Michael Laxer
The "light of Marxism permits us to understand human history"
Karl Marx among the Parisian workers, Rostislav Nikolayevich Galitsky (1920-1979), USSR It is because the light of Marxism permits us to...
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Michael Laxer
- 3 days ago
- 5 min
"Power to the People": Angela Davis b. January 26, 1944
Libertad Para Angela Davis, Cuban Poster 1971 A Cuban in solidarity with US freedom fighter, civil rights and communist activist Angela...
Michael Laxer
- 4 days ago
- 10 min
"Amílcar Cabral was assassinated but his generous ideals did not die"
The speech of Paulo Raimundo, General Secretary of Portuguese Communist Party in honour of the 50th anniversary of Cabral's death. All...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 20
- 1 min
Lenin Stained Glass Window, Oakland, California, 1970
Lenin Stained Glass Window, Oakland, California, 1970 The stained glass window that American economist Stanton R. Smith had commissioned...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 18
- 2 min
Leningrad encirclement broken, January 18, 1943
From the Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad Today marks the 80th anniversary of the day the Red Army first broke through the...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 17
- 4 min
The Declaration of the Rights of Toiling and Exploited People - January 17, 1918
The historic Soviet Declaration of the Rights of Toiling and Exploited People was first published on January 17, 1918 (new calendar) in ...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 16
- 1 min
Eleanor Marx b. 16 January, 1855
"Above all, the feeling of class consciousness and the understanding of the class struggle have grown beyond all expectation, and with...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 15
- 3 min
"Cuban fighters can be counted on by the revolutionary movement in any corner of the earth"
On January 15, 1966 Fidel Castro gave his famous speech at the Chaplin Theater in Havana, Cuba to conclude the Tricontinental Conference...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 15
- 3 min
At the grave of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg
On this date in 1919 the great Marxist thinkers and revolutionary leaders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were killed in Berlin by...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 14
- 5 min
Magadan and Region - 16 Panoramic Images of the Soviet Far East and North, 1976
Published in 1976 this folder of spectacular, panoramic images looked at the city of Magadan and its surrounding region in the far east...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 14
- 1 min
Underground Liberation News Agency Reporter in Saigon, Vietnam War
Underground Liberation News Agency Reporter in Saigon during the Vietnam War. Liberation News Agency was the clandestine information...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 12
- 3 min
"During a reactionary war a revolutionary class cannot but desire the defeat of its government"
During a reactionary war a revolutionary class cannot but desire the defeat of its government... ...A revolution in wartime means civil...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 7
- 4 min
The creation of the first workers’ state was a "beacon of hope for the workers of the world"
Statement from the Workers' Party of Ireland. The 100th anniversary of the creation of the world's first workers' and socialist state was...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 6
- 1 min
Legendary Canadian Communist leader Tim Buck b. Jan. 6 1891
Legendary Canadian Communist leader Tim Buck was born January 6, 1891 Buck was General Secretary of the Communist Party of Canada from...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 4
- 2 min
The Cuban Revolution: a historic milestone of heroism and hope for revolutionaries around the world
A solidarity message from the Communist Party of Chile. Cubans rally in defense of the revolution, July 17, 2021 January 1 marked the...
Michael Laxer
- Dec 30, 2022
- 3 min
A sword is not our emblem: How the seal of the USSR was designed
On the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -- the world's first workers' and socialist state --...
Michael Laxer
- Dec 30, 2022
- 2 min
We salute the centenary of the founding of the USSR - Communist Party of Chile
Symbol of the Communist Party of Chile -- Image via party's website Today is the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Union of...
Michael Laxer
- Dec 19, 2022
- 1 min
Lepa Radić, heroic Yugoslavian anti-fascist partisan, born December 19, 1925
Lepa Radić, heroic Communist Yugoslavian anti-fascist partisan and resistance fighter was born December 19, 1925. After the Nazis invaded...
Michael Laxer
- Dec 17, 2022
- 1 min
Vasily Zaitsev instructs other Soviet snipers, Stalingrad, December 1942
Vasily Zaitsev (far left) instructs other Soviet snipers, Stalingrad, December 1942 Vasily Zaitsev is perhaps the most famous of all the...
Michael Laxer
- Dec 13, 2022
- 4 min
Founding of USSR marked the greatest state-political achievement of the revolutionary working class
March in celebration of the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Moscow USSR, 1971 The 100th anniversary of the formation of the...
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