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Departure of Occupying Forces Day is having its debut on Saturday June 25, the day the protocol expelling Soviet troops from Czechoslovakia in 1991 was signed.

The revolutionary ideas of Karl Marx remain vital for everyone who wants to change society. Read Marxist classics—old and new—on this page.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died at the age of 91.  He played a key role in the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Iron Curtain. 

A myth has surfaced over the past year about the war in Ukraine, embraced and expressed by certain members of local and national peace groups. According to them, Vladimir Putin is really a nice guy who was reluctantly coerced into invading his...

My Russia, an element blend of history, biography and polemic, explains what has gone wrong and the rocky road to reform

Two women scholars have each written a new book on the Mexican Revolution, and both books take up the Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores Magón (RFM), his associates known as the magonistas, and the Mexican Liberal Party that they founded.

Our friend Abu Ahmad wonders: Is it possible for any soldier, in any army, not to know why he is fighting? We saw the answer in the most backward armies during the occupation of Kuwait and in the most advanced armies, during the war to liberate Kuwait, where we found that the military, the majority

Canteen was essentially a humble affair. Cafeteria came into picture when India was forced by circumstances to believe that control economy had not served it well and finally cafes entered the market when space suddenly became central to the existence of people.

With the Olympic Games in Paris less than 18 months away, calls are growing to bar Russian and Belarusian athletes for Vladimir Putin's ongoing invasion of Ukraine. The International Olympic Committee is now softening its stance amid claims such a ban would be discriminatory.

A look at Susan Sontag's views on photography and how the medium has changed in the era of smartphones and social media services.