Poetic really, that the Czechs should present us with two examples of humanity, under the name Vaclav.
Communism
Guy Rundle: Rundle: Manning Clark and the Austen Tayshus comparison
In one of the most bizarre sallies in the ongoing, nasty kulturkampf against Manning Clark, Ross Fitzgerald joins his voice to those who saw the great historian as some sort of Soviet stooge.
Guy Rundle: Where is the Mao, the Lenin for climate change?
Climate change is not an easy thing to argue. Scientists can’t boil it down, the rest take too much on trust. Where is the Communist Manifesto for saving the environment?
Will US tourists to Cuba do more than smoke cigars?
A bill is being proposed to let US citizens to travel to Cuba. But would American tourists help bring democracy and much needed tourist dollars to Cuban citizens or would it be just the Cuban government that benefits?
Former communist countries don’t like capitalism
Twenty years ago the Berlin Wall fell and communism in Eastern Europe crashed down with it. Except, capitalism and democracy are less popular now in Russia, Czech Republic and East Germany than they were in 1991. What, greed isn’t good?
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Tabloid Crikey?
Crikey readers weigh in on Michael Danby’s criticisms of New Matilda and Crikey and Mark Day on Mark Day.
Life was better under communism, say most East Germans
Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, nostalgic has kicked in for the German Democratic Republic. In a new poll, more than half of former eastern Germans defend the GDR.
RATED RUDE The Death of Capitalism
Capitalism is dying…
