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Soviet power established in Georgia: February 25, 1921
The State Emblem of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic atop the Republic's flag. On February 25, 1921 the Red Army forces of the...
Michael Laxer
Feb 25, 202315 min read


Engels on the Communist Manifesto, 1888
Deco cover from a 50s Canadian edition of the Communist Manifesto February 21, 1848 is widely regarded as the date on which the...
Michael Laxer
Feb 21, 20237 min read


On Revolutionary Morality -- Ho Chi Minh
A look at a classic text by the great Vietnamese revolutionary leader. Written in 1958 Ho Chi Minh's On Revolutionary Morality looks in...
Michael Laxer
Feb 19, 20237 min read


"The power of spirit" -- Paul Robeson
The power of spirit that our people have is intangible, but it is a great force that must be unleashed in the struggles of today. A...
Michael Laxer
Feb 18, 20232 min read


New York Times reports on the defeat of the Waffle, 1971
New York Times reports on the defeat of the Waffle, 1971 The New York Times reports (April 26, 1971) on the victory of the "moderate"...
Michael Laxer
Feb 16, 20231 min read


The "battle you are waging today for Cuba is a battle you are waging for the entire world"
Fidel Castro embraces American Paul Mayer when he arrives in Havana as part of the Pastors for Peace Caravan, 1992 Paul Mayer and other...
Michael Laxer
Feb 10, 20232 min read


Watkins explains the Waffle alternative
Watkins explains the Waffle alternative, January 1972 Report in the "Pro Tem" student newspaper from the Glendon campus of York...
Michael Laxer
Feb 8, 20231 min read


Soviets separate church and state
February 5, 1918 the Soviet government decreed the separation of church and state and church and school, thereby bringing freedom of...
Michael Laxer
Feb 5, 20231 min read


Rosa Parks b. February 4, 1913
- People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired...
Michael Laxer
Feb 4, 20231 min read


Che!
THE revolutionaries of Cuba, Latin America and the rest of the world hold Ernesto Che Guevara in great esteem. Soon after he came to...
Michael Laxer
Feb 4, 20233 min read


Communist Party of Vietnam formed February 3, 1930
Poster for the 75th Anniversary. The Communist Party of Vietnam was formed February 3, 1930. Industrialization and Modernization!, poster...
Michael Laxer
Feb 3, 20231 min read


Stalingrad: The Turning Point of World War Two - February 2, 1943
On this day in 1943 the last of the Nazi generals at Stalingrad (General Strecker) surrendered. The Soviet Red Army, after the largest...
Michael Laxer
Feb 2, 20231 min read


Langston Hughes b. February 1, 1901
Lenin Lenin walks around the world. Frontiers cannot bar him. Neither barracks nor barricades impede. Nor does barbed wire scar him....
Michael Laxer
Feb 1, 20231 min read


The "light of Marxism permits us to understand human history"
Karl Marx among the Parisian workers, Rostislav Nikolayevich Galitsky (1920-1979), USSR It is because the light of Marxism permits us to...
Michael Laxer
Jan 29, 20231 min read


"Power to the People": Angela Davis b. January 26, 1944
Libertad Para Angela Davis, Cuban Poster 1971 A Cuban in solidarity with US freedom fighter, civil rights and communist activist Angela...
Michael Laxer
Jan 26, 20235 min read


"Amílcar Cabral was assassinated but his generous ideals did not die"
The speech of Paulo Raimundo, General Secretary of Portuguese Communist Party in honour of the 50th anniversary of Cabral's death. All...
Michael Laxer
Jan 25, 202310 min read


Lenin Stained Glass Window, Oakland, California, 1970
Lenin Stained Glass Window, Oakland, California, 1970 The stained glass window that American economist Stanton R. Smith had commissioned...
Michael Laxer
Jan 20, 20231 min read


Leningrad encirclement broken, January 18, 1943
From the Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad Today marks the 80th anniversary of the day the Red Army first broke through the...
Michael Laxer
Jan 18, 20232 min read


The Declaration of the Rights of Toiling and Exploited People - January 17, 1918
The historic Soviet Declaration of the Rights of Toiling and Exploited People was first published on January 17, 1918 (new calendar) in ...
Michael Laxer
Jan 17, 20234 min read


Eleanor Marx b. 16 January, 1855
"Above all, the feeling of class consciousness and the understanding of the class struggle have grown beyond all expectation, and with...
Michael Laxer
Jan 16, 20231 min read
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