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23/02/1917: On this day in 1917, the February Revolution in Russia begins Bolshevik demonstration in the streets of Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg) during the days when the Kornilov uprising threatened the Provisional Government and Kerensky, its leader, was away on the Galician Front visiting the troops. (Photo by PA Images via Getty Images)

A new epoch

The October Revolution had a universal significance. For the first time, socialism came on the agenda of world history as a concrete alternative to ca

One-year-old Eduardo Ribera is comforted by his mother Oasis Pelaez in the recovery room after his heart operation at the William Soler Children's Hospital in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. U.S. sanctions in Cuba have caused losses amounting to more than 1.1 trillion dollars in just over five decades said Abelardo Moreno, vice minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, and insisted that the health sector is one of the hardest hit. It is a challenge everyday to cure sick children and adolescents, according to Dr. Eugenio Selman, who said that due to the U.S. embargo, they are unable to purchase quality medicines, instruments and other supplies that are only produced in the U. S. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Fidel Castro: Revolutionary legacy

No other Communist leader in the post-Second World War period had such an internationalist vision as Castro.

Mr. Nehru the Vice - President of the Interim Government of India visited in March 1947, the riot affected city of Multan. Mr. Nehru is seen with Mr. Kaul, Commissioner and Dr. Gopichand Bhargava. Pd. 23/03/1947.

Jawaharlal Nehru: Secular, above all

No other Congress leader had such clarity of vision and determination to combat communalism and establish a secularist state as Nehru. And this legacy

Bolivarian revolutionary

No other leader in the world did so much as Hugo Chavez to set the 21st century on a new course. Without him Venezuela will face big challenges in the

Parallels in the past

After being an independent state since 1958, when a people's uprising took it out of the British imperialist orbit, Iraq is all set to be integrated i

'A setback for developing countries'

Prakash Karat, Polit Bureau member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), points out that there is little to celebrate in the outcome of the fourt

Interview with Prakash Karat.

Security vs privatisation dogma

Lax airport security in the private sector in the U.S. and the fiasco of privatising railways in the U.K. provide costly lessons even as, in the after

A strategy misfires

The visceral hatred of the RSS for Islam finds expression in the BJP-led government's clumsy quest for U.S. approval and recognition. It is self-wound

Marxism in theory and practice

E.M.S. NAMBOODIRIPAD straddled the history of 20th century Kerala and the Indian Communist movement in a manner which invokes awe. The word "history"

A grim warning

THE spiral of violence which has affected Coimbatore, culminating in the horrific bomb blasts that killed over 50 people and injured 200 others, is a