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Amílcar Cabral in Moscow 1971: Speech at the 24th Congress of the CPSU
Cabral, on the left, with another delegate to the Congress in Moscow, 1971 The immortal and unique genius of Lenin and his teachings are...
Michael Laxer
Apr 13, 20244 min read
Why Culture Is Not the Only Tool for Defining Homo sapiens in Relation to Other Hominins
We need a broad comparative lens to produce useful explanations and narratives of our origins across time. An ancient skull excavated...
Michael Laxer
Apr 12, 20247 min read
Martí's Party, the essence of the Cuban Revolution
The Communist Party of Cuba on the anniversary of the founding of the Cuban Revolutionary Party (translated from the Spanish): "(...) To...
Michael Laxer
Apr 10, 20242 min read
David Bowie in the USSR
While the photos of singer David Bowie in the capital of the Soviet Union are cool enough, the story of how Bowie got to Moscow is really...
Michael Laxer
Apr 10, 20242 min read
Soviet Blagoveshchensk on the Amur River, USSR 1977
Published in 1977 this postcard folder has images of the Far Eastern river city of Blagoveshchensk that was in the Amur Oblast of the...
Michael Laxer
Apr 10, 20241 min read
The Myth That India’s Freedom Was Won Nonviolently Is Holding Back Progress
Some struggles can be kept nonviolent, but decolonization never has been—certainly not in India. Public domain image of Gandhi leaving a...
Michael Laxer
Apr 9, 202415 min read
How Elite Infighting Made the Magna Carta
Although the Magna Carta typically is depicted as the birth of England’s fight to create democracy, the 13th-century struggle was to...
Michael Laxer
Apr 6, 20246 min read
NATO: A Womb of Wars -- The KKE on the 75th anniversary of the imperialist war alliance
British troops exercise in Estonia as part of the NATO's eFP, 2017 - Photo: Cpl Timothy Jones/MOD, OGL 3 <http://www.nationalarchives.gov...
Michael Laxer
Apr 5, 20244 min read
No to NATO! -- 75 Years of imperialism and war crimes in the service of capitalism
Public domain image of NATO troops in Lithuania, 2014 April 4 marks the 75th anniversary of the formation of the imperialist war alliance...
Michael Laxer
Apr 4, 20246 min read
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated April 4th, 1968
No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream....
Michael Laxer
Apr 4, 20242 min read
Ulan-Ude 1973: Home of the Soviet Union's (and the world's) largest Lenin bust
The Lenin Bust in the Square of the Soviets Ulan-Ude is a city that lies in the Siberian Far East near Lake Baikal and the Mongolian...
Michael Laxer
Apr 3, 20242 min read
Red Army Victory! -- Stamps of the Red Army #7
Image from a Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It shows a famous scene from the Victory...
Michael Laxer
Mar 29, 20241 min read
Maxim Gorky b. March 28, 1868
Gorky and Lenin in conversation, sketch USSR 1947 The great Maxim Gorky was born March 28, 1868. According to USSR Magazine in March,...
Michael Laxer
Mar 28, 202412 min read
Sergei Kirov b. March 27, 1886
Kirov speaking at the tribune of XVII congress of the CPSU, painting Pyotr Belousov (1912-1989) The great revolutionary and Bolshevik...
Michael Laxer
Mar 27, 20245 min read
Hold High the Flag of Socialism - Communism: The Red Flag of Lenin
From the Communist Party of Greece (KKE): The political, trade union, ideological and cultural action of the KKE continues unabated. The...
Michael Laxer
Mar 25, 20248 min read
She dedicated herself to the Revolution: The story of Jeanne-Marie Labourbe
A look at the courageous life and terrible execution of French Bolshevik revolutionary Jeanne-Marie Labourbe (1877-1919) who worked among...
Michael Laxer
Mar 24, 202410 min read
The Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was established on March 23, 1919
Flag The Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was established on March 23, 1919. According to a 1964 Soviet magazine post in...
Michael Laxer
Mar 23, 202411 min read
To the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
To the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Say of them They knew no Spanish At first, and nothing of the arts of war At first: how to...
Michael Laxer
Mar 20, 20241 min read
The Paris Commune: The first proletarian revolutionary political power in the history of humanity
From China Pictorial Magazine, March 1971, a short, edited illustrated look at the Paris Commune at its centenary: On March 18,1871 the...
Michael Laxer
Mar 18, 20244 min read
Frederick Engels’ Speech at the Grave of Karl Marx, Highgate Cemetery, London March 17, 1883
Frederick Engels’ Speech at the Grave of Karl Marx, Highgate Cemetery, London March 17, 1883: On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three...
Michael Laxer
Mar 17, 20243 min read
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