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Would You Believe...US Workers Running the Economy?
Gus Hall talks socialism vs. capitalism, workers vs. bosses, 1980. Life in our capitalist society does not permit one to serve both...
Michael Laxer
Aug 31, 20202 min read


Harry Pollitt and the SS Jolly George
1970 Soviet stamp honouring Harry Pollitt and the SS Jolly George incident. On May 10, 1920 dock workers in London, led by militant...
Michael Laxer
Aug 30, 20201 min read


Fascism Must Be Defeated!
Clara Zetkin's Speech at the Reichstag August 30, 1932 Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) was a Marxist and crusader for women's rights who served...
Michael Laxer
Aug 30, 20208 min read


Uprising Day in Laos
Vientiane, August 23, 1975 August 23 is Uprising Day in Laos. On August 23, 1975 20,000 people took to the streets in the Laotian capital...
Michael Laxer
Aug 23, 20201 min read


Red Army wins the Battle of Kursk August 23, 1943
Today marks the anniversary of the end of the Battle of Kursk (August 23, 1943) where the soldiers of the Red Army emerged victorious at...
Michael Laxer
Aug 23, 20201 min read


Sacco and Vanzetti Murdered August 23, 1927
Shortly after midnight on August 23, 1927, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were murdered in the electric chair by the US state of...
Michael Laxer
Aug 23, 20203 min read


Photos from the Soviet counter-offensive that saved Moscow in the winter of 1941/42
In the winter of 1941-42 the fate of the world hung in the balance when the Red Army and the people of the Soviet Union stopped the...
Michael Laxer
Aug 15, 20202 min read


"Fidel’s enduring lesson is that yes it is possible"
"Fidel’s enduring lesson is that yes it is possible" Fidel showed us that " yes, it was possible to proclaim the socialist character of...
Michael Laxer
Aug 13, 20202 min read


Defend the future!
"Never before has humanity witnessed such an upsurge in the power of reaction and the empire is beset by all kinds of contradictions. But...
Michael Laxer
Aug 13, 20201 min read


From Selma to Saigon
From Selma to Saigon Brother can you walk and talk with me Land in the ditch and the dock with me Tremble on the butcher's block with me...
Michael Laxer
Aug 11, 20201 min read


Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, IWW, labour and Communist activist, b. August 7, 1890
"What is a labor victory? I maintain that it is a twofold thing. Workers must gain economic advantage, but they must also gain...
Michael Laxer
Aug 7, 20202 min read


Father's Watch Never Moved Again - Djataro Ito, Japan 1985 (from the Hiroshima-45 series)
Father's Watch Never Moved Again - Djataro Ito, Japan 1985 (from the Hiroshima-45 series) Today is the 75th anniversary of the dropping...
Michael Laxer
Aug 6, 20201 min read


Sputniks of the Soviet riverways
A brief look at the hydrofoils of the USSR A Volga Raketa, 1982 One little known (in the west) story of Soviet innovation and design in...
Michael Laxer
Aug 2, 20202 min read


Soviet electric train prototype engine T8-001, 1961
Soviet electric train prototype engine T8-001, 1961. The prototype was designed to be a 7000 hp engine to run on the 3000 volt...
Michael Laxer
Jul 30, 20201 min read


Georgian Komsomol (Communist Youth) construction brigade, 1982
Georgian Komsomol (Communist Youth) construction brigade takes a break while building the new community of Niya, USSR, 1982 Niya was...
Michael Laxer
Jul 28, 20201 min read


Happy Birthday Hugo Chavez
Happy Birthday Hugo Chavez We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world - Hugo Chavez, b. July 28,...
Michael Laxer
Jul 28, 20201 min read


Nelson Mandela on the anniversary of the Moncada Barracks attack
July 26 is anniversary of the historic attack on the Moncada Barracks, a key date in history of the Cuban Revolution. July 26 is...
Michael Laxer
Jul 26, 202013 min read


Put the Multi-nationals Under Democratic Nationalization - Communist Party of Canada
November 11, 1975 -- Vintage Leftist Leaflet Project Communist Party of Canada leaflet from 1975. A submission to the Royal Commission on...
Michael Laxer
Jul 21, 20202 min read


The Watchword
THE WATCHWORD "Take and Hold." 0, hear ye the watchword of Labor. The slogan of they who'd be free, That no more to any enslaver Must...
Michael Laxer
Jul 13, 20201 min read


The Battle of Kursk Begins, July 5, 1943
Battle of Kursk Monument at Prokhorovka On July 5, 1943 the German invaders of the Soviet Union launched what would be their last great...
Michael Laxer
Jul 5, 20201 min read
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