Tag: Socialism

• Thursday, November 14th 2019 - 18:30 UTC

  As populism advances, beware of the Polish secret

  

  By Gwynne Dyer – There is a tension at the heart of populist political parties that may ultimately lead most of them to electoral defeat. They depend heavily on the votes of the old, the poor and the poorly educated — “I love the poorly educated,” as Donald Trump once put it — but they are also right-wing parties that do not like what they call “socialism.” (Other people call it the welfare state.)

• Monday, January 7th 2019 - 09:37 UTC

  Bolsonaro in the process of purging some 3.300 federal staff allegedly communists or socialists

  

  The new government in Brazil, headed by President Jair Bolsonaro, has initiated the process of firing any “communists” and “socialists” working as contractors in government departments contending those holding opposition ideological views cannot properly execute its goals.

• Tuesday, August 21st 2018 - 08:59 UTC

  Prague 1968: “Socialism with a human face” squashed by 200.000 Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops

  

  More than 200,000 Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia overnight from August 20 to 21, 1968, to halt a blossoming political and cultural liberalization, bringing an abrupt end to the Prague Spring and tightening the Kremlin's grip.

• Thursday, April 19th 2018 - 22:24 UTC

  Miguel Díaz-Canel becomes the new president of Cuba: there is no chance of a Trojan horse

  

  Miguel Díaz-Canel has been ratified on Thursday by the National Assembly of Cuba as the new president of the Council of State, the country's first leader in practice. The parliament ratified the former vice president with 99.83% of the votes of the deputies present. Diaz-Canel replaces the General Raúl Castro, who retires from power after 12 years at the head of the country. However, the new president clarified that Raúl Castro “will lead the most important decisions” for the country.