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The Tasks of the Youth Leagues: Lenin
Members of the Russian Young Communist League from around the time of the Congress An excerpt from the speech delivered at the Third...

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Jun 2, 20254 min read


Gabriel Rockhill on the Effacement of Fascism in the Liberal Political Imaginary
Transcribed and lightly edited excerpt by Helmut-Harry Loewen, Winnipeg, 17 February 2020, from a presentation by Dr. Gabriel Rockhill...

The Left Chapter
Jun 1, 20255 min read


ALBA-TCP honours the legacy of Maurice Bishop
On May 29 ALBA-TCP (the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples' Trade Treaty) issued a statement honouring...

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May 31, 20251 min read


Lázaro Peña's legacy lives on today
Image via the PCC By Lissel Pino Ceballos, translated from the Spanish The pages of Cuba's history are filled with men of great...

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May 29, 20252 min read


Cuba: El Uvero was not only a military victory, but a seed of hope
Images via the PCC By Katherin Hormigó Rubio and Odette Elena Ramos Colás, translated from the Spanish Between the Caribbean Sea, which...

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May 28, 20256 min read


MAZ-205 -- Vintage vehicle cards of the USSR #5
From the original Soviet card (translated): MAZ-205 (1947-1966) Dump truck on a shortened chassis from YAZ-200 military prototype....

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May 25, 20251 min read


The Son with Two Mothers: A Soviet Story
A woman in front of the flag of the Uzbek SSR -- Crop from a Soviet poster 1980 A remarkable true story from the Soviet press in 1983 of...

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May 25, 20252 min read


62 years of Cuban medical collaboration
Image via the PCC By Lissel Pino Ceballos, translated from the Spanish Cuban medical collaboration is one of the most significant...

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May 23, 20252 min read


The Soviet MI-6 Super Helicopter
Over 900 of the Soviet Mil MI-6 super helicopters were built between 1959–1980. It was, at the time of its launch, not only the world's...

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May 22, 20251 min read


Peace Street / Gulsum Kdyrgalieva - Tales of Soviet Women Workers for Peace, 1951 #4
From the Soviet Press, 1951 Scientific worker Gulsum Kdyrgalieva of the Power Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh Soviet...

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May 18, 20252 min read


Oktyabrsky, 1958: A visit to a new Soviet oil city
The city's main street in 1958 From the Soviet Press in 1958. Oktyabrsky didn't even exist in 1937. But it went from prospector's shacks...

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May 17, 20255 min read


80 years after the victory over fascism: No to militarism and war! For peace and co-operation! - PCP
Soviet War Memorial in Berlin -- Drrcs15, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Statement of the Portuguese Communist Party released in...

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May 12, 20254 min read


Archeologists Join Geologists in the Quest to Define the Age of Humans
A new archeology is being developed based on evidence of human activity in the Earth’s sedimentary record, and archeologists are helping...

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May 10, 20257 min read


Labour Victories - Tales of Soviet Women Workers for Peace, 1951 #3
From the Soviet Press 1951 I work with Azmorneft, an organization set up not long ago to tap underwater oil deposits lying at the bottom...

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May 9, 20252 min read


Unity, Struggle, Socialism: The Communist response to fascism
The New Communist Party of Yugoslavia (NKPJ) was invited to participate in the Second International Anti-Fascist Forum, titled held in...

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May 5, 20253 min read


ZIS-154 - Vintage vehicle cards of the USSR #4
From the original Soviet card (translated): ZIS-154 (1947-1950) The first domestic wagon-type bus with a rear-mounted diesel engine,...

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May 5, 20251 min read


From the city to the mountains
On May 3, 1960, the first volunteer teachers arrived in the Sierra Maestra, responding to the call of the Commander in Chief, Fidel...

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May 3, 20251 min read


50 years ago, Vietnam proved peace is possible: CPUSA
Communist Party USA Statement: 50 years ago, on April 30th, 1975, tanks from the National Liberation Front crashed through the gates of...

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May 2, 20252 min read


Fidel's Concept of Revolution
Image via the PCC Revolution is a sense of the historical moment; it is changing everything that needs to be changed; it is full equality...

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May 1, 20251 min read


People’s Movements and the Bandung Spirit: A View from Sri Lanka
Indonesian poster for the Bandung Conference, 1955 -- public domain image via the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Indonesia By Shiran...

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Apr 23, 20256 min read
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