New findings and significant advances in research have scientists rethinking our origins, and museums around the world are working to...

Phạm Tuân, born on February 14, 1947 in Quôc Tuân, Vietnam, holds a remarkable place in space history. Tuân fought to help liberate his...

View of the Avenue of the Dead and the Pyramid of the Sun, from Pyramid of the Moon, Teotihuacán -- Jackhynes, Public domain, via...

By Marjorie Hecht Do living beings learn and pass on to future generations some behaviors or predispositions more easily than others––and...

The Railway Comes to Miaochia Village, Mao Kuo-pin A remarkable set of photos from the 1973 National Photographic Art Exhibition,...

Is large-scale intra-specific warfare Homo sapiens’ condition or can our species strive to achieve global peace? Primitive tools --...

Lenin, painting Isaak Brodsky (1884-1939) "Every minute brings news of fresh conquests of the Revolution–the arrest of ministers, the...

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...

“Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.” (Lenin: What is to be done?) 21st January marks the centenary of...

Lenin Proclaims Soviet Power, painting V. Serov On the 100th anniversary of the death of Lenin we look at recollections of the great...

The guns were especially active in the morning hours, when people were going to work, and the toll of victims - men, women and children -...

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,...