Zhou Enlai speaks at a reception for the 20th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, 1969 -- Daily LIFT #1820

Passenger train crosses the lower deck of the Nanking Yangtze River Bridge, People's Republic of China, 1969 -- Daily LIFT #1819

Soviet Red Army Field nurse Valentina Kalugina provides first aid to a wounded machine gunner during the battles in the Orel-Kursk sector, 1943 -- Daily LIFT #1818 Under fire Kalugina carried 45 wounded men with their equipment from the battlefield over the course of these battles.

Red Army packer Maria Ivanova Petrova putting medical supplies and instruments into a parachute bag to be dropped from a plane for wounded guerrilla fighters and soldiers of Red Army units operating behind enemy lines during the Great Patriotic War, 1942 -- Daily LIFT #1817

Lenin in conversation with local peasants, illustration, P. Vassiliev, USSR c. 1948 -- Daily LIFT #1816

Subway trainee students at the Moscow Railway School No. 1, USSR 1947 -- Daily LIFT #1815

Karl Marx portrait at the Nanjie Commune in the People's Republic of China, 2011, Gary Lee Todd, Ph.D., CC0, via Wikimedia Commons -- Daily LIFT #1814

New Doctors tor Borderland Villages (Papercut), Yuan Kuo-ping, People's Republic of China, 1976 From the PRC Press: "New Doctors for Borderland Villages", a uniquely decorative papercut, shows a woman army medical worker teaching barefoot doctors of minority nationalities the use of medicinal herbs.

Maurice Thorez, legendary General Secretary of the French Communist Party, talks with delegates from Siberia at the XXII Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1961 -- Daily LIFT #1812

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.

Nikita Khrushchev delivers the report "On the Program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union" at the Twenty Second Communist Party Congress on October 18 , 1961 -- Daily LIFT #1810

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

Engels and Marx at Hague Congress, illustration -- Daily LIFT #1808 Friedrich Engels was born November 28, 1820

The Workers Armed, Spanish Civil War illustration, Raphael Soyer, first published in the US Leftists magazine New Masses, December, 1936 -- Daily LIFT #1807

The Moscow Restaurant Cafe, East Berlin, German Democratic Republic, 1960s -- Daily LIFT #1806

May Day rally and celebration in a Beijing park, People's Republic of China, 1976 -- Daily LIFT #1805

Carry the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Through to the End! (oil painting) by Huang Chin-sheng and Chang Wen-hsin, People's Republic of China, 1976 -- Daily LIFT #1804

Fidel Castro and Salvador Allende at mass event held in Punta Arenas, Chile during Castro's visit there in November, 1972 -- Daily LIFT #1803

Soviet City of the Future, illustration, E. Serov, USSR 1985 -- Daily LIFT #1802

Communist march in Riga, Latvia, 1940 -- Daily LIFT #1801