Amid US threats of an attack on Venezuela, we look back at some of the most infamous chapters in the history of US military invasions in Latin America and the Caribbean. US Marines outside a destroyed Panamanian Defense Force building during the US invasion of Panama, 1989 By Pablo Meriguet, People's Dispatch The administration of US President Donald Trump began carrying out extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean Sea under the auspices of waging a war on drug trafficking ove

Gagarin in 1961 From the Soviet Press, November 1961: Yuri Gagarin, known to people the world over as the first man to venture into space, was elected a delegate to the Party Congress from the Leningrad District of Moscow by acclamation. The 27-year old cosmonaut is a newcomer to the Party, having applied for membership a year ago when he was training for his pioneering flight. At that time he wrote, "I ask to be enrolled in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It is my w

Dr. Bethune with an Eighth Route Army sentinel. An article about a journey to the grave of Norman Bethune from China Reconstructs, 1972. Editor's note: Shihchiachuang is now more commonly translated as Shijiazhuang. By Chen Han-Seng The grave of Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian surgeon who gave his life to aid the Chinese army in the fight against Japanese aggression, has already been visited by more than two million people. During the years 1937-1945 when Japanese militarism

From the Soviet Press, 1962, a moving account of the great John Reed. Yelizaveta Drabkina was only 16 years old when she took part in the October 1917 Revolution. She met and spoke to Lenin on many occasions. Her book Black Crusts, which is widely read in the Soviet Union, centers on the period. In 1961 she published The Story of an Unwritten Book, in which she describes John Reed's part in the Russian Revolution. She was a close friend of the American journalist. REVOLUTIONA

The Workers Party of Ireland, together with our comrades across the world, celebrates the 108th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution led by Lenin and the Bolshevik Party, on 25 October (7 November) 1917. The October Revolution remains a seismic moment in the history of the world. For the first time in human history, workers proved their ability to overthrow the capitalist order and establish a workers’ state. By establishing the world’s first socialist state

By Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau and the Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba ( translated from the Spanish ) Today we commemorate an event that forever changed the course of history: the Great October Socialist Revolution. On November 7, 1917 (October 25 in the Julian calendar), the Russian working class and people, guided by the light of Marxism and Lenin's leadership, demonstrated that a new world was not

On the 108th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution ( translated from the Spanish ) 108 years ago, on November 7, 1917, the Great October Socialist Revolution triumphed, which opened for humanity the historic transition from the outdated capitalist mode of production to socialism. We pay homage to Lenin and the cadres of the Bolshevik Communist Party. Following the example of the Paris Commune of 1871, the proletariat led by the Bolshevik Party conquered power,

Revolution is Your Right! -- Communist Party of Turkey Today, 700 million people live in extreme poverty, while 3.5 billion more struggle to survive below the poverty line. In contrast, just 3 thousand capitalists now control a total wealth of 16 trillion dollars. Our people, too, suffer deeply from this greatest assault of impoverishment in human history. While millions of workers live below the hunger and poverty thresholds, the ten richest capitalists have increased their

American Socialist leader, presidential candidate and legend Eugene V. Debs was born November 5, 1855. Debs campaigned against US participation in WWI and was sentenced ten years in jail for a speech he gave. He had his sentence commuted by president Warren G. Harding in December, 1921 but died in 1926 of cardiovascular issues that were a result of his time in prison. Debs was the Socialist candidate for president of the United States five times, one of those runs being in 19

The young Georg Lukács in 1913 By Rüdiger Dannemann. Neues Deutschland / ND Online, October 30, 2025. Translated by Helmut-Harry Loewen. Georg Lukács died in 1971. In the same year, the archive of the Hungarian philosopher and founder of Western Marxism was established in his apartment in Budapest. For decades, it served as a gateway and resource to his work and thus to fundamental questions of Marxist theory. This institution has now been closed for over 2,700 days. Its decl

From the original Soviet card (translated): Moskvich-400v (1947-1954): A compact car produced at MZMA. This model and its modernized version, the Moskvich-401v, were manufactured in quantities of 250,000 units. Engine displacement is 1074 cm9, power is 23 hp, length is 3.86 m, curb weight is 855 kg, speed is 90 km/h, seats - 4/5 Additional research information: The Moskvich-400v, introduced in 1946–1947, was a compact Soviet car based on the German Opel Kadett K38, designed f

The USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements, 1959 Part II The second in a new series looking at the USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements in Moscow from the Soviet Press, 1959. By Vladimir Novakovsky, Deputy Director, USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements FIVE hundred and twenty acres in the northwest of Moscow have been converted into a mammoth fairground for the USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements. The broad avenues are lined with 71 strikingly designed pavilion

The anniversary of the Manchester Congress calls for reflection on its enduring significance and the meaning of Pan-Africanism in today’s world, a time when the struggles for sovereignty, unity, and liberation remain as urgent as ever. The commemorating plaque at Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall, Manchester -- KGGucwa, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Nicholas Mwangi, People's Dispatch October 2025 marks eighty years since the historic Fifth Pan-African Congress convened i

From the Soviet Press, 1962: THE OCTOBER SOCIALIST REVOLUTION in Russia is commemorated in the postal issues of the other socialist countries as well. Hungary issued two large stamps -- of 60 filler and 1 forint denominations -- for the fortieth anniversary of the world's first Soviet state. They bear the dates "1917-1957. One shows a dove, the symbol of peace, framed by the flags of the socialist countries; the other a portrait of Lenin. The Rumanian People's Republic marked

Anna Seghers By Jürgen Reusch. Junge Welt, 22 October 2025. Translated by Helmut-Harry Loewen She was a poet and writer with heart and soul, a communist, an antifascist, a Jew. Throughout her life, she was also a migrant, a refugee. Anna Seghers was born in Mainz in 1900 and died in East Berlin in 1983. Club Voltaire in Frankfurt am Main marked her 125th birthday as an occasion to hold a moving event at the Haus am Dom, which – beautifully moderated by Claus-Jürgen Göpfert –

The USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements, 1959 Part I The first in a new series looking at the USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements in Moscow from the Soviet Press, 1959. Text: IT IS an unusual cinema hall surrounded by a high circular screen. There are no seats and the spectators walk about as they please. When the lights go out and the picture begins, its first shots take the spectator to offshore oil fields. Wherever you look there is the sea with the sound of its

On the passing of comrade Gerhard Bruny (1954–2025) Image via the PdA On the passing of comrade Gerhard Bruny (1954–2025) Last Wednesday, our long-time comrade and PdA co-founder Gerhard Bruny passed away after a short serious illness – an obituary. Comrade Gerhard Bruny was born on 19 December 1954 in Vienna. After completing his compulsory schooling, he studied printing technology at the Graphic Arts Teaching and Research Institute. This, however, was to become the professi

From the Soviet Press, 1962 THE UKRAINE HAS AN OLD and celebrated history and a no less heroic present. Both are commemorated on Soviet...

Our robust Paranthropus cousins thrived in Africa for a million and a half years, making stone tools and sharing the landscape with different Homo species at the dawn of human cultural innovation. The original complete skull (without mandible) of a 1.8 million years old Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa -- Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Deborah Barsky The first fossil hominins were discovered at the beginning

From the Soviet Press, 1962: WHEN THE SCHOOL YEAR BEGINS in September, it seems as though the whole Soviet population were heading for...