In October, 1946 Chinese railway workers in Harbin, China -- which had been newly liberated by the People's Liberation Army -- used scrap...

Feng Jing of China at the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility (POI) January 25, 2020 -- Image via Twitter In an amazing story that got far...

On February 6th, 1919 the Seattle General Strike Began While the Seattle General Strike ended after only 5 days it remains a pivotal...

The two remarkable documents republished here are from the first anniversary of the February 2, 1943 victory. A street in Stalingrad just...

Roza Shanina, born 3 April 1924, grew up in a large working class family in a small town outside of Arkhangelsk. Her parents had named...

On January 26, 1943 Soviet forces captured the heights of Mamayev Kurgan in the city of Stalingrad from the Nazis ending 135 days of...

A mural of Gramsci by Italian artist Jorit on a council housing block in Florence, 2020 "The revolution is not a dramatic act, it is a...

As we have noted before, the 1960s was arguably the beginning of a "Golden Age" in the history of the USSR as it launched into an era of...

The Party of Labour of Austria looks back at the catastrophe that was the collapse of the USSR and Socialist Bloc in this exceptional...

An account of the visit of progressive American economist and former presidential candidate Parley Christensen to meet Lenin in Moscow,...

Today is the anniversary of the death of Joe Slovo, an iconic hero in the fight against Apartheid in South Africa. Slovo was the General...

Cover of Soviet Life Magazine in honour of the 60th anniversary of the formation of the USSR, December 1982 Today marks the anniversary...

During the centennial year of Lenin's birth, 1970, Mikhail Yeryomin, a retired Soviet Major-General who was then working for the...

"All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful. From a...

Published in the Soviet press for the 100th anniversary of Lenin's birth (April 1970) these were four photographs of Lenin that had been...

The Revolution Has Been Carried Out by Boris Ioganson "Boris loganson in his The Revolution Has Been Carried Out painted Lenin announcing...

During the Bolshevik revolution and the creation of socialism in the USSR, the grand palaces and estates of the nobility and ruling class...

As part of its centennial celebration the Communist Party of Canada has released a documentary, A Century of Struggle: The Story of the...

"Everyday I become more convinced, there is no doubt in my mind, as many intellectuals have said, that it is necessary to transcend...

On December 5, 1941 the Red Army launched a counter-offensive against the Nazi invaders at the very gates of Moscow. This was totally...