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Party of Labour of Austria honours Comrade Gerhard Bruny
On the passing of comrade Gerhard Bruny (1954–2025) Image via the PdA On the passing of comrade Gerhard Bruny (1954–2025) Last Wednesday, our long-time comrade and PdA co-founder Gerhard Bruny passed away after a short serious illness – an obituary. Comrade Gerhard Bruny was born on 19 December 1954 in Vienna. After completing his compulsory schooling, he studied printing technology at the Graphic Arts Teaching and Research Institute. This, however, was to become the professi

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Oct 223 min read


Stamps of Soviet Ukraine
From the Soviet Press, 1962 THE UKRAINE HAS AN OLD and celebrated history and a no less heroic present. Both are commemorated on Soviet...

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Oct 122 min read


Paranthropus and the Greatest Whodunit of All Time
Our robust Paranthropus cousins thrived in Africa for a million and a half years, making stone tools and sharing the landscape with different Homo species at the dawn of human cultural innovation. The original complete skull (without mandible) of a 1.8 million years old Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa -- Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Deborah Barsky The first fossil hominins were discovered at the beginning

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Oct 115 min read


Soviet school stamps, 1930-1961
From the Soviet Press, 1962: WHEN THE SCHOOL YEAR BEGINS in September, it seems as though the whole Soviet population were heading for...

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Oct 112 min read


A Scholar’s Quest to Find the Ancestral People of the Most Influential Language on Earth
Who and where were the Proto-Indo-Europeans? Almost 450 languages spoken by 4 billion people descend from their tongue—and J.P. Mallory...

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Oct 77 min read


The Multi-Million-Year Path to Becoming Human—Are We Actually There Yet?
A conversation with the legendary evolutionary thinker and archaeologist, Eudald Carbonell. Image via Matt Brown, CC BY 2.0, via...

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Oct 57 min read


A liberdade de uma fugitiva: o exílio de Assata Shakur em Cuba
By Manolo De Los Santos A notícia da morte de Assata Shakur em Havana, Cuba, em 26 de setembro, foi recebida com um profundo sentimento...

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Oct 48 min read


A farewell that still resonates: Che's letter to Fidel read for the first time, October 3, 1965
On October 3, 1965, a visibly emotional Fidel read the letter, which signified not only the conclusion of Che's physical involvement in...

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Oct 35 min read


ZIS-150 -- Vintage vehicle cards of the USSR #12
From the original Soviet card (translated): ZIS-150 (1947-1957): The first domestic truck with pneumatic brakes and a five-speed...

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Sep 301 min read


Assata Shakur: An endless shining light to current and future generations of liberation fighters
SACP dips its red flag in honour of revolutionary Assata Shakur, an endless shining light to current and future generations of...

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Sep 293 min read


A economia de libertação nacional de Fidel Castro
By Shiran Illanperuma Em 13 de agosto de 2025, completariam-se 99 anos do nascimento do revolucionário cubano Fidel Castro. Essa data...

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Sep 216 min read


Um encontro no Harlem: Malcolm X, Fidel Castro e a luta pela Palestina
By Manolo De Los Santos Em setembro de 1960, no coração da América negra, o Hotel Theresa, no Harlem, tornou-se palco de um dos encontros...

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Sep 218 min read


The US Second Amendment Was Created to Put Down Slave Revolts
The founders’ true intent behind the right to bear arms wasn’t liberty—it was control, oppression, and the preservation of slavery. A...

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Sep 188 min read


Das Kapital Volume I first published, September 14, 1867
Russian language set - public domain image . On September 14, 1867, the first volume of Karl Marx's titanic classic Das Kapital (Capital)...

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Sep 1410 min read


Taxi Driver: Soviet Moscow Style, 1962
From the Soviet Press, 1962. By Leonid Dugan TAXI DRIVERS must be a special breed of people. It's amazing how much alike they are,...

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Sep 132 min read


VS Achuthanandan: The Epic Life of a Communist Turning the Tiller Proletariat
Funeral procession of V. S. Achuthanandan, 22 July 2025 -- Rohit B, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Nidheesh J. Villatt I vividly remember...

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Sep 125 min read


Rules vs. Reality: How Competing Views Shape the Way We Use Language
From grammar rules to everyday slang, debates over descriptivism and prescriptivism reveal how we balance authority with the way people...

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Sep 89 min read


Xi Jinping on the 80th Anniversary of the Victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War
Xi Jinping addresses the military parade and Chinese nation, September 3, 2025 -- image via video screenshot On September 3, 2025, Xi...

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Sep 55 min read


Fidel’s Economics of National Liberation
By Shiran Illanperuma 13 August 2025 marked what would have been the 99th birthday of Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro. It also marks the...

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Sep 46 min read


Ural ZIS-21A -- Vintage vehicle cards of the USSR #11
From the original Soviet card (translated): Ural ZIS-21A (1946-1952) gas generator vehicle based on the Ural 3IS-5M truck. Engine...

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Sep 31 min read
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