Soviet stamp celebrating the 60th anniversary of 1905 On December 11, 1905 the Shuliavka Workers' Republic was proclaimed by the Council...

Dolores Ibárruri ("La Pasionaria") Spanish Communist Leader and Anti-Fascist Hero b. December 9, 1895 "When the years pass by and the...

Annie Buller, Union Organizer and Communist leader, b. December 9, 1895 "I am not guilty of this charge. I have said before and I say...

Mexican artist, muralist and leftist Diego Rivera was born December 8, 1886. His remarkable murals included famous revolutionary figures...

In Memory of of Nelson Mandela who died December 5, 2013. -Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can...

A look at the Soviet artist whose promise was tragically cut short when he died at age 42 in 1980. Born December 2, 1937, Soviet artist...

Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, murdered November 29, 1941 "You hang me now, but I'm not alone. There are 200 million of us. You can't hang us...

Prior to the 1960s there were many intercity streetcar routes of this type across North America and many of these were public. Streetcar...

Red Army troops fight to retake the city of Rostov-on-Don, November 27, 1941 On November 27, 1941 the Red Army's 37th Army under the...

On the anniversary of his birth (November 26, 1903) we revisit Pimenov's work through 50 of his best pieces. Yuri Pimenov, one of the...

Fidel Castro died November 25, 2016. Today we remember the great freedom fighter, internationalist and communist Fidel Castro who died...

An excerpt from Profit and "Profits", article by Soviet economist Evsei Liberman, Soviet Union Today 1966 Profit is the difference...

A look at the deeply humanistic Soviet attitude towards housing in the early 1980s. Well-Built and Ahead of Schedule!, Soviet housing...

"Comrade Bethune's unselfish spirit, expresses his extreme feeling of responsibility towards his work and his extreme warmheartedness...

Comrades Yuri Gagarin and Ernesto Che Guevara, Moscow, November 11, 1964 Cuban revolutionary hero Che and Soviet icon Yuri Gagarin, the...

"From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that...

If we want to celebrate 1917 we must also look more deeply at what came after. There is much to celebrate there as well. This piece was originally written to mark the 100th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. By Michael Laxer The counter-revolution in the Soviet Union was a catastrophe for the forces of socialism and anti-imperialism both within the USSR and its republics, and internationally, including here in the allegedly advanced capitalist west. Despit

"At dawn on November 6, 1943, on the eve of Great October, the Red Army has seized Kiev, the capital of Soviet Ukraine" - quote from a...

Canadian ad for Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga, a Soviet book and media distributor, 1966. What is really interesting is the list of various...

Remembering Camilo Cienfuegos -- Cuban Revolutionary Leader Lost October 28, 1959 Camilo Cienfuegos was one of the principle...