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Some aspects of the contemporary experience and assessments of the struggle against fascism -- KKE
Outside of KKE HQ in Athens The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) have released their contribution to the European Communist Action meeting...
Michael Laxer
May 28, 202416 min read
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Culture for the People: USSR 1984
Image from Soviet stamp, 1971 From the USSR media in 1984 a look at how Soviet socialism brought culture to the people. "Citizens of the...
Michael Laxer
May 25, 20243 min read
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Joe Slovo b. May 23, 1926
Winnie Mandela, Nelson Mandela and Joe Slovo at the Communist Party's first public meeting in South Africa in 1990, after being banned...
Michael Laxer
May 23, 20241 min read
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Some Myths Regarding the Genesis of Enterprise
Not only were “modern” elements of enterprise present and even dominant already in Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC, but the...
Michael Laxer
May 22, 20245 min read
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Why Chile has a Palestinian football team – the bigger history
Supporters of Club Deportivo Palestino at a match v Deportes Copiapó, at Estadio Municipal de La Cisterna, Santiago, Chile. Carlos yo /...
Michael Laxer
May 22, 20244 min read
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The Communist Party of the Soviet Union in facts and figures 1985
From the Soviet English language magazine Socialism: Theory and Practice in February, 1985 this is a look at the great revolutionary,...
Michael Laxer
May 21, 20242 min read
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Viktor Koretskii, Soviet poster artist b. May 18, 1909
Koretskii, (also sometimes translated as Koretsky), was an astonishingly prolific Soviet artist created some of the USSR's most iconic...
Michael Laxer
May 18, 20241 min read
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The Partisans: Behind Enemy Lines
From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...
Michael Laxer
May 17, 20242 min read
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Historical conclusions from the tactics of the anti-fascist fronts: The contemporary struggle of communists against fascism
Contribution of the Workers Party of Ireland at the European Communist Action meeting in Madrid (11th May 2024): Dear Comrades:...
Michael Laxer
May 16, 20249 min read
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Seven Features of Ancient Enterprise
The changing context for enterprise through the centuries reminds us that business activities are not universal but fluid and alter...
Michael Laxer
May 15, 20247 min read
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The character of capitalism
Vladimir Lenin at the 2nd Congress of the RSDLP in 1903, painting, Sergei Arsenevich Vinogradov Back in 1903 the Russian...
Michael Laxer
May 14, 20243 min read
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Parallels Between Archaic Entrepots and Modern Offshore Banking Centers
Offshore banking and tax-avoidance centers are nothing new; they’ve been with us for millennia. Singapore skyline at night - Bijay...
Michael Laxer
May 11, 20246 min read
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The death of Cuban revolutionary Antonio Guiteras at El Morrillo, May 8 1935
By Ariel Pazos Ortiz, translated from the Spanish On May 8, 1935, Antonio Guiteras fell at El Morrillo, an old abandoned fort on the...
Michael Laxer
May 8, 20244 min read
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Lenin in Sverdlov Square, May 5, 1920
On May 5, 1920 Lenin gave his famous "Speech To Men Of The Red Army Leaving For The Polish Front". It is not the speech itself that is...
Michael Laxer
May 5, 20242 min read
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Karl Marx: Remembrances of Engels, Liebknecht & Lafargue
A leaflet of remembrances of Karl Marx published in the 1940s in the UK that we republish here in honour of Marx's birthday, May 5, 1818....
Michael Laxer
May 5, 20241 min read
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Seven Pairs of the Clean and Seven Pairs of the Unclean
Seven Pairs of the Clean and Seven Pairs of the Unclean, Vladimir Mayakovsky Sketch, 1919 Famed Soviet poet, writer and artist Mayakovsky...
Michael Laxer
May 5, 20242 min read
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Seeing Red: Our Ancient Relationship With Ocher and the Color of Cognition
Extensive ocher use reflects the culture and cognitive abilities of early humans, who inherited an affinity for red from primate...
Michael Laxer
May 3, 20246 min read
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International Workers' Day - 14 historic posters
Today, May 1st, is International Workers' Day, a celebration of working class solidarity and militancy around the world. A holiday in...
Michael Laxer
May 1, 20241 min read
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Red Army liberates nazi prison at Brandenburg-Görden, April 27, 1945
From press in the German Democratic Republic, 1985: Constructed between 1927 and 1935, the four buildings making up the ...
Michael Laxer
Apr 29, 20242 min read
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Statement on the 30th anniversary of our April 1994 democratic breakthrough - South African Communist Party
South African Communist Party Statement on the 30th anniversary of our April 1994 democratic breakthrough Wednesday, 27 April 1994 marked...
Michael Laxer
Apr 27, 202414 min read
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