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Michael Laxer
3 days ago20 min read
"Socialism is a necessity of our time": Portuguese Communist Party on the global struggle of the workers and peoples
Capitalism was not the initial system, nor is it the terminal system, in Humankind’s History. Its revolutionary overcoming and the...
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Michael Laxer
6 days ago18 min read
What Are the Origins of the Money We Use Today? Revisiting Heinrich Schurtz’s Groundbreaking Research
The pioneering research by one of the founders of economic anthropology is essential for understanding the social and institutional...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 64 min read
Cuba pays tribute to Sam Nujoma
Photos via Revolution Studios By Rene Tamayo Leon, translated from the Spanish His Excellency Mr. Samuel Goagoseb, Namibian ambassador to...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 612 min read
How Mesopotamia’s Urban and Industrial Revolution Started Politics as We Know It Today
Giorgio Buccellati’s At the Origins of Politics takes readers to the early stages of a process that became the structure of modern life....
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Michael Laxer
Mar 55 min read
In the friendship of Fidel and Chavez, the comradeship of two peoples
By Rafael Hidalgo Fernandez, Granma & the Communist Party of Cuba, translated from the Spanish On March 5, 2013, at just 58 years old,...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 26 min read
Moscow Metro builders: Tatyana Fedorova's brigade
A brigade of construction workers building the Moscow Metro. They were led by Tatiana Fedorova who is on the left holding the jackhammer....
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Michael Laxer
Feb 283 min read
Soviet Moscow's Metro, 1960
From USSR Magazine, January 1960: A METRO ride is one of the sightseeing musts for a tourist in Moscow. Its stations are not the dismal...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 2511 min read
Exploring Ancient Understandings of Meteorites in Archaic Societies
By KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks (NSF’s NOIRLab) - Geminids Over Kitt Peak National Observatory, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.o...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 254 min read
February Strike of 1941: When Citizens Took to the Streets Against the Nazis
Remembering how Amsterdam's working class stood up against Adolf Hitler's extermination of the Jews. A commemoration of the strike in...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 232 min read
The coming of the collective farms in the USSR
From the Soviet English language magazine Socialism: Principles, Practice, Prospects, 1983. The late twenties was a turbulent time for...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 171 min read
Juan Almeida Bosque, Cuban Revolutionary & Poet b. February 17, 1927
Raul Castro, Antonio Nunez Jimenez, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Juan Almeida Bosque and Ramiro Valdes in 1959 shortly after the Cuban...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 136 min read
The Communist Party of Vietnam: 95 Years of Struggle and Social Transformation
As Vietnam Plus reports , the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) hosted a ceremony in Havana on the evening of February 12 to celebrate the...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 125 min read
How Bolshevism Was Born
Reminisces of the Second Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party from Fridrikh Lengnik, Krupskaya and Martyn Lyadov....
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Michael Laxer
Feb 113 min read
SACP pays tribute to Namibian liberation struggle stalwart Sam Nujoma
Nujoma in 1978 - public domain image South African Communist Party tribute to Namibian liberation struggle stalwart, President Sam Nujoma...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 79 min read
Spontaneous Revolutions: Darwin’s Diagrams of Plant Movement
After weeks of watching young tendrils slowly corkscrew their way toward the sun, Charles Darwin invented a system for making botanic...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 65 min read
Camilo Cienfuegos: Symbol of Courage and Commitment to the Revolution
A look at the great Cuban revolutionary on the anniversary of his birth. By Katherin Hormigó Rubio, translated from the Spanish Camilo...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 22 min read
Rehabilitation and rebirth in the postwar USSR
A brief, illustrated look at the remarkable Soviet recovery in the wake of the utter devastation of WWII. One of the most remarkable...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 11 min read
Soviet Health Service, 1984
Out on Call The right of Soviet citizens to health care is laid down in the Constitution of the USSR. All forms of medical care are free...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 11 min read
The Women's Bill of Rights, 1988
The Women's Bill of Rights was a call to action and program issued by the organization Women for Racial and Economic Equality in the...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 11 min read
Victorio Codovilla, Yelena Stasova and Ho Chi Minh, Moscow, 1961
Victorio Codovilla, Yelena Stasova and Ho Chi Minh, Moscow, 1961 A remarkable photo from the 22nd Congress of the CPSU in Moscow, 1961....
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