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I grew up in a very religious community at the tail end of the Cold War and Apartheid. Ideologies end up having strange bedfellows, and we ...

Civil war has often followed independence from foreign conquerors. Tajikistan became an independent nation following the 1991 disso...

Communism's maxim of ' from each according to his capacity to each according to his needs ' has two key parts. The first is dec...

Cold War Africa - 1980 The South African Border War  in Namibia was fought between 1966 and 1990 as part of the Cold War and the De...

Belarus Like many nations, Belarus is younger than some people. I knew the trigger for World War II was the invasion of Poland b...

Money is the story we tell ourselves to try release potential . The ideological conflict of the last century between Capitalism and Communi...

The name of the capital is added to distinguish Guinea-Bissau from other Guineas. Initially the Portuguese traders stuck to ports lik...

If you believe that earnings should be tied solely to labour, you are not a capitalist. Capitalism changes the form of labour that is not c...

The Ottoman Empire in Europe collapsed after the Balkan Wars. Many of the political elite in Turkey were ethnically Albanian. The ri...

After being in power since 1987, Blaise Compaoré was forced to resign in 2014 by an uprising in response to his attempt to change t...

Laos There are just seven* remaining one party states - China , North Korea, Cuba , Vietnam , Eritrea, Sahrawi * and Laos. I hate...

The majority (64%) of Cubans have a European background and around 9% a connection to Africa. During the Spanish colonial period, the...

Trev: I have been surprised by some of the positive posts going up about Gaddafi and Hussein etc. I recently saw a clip where Mandela was...

When I was 13, I got into a huge verbal fight, calmed by a confused Maths teacher, because I said ' Jesus was a Communist '. I had ...

Guest Post Gemma is a ridiculously smart and creative anthropologist who now works in the context of design, planning and architecture. ...