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MTB-82 Trolleybus - Vintage vehicle cards of the USSR #1
From the original Soviet card (translated): VEHICLE MTB-82 (1946-1961) was the main city trolleybus in the post-war period. Electric...
Michael Laxer
Mar 30, 20251 min read


Investigating a Bronze Age Mystery: A Cemetery Full of Princes, but No Palaces in Sight
Başur Höyük in Türkiye By Brenna R. Hassett Perched on the edge of a river near the city of Siirt, Türkiye, is an archaeological site...

The Left Chapter
Mar 29, 20255 min read


Employment and Labour in the USSR, 1983
Image from a Soviet stamp From the Soviet English language magazine Socialism: Principles, Practice, Prospects, July 1983: Citizens of...

The Left Chapter
Mar 28, 20253 min read


Cuban medical collaboration is an example of solidarity and commitment to global health
By Lissel Pino Ceballos, translated from the Spanish Cuban medical collaboration, as a legacy of solidarity and humanism, profoundly...

The Left Chapter
Mar 28, 20252 min read


Kennedy files reveal that the CIA had an informant in the neo-Nazi NPD in the 1960s
Adolf von Thadden (1921-1996), NSDAP member, parliamentarian (member of the Bundestag and Bundesrat), and head of the NPD, known since...

The Left Chapter
Mar 26, 20253 min read


Communists remember and condemn the NATO aggression against Yugoslavia
Darko Dozet, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Statement of the New Communist Party of Yugoslavia on the 26th Anniversary of the 1999...
Michael Laxer
Mar 26, 20251 min read


Swaziland Communists honour 70 years of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party
Image from a revolutionary billboard in Laos -- image via Facebook . The Communist Party of Swaziland has released a statement...
Michael Laxer
Mar 23, 20252 min read


What Was It Like for Our Sapiens Ancestors to Meet and Mix With Cousin Species?
Between 50,000 and 35,000 years ago in Eurasia, the disappearance of hominin species or their biocultural assimilation with anatomically...
Michael Laxer
Mar 16, 20257 min read


"Socialism is a necessity of our time": Portuguese Communist Party on the global struggle of the workers and peoples
Capitalism was not the initial system, nor is it the terminal system, in Humankind’s History. Its revolutionary overcoming and the...
Michael Laxer
Mar 12, 202520 min read


What Are the Origins of the Money We Use Today? Revisiting Heinrich Schurtz’s Groundbreaking Research
The pioneering research by one of the founders of economic anthropology is essential for understanding the social and institutional...
Michael Laxer
Mar 9, 202518 min read


Cuba pays tribute to Sam Nujoma
Photos via Revolution Studios By Rene Tamayo Leon, translated from the Spanish His Excellency Mr. Samuel Goagoseb, Namibian ambassador to...
Michael Laxer
Mar 6, 20254 min read


How Mesopotamia’s Urban and Industrial Revolution Started Politics as We Know It Today
Giorgio Buccellati’s At the Origins of Politics takes readers to the early stages of a process that became the structure of modern life....
Michael Laxer
Mar 6, 202512 min read


In the friendship of Fidel and Chavez, the comradeship of two peoples
By Rafael Hidalgo Fernandez, Granma & the Communist Party of Cuba, translated from the Spanish On March 5, 2013, at just 58 years old,...
Michael Laxer
Mar 5, 20255 min read


Moscow Metro builders: Tatyana Fedorova's brigade
A brigade of construction workers building the Moscow Metro. They were led by Tatiana Fedorova who is on the left holding the jackhammer....
Michael Laxer
Mar 2, 20256 min read


Soviet Moscow's Metro, 1960
From USSR Magazine, January 1960: A METRO ride is one of the sightseeing musts for a tourist in Moscow. Its stations are not the dismal...
Michael Laxer
Feb 28, 20253 min read


Exploring Ancient Understandings of Meteorites in Archaic Societies
By KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks (NSF’s NOIRLab) - Geminids Over Kitt Peak National Observatory, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.o...
Michael Laxer
Feb 25, 202511 min read


February Strike of 1941: When Citizens Took to the Streets Against the Nazis
Remembering how Amsterdam's working class stood up against Adolf Hitler's extermination of the Jews. A commemoration of the strike in...
Michael Laxer
Feb 25, 20254 min read


The coming of the collective farms in the USSR
From the Soviet English language magazine Socialism: Principles, Practice, Prospects, 1983. The late twenties was a turbulent time for...
Michael Laxer
Feb 23, 20252 min read


Juan Almeida Bosque, Cuban Revolutionary & Poet b. February 17, 1927
Raul Castro, Antonio Nunez Jimenez, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Juan Almeida Bosque and Ramiro Valdes in 1959 shortly after the Cuban...
Michael Laxer
Feb 17, 20251 min read


The Communist Party of Vietnam: 95 Years of Struggle and Social Transformation
As Vietnam Plus reports , the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) hosted a ceremony in Havana on the evening of February 12 to celebrate the...
Michael Laxer
Feb 13, 20256 min read
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