
Jinggangshan: Bracing for key leadership changes, China's 80-million strong Communist Party is getting ready for yet another long-haul with an ideological makeover to avert a Soviet Union-style collapse which spelled doom for communism worldwide. Celebrating its 90th anniversary this year, the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) is going through the phase of "nervous sixties" as it completed 62 years in power, according to some of the party officials. "The Soviet Communist...

07:27 AM, Jun 21, 2011
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It's actually ironic that I am in China! To understand the enormity of the purpose, you have to be born, bred in West Bengal, my ...

12:45 PM, Jun 17, 2011
Kolkata: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi was in Kolkata for the youth memebrship drive, but grabbed the opportunity to take a dig at the ruling Left front government. Rahul accused the state government of not spending the funds sent by the Centre and said communism would soon be wiped out of West Bengal. "The UPA government sends crores of rupees, but they go into the hands of the CPM and...

03:49 PM, Sep 06, 2010
Mexico City: Cuban leader Fidel Castro describes the illness that caused him to step down from power in near-religious terms a 'calvary' and his recovery a sort of resurrection. Castro, 84, made the remarks in an interview with a Mexican daily. "I was dead," Castro said in the interview. "I no longer aspired to living". After nearly half a century at the helm of the communist Caribbean island, Castro stepped...

02:04 PM, Aug 31, 2010
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A new training manual instructs China's bus drivers and ticket sellers to call travellers "sir" or "madam". ...

12:47 PM, May 31, 2010

Basu was the last surviving member of the CPM party's first politburo. ...

12:04 AM, Jan 18, 2010

CPM politburo member Sitaram Yechuri spoke to CNN-IBN. ...

10:16 PM, Jan 17, 2010

Twenty years ago, Berlin Wall fell, communism in Germany ended. ...

03:57 PM, Nov 03, 2009

China celebrated 60 years becoming the People's Republic on Thursday. ...

07:19 AM, Oct 02, 2009

Communism's father figure must be laughing in his grave. ...

06:09 PM, Oct 16, 2008

The Cuban leader has not been seen in public since handing over power to brother Raul in May last year. ...

07:00 PM, Nov 22, 2007

With money in their pockets, the Chinese are ditching their bikes for shiny new cars. ...

05:42 PM, Jun 08, 2007