The Communist dictatorship of North Korea has banned laughter and drinking alcohol for 10 days to mark the death anniversary of former supreme leader Kim Jong Il. Thursday December 17th marked 10 years since the leader’s death. According to Radio Free Asia, the regime has imposed restrictions on the country, including a nationwide ban on […]
Bad news, this Tuesday morning, for those of you hoping that the Communist revolution is just around the corner. News reaches us, here at Gript, of a major split in the Irish Communist movement. It’s so bad, in fact, that The Communist Party of Ireland has been taken over by a “clique” that “has led […]
As Niamh pointed out here several weeks ago, those cancelling the Christmas are in good company. Cromwell would not be the sort of chap you would normally name check when issuing decrees. Nor would the Bolsheviks, Nazis and the current Chinese regime who have also attempted to out rightly suppress the most important celebration in […]
This is not an article about cannibalism, but something which has led to cannibalism – socialism. Socialism is popular today among young college going students and people in their 30s and 40s. This is confirmed by survey after survey in the USA which reveals a decline in support for capitalism. Support for individual policies that […]
For those of you who haven’t read it, because you didn’t take first year sociology in Trinity (thanks very much, taxpayers) let me save you the trouble: One of these days you’re all going to realise that you’re slaves of the bourgeoisie, and rise up against them to fulfil your own potential. The only problem […]
For years, Bernie Sanders’ critics have accused him and his campaign of political radicalism and holding fringe, far-Left positions. His opponents often claim that he is a crypto-socialist (if not full-blown communist) who wants to smuggle dangerous and extreme ideas into the White House under a moderate guise. Sanders, of course, vigorously denies these allegations. […]
The birth date of former Primate of Hungary and one of the most important Churchmen of the 20th century, the Venerable Cardinal József Mindszenty fell last week on March 29. He was a key figure in the resistance of the Hungarian people to Nazism and socialism over more than 50 years and an inspiration to […]
While Marx as the Mystic Meg of the inevitability of socialism has long since lost any credibility outside of the unreconstructed far left, and people who have never actually read him for the most part, he is still an important figure. The first volume of Capital stands as an excellent work of economic history. It […]
If you lived through it, you’d have to have been an apathetic stoic with no soul, not to shed a tear at the sight of East Germans flooding into West Berlin on the night of November 9th, 1989. As a (half) native German, it was pivotal moment in my motherland’s history and one I remember […]
“To defend Korea, Moon must go,” Gordon Chang told the 900-strong crowd packing the in the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Seoul for a conference entitled Preserving South Korea’s Freedom. The room erupted into sustained applause. Mr Chang, a lawyer, author and broadcaster, believes that the President of the Republic of South Korea, Moon Jae-in, is […]
A resolution of the European Parliament recognizes that the two totalitarian regimes of the 20th century were twin in crimes against humanity. Someone needs to tell Beijing.