Mao proclaims the People's Republic of China, October 1, 1949 From the magazine People's China in January, 1950 a chronology of the great revolutionary year of 1949 that saw the final defeat of the imperialist backed, reactionary Kuomintang under Chiang Kai-shek and the proclamation of the People's Republic of China by Mao in Beijing on October 1. Please note that many of the translations of names and places are now considered outdated. JANUARY 10th. The Hsuehow-Pengpu Area

Conference text: The view of the NCPN on socialism This summer, the New Communist Party of the Netherlands (NCPN) held a conference to discuss the theses of the Central Committee concerning the view of the NCPN on socialism. More specifically the theses address the lessons to be drawn from the historical experience of socialist construction in the USSR, the theoretical foundations for the development of communist society, and the possibility and necessity of socialism in the

United Nations General Assembly Hall -- Mojnsen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Guillermo R. Barreto This month, like every year, the United Nations General Assembly takes place. Heads of State take the floor to send messages to the world. These messages are broadcast on TV, transcribed, and recorded in official documents and the press. We have heard denunciations of violations of international law, calls for peace and coexistence, and also cynical remarks from leader

A Historical Look By Gabriel Haythornthwaite, The DNA Report With 23 days until Alberta’s pre-annexation referendum, The DNA Report is engaging the fact that, prior to Herr Trump’s deranged threats to annex Canada as the ‘51st state’, the public here was largely unfamiliar with the term “annexation”. With that in mind, this note offers a sample primer on the history of annexation from ancient times until the 19th century so as to provide a basic understanding of this imperial

Stories of Iconic Lenin Photos #4 From the Soviet Sputnik Magazine in 1969, the fourth and last in a series of looks at the background of several famous, iconic photographs of Lenin. Text: An album produced by the Art Publishers and entitled Lenin in Photographs is thought to be the first large collection of pictures taken of the leader of the October Revolution. In it Leonid Volkov-Lannit has brought together many obscure facts. These 130 photographs recall the events in the

Stories of Iconic Lenin Photos #3 From the Soviet Sputnik Magazine in 1969, the third in a series of looks at the background of several famous, iconic photographs of Lenin. Text: An album produced by the Art Publishers and entitled Lenin in Photographs is thought to be the first large collection of pictures taken of the leader of the October Revolution. In it Leonid Volkov-Lannit has brought together many obscure facts. These 130 photographs recall the events in the Smolny he

A group of Austrian voluteers -- image from an exhibition remembering Austrian volunteers who fought in the Civil War held in Spain in 2017 Austrian volunteers in the Spanish War Contribution by Otto Bruckner, President of the PdA, at the event organised by the Party of Labour of Austria to mark the 90th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish War and the formation of the International Brigades: ‘90 Years of the Spanish War: Proletarian Internationalism, the Popular Fron

Chavez giving the famous speech -- image via video screenshot By Carlos Ron On 20 September 2006, Hugo Chávez stepped up to the granite podium of the United Nations General Assembly. A day earlier, from that exact same spot, the President of the United States, George W. Bush, had spoken. Chávez crossed himself, said that the room still smelled of sulphur, and the hall burst into laughter and applause. It was not the speech Chávez had originally intended to give, but rather th

Stories of Iconic Lenin Photos #2 From the Soviet Sputnik Magazine in 1969, the second in a series of looks at the background of several famous, iconic photographs of Lenin. Text: An album produced by the Art Publishers and entitled Lenin in Photographs is thought to be the first large collection of pictures taken of the leader of the October Revolution. In it Leonid Volkov-Lannit has brought together many obscure facts. These 130 photographs recall the events in the Smolny h

Stories of Iconic Lenin Photos #1 From the Soviet Sputnik Magazine in 1969, the first in a series of looks at the background of several famous, iconic photographs of Lenin. Text: An album produced by the Art Publishers and entitled Lenin in Photographs is thought to be the first large collection of pictures taken of the leader of the October Revolution. In it Leonid Volkov-Lannit has brought together many obscure facts. These 130 photographs recall the events in the Smolny he

