The Chinese Communist Party today celebrates 70 years of power as perhaps the most successful totalitarian movement of modern times.
Category: Political issues
Jacques Chirac’s greatest hits
A look through the Crikey archive at the career of former French president Jacques Chirac, who died last week.
Election preview: Austria
Austria's young centre-right leader looks set for a good result on Sunday, and should have some new options for forming government.
Brexit: the judges take a hand
Boris Johnson loses big at the supreme court. It's a radical decision, but one with a solid grounding in the peculiarities of British constitutional law.
Netanyahu’s last stand
Israel's second election for the year has failed to solve the problem thrown up by the last one, but it has put Benjamin Netanyahu more on the defensive.
Israel goes back to the polls
The year's second Israeli election is to be held tomorrow, with the issues substantially unchanged from the first one. A dominant far right deals with an assortment of challengers plus its own internal divisions.
The bridge at Montereau
It's a day for commemoration, since this is our thousandth blog post, and a murder in central France 600 years ago should not be forgotten.
A Brexit election – but when?
Britain won't be going to the polls next month, but it still looks as if an election can't be long delayed.
Stalin’s choice
An ominous anniversary in Europe, in a year rather full of them. There may still be lessons to learn.
Death of a denialist
The paradox of David Koch, who died last week, is that his political activism ended up empowering forces that were deeply hostile to his libertarian convictions.
The World is Not Enough 