, the first time in world history that the working class took state power, with an international online meeting. WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North moderated and introduced the discussion, which featured Parti de l’égalité socialiste National Secretary Alex Lantier, WSWS writer Thérèse Leclerc, and WSWS ...

10 Dastardly Secret Operations Of The KGB Like the CIA, the Soviet (and now Russian) spy agency known as the KGB has engaged in decades of secret operations across the world, ranging from blackmail to kidnapping. Most of the secrets that we know about the KGB today are because of one man—Vasili Mitrokhin. Mitrokhin was an archivist for the KGB for 30 years before he defected to the UK and handed over his 25,000-page archive of secret KGB files. Here are some of the KGB’s most disturbing and...

One Hundred Years of the Russian NEP – Lessons for Cuba Author’s Note – This article originally appeared in Spanish in La Joven Cuba (Young Cuba), one of the most important critical blogs in the island, where the Internet remains the principal vehicle for critical opinion because the government has not yet succeeded in controlling it. The article elicited some strong reactions including that of a former government minister who called it a provocation. The New Economic Policy (NEP) introd...

Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/36956 Abolish the monarchy - fight for democracy Submitted by AWL on 16 March, 2021 - 4:59 Author: Mohan Sen The issues in the controversy surrounding the UK’s royal family require proper comment in themselves. We hope to publish more soon. Immediately, we welcome the fact that the controversy has caused a noticeable surge of publicly-expressed scepticism about the institution of the monarchy. The republican left should seek to s...

REVIEW: "Rock ’N’ Roll" by Artistic Home (3 stars) ... Tom Stoppard's play, set in the Czech underground culture during the “Prague Spring” of 1968, gets an intimate staging directed by Kathy Scambiatterra.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s recent tour is a continuation of the gradual strategic entry into the Gulf.

Fifty Years Ago, Activists Burgled the FBI and Exposed Its Undemocratic Abuses On March 8, 1971, a group of New Left activists executed a daring burglary of an FBI field office in Pennsylvania, exposing the bureau’s COINTELPRO operations against the civil rights movement. The Federal Bureau of Investigation. Photo: iPhoneDigital, CC BY 2.0/Flickr History13/Mar/2021 On March 8, 1971, much of the nation was transfixed by the “Fight of Century” between Joe Fraiser and Muhammed Ali, ...

Artists express themselves through their homes - and this list is no exception   -   Copyright  Florencia Potter / Unsplash By    •  Updated: 15/03/2021 Have you ever looked at a painting and wondered what the artist’s life and times were like? While you can’t transport back, you can get pretty close if you pay a visit to these famous artist’s homes. Here, we explore the places where Claude Monet, Fr...

Getting out of forever wars: What are Biden’s options in Afghanistan? Brian Michael Jenkins March 12 U.S. soldiers enter an Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter at an Afghan National Army combat outpost in Afghanistan on June 23, 2015. (Tech. Sgt. Joseph Swafford/Air Force) U.S. counterterrorism strategy has for a quarter-century been driven by the assumption that security at home depends on fighting the terrorists abroad. How will that square with President Biden’s campaign pledge to “...

Look at these famous Russians brought back to life by modern technology GULAG history museum; MyHeritage My Heritage’s Deep Nostalgia™ feature lets you animate old family photos. We ran some iconic historical figures through the company’s engine. Below are the results! If your social network feed has century-old photos, where subjects move, turn their heads, look around, blink and occasionally smile, then you may be familiar with Deep Nostalgia™ from the My Heritage web...