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Even the olives are bleeding -- Solidarity with Palestine and Remembering the International Brigades
Monument erected to International Brigades on the site of the Jarama Battlefield -- Dennisbluie, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/l...
Michael Laxer
Feb 26, 20241 min read


Two-month-old baby dies due to malnutrition in Gaza City
Image via the Palestinian People's Party In yet another horrific example of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a two-month-old child, named...
Michael Laxer
Feb 25, 20242 min read


Advances in Archaeology Allow Us to Understand Political Evolution and Social Change in Deep Time
Archaeological Zone of Yaxchilan -- ZoRrO0880, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons By...
Michael Laxer
Feb 23, 20242 min read


Lenin Addressing Red Revolutionary Vsevobuch Troops in 1919 -- Stamps of the Red Army #3
Image from a Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It shows Lenin addressing and rallying the...
Michael Laxer
Feb 22, 20241 min read


The Evolution of the Human Pair Bond
Young couple enjoying each other's company -- John Brighenti from Rockville, MD, United States, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/li...
Michael Laxer
Feb 22, 20246 min read


Growing Clues That India’s Central Narmada Valley Was a Key Hub in the Human Story
India's Central Narmada Valley -- via Wikimedia Commons By Saurav Sarkar In December 1982, a geologist digging in India’s Central Narmada...
Michael Laxer
Feb 21, 20244 min read


Victory at Stalingrad! -- Stamps of the Red Army #2
Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It honours the great victory at Stalingrad in February,...
Michael Laxer
Feb 20, 20241 min read


Red Army liberates Vladivostok, October 1922 -- Stamps of the Red Army #1
Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It depicts the liberation of Vladivostok from...
Michael Laxer
Feb 19, 20241 min read


The Road to Victory: The Communist Liberation of China
Mao reviews a PLA tank unit after the liberation at the Xiyuan Airport Beijing, March 1949 Published in the English language magazine...
Michael Laxer
Feb 18, 20248 min read


How Three New Museums Are Teaching the World About a Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding of Human Origins
New findings and significant advances in research have scientists rethinking our origins, and museums around the world are working to...
Michael Laxer
Feb 15, 202415 min read


Pham Tuân, Vietnamese Cosmonaut and fighter pilot, b. Feb. 14, 1947
Phạm Tuân, born on February 14, 1947 in Quôc Tuân, Vietnam, holds a remarkable place in space history. Tuân fought to help liberate his...
Michael Laxer
Feb 14, 20242 min read


We Can Interpret How Cooperative or Autocratic Mesoamerican Societies Were From Their Systems of Communication
View of the Avenue of the Dead and the Pyramid of the Sun, from Pyramid of the Moon, Teotihuacán -- Jackhynes, Public domain, via...
Michael Laxer
Feb 14, 20243 min read


Prepared Learning: What Are Humans Hard-Wired for at Birth?
By Marjorie Hecht Do living beings learn and pass on to future generations some behaviors or predispositions more easily than others––and...
Michael Laxer
Feb 11, 20246 min read


Photos from the Chinese 1973 National Photographic Art Exhibition
The Railway Comes to Miaochia Village, Mao Kuo-pin A remarkable set of photos from the 1973 National Photographic Art Exhibition,...
Michael Laxer
Feb 10, 20241 min read


How Long Has Humanity Been at War With Itself?
Is large-scale intra-specific warfare Homo sapiens’ condition or can our species strive to achieve global peace? Primitive tools --...
Michael Laxer
Feb 9, 202410 min read


The Soviets Proclaimed the Government
Lenin, painting Isaak Brodsky (1884-1939) "Every minute brings news of fresh conquests of the Revolution–the arrest of ministers, the...
Michael Laxer
Feb 3, 20242 min read


Brest: Hero Fortress of the USSR
From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...
Michael Laxer
Feb 2, 20242 min read


Workers Party of Ireland Statement on the centenary of Lenin's death
“Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.” (Lenin: What is to be done?) 21st January marks the centenary of...
Michael Laxer
Jan 21, 20246 min read


They knew Lenin
Lenin Proclaims Soviet Power, painting V. Serov On the 100th anniversary of the death of Lenin we look at recollections of the great...
Michael Laxer
Jan 21, 20247 min read


900 days under siege: The heroic struggle of Leningrad
The guns were especially active in the morning hours, when people were going to work, and the toll of victims - men, women and children -...
Michael Laxer
Jan 18, 20249 min read
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