Keeping His Youth, Gouache, Li Ping-kang, People's Republic of China c. 1975 -- Daily LIFT #1811 From the PRC Press:  In "Keeping His Youth", gouache, during a break in field work a grey-haired commander explains quotations from Marx, Engels and Lenin on the dictatorship of the proletariat to a group of young people with education who have gone to work on a farm. He typifies veteran revolutionaries who are helping to bring up a new generation to carry on the revolution.

Under the Apple Trees, traditional-style painting, Lei Hung-sheng and Liu Han-yu, People's Republic of China, c. 1976 From the PRC Press: In "Under the Apple Trees", another traditional-style painting, a young cook with water flasks and cups swinging from his shoulder pole passes beneath apple trees heavy with ripe fruit, taking water to the men helping a commune pick apples. The scene calls to mind an incident during the Third Revolutionary Civil War (1946-49) when the PLA w

Milososki, Mizrahi and Bytyqi at a meeting with the Taiwanese delegation / Photo: RSM Assembly / Facebook By Biljana Vankovska A familiar drama has resurfaced in Skopje. While I was still in Beijing attending the CASS academic conference on the Belt and Road Initiative, news broke that the Vice Speaker of the Macedonian Parliament, accompanied by two MPs, formally received a Taiwanese parliamentary delegation. The visit came less than two weeks after the new Ambassador of

The Sahel country inaugurated an electric vehicle assembly plant in January 2025, revolutionizing the national automotive sector. Image via X By Pedro Stropasolas, People's Dispatch Under the government of President Ibrahim Traoré , Burkina Faso launched its first brand of domestically assembled electric cars, Itaoua. The name is a tribute to a village near Ouagadougou, the country’s capital. The horse that illustrates the logo represents strength, prestige, and longevity. To

On the March, cartoons from the Little Red Guard Magazine, People's Republic of China, 1973 -- Daily LIFT #1799 Little Red Guard Magazine was by and for youth and promoted values of community, solidarity and selflessness.

Image via the PCC By René Tamayo León, translated from the Spanish GUANAJAY, Artemisa.- "China's collaboration with Cuba in the energy sector continues to be strong and consistent. This includes ongoing projects like providing equipment and spare parts for distributed generation, supplying five thousand photovoltaic systems for isolated homes, and setting up additional photovoltaic solar parks (PSFV) with a combined capacity of 85 MW. Future plans involve installing another 2

Lo Chang-ken (center) of the Midstream Island Commune explaining fixing a tractor to young mechanics, People's Republic of China, 1972 -- Daily LIFT #1794

Dr. Bethune with an Eighth Route Army sentinel. An article about a journey to the grave of Norman Bethune from China Reconstructs, 1972. Editor's note: Shihchiachuang is now more commonly translated as Shijiazhuang. By Chen Han-Seng The grave of Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian surgeon who gave his life to aid the Chinese army in the fight against Japanese aggression, has already been visited by more than two million people. During the years 1937-1945 when Japanese militarism

Images via the PCC By Katherin Hormigó Rubio, translated from the Spanish "The successes of the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) and the endorsement of the CPC Central Committee's proposal for drafting the 15th Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development (2026-2030) confirm the unity and effective governance of the Communist Party of China (CPC), led by General Secretary Xi Jinping." Alberto Blanco Silva, the Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba to China, said this durin

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

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

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

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

The goals set by the Central Committee of the CPC for the plan include achieving scientific and technological self reliance and further improving the quality of life for the common people Image of the session via the Embassy of The People's Republic of China in the United States on Facebook By Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch The fourth plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) concluded on Thursday, October 23, after adopting recomme

The US has imposed visa restrictions on Central American nationals for their links with China in its latest move to pressure countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to break ties with the Asian powerhouse. Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Guo Jiakun -- image via the Chinese MFA By Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Tuesday, October 21, that his country has formally lodged serious protests a

A representative of King Mswati III and the Taiwanese ambassador at a celebration on October 8 -- image via X Communist Party of Swaziland's (CPS) Perspectives on the Taiwan Question in Swaziland Overview of the Taiwan Question The Taiwan question is a significant geopolitical issue that has persisted since the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949. The island of Taiwan operates under its own government, known as the Republic of China (ROC), while the mainland is governed by t

"Those who know, teach": At a village literacy class, People's Republic of China, 1956 -- Daily LIFT #1764

Li Zongyuan's presence demonstrates the strong relations between the two parties. They confirmed their commitment to advancing the implementation of the consensus reached between Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez and Xi Jinping. Image via the PCC By Dayán González Ramírez, translated from the Spanish On October 20, at the headquarters of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), Roberto Morales Ojeda, a member of the Political Bureau and the Secretary of Organizati

The First Tractor Arrives, illustration, Li Chi, People's Republic of China, 1950 -- Daily LIFT #1763 About the illustration: "The peasants show great interest in the first tractor arriving from the Soviet Union, which heralds great changes ahead in the rural mode of production."

Women voting in the People's Republic of China, 1954 -- Daily LIFT #1761 From the PRC press: In 1954, in China's first general election, 278 million people elected their delegates to more than 280,000 local people's congresses. In subsequent rounds, deputies were elected to the county, municipal and provincial congresses and those of the various national autonomous. regions-and finally to the National People's Congress which adopted the Constitution with socialism as its goal