Clara Zetkin (3rd from left) and Friedrich Engels (4th from left) at the International Socialist Workers Congress, Zürich 1893 -- Daily LIFT #1940 Remarkable photo of two giants. At the Congress Zetkin's demands for protective rights for female workers, such as the nine-hour work day and maternity leave, had been endorsed by Engels in the meetings with shouts of "Bravo, Clara!".

Parisians stand around a toppled statue of Emperor Napoleon I, considered the symbol of imperial despotism, during the Commune Written in 1926 by Alexander Trachtenberg this is an in-depth look at the impact of the Paris Commune on the thinking of Marx, Engels and Lenin. Trachtenberg (1884–1966) was a prominent American Marxist educator, and longtime activist in the US socialist movement and later the Communist Party USA. He is best known for founding International Publishers

Image via the KKE On Wednesday, January 28, the opening event of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) took place at the Galatsi Olympic Hall. The keynote speech was delivered by D. Koutsoumbas, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the KKE. This was followed by a theatrical performance of The Manifesto by Bertolt Brecht, a poetic rendition of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The opening of the Congress was marked by a vibr

Marx & Engels stamp in honour of the Centenary of the founding of the First International (1864–1876), USSR 1964 -- Daily LIFT #1837

Drawing, P. Bendel, USSR c. 1985 -- Daily LIFT #1823

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

The Workers Party of Ireland, together with our comrades across the world, celebrates the 108th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution led by Lenin and the Bolshevik Party, on 25 October (7 November) 1917. The October Revolution remains a seismic moment in the history of the world. For the first time in human history, workers proved their ability to overthrow the capitalist order and establish a workers’ state. By establishing the world’s first socialist state

By Darius David Sumo Many have arguably accustomed some sort of ostensible thoughts of the STATE. For some, whenever the STATE is mentioned, they think of Western countries, cities, regions, etcetera. Some have even gone as far as complicating the government with the state, veiling their perceptions in shadow to the fact that the state is wielded by the government, which is part of the superstructure of a bourgeois society. From an ideological perspective, when we endeavor to

Russian language set - public domain image . On September 14, 1867, the first volume of Karl Marx's titanic classic Das Kapital (Capital)...

Engels, 1893 -- Daily LIFT #1714 (enhanced image)

Statement of the Workers Party of Ireland on the 155th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Today marks the 155th...

Marx & Engels, illustration, Nikolai Zhukov (1908-1973), USSR One of Zhukov's many famous sketches. Zhukov, who was a People’s Artist of...

Marx and Engels at the Rheinische Zeitung, oil on canvas, E. Capiro -- Daily LIFT #1504 This classic image is available on a number of...

A family visits the Marx & Engels monument in the Marx-Engels-Forum in Berlin, German Democratic Republic, summer of 1986 -- Daily LIFT...

Soviet stamp art for the German Democratic Republic 30th anniversary. Shows the Palast der Republic, the coat of arms of GDR and Marx,...

Unveiling of the monument to Friedrich Engels in the inner courtyard of the Friedrich Engels Military Academy of the German Democratic...

The Engels statue in Manchester -- travelmag.com , CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons An...

Forward to Communism!, illustration E. Arurunyan, USSR c. 1983

Writing to his friend Engels in August, 1862, Marx jotted down what is perhaps the first attempt to summarize his views on the organic composition of capital, average rate of profit and rent. At this time, while Marx was juggling theoretically with enormous sums of capital in the library of the British Museum, his own financial condition was one of chronic crisis, owing to the outbreak of the American Civil War which had cut short even the small weekly remuneration he had bee

A leaflet of remembrances of Karl Marx published in the 1940s in the UK that we republish here in honour of Marx's birthday, May 5, 1818....