The Paris Commune, the first attempt by the modern working class to seize power in history, was proclaimed March 18, 1871. 100 years...

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Workers on strike against reactionary pension "reforms" in France, March 7 -- image via the CGT on Twitter On Tuesday, March 7 hundreds...

With news from France, Britain, Ecuador, India, Venezuela, Vietnam, Russia, Belgium and elsewhere. Communists marching in the British...

All images via Twitter Following on the heels of a huge mobilization on January 19, an estimated 2.8 million French workers took to the...

All images via Twitter Hundreds of thousands of workers went on strike and marched in Paris and in other cities and towns all across...

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In a remarkable turn of events Jean-Luc Mélenchon, whose unexpectedly good showing in the first round of the French Presidential...

With news from India, France, the USA, Colombia and elsewhere. Marx and Engels statue during the celebrations of Marx's birth, May 5,...

With news from France, Venezuela, the USA, Cuba, Mexico and elsewhere. Thousands demonstrate against far right candidate Le Pen in Paris,...

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Ho Chi Minh and comrades walk along a beach in Biarritz, France 1946 -- Daily LIFT #659 Ho Chi Minh and his fellow delegates for talks...

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Josephine Baker at the Civil Rights March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963 The famed entertainer and civil rights activist...

French Communist Party leader Maurice Thorez on the cover of Time Magazine, 1946 On November 10, 1946, in the wake of the Second World...

Ho Chi Minh with his goddaughter and her mother Lucie Aubrac, France 1946 -- Daily LIFT #395 When Ho Chi Minh was in France to attend the...