On December 2, 1956 Fidel and Raul Castro, Che, Camilo Cienfuegos and 78 other revolutionaries ran aground on the Cuban shoreline near...

Josephine Baker at the Civil Rights March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963 The famed entertainer and civil rights activist...

Happy Birthday Comrade Engels! "Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat." "The anarchists put...

Remembrances of Lenin's return from exile in 1900, his Subbotnik work in 1920 and his love of music, written by his sister, the maid he...

A sketch of Lenin with children A remembrance of Lenin by his nephew, Victor Ulyanov published in English by the Soviet magazine USSR in...

Comrades Amílcar Cabral and Fidel Castro "To end up with, I should just like to make one last point about solidarity between the...

Excerpt from a speech Castro gave during his visit to Chile, 50 years ago today. Hands Off Cuba. Castro speaks during his tour of Chile,...

An interesting piece of Soviet social and transportation history, this brief article takes a look at the life and work of a taxi driver...

French Communist Party leader Maurice Thorez on the cover of Time Magazine, 1946 On November 10, 1946, in the wake of the Second World...

50 years ago today Fidel Castro began his historic 23 day visit to Chile and President Allende. On November 10, 1971, Fidel Castro landed...

1960 was arguably the beginning of a "Golden Age" in the history of the USSR as it launched into an era of rapid development socially,...

This packet of 13 postcards of Gomel was released in 1976 just a few years after the city celebrated its 730th anniversary. Gomel, in the...

A reminder of how the world was saved from fascism by the Soviet Union and its peoples. In 1977 this powerful monument was erected...

An account of Lenin and Krupskaya in exile in Paris (1910-1911) by fellow Bolshevik exile Serafima Hopner. A Soviet stamp showing one of...

Comrades Thomas Sankara and Fidel Castro. Castro is Awarding Sankara the Order of Jose Marti, 1984 The great revolutionary leader Thomas...

Uncovered in 1969, these snapshots show a chess game between Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov at Maxim Gorky's villa on the Italian island of...

Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova (the first woman in space) sign autographs and chat with young people at a youth forum, 1964 As we all...

Konstantin Feoktistov in the Voskhod spaceship. Konstantin Feoktistov was a Soviet space engineer and cosmonaut who had a truly...

In the midst of an election campaign in which the party is running 26 candidates on an avowedly socialist and anti-capitalist platform,...

Eugene V. Debs addresses a crowd, 1910 -- Daily LIFT #532 The burning question of the hour is that of unity and by this I mean the unity...