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

Nada Dimić (1923–1942) was a Yugoslav Partisan and communist revolutionary, honoured posthumously as a People's Hero of Yugoslavia for her bravery and resistance against fascist forces during World War II. Nada Dimić was born on September 6, 1923 in Divoselo near Gospić, in what is now Croatia.. She was one of eight children and grew up in a family engaged in agriculture. Her early education began in her hometown and continued in Gospić, where she showed talent in drawing and

Lenin at the Fourth Congress of the Third International. Lenin addresses delegates to the Third Congress of the Communist International in Moscow, 1921 These impressions of the Fourth Congress of the Third International originally appeared in the German capitalist progressive daily, the Frankfurter Zeitung. The congress was held between November 5 and December 5, 1922. It was held in both Petrograd and Moscow. They were republished in English in Soviet Russia Pictorial in 192

By Sabina Cveček, Timothy Earle, Carol R. Ember, Gary M. Feinman, and William A. Parkinson Why Residential Burial? Through burial practice, it is believed that the living create, affirm, and transform social relationships with those who have passed. Interring the dead in settlements, sometimes even below house floors, makes ancestors enduring participants in daily life. Residential burial practices establish continuity between generations, anchor memory in place, and inscribe

Chintien Uprising, painting, Li Tsun—tsin From China Pictorial Magazine in 1951, a brief look at the Taiping Revolutionary Movement of 1850/51-1864: The Taiping Revolutionary Movement led by Hong Xiuquan broke out in Chintien village of Tzu-ching Mountain in Kwangsi Province. During a period of 14 years, the revolutionary forces extended their influence over 17 provinces, established their own government and carried out various revolutionary policies. Faced by the combined fo

Speech delivered by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, at the political and cultural event commemorating Fidel Castro's centenary and the closing of the 1st International Colloquium, “Fidel: Legacy and Future,” at the Karl Marx Theater, August 13th, 2026, “Year of the Centennial of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz”, translated from the Spanish Dear Army General Raúl Castro

A look at women labour heroes of the early years of the People's Republic of China. From the People's Republic of China Press in 1951. Liang Chun, one-time poor peasant girl, became China's first woman tractor driver after liberation. Since then, she has worked on land reclamation, trained many other women drivers, become a politically advanced worker, and in 1949 was elected as delegate to the Conference of Asian Women held in 1959 in Beijing. She is now studying advanced me

Here we take a look at the Soviet city of Gomel via 12 postcards from 1966. With text in Belorussian the postcard packet was aimed at a domestic audience. We have translated the text into English. (We previously looked at Soviet Gomel in: Soviet Gomel 1976: 13 Soviet Postcards) During the Soviet era, Gomel was rebuilt from wartime devastation and transformed into a major industrial, cultural, and educational center of the Byelorussian SSR. Gomel suffered extreme destruction d

Crop from The sleep of reason produces monsters (No. 43), from Los Caprichos -- public domain image By Jorge Coulon In 1799, Francisco de Goya published Los Caprichos. Among his engravings was one destined to stand the test of time: a man sleeps, leaning over a table, whilst owls, bats and creatures of the night emerge from behind him. At the bottom, a phrase: ‘The sleep of reason produces monsters’. More than a century later, from a fascist prison, Antonio Gramsci wrote abou

Fidel Castro speaks to a crowd of over 100,000 people at the Plaza de la Revolucion, Havana, January 2, 1969, for the tenth anniversary of the Revolution By Dayan Jayatilleka The month he turned 50, my father, Mervyn de Silva, and my mother, Lakshmi, were in Havana watching Fidel Castro take over the chairmanship of the Non-Aligned Movement at its 6th Summit. After my father died, I discovered in his briefcase the embossed invitation on stiff parchment. He had treasured it fo

Public domain image By Shiran Illanperuma On 16 August 1976, representatives from eighty-six countries met in Colombo, Sri Lanka, for the Fifth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries. This was the first summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to be held in Asia and perhaps the largest international conference ever held in Sri Lanka. In her inaugural address to the summit, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike – the world’s first woman p

Göbeklitepe site in May, 2025 -- public domain image By Erdem Denk While shooting a documentary at Göbeklitepe, I encountered strikingly different historical interpretations of the site. An international group of New Age seekers seemed to be searching for extraterrestrial connections there, but when I pointed out that the enclosures had originally been roofed, they recast the T-shaped pillars as traces of humanity’s mystical past. Representatives of an NGO working with conser

Lenin in his study Originally published in English by the USSR Information Bulletin, 1947. Lydia Fotieva, the author of this article, worked with Lenin for a long time as his private secretary. These are her personal reminiscences of the great man with whom she worked in close association. IN the course of five years, Lenin's study in the Kremlin was the actual headquarters of the Revolution. I recall the furnishings of the room. Just opposite the door stood a writing table w

Fidel Castro in 1984 Revolutionary, Communist, Anti-Imperialist and Internationalist Whose Ideas Live On 13 August 1926 – 13 August 2026 On the occasion of the centenary of Fidel Castro’s birth, the New Communist Party of Yugoslavia (NKPJ) and the League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia (SKOJ) pay tribute to one of the most significant revolutionaries, communists and anti-imperialist statesmen of the twentieth century — a man whose life and political struggle became a symbol