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Bars are all right by me, though. They seem to attract the most provocative and carefully designed art form in the square. I've come across posters announcing lectures on "Feminism and Anarchism," "Communism: A Dying Business," "Portugese Revolutionary Speaks!" and "Cyprus and Greece," tacked to the walls of Central Square bars. The nicest name in Central Square belongs to a bar, too: the Paradise Cafe; it reminds me of a song Maria Muldaur might sing...
Politics in Syria is synonymous with the Baath Party. Baath - Arabic for renaissance - is a movement founded by two young Syrian schoolteachers, who sought to meld Marxist socialism with Arab nationalism. Much like early Communism, the movement is organized upward from haliah (cells) of three to seven people; above the cells is a network of companies, divisions, branches and regions. In Syria the regional command is composed of a 21-member elite, with Assad as Secretary-General...
...world. Not any more, apparently. What was to have been a final preparatory meeting for an all-Europe Communist summit conference early next year ended in deadlock in East Berlin late last month. Instead of approving a document demonstrating Communist unity, the abortive meeting highlighted the unseemly disarray of Communism in Europe these days...
What Moscow failed to take into consideration was the growing independence of some of the more powerful Western Communist parties as well as Eastern Europe's two mavericks, Yugoslavia and Rumania. As a result, European Communism has split into two camps: on the one side are the Soviets, Poles, Czechoslovaks, Hungarians, Bulgarians and East Germans; on the other are the Italians, Spaniards, Yugoslavs and Rumanians...
Berlinguer has led the party in a series of other autonomous stands, notably a cautious defense of Nobel Peace Prizewinner Andrei Sakharov and a plea to the regimes of Eastern Europe to liberalize. Obviously, Italy's unorthodox approach to Communism was not conducive to smooth negotiations for a Communist summit...