Portraits of Karl Marx and Joseph Weydemeyer. Union Army Col. Joseph Weydemeyer fought slavery and capitalism, too. The 19th century radical was a friend of Karl Marx and fought against the Confederacy. Reactionaries at the time, much like those of today, attacked freedom fighters like him as dangerous extremists. By R. L. Richards, People's World “We need to reject socialism whether it comes from the left or the right,” The Hill declared on Thursday, Aug. 27, in an op-ed by

w. Freire's epic poem Recife Forever By Urariano Mota Born in Recife on September 19, 1921, Paulo Freire overcame the contradiction of being from Recife and simultaneously a citizen of the world-at-large. Far from Pernambuco, he reinvented himself as a man without borders by the strength of his work as a revolutionary philosopher and teacher only to suffer a second, posthumous exile in the Bolsonaro regime. Once considered the “Patron of Brazilian Education,” he has again bec

Large notice board with slogans about the 5-Year Plan in Moscow, Soviet Union (c. 1931) From the Soviet Magazine Sputnik in 1971, a look at the history of the USSR's Five-Year Plans up until then and beyond. In the spring of 1920 a group of scientists, engineers and economists — the State Commission for the Electrification of Russia (GOELRO) — began, on Lenin's instructions, to draw up the document that subsequently became known as "the GOELRO plan". The plan formed quite a v

An Equal Earth map showing country boundaries -- Tom Patterson, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Prabir Purkayastha Last week, on 4th September, the United Nations General Assembly adopted an African proposal for a new world map, which shows countries’ true size relative to one another. It aims to correct the view of the world shaped by the widely used world map based on the Mercator Projection, created by Gerardus Mercator, a 16th-century Flemish cartographer. The problem with

via the Workers Party of Ireland As the bourgeois media remembers only the murderous attacks against civilians in the US on 11 September 2001, the Workers Party of Ireland remembers the brutal and murderous US sponsored coup which commenced in Chile on that infamous 9/11 in 1973. In the lead-up to the September 1970 election the United States intensified its covert involvement in Chilean politics. Seeking to prevent Salvador Allende’s victory, the CIA launched an operation to

By Urariano Mota I had been looking for this film since 2010. In August 2012, I published an article about my search for the documentary “Brazil: The Troubled Land.” This film chronicles the struggle for land in Pernambuco; it was produced for the American television network ABC and features footage from 1961. But no one could provide any information about it—it almost seemed like a legend. “The Troubled Land” had been seen in the United States, where it had garnered widespre

From 1976 the full, original statement from the Communist Party, state and military of the People's Republic of China announcing the death of Chairman Mao on September 9, 1976. Message to the Whole Party, the Whole Army and the People of All Nationalities Throughout the Country from: The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China, The State Council of the People's Republic of Ch

Michael Day, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Tings Chak The television series Asking the Vast Earth (问苍茫, 2023) opens with a scene of a young Mao Zedong swimming in the Xiang River, swollen from the heavy rains. A fisherman calls from the bank to the lone swimmer: ‘You fool, you’re asking to die! The river is raging after the storm—there are boats, why are you swimming?’ Mao laughs and calls back: ‘Never mind how fierce the water is. Once you understand its temper, you ca

AI promises to free travelers from generic recommendations, crowded destinations, and irrelevant choices. Yet travel reveals a broader shift: personalized systems do more than help us choose; they shape what enters our field of vision. Whether guided by inferred behavior or declared preference, they may leave us with fewer common experiences—and fewer unchosen encounters that might change who we are. William Powell Frith, The Railway Station (1862), oil on canvas. Royal Hollo

By Bert De Belder, Workers’ Party of Belgium (PVDA-PTB) Contribution of the Contribution by the Workers' Party of Belgium to the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties held in Havana, August 7-9, 2026. Released in English September 3, 2026. Dear comrades, It is an honor to participate in this 24th IMCWP in Havana, coinciding with the celebration of the centenary of Comandante Fidel Castro Ruz. It is a pleasure to extend our warm solidarity to the courage