Image via the PCB The Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) held its National Electoral Convention this Saturday, August 1st, at the plenary hall of the São Paulo City Council, confirming the candidacy of Edmilson Costa for President of the Republic and Cleusa Santos as vice-president. With the presence of party activists, the convention carried out a political act reaffirming the party's program for the elections, featuring speeches from the candidates confirmed in São Paulo and M

Image via www.kononovich.org For the attention of the Ukrainian authorities; We are deeply concerned about the conditions of the political prisoners in your prisons. Specifically, the conditions at Vinnytsia Colony No. 86, which apparently effectively been converted into a detention camp for political prisoners and anti-fascists. The situation of political prisoners in Ukraine is obviously extremely critical. They are facing torture, violations of their rights and grave injus

Chairman Mao with model workers at the 2nd Session of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference -- Daily LIFT #2042

Gorky and Lenin in conversation, sketch USSR 1947 An English translation released in the Soviet Press, 1947: I EXPECTED Lenin to be different. To me something seemed to be lacking in him. He blurred his r's and, thumbs stuck under his armpits, stood with arms akimbo. And, all in all, he was somehow too plain; you felt nothing of the "leader" in him. I am a literary man. My profession obliges me to observe petty details and this duty has become a habit, sometimes even a tireso

President Droupadi Murmu of India and President Gordana Siljanovska Davkova of Macedonia -- image via X By Biljana Vankovska This may seem like a slightly belated reaction to India’s President’s visit to Macedonia 20-23 July. Yet the event deserves a brief reflection through a gender lens. The real inspiration comes from my engagement in a two-year project aimed at encouraging greater participation of women in politics — Gender Equality Mobilization (GEM), implemented togethe

Image via video screeshot. By Benyasiri Eimviriyapong and Fatima Shahzad Over 70 delegates from 43 organizations across 17 countries gathered in Colombo from 16-18 July for the ‘Hands Off Asia’ conference, organized by the International Peoples’ Assembly and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. The choice of venue was no accident. Four years ago, Colombo was the world’s cautionary tale; sovereign default, fuel queues, a presidential palace occupied by its citizens.

"The air of the homeland shall not be violated", illustration, People's Republic of China, 1951 -- Daily LIFT #2041

A poem written by Rewi Alley in memory of Edgar Snow after his death in 1972. Looking out at me from the morning's paper the quiet steady face the understanding eyes of the American dreamer who saw how dreams could be made come true and who caught some of the fire of the Chinese Revolution and its leadership so that along with them, as they so incredibly fought, did he fight with his pen for all he came to believe in. Yes, he suffered all right, not simple to face those wild

Battalion Landing Team 3/5, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, conducting a maritime interception operation, July 16, 2026 -- public domain image Via the Tudeh Party of Iran Translated Excerpts from the Editorial of Nameh Mardom, issue no. 1265, published Monday 27 July 2026 The devastating war unleashed by the third act of aggression by United States-led imperialism against our homeland [in just over one year] has, over the past thirteen days, inflicted severe damage on the cou

People's Army, illustration, People's Republic of China, 1951 -- Daily LIFT #2040

By Abby Zimet, Common Dreams More than 50 years after the murder of iconic Chilean folk singer Victor Jara, the last man convicted of killing him has been tracked down and brought to justice. In 1973, a day after Pinochet’s coup, Jara was seized, tortured, his hands broken to silence what was deemed music “more powerful than a thousand machine guns.” Today, in a world tilting right, he remains an enduring symbol of resistance. Manifiesto: “A song has meaning/ When it beats in

The desire to stylize a mark is older than writing itself, and the typefaces of today shape what we remember, feel, and trust whenever we read. Blombos Cave ochre and artefacts, photo: Henning, © Chris Henshilwood, CC-BY-2.5; Released under the GNU Free Documentation License. By Irina Matuzava The oldest known engravings consist of zigzag patterns and parallel lines, carved into freshwater mussel shells at Trinil on the island of Java, Indonesia. These grooves, made by Homo e

On the Soviet Farm Lands, photo montage, USA, 1930 -- Daily LIFT #2039

In his national address on July 19, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega stated that when the country’s next elections take place, none who promoted a violent anti-government insurrection in 2018 will be allowed to stand for office. Western media outlets reported this as a total ban on voting. Ortega in 2025 -- image via video screenshot on X By John Perry, Common Dreams July 19 is a key date in Nicaragua’s calendar—the anniversary of the victory of its Sandinista revolution in

A nascent movement of young people, angry over a broken educational system, took on the ruling BJP government and forced the education minister to resign. Image from the protests - via news video screenshot By Sonali Kolhatkar Young people across India recently made international headlines for mass protests over the recurring leaks of entrance exams that help students qualify for medical schools and highly coveted government jobs. The Gen Z protesters won a major victory with

Image via the PCC Speech delivered by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, at the closing of the Seventh Ordinary Session of the National Assembly of People's Power in its Tenth Legislature, at the Convention Palace, on July 30, 2026, “Year of the Centenary of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz.” (Translated from the Spanish) Dear Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, leader of the Cu

Commune de Paris, illustration, Fred Ellis, USA 1926 -- Daily LIFT #2038

Arkaio Nomisma, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Gary M. Feinman As democracies around the world face mounting challenges and pressures, discussions about autocracy often focus on personalities and ideologies or tend to link governance practices to differences among specific cultural traditions. Yet a growing body of comparative historical research has provided evidence that a more fundamental question deserves attention: How was and how are governments funded? Across t

Public domain image By Carlos Ron On 14 July, at a summit in Orlando, the head of the US Drug Enforcement Administration, Terrance Cole, declared that Mexico’s cartels and Mexico’s government are ‘one and the same.’ He offered no evidence. President Claudia Sheinbaum demanded some; none came. Mexico’s Security Cabinet answered with figures—tens of thousands of arrests, hundreds of tons of narcotics seized—while Cole’s office remained silent. The accusation was never meant to

Lenin and Sverdlov in the presidium of the Congress Agricultural Communes and Agricultural Artels, Moscow, December 1918 -- Daily LIFT #2037