The Western Left Needs to Stop Commusplaining to China and Russia

If the West is so concerned about Chinese and Russian citizens wanting to drive decent cars and to wear elegant clothes, why don’t they push for an end to the production of these items in their own end: in France, Italy, the United States?

Andre Vltchek
By Andre Vltchek
China Luxury Shanghai

I hear this again and again, whenever I speak in the West: What kind of Communism is that, in China? In all big cities, they have Prada and Gucci in every major department store.” Western leftists are obsessed with this topic. They do not even realize how ridiculous, how racist their arguments actually are! China, with some 6,000 years long

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Max Blumenthal Searches for Communist Dictatorship at Venezuelan Luxury Mall

Max Blumenthal visits a luxury mall in Venezuela to see just how about the country’s humanitarian crisis really is.

Max Blumenthal
By Max Blumenthal
Max Blumenthal | Venezuela

This video was produced as part of a MintPress News and Grayzone collaboration. Max Blumenthal investigated Venezuela’s “humanitarian crisis” in a luxury mall in a rich pro-opposition neighborhood in Caracas, where he looked for the “authoritarian socialism” that Trump and the corporate media talk so much about. Max Blumenthal is an

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Wilfred Burchett, the CIA and an Attempted Bribery

Wilfred Burchett was vilified throughout most of his career as a communist propagandist and KGB for his fearless reporting on US wars, and the CIA thought he was for sale.

George Burchett
By George Burchett
Wilfred Burchett

On 6 February 1976, in his syndicated column in the New York Post, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Jack Anderson revealed to his readers that “the CIA once tried to bribe the Communist World’s most famous newsman, Wilfred Burchett, into defecting to the U.S. for $100,000.” The attempted bribe happened in Korea in September 1953,

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Documents Reveal U.S. Role In Indonesia’s Anti-Communist Massacre

While some describe the newly-released cables as showing the U.S. “stood by” as atrocities were committed, documents show American support amounted to active involvement

Julia Conley
By Julia Conley
FILE - In this March 12, 1967, file photo. Gen. Suharto, is seated during a ceremony in Jarkata, Indonesia, in which he was formally sworn-in by Congress as the new acting president replacing President Sukarno. It was the darkest episode in Indonesia’s modern history: a bloody anti-communist purge that left perhaps a half-million people dead. (AP Photo)

Newly declassified files from the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta confirm the extent to which American officials supported the killings of hundreds of thousands of Indonesians in the 1960s, as the U.S. worked to keep Southeast Asia from falling into Communist control. The U.S. supported a narrative pushed by the Indonesian military that blamed

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China: Western Democracy Has Been Kidnapped To Chase Profits

“The emergence of capitalism’s social crisis” the “most updated evidence to show the superiority of socialism and Marxism.”

James Holbrooks
By James Holbrooks
President Donald Trump arrives for a White House senior staff swearing in ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017, in Washington. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Beijing (Analysis) — Over the weekend, China took to its state-run media to make clear its position on a number of areas as Donald Trump settles into the White House — even going so far as to call American-style democracy a “kidnapped” system under the control of self-interested capitalists. “Western style democracy used to be a recognized power

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Fidel Castro: Charismatic Revolutionary Leader Who Defied The Odds

Castro was regarded, love him or hate him, as a superb fighter, athlete, strategist and orator.

Peter Mayo
By Peter Mayo
Cuban President Fidel Castro speaks during a ceremony granting Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, not seen, UNESCO's 2005 Jose Marti International Prize at the Revolution Plaza in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Feb 3,2006. Marti,who died in 1895 during Cuba's war of independence with Spain, has been glorified in Cuba as the ultimate anti-imperialist, a label both Chavez and Castro have embraced for themselves in their struggles with the United States. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (90), who passed away on last week, was the son of a Spanish immigrant from Galicia, Spain.  A significant world personality in the second half of the 20th century, Castro was regarded, love him or hate him, as a superb fighter, athlete, strategist and orator (some of his speeches lasted for hours).  He is widely regarded

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