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"Our people have done nothing but break their chains!" - Fidel Castro Sept. 2, 1960
Today is the anniversary of the speech Fidel Castro gave before a crowd of one million people announcing the First Declaration of Havana...
Michael Laxer
Sep 2, 20213 min read


"They Stand Guard": An example from the USSR of how to counter an outbreak
In 1960 the Soviet Union provided a clear example of how to respond to a major public health threat. Do it quickly and effectively. This...
Michael Laxer
Aug 31, 20211 min read


Artek: The vast Soviet internationalist complex of children's camps
An in-depth look at the Soviet Artek Pioneer youth camp, a sprawling internationalist complex of ten sub-camps and various facilities...
Michael Laxer
Aug 16, 202118 min read


Karl Liebknecht b. August 13, 1871
Karl Liebknecht Memorial Portrait for the Cover of the Liberator Magazine, March, 1919 "Lay down your weapons, you soldiers at the front....
Michael Laxer
Aug 13, 20211 min read


Solidarity with revolutionary Cuba!
Today, the Latin American peoples are showing by their struggle that the American continent is not a preserve of the U.S.A. Latin America...
Michael Laxer
Aug 4, 20211 min read


Soviet Vitebsk 1976: 12 postcard images
Published in 1976 this folder of 12 images of Vitebsk in the Byelorussian SSR was aimed at domestic audience and was printed entirely in...
Michael Laxer
Jul 28, 20213 min read


Soviet Moskvitch 412
An ad for the Soviet Moskvitch 412 from July 1969. The 412 was produced from 1967-1975 in a factory in Moscow. It was a family sedan that...
Michael Laxer
Jul 16, 20211 min read


On the importance of Ho Chi Minh Thought
Independence "must go hand-in-hand with socialism. National liberation must be coupled with class liberation, social liberation, and...
Michael Laxer
Jul 14, 20215 min read


The heroic defense of the Brest Fortress, June 22 1941
An Soviet account of the incredible bravery of the Red Army garrison in the opening days of the Nazi invasion. The Courage Monument in...
Michael Laxer
Jun 22, 202115 min read


17 panoramic photos of Soviet Donetsk 1973
Known then as Yuzovka, Donetsk at the time of the revolution was a mining city with a population of just over 50,000. After the triumph...
Michael Laxer
Jun 21, 20213 min read


"I am defending myself, an accused Communist"
In Honour of the Anniversary of the Birth of Georgi Dimitrov. Today is the anniversary of the birth of the great Bulgarian Communist...
Michael Laxer
Jun 18, 20211 min read


Winnipeg General Strike Leaders Arrested, June 17, 1919
On June 17, 1919 police arrested leaders of the Strike Committee of the Winnipeg General Strike. Among those they apprehended in raids...
Michael Laxer
Jun 17, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #477
Immortal Che - Vietnamese Poster Today is the 93th birthday of Comrade Che Guevara
Michael Laxer
Jun 14, 20211 min read


Ernesto "Che" Guevara born June 14, 1928
Che works at a sugar plantation when he was Minister of Industries during the agrarian reforms after the Cuban Revolution c. 1960 The...
Michael Laxer
Jun 14, 20212 min read


Communist Party of Canada celebrates 100 years with online event and upcoming documentary
The Communist Party of Canada turned 100 years old on May 28, 2021. On Sunday, May 30 the party celebrated 100 years of fighting for...
Michael Laxer
May 31, 20211 min read


150 years since the fall of the Paris Commune
150 years ago today, May 28 1871, the Paris Commune (which had been proclaimed March 18, 1871) fell after the slaughter of what became...
Michael Laxer
May 28, 20212 min read


Communist Party of Canada: 100 years of fighting for socialism
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Communist Party of Canada. The party was formed in Guelph, Ontario on May 28, 1921....
Michael Laxer
May 28, 20212 min read


A trip along Leningrad's Nevsky Prospect, USSR 1974
The Nevsky Prospect is the most famous street in what is now again called St. Petersburg and this was equally true during the Soviet era....
Michael Laxer
May 27, 20213 min read


The Construction of Socialism -- The LPP on socialist nationalization, 1952
The Communist Party of Canada on the difference between capitalist and socialist nationalization. Socialist Canada -- Illustration for...
Michael Laxer
May 21, 20215 min read


Early Soviet car stamps, 1975
Released in 1975 these five Soviet stamps look at motor vehicle production in the early USSR. Starting from the top left the vehicles...
Michael Laxer
May 19, 20212 min read
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