Communist

2023 - 3 - 8

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A communist heroine (Morning Star Online)

ANGUS REID examines the life and work of Gerda Taro, the woman who invented political photojournalism.

To her, the words and acronyms are explicit signifiers in a political story. But should we remember her today in that way, or as a pioneer of communist photojournalism? Her entire family died in 1941, early victims of the Holocaust. Remarkably, Taro was completely new to photography. What is significant about Taro, however, and marks her out from both her contemporaries and later stars like Lee Miller, is her political commitment and her clear vision of photojournalism — a new form of information in an age before television — as a potent form of propaganda through which to transmit evidence of the communist and anti-fascist struggles. Her father’s business collapsed in 1929 and the family moved to Leipzig in a climate of accelerating anti-semitism.

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Secretary General of Spanish Communist Party receives ... (Sahara Press Service)

Madrid (Spain), March 8, 2023 (SPS) - Member of the Spanish Parliament and Secretary General of the Spanish Communist Party Mr. Enrique Santiago, ...

It is worth recalling that following the Spanish initiative in support of the Moroccan theses, the Polisario Front announced on April 10, 2022, the suspension of meetings and coordination with the current Spanish government headed by Mr. The Sahrawi representative in Spain took advantage of the opportunity to express gratitude to Mr. Abdullah Al-Arabi, to coordinating positions and visions in solidarity with the cause of the Saharawi people for self-determination and independence.

Kelly McParland: China's communist regime increasingly operates ... (National Post)

The once vibrant, prosperous, bustling city of Hong Kong, long known for its commercial drive, entrepreneurial spirit and distaste for regulatory burden, ...

In a democratic country it would be a record likely to bring about a swift replacement for a stumbling government. Its support for Russia’s war in Ukraine is not a good look, faces international condemnation, and ties it riskily to the fortunes of Moscow’s stumbling forces. After decades of limiting children to one per family, the government is now rolling out projects encouraging women to save the country via procreation. [disappeared](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64672095) suddenly in February, with fellow executives proclaiming no idea where he’d gone. It only relented after unprecedented [street](https://www.npr.org/2023/01/11/1148251868/china-covid-lockdown-protests-arrests) protests rattled authorities; and it remained determined to rely on domestically-produced vaccines even as others proved far more effective. Beijing missed its modest 2022 target by a significant margin, putting up some of the worst numbers in decades. The more its one-party chieftains have sought to impose themselves on the economy, the less it has thrived. [ran](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/10/asia/jimmy-lai-hong-kong-prison-intl-hnk/index.html) the independent-minded Apple Daily was sentenced in December to more than five years in jail, a year after the publication was forcibly closed. The rest of Beijing’s repressive apparatus remains intact, however: visitors shouldn’t expect anything approaching free speech or a free press. That could be the whole problem, though Lee and his colleagues on the Beijing-appointed legislature are unlikely to acknowledge it. In 2018, before the onset of the COVID pandemic, the former British colony welcomed more than 65 million visitors — about nine times its population. Article content

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