Image via the KKE Solidarity is our weapon – The people of Venezuela will win! Following the mobilizations that unfolded from the very first moment of the imperialist intervention in Venezuela, members and friends of the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) from universities in Athens gathered on Thursday, January 15, at the Athens University of Economics and Business for an event in solidarity with the people of Venezuela and, more broadly, with the struggles of the peoples worl

Chibichiri cave in Yomitan village, Okinawa. A place of mass suicide of Japanese soldiers and Okinawan civilians during the Battle of Okinawa -- Vitalie Ciubotaru, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Tings Chak and Atul Chandra We descended into Chibichibi Cave in southern Okinawa with the heavy feeling that this was not a site of distant history, but a warning. The cave is low enough that you have to bend forward as you walk. The air is damp, the light disappears quickly,

Mass rally in Tehran condemning US and Israeli threats and intervention in Iran, January 12, 2026 -- Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Biljana Vankovska Anyone from the former Yugoslavia will immediately understand the title. Mujo is a legendary (though fictional) Bosnian character, the protagonist (together with his inseparable friend Haso) of countless jokes that generations of Yugoslavs grew up with. Wars took many lives, erased towns, and destroyed f

Remembrances of Lenin, illustration, I. Smirnov, USSR 1983 -- Daily LIFT #1852

The introduction of four new labor codes and the repeal of the national rural employment guarantee program by the ultra-right-wing government is widely opposed, as it may further increase the economic misery of India’s majority working population. Indian workers mobilize on January 16 -- image via CITU on Facebook By Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) and Central Trade Unions (CTUs) in India jointly organized the National Day of Resistance on Friday,

More than 420 researchers and scholars globally have signed a statement denouncing the U.S. attacks on January 3 and calling for reparations for Venezuela. We, the undersigned scholars, students, and academic workers, unequivocally condemn the Trump administration’s January 3 strikes against Venezuela and kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores. The attacks are a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter by a US president claiming, “I don’t n

Peace poster, Tsai Cheng-hua, People's Republic of China, 1954 -- Daily LIFT #1851

“No, imperialists, we have absolutely no fear of you... and we don’t like to be threatened,” said Cuba’s president. Image from the march via Miguel Díaz-Canel on X By Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams A day after receiving the remains of the 32 Cubans killed during the Trump administration’s invasion of Venezuela and abduction of its leader, Cuba’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, addressed thousands gathered outside the US Embassy in Havana on Friday. “The current US administrat

The heroes are honoured in Havana -- image via Granma on Facebook Remarks by Army Corps General Lázaro Alberto Álvarez Casas, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba and Minister of the Interior, in honour of the 32 heroes who fell in the line of duty in the sister Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela delivered January 15, 2025, translated from the Spanish: Family members of our 32 heroes, combatants, compatriots: On this solemn morning, the homeland mourns

The KKE condemns the provocative threats by the USA of a new imperialist military attack on Iran In its statement (January 15) on developments in Iran, the Press Office of the Central Committee of the KKE stresses the following : The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) condemns the provocative threats by the USA of a new imperialist military attack on Iran, in cooperation with the state of Israel, within the framework of broader imperialist competition aimed at shaping political

View of Nuuk from the top of Ukkusissat -- Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Lotte Rørtoft-Madsen El 14 de enero, pocas horas antes de la histórica reunión en Washington entre los representantes de Groenlandia y Dinamarca y sus homólogos estadounidenses, J. D. Vance y Marco Rubio, Dinamarca y varios de sus aliados de la OTAN reforzaron su presencia militar en Groenlandia y anunciaron que enviarían más refuerzos. Algunos interpretaron esta medida como una p

The youth subculture in the late GDR was largely anti-communist: East Berlin skinhead poses in his apartment (12.8.1990) -- image via Junge Welt Interview with Stefan Wellgraf, Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt University of Berlin. Junge Welt, 16 January 2026. Translation and notes by Helmut-Harry Loewen. Richard Malone: Your newly published book ”Staatsfeinde” ("Enemies of the State") deals with "right-wing subcultures in East Germany since the 1970s." A contributio

Photos via Estudios Revolución Via Granma & the Communist Party of Cuba, translated from the Spanish For Cuba, January 15, 2026, will always be marked by profound sorrow and, at the same time, by the pride that arises in the Homeland as it embraces its children who have perished to live on in honour eternally. On Thursday morning, the José Martí International Airport in Cuba received the courageous fighters who lost their lives in Venezuela due to the aggression of the United

Greenland's flag -- Christoph Strässler, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Lotte Rørtoft-Madsen On 14 January, a few hours before the historic meeting in Washington between representatives from Greenland and Denmark and their U.S. counterparts, J. D. Vance and Marco Rubio, Denmark and several of its NATO allies reinforced their military presence in Greenland and announced that more reinforcements would follow. Some interpreted this move as pressure on the Trump Administr

Gift from Leningrad, painting, N. Veselova, V. Zagonek, A. Rubin and Y. Tulin, USSR c. 1958 -- Daily LIFT #1850 From the Soviet Press 1959: "Gift from Leningrad depicts the assembly of a turbine for the Tsimlyanskaya Hydroelectric Station. The big dams built in the last decade to harness the power of the country's rivers have served as background for many paintings. Thousands of young people came to work on these gigantic projects . More often than not the construction sites

“The empire can do whatever it wants, but we are here to tell you that we are free, independent, and sovereign,” said one demonstrator. Venezuelans march on Wednesday -- image via news video screenshot By Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams Demonstrations demanding the United States release Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife continued Wednesday as thousands more people took to the streets of Caracas in a show of support for the abducted leftist leader. Public workers

ICE is murdering citizens because we allowed them to abuse immigrants first. How many more need to die before ICE is held accountable? Sign at a NYC rally in the wake of the murder of Renee Good -- SWinxy, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Farrah Hassen On January 7, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis — a city long enriched by immigrants and now under assault from thousands of ICE and Customs and Border Protection agen

Images via the KKE On Saturday January 10, the Communist Party of Greece's (KKE) Party Organization in Germany held an event and discussion in Berlin on the topic: “Lessons from the class struggle in Germany, 1918–1923”. On Sunday January 11, the annual march in memory and honour of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, leading figures of the German revolutionary movement and founders of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), took place in Berlin. The march, first held in 1926,

Early stamp after the founding of the People's Republic of China, 1950 -- Daily LIFT #1849

Big Oil is a winner in the U.S. attack on Venezuela, even if they don’t extract a drop of oil from there. Donald Trump attends a roundtable with energy officials and executives from the oil industry in the East Room of the White House, Friday, January 9, 2026 -- public domain image By Basav Sen Is the illegal U.S. invasion of Venezuela, and kidnapping of its president, a “war for oil”? To some extent, this is a reductionist debate. There are often multiple motivations for war