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    Daily LIFT #431
    Michael Laxer
    • Apr 11
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #431

    Hammer and Sickle, sculpture Giuseppe Spagnulo, Italy 1972 -- Daily LIFT #431
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    Daily LIFT #430
    Michael Laxer
    • Apr 10
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #430

    Paul Robeson Sings a Song of Peace in Peekskill, New York, poster USSR 1950 -- Daily LIFT #430 A truly magnificent Soviet poster...
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    Music and Resistance -- In Honour of Paul Robeson's Birthday
    Michael Laxer
    • Apr 9
    • 1 min

    Music and Resistance -- In Honour of Paul Robeson's Birthday

    Today is the birthday of one of the towering figures of 20th Century American musical and political history, Paul Robeson. Despite his...
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    Daily LIFT #429
    Michael Laxer
    • Apr 9
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #429

    Vladimir Mayakovsky Monument, Moscow USSR c. 1968 -- Daily LIFT #429
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    Spinach, mushroom, leek and jalapeno "impossible" pie -- Vintage Cookbook TBT
    Michael Laxer
    • Apr 9
    • 3 min

    Spinach, mushroom, leek and jalapeno "impossible" pie -- Vintage Cookbook TBT

    Inspired by a recipe in a 1983 Bisquick cookbook this recipe can be done any number of ways and is truly amazing for the ease with which...
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    "Playing politics" with sick days
    Michael Laxer
    • Apr 9
    • 3 min

    "Playing politics" with sick days

    Ontario Premier Doug Ford's claim that unions and progressives calling for proper sick days in the province are "playing politics" is...
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    Daily LIFT #428
    Michael Laxer
    • Apr 8
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #428

    Castro and Allende at a rally during Castro's visit to Chile, 1971 -- Daily LIFT #428
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    New numbers in Ontario show large workplaces are fueling pandemic outbreaks
    Michael Laxer
    • Apr 6
    • 3 min

    New numbers in Ontario show large workplaces are fueling pandemic outbreaks

    The focus in fighting the pandemic has to shift to large workplaces and workplace prevention. New numbers in Ontario show what many of us...
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    Daily LIFT #427
    Michael Laxer
    • Apr 6
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #427

    Workers of All Countries Unite!, Soviet poster 1987 -- Daily LIFT #427
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    $15 Now or in 2025 is not like $15 Now in 2010 or 2014
    Michael Laxer
    • Apr 6
    • 2 min

    $15 Now or in 2025 is not like $15 Now in 2010 or 2014

    As this classic cartoon from 1978 reminds, what is a decent wage and a radical wage demand does not remain fixed. After many years of...
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    Landscapes of the North -- a folder of 12 Soviet paintings 1966
    Michael Laxer
    • Apr 3
    • 1 min

    Landscapes of the North -- a folder of 12 Soviet paintings 1966

    Published in the USSR in 1966 this folder of art cards had a dozen reproductions of paintings for the early 1960s that depict the spare...
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    Daily LIFT #426
    Michael Laxer
    • Apr 3
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #426

    New Century - A Mixed Media/Altered Art Piece by Natalie Lochwin -- Daily LIFT #426
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    Indian Style Ground Lamb Flatbread Wraps
    Michael Laxer
    • Apr 2
    • 2 min

    Indian Style Ground Lamb Flatbread Wraps

    Served with feta, Indian pickle and mint on top of naan Today we are going to take a look at an "all purpose" Indian style ground lamb...
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    15 panoramic views of Soviet Novorossiysk, port and Hero City
    Michael Laxer
    • Apr 2
    • 4 min

    15 panoramic views of Soviet Novorossiysk, port and Hero City

    With two bonus views. Text translated from the Russian. The city of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea was a prominent and storied port in...
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    Daily LIFT #425
    Michael Laxer
    • Apr 1
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #425

    V. I. Lenin, oil on canvas 1969, Elmar Yanovich Kits (1913-1972) -- Daily LIFT #425 Kits was a People's Artist of the Estonian SSR.
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    Daily LIFT #424
    Michael Laxer
    • Mar 31
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #424

    First general meeting of the Yanbian University trade union membership, People's Republic of China, 1955 -- Daily LIFT #424
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    The federal NDP's "free tuition" pledge is much ado about literally nothing
    Michael Laxer
    • Mar 31
    • 2 min

    The federal NDP's "free tuition" pledge is much ado about literally nothing

    Singh announces student "debt relief" plan, March 20, 2021 - video screenshot I will give Jagmeet Singh credit for one thing: He has...
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    Daily LIFT #423
    Michael Laxer
    • Mar 30
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #423

    Rosa Luxemburg in her Berlin apartment, 1907 -- Daily LIFT #423
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    Daily LIFT #422
    Michael Laxer
    • Mar 28
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #422

    Lenin in Red Square, May 1, 1919 -- Daily LIFT #422
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    The Aleksandr Pushkin and the Montreal-Leningrad Trans-Atlantic line
    Michael Laxer
    • Mar 27
    • 4 min

    The Aleksandr Pushkin and the Montreal-Leningrad Trans-Atlantic line

    Photos via Soviet Union Today, You Tube and public domain. In 1965 the production of the Soviet ocean liner the MS Aleksandr Pushkin was...
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