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Salute to the October Revolution: Revolution is Your Right! - TKP
Revolution is Your Right! -- Communist Party of Turkey Today, 700 million people live in extreme poverty, while 3.5 billion more struggle to survive below the poverty line. In contrast, just 3 thousand capitalists now control a total wealth of 16 trillion dollars. Our people, too, suffer deeply from this greatest assault of impoverishment in human history. While millions of workers live below the hunger and poverty thresholds, the ten richest capitalists have increased their

The Left Chapter
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How Bolshevism Was Born
Reminisces of the Second Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party from Fridrikh Lengnik, Krupskaya and Martyn Lyadov....
Michael Laxer
Feb 125 min read


Victorio Codovilla, Yelena Stasova and Ho Chi Minh, Moscow, 1961
Victorio Codovilla, Yelena Stasova and Ho Chi Minh, Moscow, 1961 A remarkable photo from the 22nd Congress of the CPSU in Moscow, 1961....
Michael Laxer
Feb 11 min read


Knight of the Revolution: Felix Dzerzhinsky
A look at the life, times and thinking of the great Bolshevik revolutionary Felix Dzerzhinsky from a 1967 issue of Soviet Life magazine:...
Michael Laxer
Aug 24, 20247 min read


The character of capitalism
Vladimir Lenin at the 2nd Congress of the RSDLP in 1903, painting, Sergei Arsenevich Vinogradov Back in 1903 the Russian...
Michael Laxer
May 14, 20243 min read


She dedicated herself to the Revolution: The story of Jeanne-Marie Labourbe
A look at the courageous life and terrible execution of French Bolshevik revolutionary Jeanne-Marie Labourbe (1877-1919) who worked among...
Michael Laxer
Mar 24, 202410 min read


Here They Are! - Lenin at the YCL Congress, October 1920
Lenin Speaks at the 3rd Young Communist League (YCL) Congress, October 1920 - painting B. Johanson, USSR "THE CIVIL WAR was still raging...
Michael Laxer
Oct 26, 20238 min read


John Reed: Eyewitness to revolution
A short look at the life of John Reed, famed American leftist writer who chronicled the events of the Russian Revolution in his famed...
Michael Laxer
Oct 18, 20238 min read


Daily LIFT #1028
First International Communist Chinese Detachment, Revolutionary Civil War, Soviet Russia 1918 -- Daily LIFT #1028 Well before the...
Michael Laxer
Sep 9, 20231 min read


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, 20235 min read


The Revolution in Moscow, 1917
Storming of the Kremlin in 1917, painting K. Yuon From the USSR in 1957 -- 40 years after the world changing events of 1917 -- some...
Michael Laxer
Jul 27, 20232 min read


First Soviet constitution adopted July 10, 1918
The first socialist constitution in human history created by and for the working class was adopted for the newly formed Russian Soviet...
Michael Laxer
Jul 10, 20233 min read


Bolshevik decree nationalizing industry and transportation June 28, 1918
In one of the most significant, and world altering, revolutionary moments in human history, on June 28, 1918 -- in the face of the forces...
Michael Laxer
Jun 28, 20237 min read


April Conference of the Bolsheviks begins May 7, 1917
Lenin at the April Conference of the RSDLP (b), painting Pyotr Dmitrievich Buchkin (1886-1965), USSR The tremendously important April...
Michael Laxer
May 7, 20235 min read


All Power to the Soviets! -- The April slogan of the Bolsheviks that changed the world
All Power to Soviets, oil on canvas, V. Ladyzhensky USSR 1972 From the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1979: All Power to the Soviets!...
Michael Laxer
Apr 18, 20232 min read
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