Daily LIFT #631
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Ho Chi Minh visits a children's club, Tirana, People's Republic of Albania 1957 -- Daily LIFT #631
Michael Laxer
- Jan 23, 2022
- 9 min
Red Review #41 -- International Left and Labour News
The forty-first edition of our weekly review of international left and labour news with stories from France, India, the DPRK, China, the...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 22, 2022
- 1 min
Gramsci b. January 22, 1891
A mural of Gramsci by Italian artist Jorit on a council housing block in Florence, 2020 "The revolution is not a dramatic act, it is a...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 22, 2022
- 9 min
Soviet 1963: Memorable events
As we have noted before, the 1960s was arguably the beginning of a "Golden Age" in the history of the USSR as it launched into an era of...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 21, 2022
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #630
Lenin Monument erected in the wake of the Great Patriotic War, Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR 1948 -- Daily LIFT #630
Michael Laxer
- Jan 21, 2022
- 2 min
Capitalism today
The Brazilian Communist Party held its XVI Congress in November 2021 and has recently released an English language translation of the...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 20, 2022
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #629
Crowds assemble at the Kremlin Palace of the Congresses for a showing of The Defiant Ones during the Third Moscow International Film...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 19, 2022
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #628
Red Army liberates the Polish city of Lodz, January 19, 1945 -- Daily LIFT #628 When the Red Army liberated the city they also liberated...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 19, 2022
- 3 min
Open letter & petition call on Trudeau gov't to "de-escalate the conflict between Russia and NATO"
The Canadian Foreign Policy Institute and a number of other organizations have released an open letter and launched a petition in...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 19, 2022
- 1 min
Daily LIFT#627
Socialism Opened the Way for the Liberation of Colonial Nations, Poster, Czechoslovakia -- Daily LIFT #627 This is why the imperialist...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 18, 2022
- 4 min
Communist and Workers' parties issue joint Kazakhstan statement, demonstration held in Athens
A joint statement signed by 18 Communist and Workers' parties and initiated by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) was issued January 18...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 18, 2022
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #626
Still from a film showing Lenin saying good-by to American economist Parley P. Christensen after a talk in the Kremlin, 1921 -- Daily...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 17, 2022
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #625
Khrushchev, Mao and Ho Chi Minh share a drink, 1959 -- Daily LIFT #625
Michael Laxer
- Jan 16, 2022
- 8 min
Red Review #40: International Left and Labour News
The fortieth edition of our weekly review of international left and labour news with stories from the USA, China, Venezuela, India and...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 16, 2022
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #624
Hammer and Sickle at a Leningrad housing complex c. 1985 -- Daily LIFT #624
Michael Laxer
- Jan 15, 2022
- 15 min
Kazakhstan, Swaziland, Sudan and Palestine: Special Red Review solidarity edition
Protestors march in the capital of Sudan, Khartoum, January 13, 2022 -- Image via Twitter A special Red Review solidarity edition with...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 14, 2022
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #623
Che Guevara gives a speech during a visit to the DPRK, December 1960 -- Daily LIFT #623
Michael Laxer
- Jan 13, 2022
- 7 min
Resisting Dystopia: US Workers push back against a grotesque reality
Staggering levels of inequality, unsafe working conditions, low wages, wage theft and union busting are just some aspects of the...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 12, 2022
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #622
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it." - Karl Marx, Soviet collage by...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 12, 2022
- 1 min
Starbucks and Amazon workers push ahead
In major victories for American workers, a second Starbucks location in Buffalo has voted to unionize while the National Labor Relations...
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