Britain: Buckingham Palace repairs - a Royal rip off Walter Bagehot famously remarked that there is no point in a mediocre monarchy - either the monarchy is fabulously expensive, or there is no monarchy. And fabulously expensive it certainly still is. Britain
Fidel Castro has died - the Cuban revolution must live! At 10.29 pm on Friday, November 25, the Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro died at the age of 90. His brother Raul Castro announced the news to the Cuban population and the world around midnight in a televised speech. His death was not unexpected, as he had been ill for a number of years and had already stepped down from his formal political responsibilities, but still it came as a shock to both friends and enemies. Cuba Cuban Revolution Cuban Revolution
Communists against Stalin: the massacre of a generation – Preface to the book Below we publish the introduction to the first Italian edition of Pierre Broué’s book, Communists against Stalin: the massacre of a generation. Alan Woods Stalinism Stalinism
