Mao photo, January 1969. The working class must exercise leadership in everything. The people's democratic dictatorship needs the...

By Nat Bocking In 1994 while looking for something else in the Vancouver Public Library (VPL) I found an uncatalogued, uncaptioned photo...

Happy Red New Year!, Soviet Postcard 1962 From All of Us at The Left Chapter to Our Readers, Contributors and Comrades, Wishing You a...

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...

Excerpts from an essay by the great Michael Parenti -- Monopoly and Culture -- in Political Affairs Magazine (a journal of the Communist...

Mao illustration, People's Republic of China, 1967 One of the greatest liberators, revolutionaries and leaders in history, Chairman Mao,...

Today we are looking at a folder of panoramic postcards of Kiev, Ukrainian SSR that were released in the lead up to the Olympic Summer...

By Brenna R. Hassett Of the innumerable species on the planet, just a bare handful have evolved to have one of the most counterintuitive...

Spanish Civil War Communist and anti-fascist leader Dolores Ibárruri -- popularly known as "La Pasionaria" --was born on December 9,...

In between battles, peaceful duels proceeded over a chessboard. The photo was taken in 1942 on the Northwestern Front by Lake Ilmen. From...

Proletarian Square Published in 1984 in both Ukrainian and Russian this postcard folder contained 17 panoramic style views of Kharkov (or...

Shaped stone balls from Qesem Cave, c. 420,000–200,000 years old. Photo Credit: Assaf, Ella, Wikipedia Commons By Deborah Barsky...

Rose Schneiderman who popularized the slogan Bread and Roses The great and inspiring trade union classic poem Bread and Roses was first...

State Coat of Arms of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia The Second Session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National...

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...

Comrades Amílcar Cabral & Fidel Castro "Our hearts are also with our brothers in Cuba, who have shown that even when surrounded by the...

This past Tuesday, November 7 marked the 106th anniversary of the beginning of the Great October Socialist Revolution. This statement,...

As we noted in a previous post, November 6 is the anniversary of the liberation of Kiev from the Nazis by the Red Army in 1943. It was...

V. I. Lenin, P. Staronosov, USSR 1935 "We are not saying anything new. Today everybody, even the colonialists and imperialists, fully...

Lenin Speaks at the 3rd Young Communist League (YCL) Congress, October 1920 - painting B. Johanson, USSR "THE CIVIL WAR was still raging...