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Cuba pays tribute to Sam Nujoma
Photos via Revolution Studios By Rene Tamayo Leon, translated from the Spanish His Excellency Mr. Samuel Goagoseb, Namibian ambassador to...
Michael Laxer
Mar 6, 20254 min read


How Mesopotamia’s Urban and Industrial Revolution Started Politics as We Know It Today
Giorgio Buccellati’s At the Origins of Politics takes readers to the early stages of a process that became the structure of modern life....
Michael Laxer
Mar 6, 202512 min read


In the friendship of Fidel and Chavez, the comradeship of two peoples
By Rafael Hidalgo Fernandez, Granma & the Communist Party of Cuba, translated from the Spanish On March 5, 2013, at just 58 years old,...
Michael Laxer
Mar 5, 20255 min read


Moscow Metro builders: Tatyana Fedorova's brigade
A brigade of construction workers building the Moscow Metro. They were led by Tatiana Fedorova who is on the left holding the jackhammer....
Michael Laxer
Mar 2, 20256 min read


Soviet Moscow's Metro, 1960
From USSR Magazine, January 1960: A METRO ride is one of the sightseeing musts for a tourist in Moscow. Its stations are not the dismal...
Michael Laxer
Feb 28, 20253 min read


Exploring Ancient Understandings of Meteorites in Archaic Societies
By KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks (NSF’s NOIRLab) - Geminids Over Kitt Peak National Observatory, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.o...
Michael Laxer
Feb 25, 202511 min read


February Strike of 1941: When Citizens Took to the Streets Against the Nazis
Remembering how Amsterdam's working class stood up against Adolf Hitler's extermination of the Jews. A commemoration of the strike in...
Michael Laxer
Feb 25, 20254 min read


The coming of the collective farms in the USSR
From the Soviet English language magazine Socialism: Principles, Practice, Prospects, 1983. The late twenties was a turbulent time for...
Michael Laxer
Feb 23, 20252 min read


Juan Almeida Bosque, Cuban Revolutionary & Poet b. February 17, 1927
Raul Castro, Antonio Nunez Jimenez, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Juan Almeida Bosque and Ramiro Valdes in 1959 shortly after the Cuban...
Michael Laxer
Feb 17, 20251 min read


The Communist Party of Vietnam: 95 Years of Struggle and Social Transformation
As Vietnam Plus reports , the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) hosted a ceremony in Havana on the evening of February 12 to celebrate the...
Michael Laxer
Feb 13, 20256 min read


How Bolshevism Was Born
Reminisces of the Second Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party from Fridrikh Lengnik, Krupskaya and Martyn Lyadov....
Michael Laxer
Feb 12, 20255 min read


SACP pays tribute to Namibian liberation struggle stalwart Sam Nujoma
Nujoma in 1978 - public domain image South African Communist Party tribute to Namibian liberation struggle stalwart, President Sam Nujoma...
Michael Laxer
Feb 11, 20253 min read


Spontaneous Revolutions: Darwin’s Diagrams of Plant Movement
After weeks of watching young tendrils slowly corkscrew their way toward the sun, Charles Darwin invented a system for making botanic...
Michael Laxer
Feb 7, 20259 min read


Camilo Cienfuegos: Symbol of Courage and Commitment to the Revolution
A look at the great Cuban revolutionary on the anniversary of his birth. By Katherin Hormigó Rubio, translated from the Spanish Camilo...
Michael Laxer
Feb 6, 20255 min read


Rehabilitation and rebirth in the postwar USSR
A brief, illustrated look at the remarkable Soviet recovery in the wake of the utter devastation of WWII. One of the most remarkable...
Michael Laxer
Feb 2, 20252 min read


Soviet Health Service, 1984
Out on Call The right of Soviet citizens to health care is laid down in the Constitution of the USSR. All forms of medical care are free...
Michael Laxer
Feb 1, 20251 min read


The Women's Bill of Rights, 1988
The Women's Bill of Rights was a call to action and program issued by the organization Women for Racial and Economic Equality in the...
Michael Laxer
Feb 1, 20251 min read


Victorio Codovilla, Yelena Stasova and Ho Chi Minh, Moscow, 1961
Victorio Codovilla, Yelena Stasova and Ho Chi Minh, Moscow, 1961 A remarkable photo from the 22nd Congress of the CPSU in Moscow, 1961....
Michael Laxer
Feb 1, 20251 min read


José Martí born January 28, 1853
The great, iconic Cuban revolutionary José Martí was born January 28, 1853. From People's China, October 1953, 100 years after his birth...
Michael Laxer
Jan 28, 20251 min read


Message of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust - NCPY
Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons New Communist Party of Yugoslavia, Message of Remembrance for the Victims of the...
Michael Laxer
Jan 27, 20252 min read
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