Machado’s decision to accept the prize, supposedly contrary to the wishes of the White House, before delivering it to him in person, signifies the depth of Machado’s commitment to enact the US will on Venezuela. Trump accepting the prize -- public domain image By Nuvpreet Kalra, Common Dreams Maria Corina Machado said it was a “historic day for us Venezuelans” as she handed President Donald Trump her Nobel Peace Prize . For the pro-Israel, far-right opposition figure in Vene

Karl Marx portrait in honour of the 50th anniversary of his death, USA 1933 -- Daily LIFT #1856

Pinarayi Vijayan speaks at an LDF rally in Kerala in January, 2026 -- image via Facebook By Nabil Abdul Majeed and Nitheesh Narayanan In 1945, two years prior to India’s independence, the current Chief Minister of Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan, was born into a working-class family in northern Kerala. He was his mother’s fourteenth child; of the thirteen siblings born before him, only two survived. His mother was an agricultural labourer and his father a toddy tapper. They belonged

A U.S. Air Force F-16 in Greenland, 2021 -- public domain image For an Arctic zone of peace! Greenland crisis tramples Indigenous sovereignty and risks militarization, resource plunder and environmental disaster Donald Trump’s renewed and sharpening rhetoric about annexing Greenland to the United States is quickly escalating into a dangerous confrontation among countries within the US-NATO imperialist camp. Both Trump’s threats and the response from many NATO states – to depl

The farmers-led Communist Party of India (Marxist) has accused the ultra-right wing government in both the state and at the center of failure to implement existing laws protecting their rights. All images via the CPI(M) on Facebook By Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch Thousands of farmers began a long march to the district headquarters in Palghar in India’s Western province of Maharashtra on Monday, January 19, demanding fulfillment of long-pending demands, including the right

Photos via Estudios Revolución By René Tamayo León, translated from the Spanish The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, described the visit of Police General Vladimir Alexandorovich Kolokoltsev, Minister of the Interior of Russia, and the delegation accompanying him as "of enormous significance" because of "the moment in which it is done." "Thank you very much for being in Cuba," th

Trump on January 3 -- public domain image The following is the joint statement issued by the five Left Parties - Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (ML) Liberation, All India Forward Bloc, Revolutionary Socialist Party: We the Left Parties strongly urge the Indian government not to accept the US-offered position on the so-called 'Board of Peace', which is intended to implement the 'Gaza Peace Plan'. India's participation in

The Great Grave: Lenin is Dead, but His Work Lives On, colour lithograph, Moscow 1924 -- Daily LIFT #1855 Lenin died January 21, 1924

Photos via Estudios Revolución By René Tamayo León, translated from the Spanish The President of the People's Republic of China and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Xi Jinping, approved a new round of aid to Cuba that includes emergency financial assistance valued at 80 million dollars for the acquisition of electrical equipment and other urgent needs that the country has, as well as a donation of 60,000 tons of rice. The Chinese ambassador to Cuba, Hu

Flag of Rojava By Vijay Prashad The agreement that terminated the Syrian Kurdish enclave was presented by its signatories as a pragmatic settlement. But, in fact, the deal is a major political defeat for the Syrian Kurdish political formations. Certainly, the rapid advance of the Syrian armed groups loyal to President Ahmad al-Sharaa broke the resistance of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the largely Kurdish group, but this advance can only be understood by the total back

From the Soviet Magazine Socialism: Theory and Practice, January 1984. A moving look at the final months of Lenin's life. Sixty years have passed since the death of Lenin (January 21, 1924), a brilliant thinker and revolutionary, the founder and leader of the Communist Party and the Soviet state. The number of people left who knew him personally, who worked alongside him is diminishing with every passing year. However, quite a few reminiscences of his contemporaries have come

Communist Party of Pakistan, Solidarity Message The Communist Party of Pakistan declares its solidarity with the working class, poor peasants, students, women, oppressed nations of Iran, and the fraternal Tudeh Party of Iran who are confronting exploitation, repression, and deepening Capitalist crises. The present upheaval is the product of acute class contradictions under a clerical-capitalist state that rules through coercion, capitalist-plunder, and ideological obscuranti

Fidel Castro with young participants in the rally held in Havana in honour of the 130th anniversary of the birth of Jose Marti -- Daily LIFT #1854

Image via news video screenshot Various Sources The 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) officially opened on January 20, 2026, at the National Convention Center in Hanoi. The congress is the country's most significant political event, held every five years to determine the party's national leadership and strategic direction for the following term. It began with an appeal for unity, discipline, and determination to guide the nation into a new phase o

The Iranian flag draped over a burnt out building in Tehran, January 2026 -- Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, member of the Politburo and spokesperson of theTudeh Party of Iran and the editor of party’s organ, Nameh Mardom., tells the British Communist newspaper the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change HOW do you assess th

Image via the KKE Statement of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE) on the tragic train accident in Córdoba The Political Bureau of the PCTE expresses its dismay and sorrow following the derailment in Córdoba, which has so far resulted in 39 deaths and dozens of injuries. We extend our condolences to the families of the deceased and our support and solidarity to the injured, as well as to the emergency personnel, the workers from the affe

Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Biljana Vankovska Cualquiera que sea de la antigua Yugoslavia entenderá inmediatamente el título. Mujo es un personaje bosnio legendario (aunque ficticio), protagonista (junto con su inseparable amigo Haso) de innumerables chistes con los que crecieron generaciones de yugoslavos. Las guerras se cobraron muchas vidas, borraron pueblos y destruyeron futuros, pero Mujo sobrevivió incluso a los días más oscuros del conflicto

More than a political figure, Trump acts as a chaotic stress-test on American institutions, civic norms, and political culture, revealing the weaknesses the system has long ignored. Trump in December, 2025 -- U.S. Institute of Peace, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Martina Moneke Every system eventually encounters the user it was never designed to survive. In finance, that user is the bad actor who ignores best practices, exploits loopholes, and treats safeguards as sugge

Delegates from the People's Republic of China, France, Britain, the USSR and the USA flank the "Banner for Peace and Friendship" at a parade of young people from 111 countries at the World Festival of Youth and Students for Peace and Friendship in Bucharest, August, 1953 -- Daily LIFT #1853

Paolostefano1412, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Resisting Imperialism with Popular Organization Attack on Venezuela is a Threat to Latin America and Brazil Political Statement by the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) The Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) expresses its unwavering solidarity with the Venezuelan people in the face of the criminal imperialist attack carried out by the United States against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and demands the freedom of Presiden