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Proletarians of All Lands Unite! -- Stamps of the GDR #23
Proletarians of All Lands Unite! -- Stamps of the GDR #23 The twenty-second in our new The Left Chapter series looking at over 70 stamps...
Michael Laxer
May 4, 20231 min read
Communist Manifesto - Stamps of the GDR #22
Communist Manifesto - Stamps of the GDR #22 A stamp honouring the Communist Manifesto featuring Marx & Engels. The twenty-second in our...
Michael Laxer
May 2, 20231 min read
Rosa Luxemburg, Leader of the German Workers -- Stamps of the GDR #21
Rosa Luxemburg, Leader of the German Workers -- Stamps of the GDR #21 Stamp in honour of the great Marxist thinker and revolutionary,...
Michael Laxer
May 1, 20231 min read
Olympic cycling, Summer Olympics 1976 -- Stamps of the GDR #20
Olympic cycling, Summer Olympics 1976 -- Stamps of the GDR #20 The twentieth in our new The Left Chapter series looking at over 70 stamps...
Michael Laxer
Apr 30, 20231 min read
Message on the Liberation of Saigon - Mao, Zhu De & Zhou Enlai, April 30 1975
The south Vietnamese army and civilians, after fighting long and valiantly, have thoroughly crushed the puppet regime in south Viet Nam...
Michael Laxer
Apr 30, 20233 min read
Leaders of Communism -- Stamps of the GDR #19
Leaders of Communism -- Stamps of the GDR #19 The nineteenth in our new The Left Chapter series looking at over 70 stamps from the German...
Michael Laxer
Apr 29, 20231 min read
Karl Marx -- Stamps of the GDR #18
Karl Marx -- Stamps of the GDR #18 The eighteenth in our new The Left Chapter series looking at over 70 stamps from the German Democratic...
Michael Laxer
Apr 28, 20231 min read
Sixth Congress of the International Organization of Journalists -- Stamps of the GDR #17
Sixth Congress of the International Organization of Journalists -- Stamps of the GDR #17 The Sixth Congress of the International...
Michael Laxer
Apr 26, 20231 min read
"We celebrate this liberating act that put an end to the long fascist night"
The PCP on the legacy of the Portuguese April Carnation Revolution A street scene from the Carnation Revolution 1974 The Carnation...
Michael Laxer
Apr 25, 202318 min read
Marie Skłodowska Curie -- Stamps of the GDR #16
Marie Skłodowska Curie -- Stamps of the GDR #16 A stamp honouring the great Polish-French scientist. Curie was the first woman to win a...
Michael Laxer
Apr 24, 20231 min read
Summer Olympics 1972 -- Stamps of the GDR #15
Summer Olympics 1972 -- Stamps of the GDR #15 A GDR stamp for the Summer Olympics which were held in Munich in 1972. The fifteenth in our...
Michael Laxer
Apr 23, 20231 min read
April in Lenin's Life
This short little piece published in the Soviet magazine Socialism: Theory and Practice in April 1983 looks at the various events that...
Michael Laxer
Apr 22, 20231 min read
International Year of Human Rights, 1968 -- Stamps of the GDR #14
International Year of Human Rights, 1968 -- Stamps of the GDR #14 The fourteenth in our new The Left Chapter series looking at over 70...
Michael Laxer
Apr 21, 20231 min read
Socialist Unity Party of Germany formed April 21, 1946
Rally for the tenth anniversary of the formation of the German Democratic Republic, 1959 The Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) was...
Michael Laxer
Apr 21, 20236 min read
15 Years of the GDR: Scientist -- Stamps of the GDR #13
15 Years of the GDR: Scientist -- Stamps of the GDR #13 A stamp honouring 15 years of socialism and the German Democratic Republic...
Michael Laxer
Apr 20, 20231 min read
League of Communists of Yugoslavia formed April 20, 1919
Yugoslavian stamp in honour of the 40th anniversary of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, 1959. On April 20, 1919 a congress in...
Michael Laxer
Apr 20, 202311 min read
Second Women's Congress of the GDR, 1969 -- Stamps of the GDR #12
Second Women's Congress of the GDR, 1969 -- Stamps of the GDR #12 The twelfth in our new The Left Chapter series looking at over 70...
Michael Laxer
Apr 19, 20231 min read
15 Years of the GDR: Engineer -- Stamps of the GDR #11
15 Years of the GDR: Engineer -- Stamps of the GDR #11 A stamp honouring 15 years of socialism and the German Democratic Republic...
Michael Laxer
Apr 18, 20231 min read
All Power to the Soviets! -- The April slogan of the Bolsheviks that changed the world
All Power to Soviets, oil on canvas, V. Ladyzhensky USSR 1972 From the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1979: All Power to the Soviets!...
Michael Laxer
Apr 18, 20232 min read
Emanuel Lasker -- Stamps of the GDR #10
Emanuel Lasker -- Stamps of the GDR #10 Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941) was a German chess master and thinker who continues to hold the...
Michael Laxer
Apr 17, 20231 min read
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