Word: communist
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...China Going Back to the Land The ruling Communist Party announced a major initiative to overhaul the country's land-use policies, still hampered by the unwieldy collectivization policies of the Mao Zedong era. The plan, unveiled Oct. 19, is an attempt to jump-start agricultural productivity and promote prosperity among its restive farmers, who have largely been bypassed by China's economic boom. Currently, farmers are entitled to the proceeds from their sales but do not own the land--a system easily exploited by corrupt officials and developers. Beijing hopes the reforms--enabling farmers to lease, swap, subcontract...
...concern himself not only with subverting ideas of genre and dramatic distance, as he did with “Contempt,” but obliterating them altogether. His films are a testament to the mercurial atmosphere of French society, whose working class was emboldened by their socialist and communist sympathies to act against a quasi-fascist military government. In films like “Breathless” and “My Life To Live,” the protagonists are young, bored, and otherwise desensitized by a culture supersaturated with highly stylized images of luxury and glamour. Godard explores...
Here in Cambridge especially, Bolshevism is in the air. The Revolutionary Communist Party of America—seen regularly handing out leaflets to bemused capitalists in Harvard Square—smells blood in the water. On its website, the group offers a lengthy explanation of how the current financial crisis demonstrates the failure of capitalism and the need for an imminent uprising. Over at Revolution Books, Cambridge’s Marxist haven, the atmosphere would surely be electric, yet it is difficult to tell, because like any good Communist establishment, the store is only open 14 hours a week...
...island was the current that carries homemade rafts to Florida. That all changed a few years ago when geologists estimated that between 5 billion bbl. and 10 billion bbl. of oil lie beneath the waters off Cuba's northwest coast. Suddenly it seemed as though the hemisphere's sole communist nation might finally end its desperate dependence on oil-rich allies like the former Soviet Union and Venezuela - and perhaps even escape its impoverished economic time warp altogether...
...analysis is based on what he calls a more accurate comparison of similar maritime oil fields like those off Mexico's Gulf Coast. "We're talking about that magnitude," he argued last week. "We have more data" than the USGS. But Cupet, an arm of Cuba's ultra-secret communist government, hasn't offered much more evidence than that. Chris Schenk, who as USGS coordinator in the Caribbean led the 2004 survey, agrees that Cuban geologists "are very good." But he adds, "We would like to see more data." Still, Schenk notes, because of the embargo and Havana's insular...