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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed by electric chair in 1953 after being convicted for spying for the Soviet Union during the height of the Red Scare
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As the US is scrambling to maintain its hegemony, anti-war voices critical of US militarization policy in the war in Ukraine or around China are red-baited and silenced
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The government has been widely criticized for defending two ministers in the right-wing coalition with a history of making racist comments and for trying to use a recently announced anti-discrimination drive to ban communist symbols
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Attacks on Soviet monuments in Eastern Europe have become a regular affair as right-wing governments have initiated de-communization drives. These campaigns have intensified after the Ukraine war broke out
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The Paris Poetry Market (Marché de la Poésie) withdrew the status of honorary president from Cuban poet, essayist, and intellectual Nancy Morejón. The International Union of Left Publishers said the decision went against all principles of freedom of expression and of ideas
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A prestigious poetry festival in Paris canceled the designation of honorary president to renowned Cuban poet Nancy Morejón
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Interview with Kateřina Konečná, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from the Czech Republic and leader of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM)
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Vajnai Attila, president of the Hungarian Workers’ Party 2006 – European Left, talks about the social crisis in Hungary and the policies of the right-wing Viktor Orbán government
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Perhaps the most incomprehensible silence is that of the intellectuals. Silence is nothing short of complicity with the masters of war.
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A group of left publishers from across the world published this statement to condemn the new Indonesian criminal code which specifically outlaws Marxism
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Following the onset of the war, the Ukrainian government had arrested and imprisoned two communist youth leaders, Aleksander Kononovich and his brother Mikhail Kononovich, accusing them of having pro-Russian and pro-Belarusian political views
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The rise of the far-right and the ongoing Russia-NATO war in Ukraine have led to a spike in Russophobia and attacks on communists and their symbols in Eastern Europe