Michael Laxer
Daily LIFT #771
Soviet Peace and World Friendship poster, Viktor Ivanov 1953 -- Daily LIFT #771
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Michael Laxer
- 15 hours ago
- 6 min
Red Review #69 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from Colombia, Cuba, India, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, the United States and elsewhere. The is also a section of international...
Michael Laxer
- 3 days ago
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #770
USSR: Bulwark of Peace, Moscow 1988 -- Daily LIFT #770 Magnificent sculpture structure that went through many variations during the the...
Michael Laxer
- 4 days ago
- 1 min
Friedrich Engels dies August 5, 1895
Engels poster, People's Republic of China, 1977 August 5, 1895. Friedrich Engels, a founder of scientific communism, friend and comrade...
Michael Laxer
- 5 days ago
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #769
"May 1: Glory to the Great Soviet Union, the Standard Bearer of Peace!", poster USSR 1951 -- Daily LIFT #769
Michael Laxer
- 5 days ago
- 2 min
Basa Fillets in Spicy Tomato Sauce
Basa is mild and inexpensive Asian catfish that works with a wide array of sauces and flavours. It has become widely available in grocery...
Michael Laxer
- 6 days ago
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #768
Mass rally at the 12th World Festival of Youth and Students, Moscow USSR, 1985 -- Daily LIFT #768 The 12th World Festival of Youth and...
Michael Laxer
- 6 days ago
- 5 min
Remember the Victims of War on Hiroshima Day 2022
Rafe Saltman, a founding member of the Vancouver Island-based Freedom From War Coalition, reflects on the terrible human costs of...
Michael Laxer
- 7 days ago
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #767
Youth, Alexei Tertyshnikov and Igor Kravtsov, USSR 1962 -- Daily LIFT #767
Michael Laxer
- 7 days ago
- 12 min
Red Review #68 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from China, Sudan, Morocco, Swaziland, Belgium, Spain, the DPRK, Panama and elsewhere. There are also a number of updates about...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 1
- 1 min
PLA Day, August 1
Mao marches with PLA soldiers August 1 is PLA Day or Army Day in the People's Republic of China. It celebrates the formation of the...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 1
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #766
Two members of a Central Asian musical troupe on tour in the Uzbek SSR, USSR, 1984 -- Daily LIFT #766
Michael Laxer
- Aug 1
- 2 min
"Yes, I am Alive! And I Shall Live Forever!" -- Lesya Ukrainka, revolutionary poet and writer
Triumphant and solemn, the flash of predawn light Has pierced through the gloom of the night Still asleep are the rays of the sun --...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 29
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #765
Stamp in honour of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Luxemburg, German Democratic Republic 1971 -- Daily LIFT #765
Michael Laxer
- Jul 28
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #764
Kim Il Sung and Mao enjoying a chat and cigarette in China, 1961 -- Daily LIFT #765
Michael Laxer
- Jul 28
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #763
Mao and Khrushchev in Beijing, summer 1958 -- Daily LIFT #763
Michael Laxer
- Jul 26
- 4 min
Nakhodka: Visiting the Soviet Far East Port City, 1976
For most of its history the area of the city of Nakhodka was a small set of towns on the Pacific coast of the Russian and then Soviet Far...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 26
- 1 min
Anniversary of the Moncada Barracks attack
Today is the anniversary of the historic attack on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba on July 26, 1953 by a band of Cuban rebels...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 25
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #762
B. B. King in the USSR, 1979 -- Daily LIFT #762 King toured the USSR in 1979 and played to huge and very appreciative crowds in Moscow,...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 25
- 9 min
Red Review #67 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from the USA, South Africa, Brazil, Italy, New Caledonia and elsewhere Starbucks workers on strike in Buffalo, July 23 -- Image...