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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


"Cuban fighters can be counted on by the revolutionary movement in any corner of the earth"
On January 15, 1966 Fidel Castro gave his famous speech at the Chaplin Theater in Havana, Cuba to conclude the Tricontinental Conference...
Michael Laxer
Jan 15, 20233 min read


At the grave of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg
On this date in 1919 the great Marxist thinkers and revolutionary leaders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were killed in Berlin by...
Michael Laxer
Jan 15, 20233 min read


Magadan and Region - 16 Panoramic Images of the Soviet Far East and North, 1976
Published in 1976 this folder of spectacular, panoramic images looked at the city of Magadan and its surrounding region in the far east...
Michael Laxer
Jan 14, 20235 min read


Underground Liberation News Agency Reporter in Saigon, Vietnam War
Underground Liberation News Agency Reporter in Saigon during the Vietnam War. Liberation News Agency was the clandestine information...
Michael Laxer
Jan 14, 20231 min read


"During a reactionary war a revolutionary class cannot but desire the defeat of its government"
During a reactionary war a revolutionary class cannot but desire the defeat of its government... ...A revolution in wartime means civil...
Michael Laxer
Jan 13, 20233 min read


The creation of the first workers’ state was a "beacon of hope for the workers of the world"
Statement from the Workers' Party of Ireland. The 100th anniversary of the creation of the world's first workers' and socialist state was...
Michael Laxer
Jan 7, 20234 min read


Legendary Canadian Communist leader Tim Buck b. Jan. 6 1891
Legendary Canadian Communist leader Tim Buck was born January 6, 1891 Buck was General Secretary of the Communist Party of Canada from...
Michael Laxer
Jan 6, 20231 min read


The Cuban Revolution: a historic milestone of heroism and hope for revolutionaries around the world
A solidarity message from the Communist Party of Chile. Cubans rally in defense of the revolution, July 17, 2021 January 1 marked the...
Michael Laxer
Jan 4, 20232 min read


A sword is not our emblem: How the seal of the USSR was designed
On the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -- the world's first workers' and socialist state --...
Michael Laxer
Dec 30, 20223 min read
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