The anniversary of the Manchester Congress calls for reflection on its enduring significance and the meaning of Pan-Africanism in today’s world, a time when the struggles for sovereignty, unity, and liberation remain as urgent as ever. The commemorating plaque at Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall, Manchester -- KGGucwa, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Nicholas Mwangi, People's Dispatch October 2025 marks eighty years since the historic Fifth Pan-African Congress convened i

From the Soviet Press, 1962: THE OCTOBER SOCIALIST REVOLUTION in Russia is commemorated in the postal issues of the other socialist countries as well. Hungary issued two large stamps -- of 60 filler and 1 forint denominations -- for the fortieth anniversary of the world's first Soviet state. They bear the dates "1917-1957. One shows a dove, the symbol of peace, framed by the flags of the socialist countries; the other a portrait of Lenin. The Rumanian People's Republic marked

Anna Seghers By Jürgen Reusch. Junge Welt, 22 October 2025. Translated by Helmut-Harry Loewen She was a poet and writer with heart and soul, a communist, an antifascist, a Jew. Throughout her life, she was also a migrant, a refugee. Anna Seghers was born in Mainz in 1900 and died in East Berlin in 1983. Club Voltaire in Frankfurt am Main marked her 125th birthday as an occasion to hold a moving event at the Haus am Dom, which – beautifully moderated by Claus-Jürgen Göpfert –

The USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements, 1959 Part I The first in a new series looking at the USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements in Moscow from the Soviet Press, 1959. Text: IT IS an unusual cinema hall surrounded by a high circular screen. There are no seats and the spectators walk about as they please. When the lights go out and the picture begins, its first shots take the spectator to offshore oil fields. Wherever you look there is the sea with the sound of its

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

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

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

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

Who and where were the Proto-Indo-Europeans? Almost 450 languages spoken by 4 billion people descend from their tongue—and J.P. Mallory...

A conversation with the legendary evolutionary thinker and archaeologist, Eudald Carbonell. Image via Matt Brown, CC BY 2.0, via...

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...

On October 3, 1965, a visibly emotional Fidel read the letter, which signified not only the conclusion of Che's physical involvement in...

From the original Soviet card (translated): ZIS-150 (1947-1957): The first domestic truck with pneumatic brakes and a five-speed...

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

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

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...

The founders’ true intent behind the right to bear arms wasn’t liberty—it was control, oppression, and the preservation of slavery. A...

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

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,...

Funeral procession of V. S. Achuthanandan, 22 July 2025 -- Rohit B, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Nidheesh J. Villatt I vividly remember...