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A number of global solidarity organizations including the São Paulo Forum, International Peoples' Assembly, World March of Women,...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 12, 2023
- 2 min
Daily LIFT #1006
Ceremony honouring the 90th anniversary of Lenin's birth, Moscow, USSR 1960 -- Daily LIFT #1006 Lenin's greatness and the tremendous...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 11, 2023
- 9 min
Buses and trams of the Soviet Union: A look at public transit in the USSR, 1976
In October, 1976 the French magazine La vie du rail -- a magazine for railway and transit enthusiasts -- published a fascinating look at...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 10, 2023
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #1005
"It's Time", autolithography, Nikolai Nikolaevich Zhukov, USSR 1959 -- Daily LIFT #1005 From the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1979: Nikolai...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 10, 2023
- 1 min
Spicy Peanut Butter and Dill Pickle Sandwiches
Tested and modified by Natalie Today we are doing our take on a sandwich recipe from Sam Sifton of the New York Times that was itself a...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 9, 2023
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #1004
Rural children being given vaccines by a Co-Operative Medical Brigade during a mass vaccination drive, People's Republic of China, 1969...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 9, 2023
- 9 min
Red Review #110 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from Zambia, Brazil, Canada, the UK, the USA, Niger and elsewhere. Rally in protest of the arrest of Socialist Party of Zambia...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 9, 2023
- 4 min
"African must rise. Imperialism must fall."
Soly Mapaila, the SACP General Secretary, on the "Second Phase of the African Revolution" and "International Solidarity". On August 6 the...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 8, 2023
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #1003
One of the sculpted reliefs at the base of the Monument to the Conquerors of Space, Moscow USSR, 1967 -- Daily LIFT #1003
Michael Laxer
- Aug 8, 2023
- 2 min
Day of Action in solidarity with striking Metro workers, August 9
Metro workers on strike -- image via Unifor on Twitter 3,700 Metro grocery workers have been on strike in Ontario since July 29 and they...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 7, 2023
- 1 min
Work
Red Flag Emulation Drive, painting Su Chien, People's Republic of China, 1951 Work One day, two days, three days, one year, two years.......
Michael Laxer
- Aug 7, 2023
- 3 min
Bliny, Soviet style!
With recipes for Buckwheat and Wheatflour Bliny. From Sputnik Magazine, USSR 1988: Lovely round bliny, glistening and hot, like the...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 7, 2023
- 5 min
The Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
A brief look. Revolutionary Committee of the Yakutian Soviet, 1921 From the Great Soviet Encyclopedia 1979: Yakut Autonomous Soviet...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 7, 2023
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #1002
Portrait of Gorky, Valentina Khodasevich, 1919 -- Daily LIFT #1002
Michael Laxer
- Aug 5, 2023
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #1001
People line up in Red Square, Moscow USSR to visit the Lenin Mausoleum, spring 1983 -- Daily LIFT #1001
Michael Laxer
- Aug 5, 2023
- 2 min
Starbucks Workers United calls for US allies to "adopt a store" August 7 in solidarity
With the courageous Starbucks union movement continuing to forge ahead despite all of the relentless intimidation tactics by the...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 4, 2023
- 5 min
Daily LIFT #1000
Worker and Kolkhoz Woman, Moscow USSR, 1967, monumental sculpture by Vera Mukhina -- Daily LIFT #1000 Also known as Worker and Collective...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 4, 2023
- 1 min
Serfdom abolished in France, August 4, 1789
On August 4th, 1789 -- less than a month after the storming of the Bastille -- the revolutionary National Constituent Assembly formally...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 3, 2023
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #999
Li Chung-wen, commander of a People's Liberation Army unit and secretary of its Party committee, speaks at a meeting of Party committee...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 2, 2023
- 14 min
Red Review #109 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from Canada, the USA, Swaziland, the UK, the DPRK, India and elsewhere. Metro grocery workers strike in Toronto, Canada July 29...
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