Michael Laxer
Yakov Sverdlov born June 3, 1885
The great Bolshevik revolutionary Yakov Sverdlov was born June 3, 1885. Yakov Sverdlov, a professional revolutionary, was an outstanding...
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Michael Laxer
- 15 hours ago
- 2 min
Raúl Castro, b. June 3 1931
Raul Castro speaking in 2014 Happy Birthday to Comrade Raúl Castro born 3 June 1931! "This blockade, which our people have faced for more...
Michael Laxer
- 1 day ago
- 1 min
15 Years of the GDR: Textile Worker -- Stamps of the GDR #31
15 Years of the GDR: Textile Worker -- Stamps of the GDR #31 A stamp honouring 15 years of socialism and the German Democratic Republic...
Michael Laxer
- 1 day ago
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #954
Quartz-lamp treatment in the nursery of the Segezh Paper Mills, Karelo-Finnish SSR, USSR 1953 -- Daily LIFT #954 Trippy looking photo of...
Michael Laxer
- 2 days ago
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #953
Lenin Monument in Ulyanovsk, USSR 1976 -- Daily LIFT #953
Michael Laxer
- 3 days ago
- 3 min
Praskovia Angelina: Hero of Socialist Labor
Praskovia Angelina (also Praskov’ia Nikitichna Angelina) (1913-1959) From Soviet Women, 1953: The collective farm system has produced a...
Michael Laxer
- 4 days ago
- 9 min
Red Review #100 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from India, Cuba, Greece, France, Sudan, Swaziland, South Korea, Kenya, Brazil, Venezuela and elsewhere. Over 25,000 peasants...
Michael Laxer
- 4 days ago
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #952
Three People's Deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, 1953 -- Daily LIFT #952 U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet deputies (left to right):...
Michael Laxer
- 4 days ago
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #951
Monument to the Red Army Soldiers Who Died Defending the Caucuses, Gagra, USSR 1966 -- Daily LIFT #951
Michael Laxer
- 5 days ago
- 1 min
Disneyland Paris workers strike for higher wages, better working conditions
Disneyland Paris workers marching in the theme park, May 30 -- image via Twitter Disneyland Paris are out on strike for the second time...
Michael Laxer
- 5 days ago
- 1 min
Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin banner over the Kremlin -- Stamps of the GDR #30
Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin banner over the Kremlin -- Stamps of the GDR #30 The thirtieth in our new The Left Chapter series looking...
Michael Laxer
- 5 days ago
- 1 min
Freedom from War Coalition Event: Oppose the Arms Fair in Ottawa!
A display at CANSEC 2016 The Freedom from War Coalition will be assembling at Charles Hoey Park in downtown Duncan by the train station...
Michael Laxer
- 6 days ago
- 7 min
Sudanese and global Communist parties condemn attack on party HQ
With statements from the Sudanese party, the US PSL and the Communist parties of Greece, Venezuela, India and Iraq. Members of the...
Michael Laxer
- May 27
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #950
Glorious October!, Soviet Postcard 1966 -- Daily LIFT #950
Michael Laxer
- May 25
- 1 min
Wartburg Castle anniversary stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #29
Wartburg Castle anniversary stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #29 Wartburg Castle in Thuringia is probably most famous as the place where Martin...
Michael Laxer
- May 24
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #949
Karl-Marx-Stadt's famous Marx bust is unveiled, 1971 -- Daily LIFT #949 The magnificent, immense bust was designed by Soviet sculptor,...
Michael Laxer
- May 24
- 15 min
Red Review #99 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from Belgium, Venezuela, Luxembourg, India, Cuba, Kenya, Sudan, Greece, South Korea, the UK, the USA and elsewhere. We have...
Michael Laxer
- May 23
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #948
Winnie Mandela, Nelson Mandela and Joe Slovo at the Communist Party's first public meeting in South Africa in 1990, after being banned...
Michael Laxer
- May 23
- 5 min
Mao at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art, May 23 1942
On May 23, 1942, Mao gave his famous and ideologically significant concluding thoughts on the role of revolutionary literature and art at...
Michael Laxer
- May 23
- 1 min
Day of the Child stamp, 1964 -- Stamps of the GDR #28
Day of the Child stamp, 1964 -- Stamps of the GDR #28 The twenty-eighth in our new The Left Chapter series looking at over 70 stamps from...
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