Students in the "July 21" Workers* College of the Shanghai Machine Tool Plant, People's Republic of China, 1975 -- Daily LIFT #1787

The young Georg Lukács in 1913 By Rüdiger Dannemann. Neues Deutschland / ND Online, October 30, 2025. Translated by Helmut-Harry Loewen. Georg Lukács died in 1971. In the same year, the archive of the Hungarian philosopher and founder of Western Marxism was established in his apartment in Budapest. For decades, it served as a gateway and resource to his work and thus to fundamental questions of Marxist theory. This institution has now been closed for over 2,700 days. Its decl

Czech Communists rally in Prague in 2022 -- image via the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia Members of the European Parliament of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE): No matter what anti-communist measures they take, they will not stop the struggle of the peoples In just 78 words, the EU is attempting to gloss over the criminalization of communist ideology by the Czech government, which carries prison sentences of up to five years, as well as similar prosecutions in Pola

Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China -- image via X By Biljana Vankovska Just days before the second round of local elections in Macedonia, everyone here seems obsessed with one question: who will control the municipalities —and through them, control us? Power in this country flows like a pyramid: from Vodno (the president’s office) to Ilindenska (the government’s building), and down to every local council. My local readers will

South African Communist Party Media Statement on the war in Sudan Saturday, 1 November 2025 : - The South African Communist Party (SACP) condemns, with revolutionary outrage, the barbaric massacres and systematic violence unleashed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) against defenceless civilians in El Fasher, Bara, and other regions of Darfur and Kordofan in Sudan. These atrocities - summary executions, arbitrary detentions, looting, property destruction, and forced displacem

Elements of the sphere and ribbon pennants carried the moon by the second Soviet cosmic rocket to land there -- Daily LIFT #1786

Trump and Xi Jinping, October 30, 2025 -- public domain image By Prabir Purkayastha The Trump-Xi meeting in Busan, South Korea today —30 October 2025— may have brought about a temporary relief in the US-China trade war. But unless we see the fine print of the agreement, it is difficult to assess whether this is a temporary truce or the beginning of a real rapprochement between the two nations. The jury is still out on that one and we will wait for a better understanding of wh

Image of the Anti-Trump protests via X By Atul Chandra On 29 October 2025, the carefully scripted pageantry of the US-ROK alliance in Gyeongju and Seoul met an unwelcome counter-narrative from the streets. While US President Donald Trump was being feted with a Silla-era replica gold crown and Korea’s highest honor, thousands of workers, trade unionists, farmers, and students and women’s collectives converged near the APEC venues. They chanted a unified dissent: “No kings”’

The Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Democratic Alliance (LDF) government achieves a unique feat in India which, according to the World Bank, has the world’s largest number of extremely poor. Housing built as part of the poverty eradication program -- video screenshot image via the CPI(M) on Facebook By Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch On Saturday, November 1, India’s southern state of Kerala officially declared itself free of extreme poverty. This makes the left-ru

Image via KKE The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) reports that on November 1, dozens of labour unions and mass organizations from the north-west Athens neighbourhoods of Nea Ionia, Neo Heraklio, Nea Filadelfia and Metamorfosi organized a dynamic and massive anti-fascist rally in Neo Heraklio. Student associations also participated. Shouting loudly “You are the world’s decay; block the fascists in every neighbourhood”, the protesters made it clear that fascists and their poiso

Red Guards in the streets of Petrograd in the days leading up to the Great October Socialist Revolution, from a drawing by V. Khvostenko, USSR 1942 -- Daily LIFT #1785

former prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Various Sources Seven communist parties in Nepal, including the CPN (Maoist Centre) led by former prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal (also known as Prachanda), signed an 18-point agreement to form a unified party ahead of the March 2026 elections, aiming to consolidate left-wing forces and strengthen their political position. The agreement was signed late on Sunday evening in Kathmandu. "The party's guiding ideology will be Marxism-Leni

From the original Soviet card (translated): Moskvich-400v (1947-1954): A compact car produced at MZMA. This model and its modernized version, the Moskvich-401v, were manufactured in quantities of 250,000 units. Engine displacement is 1074 cm9, power is 23 hp, length is 3.86 m, curb weight is 855 kg, speed is 90 km/h, seats - 4/5 Additional research information: The Moskvich-400v, introduced in 1946–1947, was a compact Soviet car based on the German Opel Kadett K38, designed f

Netanyahu surrounded by US officials at the White House, September 29, 2025 By Vijay Prashad No dia 26 de outubro, Caroline Willemen, do Médicos Sem Fronteiras, afirmou que Israel continua usando a necessidade de ajuda humanitária em Gaza como “meio de exercer pressão”. “A situação humanitária em Gaza não melhorou de forma significativa”, disse Caroline à imprensa, “já que a escassez de água e abrigo persiste e centenas de milhares de pessoas continuam vivendo em tendas à me

Soviet schoolchildren visit the Museum of the Revolution, USSR 1959 -- Daily LIFT #1784

KKE HQ International Relations Section of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) International solidarity with the people of Sudan must be strengthened! The KKE expresses its unreserved solidarity with the working class, the people of Sudan, and the Sudanese Communist Party, and condemns the recent atrocities committed in the city of Al-Fasher, as the war in Sudan enters its third year, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives and creating millions of re

The USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements, 1959 Part II The second in a new series looking at the USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements in Moscow from the Soviet Press, 1959. By Vladimir Novakovsky, Deputy Director, USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements FIVE hundred and twenty acres in the northwest of Moscow have been converted into a mammoth fairground for the USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements. The broad avenues are lined with 71 strikingly designed pavilion

The Trump administration continues to escalate its threats of war against Venezuela, as millions in the US are set to lose essential benefits US Marines engaged in an amphibious training exercise, October 18, 2025 -- image via Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan on X By Manolo De Los Santos The United States government is in the grips of one of its longest-running funding gaps in history. The ongoing government shutdown has already stretched beyond 30 days and now, the food

For the power of the Soviets, drawing by N. Kochergin, USSR -- Daily LIFT #1783

“The occupation targets whoever it wants, stopping and resuming the genocide every few days as if playing with our lives,” said one young woman from Gaza. An IDF helicopter in Gaza, October 13, 2025 -- / IDF Spokesperson's Unit By Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams More than 800 Palestinians have been killed or wounded since the October 10 truce between Israel and Hamas , leaving many residents of the still-embattled, still-starved strip to question whether there is actually any