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2022: The year in review on The Left Chapter
Chris Smalls speaks 2022 is done and what a complicated year it was. There was the imperialist war in Ukraine, the uprising in...
Michael Laxer
Jan 3, 20237 min read


Daily LIFT #854
Mao and Norman Bethune meet, poster, People's Republic of China, 1976 -- Daily LIFT #854 On December 21, 1939 Comrade Mao Zedong wrote...
Michael Laxer
Dec 22, 20223 min read


Daily LIFT #850
Mao speaking, 1957 -- Daily LIFT #850 We cannot just follow the beaten track traversed by other countries in the development of...
Michael Laxer
Dec 14, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #846
Cuban President Fidel Castro greets visiting Chinese President Jiang Zemin, Havana 1993 -- Daily LIFT #846 Jiang Zemin died 30 November...
Michael Laxer
Dec 7, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #844
Jiang Zemin (second from right) at the Stalin Automobile Factory in Moscow as an intern in 1955. Zemin, who joined the Communist Party in...
Michael Laxer
Dec 4, 20221 min read


Lula Wins!: Red Review #79 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from the USA, Sudan, China, India, Russia and elsewhere. There are also sections related to the victory of Lula in Brazil and...
Michael Laxer
Oct 31, 202212 min read


Daily LIFT #823
Mao Speaks -- Poster, People's Republic of China c. 1950 -- Daily LIFT #823
Michael Laxer
Oct 30, 20221 min read


CPC XX: Red Review #78 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from the USA, Cuba, Greece, Australia, Canada, Croatia and elsewhere. There is also a section with updates from the 20th...
Michael Laxer
Oct 24, 202212 min read


CPC's 20th Congress begins: Red Review #77 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from the USA, UK, France, the DPRK and elsewhere. There is also a section with updates from the opening of the 20th Congress of...
Michael Laxer
Oct 17, 202211 min read


"Cuba will have the solidarity, the support of the Chinese Party, government and people"
Comments by Wang Yulin, Director General of Bureau V of the International Liaison Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC),...
Michael Laxer
Oct 14, 20222 min read


Capitalism "is human exploitation, environmental destruction and war for the benefit of a minority"
Excerpts from the speech given by Enrique Santiago, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain at the Fiesta PCE, October 1, 2022....
Michael Laxer
Oct 10, 20227 min read


Mass protests across the UK: Red Review #75 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from the UK, Brazil, Swaziland, South Africa, Cuba, China, Tunisia, the USA, Belgium, Sweden, India and elsewhere. There is...
Michael Laxer
Oct 3, 202218 min read


Daily LIFT #806
Celebrating the formation of the People's Republic of China, poster 1949 -- Daily LIFT #806 The People's Republic of China was formed...
Michael Laxer
Oct 1, 20221 min read


Red Review #74 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from Ireland, Ukraine, Cuba, Tunisia, the USA, Colombia, Venezuela, China, Brazil and more. Opposition Leftist parties and...
Michael Laxer
Sep 26, 202215 min read


Daily LIFT #795
Mao enjoying a quiet moment with a cigarette, September 1969 -- Daily LIFT #795
Michael Laxer
Sep 14, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #785
Long live the Great October Socialist Revolution!, poster, People's Republic of China 1958 -- Daily LIFT #785
Michael Laxer
Aug 30, 20221 min read


Red Review #70 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from the People's Republic of China, the USA, Bangladesh, Australia, Sri Lanka, the UK, Palestine and elsewhere. Xi Jinping,...
Michael Laxer
Aug 22, 20228 min read


Chairman Mao at the Eleventh Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee meeting of the Communist Party of China, August 1966
Chairman Mao at the Eleventh Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee meeting of the Communist Party of China, August 1966 --...
Michael Laxer
Aug 20, 20222 min read


Communists should be the advanced elements of the proletariat
Cover of the booklet, 1970 Some of the Chairman Mao quotes from the booklet: - The Party organization should be composed of the advanced...
Michael Laxer
Aug 19, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #777
Chairman Mao reviews a march in Beijing from Tiananmen Gate, late August 1966 -- Daily LIFT #777
Michael Laxer
Aug 19, 20221 min read
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