Communism

Bouncer: Probing the Origins of Mao Worship and MacBooks at Red's Place

List: What S.F. students will learn from new school standards

'We're Fans of Mao and Stuff Like That!' San Francisco Commies Gather to Celebrate 60th Anniversary of People's Republic of China.

Whatever you say, comrade​Where in the world, you may wonder, do people still avow unqualified love of Mao Zedong, the late Chinese dictator? Even the current leaders of the communist state he founded have come to revile policies -- among them government-created famines and political purges -- whi ... More >>

Oakland author Yiyun Li's novel examines China's dark places

Whatever you say, comrade​Where in the world, you may wonder, do people still avow unqualified love of Mao Zedong, the late Chinese dictator? Even the current leaders of the communist state he founded have come to revile policies -- among them government-created famines and political purges -- whi ... More >>

Barack Obama for the Win!

Whatever you say, comrade​Where in the world, you may wonder, do people still avow unqualified love of Mao Zedong, the late Chinese dictator? Even the current leaders of the communist state he founded have come to revile policies -- among them government-created famines and political purges -- whi ... More >>

They Fought the Law

Whatever you say, comrade​Where in the world, you may wonder, do people still avow unqualified love of Mao Zedong, the late Chinese dictator? Even the current leaders of the communist state he founded have come to revile policies -- among them government-created famines and political purges -- whi ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: Mistah F.A.B.

Whatever you say, comrade​Where in the world, you may wonder, do people still avow unqualified love of Mao Zedong, the late Chinese dictator? Even the current leaders of the communist state he founded have come to revile policies -- among them government-created famines and political purges -- whi ... More >>

Under the Knife

One very bad day in Ceausescu's Romania

Mystery, He Wrote

The playwright of one of these one-acts seems to have vanished without a trace

The Perceptionists

Black Dialogue

Cardinal Opportunity

A visit with Honduran Cardinal Rodriguez, who is often mentioned as a contender to become the next pope. For good reason.

Socialist Pop

In Sui Jianguo's universe, Michelango and Mao speak the same language

Gay Rights in High Places

As the king fights a Maoist insurrection, the Nepali Supreme Court decides whether homosexual acts are "bestiality"

Literary Sampling

What Tom Stoppard did in this 1974 play would be too expensive to try today

Smudged Circle

Agitprop meets musical in this too-long -- but still powerful -- Brecht revival

Georgia on My Mind

In the former Soviet republic, chaos reigns Since Otar Left

Secret Rivera

Four decades after it was rescued from a storage shed, Diego Rivera's magnificent City College mural remains a hidden treasure

Angels in Berlin

Why Tony Kushner is no George Bernard Shaw

The Party & Out at Sea

Two cartoons, one a sketch for the editorial page, the other by Warner Bros.

All Boxed In

Amy Lam's memory boxes use common objects to reveal family history

Reps Etc.

Amy Lam's memory boxes use common objects to reveal family history

Dooley

The dramatic story of a 1950s war hero, anti-Communist activist, and closeted gay man

Letters to the Editor

Week of October 16, 2002

The Horror

Darkness descends at City Hall as supervisors argue ceaselessly over dogs and apartment size

Letters to the Editor

Week of September 4, 2002

Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che

A subjective history of American communism in the Cold War era

United Nations

Week 2 of the San Francisco International Film Festival

Peace Wars

The bitter battle over piloting a campus peace movement that hasn't even left the ground

Dog Bites

Don't Take This With You to Your Polling Place Nov. 6; War Is Bad. Or Good, Depending.

Devil Fish

Fierce prey. Spiritual brother. Ecological bellwether. The majestic gray whale inspires awe, conflict, and troubling environmental questions from the icy seas of Russia to the warm lagoons of Baja.

Summer of Ham

Some outrageous fortune has made this open season on Hamlet

Best Chinese Antiquities

Han Palace Fine Arts

Most Geriatric Radical Group

Revolutionary Communist Party

Comrades of the People's Republic

While traveling in China, our writer explores that country's increasing sexual freedom

Spiritual CULTivation

In China, Falun Gong practitioners are beaten and persecuted, so the U.S. is granting them asylum. But is this movement as harmless as it seems?

Agent Provocative

In the 1960s Anthony Poshepny was a CIA operative whose macabre Southeast Asian exploits drew comparisons with Col. Kurtz, the megalomaniacal anti-hero of Apocalypse Now

Letters

In the 1960s Anthony Poshepny was a CIA operative whose macabre Southeast Asian exploits drew comparisons with Col. Kurtz, the megalomaniacal anti-hero of Apocalypse Now

Dog Bites

In the 1960s Anthony Poshepny was a CIA operative whose macabre Southeast Asian exploits drew comparisons with Col. Kurtz, the megalomaniacal anti-hero of Apocalypse Now

Liver Than You'll Ever Be

In the 1960s Anthony Poshepny was a CIA operative whose macabre Southeast Asian exploits drew comparisons with Col. Kurtz, the megalomaniacal anti-hero of Apocalypse Now

Lighten Up

In the 1960s Anthony Poshepny was a CIA operative whose macabre Southeast Asian exploits drew comparisons with Col. Kurtz, the megalomaniacal anti-hero of Apocalypse Now

The Other Side's Other Side

A surprising look at gay and lesbian life in Russia

China Syndrome

Ron Levaco paints a portrait of Israel Epstein, the Russian Jewish emigre who never bandoned post-Revolution China

One World, Under Gorby (Part II)

Gorbachev foundation prez Jim Garrison has something special in mind for San Francisco in September, an international palaver at the Fairmont Hotel. After that, a seat for himself in the U.S. Senate. And then, who knows? Chancellor of the world?

One World, Under Gorby

Gorbachev Foundation prez Jim Garrison has something special in mind for San Francisco in September, an international palaver at the Fairmont Hotel. After that, a seat for himself in the U.S. Senate. And then, who knows? Chancellor of the world?

Paradise Lost

A hero sinks with the Soviet dream in Burnt by the Sun

Aisle Seat

A hero sinks with the Soviet dream in Burnt by the Sun