Michael Laxer
Anniversary of the Moncada Barracks attack
Today is the anniversary of the historic attack on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba on July 26, 1953 by a band of Cuban rebels...
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Michael Laxer
- Jul 18
- 10 min
Red Review #66 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from Greece, Cuba, Venezuela, Ecuador, South Africa, Swaziland, the USA, Ukraine and elsewhere. There are also updates on Sri...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 13
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #754
Che at a chess tournament in Havana -- Daily LIFT #754 Che was an avid, and by all accounts serious, chess player. After the revolution...
Michael Laxer
- Jun 14
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #733
Che greets Yuri Gagarin as he arrives in Cuba after his historic flight, 1961 -- Daily LIFT #733
Michael Laxer
- Jun 11
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #730
A picket line organized by the Fair Play for Cuba Committee demonstrating in front of the United Nations Nov. 26, 1961 against moves of...
Michael Laxer
- Jun 10
- 1 min
People's Summit activists protest in opposition to imperialist sanctions
Image via Twitter Activists attending the People’s Summit for Democracy rallied at the convention center where the Summit of the Americas...
Michael Laxer
- Jun 6
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #726
Viva Cuba!, poster Viktor Koretskii USSR, 1962 -- Daily LIFT #726 Koretskii, (also sometimes translated as Koretsky), an astonishingly...
Michael Laxer
- Jun 6
- 1 min
AMLO boycotting the Summit of the Americas
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez in 2019 Mexican President Andrés Manuel...
Michael Laxer
- Jun 2
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #723
Castro and Brezhnev in Havana, 1974 -- Daily LIFT #723
Michael Laxer
- May 30
- 3 min
Bolivarian XXI ALBA-TCP Summit in Havana counters US imperial domination
With the full official summit statement. Official photo of the leaders and delegates of the XXI ALBA-TCP Summit, Havana, May 27 The XXI...
Michael Laxer
- May 30
- 10 min
Red Review #59 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from Cuba, Colombia, India, the UK. Venezuela, Spain and elsewhere. There are also updates from various union drives in the US...
Michael Laxer
- May 27
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #719
Fidel Castro and Ernest Hemingway, Havana, May 1960 -- Daily LIFT #719 Castro is holding trophies for wins in an annual fishing...
Michael Laxer
- May 23
- 12 min
Red Review #58 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from India, Greece, Swaziland, Sudan, Cuba, Vietnam, the USA and elsewhere. Women agricultural workers of the Karnataka...
Michael Laxer
- May 16
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #712
Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre with Che in Havana, 1960 -- Daily LIFT #712
Michael Laxer
- May 2
- 13 min
IWD 2022 : Red Review #55 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from Cuba, France, Greece, Cuba, Venezuela, the USA, Swaziland and elsewhere. There is also a special section related to...
Michael Laxer
- May 1
- 1 min
Huge crowds in Havana rally for IWD under the slogan Cuba Vive y Trabaja
For the first time in three years a mass rally was held in Havana to celebrate International Workers' Day. Under the slogan Cuba Vive y...
Michael Laxer
- Apr 25
- 5 min
Red Review #54 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from Cuba, Nicaragua, Greece, the USA, Mexico and elsewhere. Evo Morales with Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez in Cuba, April 23...
Michael Laxer
- Apr 18
- 8 min
Red Review #53 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from France, Venezuela, the USA, Cuba, Mexico and elsewhere. Thousands demonstrate against far right candidate Le Pen in Paris,...
Michael Laxer
- Apr 17
- 1 min
Lenin Centennial Poster, Cuba 1970
Images of Lenin #27 Lenin Centennial Poster, Cuba 1970 -- Images of Lenin #27 This is the twenty-seventh in our new daily feature that...