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...

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...