The letter was both personal intimidation and a symbol of the regime’s determination to silence intellectual resistance.

New red flag

The red flag still waves over Beijing — but the bearer is not the bicycle-riding factory worker, the rural peasant, or the ...
It is known as the Great War, First War or even as “the war that came to end all wars.” The World War I It marked the lives of entire generations around the world because the men and women who ...
The U.S. seizure of a massive oil tanker off Venezuela‘s coast on Wednesday signaled a sharp escalation in the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against Nicolas Maduro. The Cuba-bound vessel ...
The selling of communism across Central and Eastern Europe reveals more than the region’s ingenuity in repurposing its past – ...
New and Post-New Left movements in the region show how historical critique can coexist with political imagination.
Reporting from Fallujah, Jacobin documents how US-made weapons laced with toxic metals and depleted uranium have turned ...
The fact that the meeting was even happening was enough to produce an air of subversive excitement. On August 25, 1925, a ...
Our friend and comrade Mitch Abidor recently spent weeks in France tracking down people who came of age politically in May 1968, to ask them how they viewed that experience, then and now. He went out ...