"Cuba is decaying at a scandalous pace, physically and morally. The social capital of civil values and mutual trust has evaporated and hatred is taking hold"

‘Fascism has been defeated in the West. The time has come to treat its evil twin, communism, the same way’

‘We, the victors of the Cold War, the liberators of the evil empire, could never have accomplished our bloodless triumph without a good measure of idealism’

It was a rare privilege to have a footnote in history at the fall of the Berlin Wall, which led to the collapse of communism

Who is behind the "No to EU, Yes to Democracy" Party that received 150, 000 votes in June's European elections?

Richard Dawkin's angry atheism has an excellent precedent - that of Karl Marx's daughter in 1883

The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome by Roland Chambers

Blacklisted by Hollywood, my father Carl Foreman made a new life in Britain. But he never forsook the country of his birth, says Jonathan Foreman

An eye-witness of the massacre says its malign legacy persists 20 years on

The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown