Michael Laxer
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez goes into space, 18 September, 1980
On September 18, 1980 after extensive training in the Soviet Union as part of the Soviet internationalist Interkosmos program, Arnaldo...
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Michael Laxer
- 3 days ago
- 9 min
"A historic legacy for a struggle that continues": On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Amílcar Cabral
Paulo Raimundo, General Secretary of the PCP at the event -- image via the PCP September 12 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of...
Michael Laxer
- Sep 10
- 4 min
The Surprising Ways Inventions and Ideas Spread in Ancient Prehistory
You can learn a lot about humanity from the first technological revolutions of more than 10,000 years ago. By Brenna R. Hassett, Human...
Michael Laxer
- Sep 9
- 2 min
Autumn Harvest Uprising begins, September 9, 1927
An artistic representation of Mao at the head of the uprising. Mao Zedong led a peasant and military insurrection that began on September...
Michael Laxer
- Sep 8
- 6 min
Keys to Building Human Bridges to the Past
Human technologies have continued to evolve exponentially since the end of the Paleolithic: today we are using them to learn more about...
Michael Laxer
- Sep 7
- 5 min
The Spartakiads of the peoples of the USSR
Opening ceremonies of the Second Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR, Moscow, August 1959. The Spartakiad was a festival of amateur,...
Michael Laxer
- Sep 5
- 1 min
Xiang Xiuli, Young Hero of the People's Republic of China
From a poster series of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: Xiang Xiuli was born in 1933 into a poor working-class family in...
Michael Laxer
- Sep 3
- 2 min
Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1980
Stamp for the XXVI congress of the CPSU, 1981, From the Soviet Press in 1981, a brief look at the Communist Party of the Soviet Union...
Michael Laxer
- Sep 2
- 3 min
The Congress of the Peoples of the East, September 1920
Between September 1 and September 7, 1920, The Congress of the Peoples of the East called by the Communist International (Comintern) was...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 31
- 2 min
Salaspils and the "Ost" plan
From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 30
- 2 min
Fred Hampton born, August 30, 1948
The great revolutionary and freedom fighter, Fred Hampton, was born August 30, 1948. A leader of the Black Panthers he was murdered by...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 28
- 7 min
Panoramic Soviet Moscow 1971 -- 21 Images
From a postcard packet published in the USSR in 1971, here we are sharing 21 panoramic images of the Soviet capital, some with our text...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 25
- 5 min
Homemade Car Rallies of the USSR w. the Amphibious Ichtyandr
Through the 70s and into the 80s amateur homemade car rallies were held in the USSR in which ordinary citizens built their own vehicles...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 24
- 7 min
Knight of the Revolution: Felix Dzerzhinsky
A look at the life, times and thinking of the great Bolshevik revolutionary Felix Dzerzhinsky from a 1967 issue of Soviet Life magazine:...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 22
- 3 min
UNEAC: 63 Years of Culture and Commitment
When talking about the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba on the anniversary of its formation, tribute must be paid to the beautiful...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 21
- 6 min
Engels: "We are now approaching a social revolution"
The Engels statue in Manchester -- travelmag.com , CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons An...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 20
- 5 min
75 years ago, the KKK and anti-communists teamed up to violently stop a folk concert in NY
Rioters during the attacks in Peekskill By Nina Silber, Professor of History, Boston University Few Americans today know about the events...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 18
- 6 min
Ernst Thälmann, killed August 18, 1944
Ernst Thälmann, leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), addresses a mass rally in Berlin, May, 1931 The working class stalwart,...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 17
- 1 min
Remembering Ruth First, assassinated August 17, 1982
Ruth First was born in 1925 to parents Julius First and Matilda Levetan who emigrated to South Africa from Latvia in 1906 and became...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 11
- 8 min
OCLAE: 58 years of solidarity, struggle and commitment
A look at the Latin American and Caribbean Continental Organization of Students (OCLAE) on the 58th anniversary of its founding. By...
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