Socialism

'Unelectable' Bernie Sanders leads race for Democratic nomination, but faces much sterner test against Donald Trump

Bernie Sanders is now the front-runner to win the Democratic nomination. Yet note that in the betting markets, Sanders is the leader to win the nomination but President Donald Trump is favoured to then win reelection in November

AMU, BHU bear witness to rising violence, polarisation as political parties invade campuses to spread their ideologies

Both the BHU and the AMU have been witness to 'academic interference', giving space for outsider and anti-social forces to create a disruptive environment in India's educational hubs

Socialism will return, a new generation will take it forward: Nitish Kumar

Nitish Kumar says socialism has been let down by those who swore by it but the ideology remains relevant and will never wither away

Narendra Modi and RSS, Part 2: Rise of a backward caste as PM is highpoint of Sangh's Hindutva project

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s emergence as the tallest Hindutva leader coming from backward class is not a freak accident. It is consistent with the history of the RSS and its efforts to forge a Hindutva force subsuming all castes

China promotes images of young, 'drunkard' Karl Marx to capture youth, stresses on Marxism as 'true path'

With chat shows claiming "Marx was Right" and cartoons of his wild youth, China has gone to great lengths to show that the theories of German philosopher Karl Marx are still relevant today, ahead of the 200th anniversary of his birth on Saturday

Venezuela rebukes United States at UNGA: Hostility between the two countries has a long history

The antagonism between the US and Venezuela has a long history to it.

Clashes erupt against President Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela following court ruling

The Supreme Court ruled it can take over the powers of congress in what opponents of socialist President Nicolas Maduro, as well as foreign governments, denounced as the latest step toward installing a dictatorship in this South American nation.

Fidel Castro, Cuba's revolutionary leader who defied US for 50 years, dies aged 90

Former President Fidel Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory in Cuba, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 US presidents during his half-century rule, has died at age 90.

Cuba facing dissent within communist party, days after Obama's visit

Days after President Barack Obama's historic visit, the leaders of Cuba's Communist Party are under highly unusual public criticism from their own ranks for imposing new levels of secrecy on the future of social and economic reforms.

Rescuing Ambedkar from pure Dalitism: He would've been India's best Prime Minister

Ambedkar's legacy is far more than just Dalit iconhood. Leaving him as a figure to be venerated by all and as a Dalit property would be doing him an injustice.