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Is there a way out?: Speech by TKP General Secretary Kemal Okuyan at the 24th IMCWP
Kemal Okuyan meeting with Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, May 8 Speech by Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) General Secretary Kemal Okuyan at the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties Dear comrades, I would like to begin by thanking the leadership of the Communist Party of Cuba, Comrade Díaz-Canel, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and the President of the Republic of Cuba, Member of the Political Bureau of the Communist

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Aug 156 min read


On World Day Against Child Labour oppose all forms of child exploitation!
Communist Party of Swaziland 12 June 2026 Statement on World Day Against Child Labour: CPS opposes all forms of child exploitation The Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) joins workers, trade unions, youth organisations, progressive movements, and people of conscience worldwide in commemorating World Day Against Child Labour. This year’s commemoration takes place at a time of growing uncertainty and suffering for millions of children across the globe. Wars continue to rage, in

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Jun 124 min read


Daily LIFT #1990
Karl Marx stamp design, German Democratic Republic 1983 -- Daily LIFT #1990 The stamp design has the famed quote “The philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.” This statement appears in Karl Marx's "Theses on Feuerbach” (1845), specifically in the final, eleventh thesis. It is central to Marx’s critique of previous philosophy.

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Jun 111 min read


The Calamities of Liberia’s West Point: Structural Poverty and Educational Crunch
An aerial view of the West Point area of Monrovia -- Mark Fischer, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Darius David Sumo For decades, the manacles of entrenched poverty have continued to engulf West Point, Liberia and its people. Government after government, the material conditions of the people of West Point remain essentially unchanged: limited access to quality education, a awful healthcare delivery system, inadequate safe drinking water, poor sanitation, and a general

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May 237 min read


Daily LIFT #1969
Karl Marx Silver Coin, German Democratic Republic, 1968 -- Daily LIFT #1969

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May 181 min read


Daily LIFT #1932
USSR postage stamp, 1965, "Marxism-Leninism - an eternally living revolutionary doctrine." -- Daily LIFT #1932

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Apr 91 min read


Marx, Engels and Lenin on the Paris Commune
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

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Mar 1822 min read


The 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of Greece launches with grand opening ceremony
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

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Jan 291 min read


Daily LIFT #1856
Karl Marx portrait in honour of the 50th anniversary of his death, USA 1933 -- Daily LIFT #1856

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Jan 221 min read


Daily LIFT #1844
Stamp of the famed Karl Marx bust in Karl-Marx-Stadt, German Democratic Republic, 1980 -- Daily LIFT #1844

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Jan 101 min read


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

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Jan 21 min read


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

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Dec 15, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1814
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

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Dec 6, 20251 min read


Imperialism Today: The Struggle Forward
Trump at Fort Bragg, 2025 -- public domain image By D. Raja, General Secretary, Communist Party of India Imperialism today no longer requires colonies in the traditional sense. It governs through networks of finance, data, and technology — invisible chains binding nations to the logic of capital accumulation. The world that emerged from the ashes of the Cold War falsely promised unending prosperity under the banner of globalisation and neo-liberalism. What we have instead is

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Nov 14, 20255 min read


The October Revolution remains a seismic moment in the history of the world: WPI
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

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Nov 8, 20252 min read


General Secretary To Lam visits the grave of Karl Marx
Images via X Various Sources General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam To Lam, along with his spouse Ngo Phuong Ly and a high-level Vietnamese delegation, visited Karl Marx’s grave at Highgate Cemetery in London on October 28, 2025, as part of their official three-day visit to the United Kingdom at the invitation of Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Upon arrival, the delegation observed a minute of silence and laid a wreath in tribute to the great philosopher, theorist,

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Nov 7, 20251 min read


The Contemporary Liberian State and Its Achilles Heel
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

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Nov 5, 20256 min read


The Yoke of Advanced Capitalist Exploitation: A Case Study with Firestone
A view of the Firestone rubber factory in Harbel, Liberia, 2012 -- Bwoart, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Darius David Sumo...

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Sep 24, 20257 min read


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

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Sep 14, 202510 min read


Daily LIFT #1715
1945 Romanian stamp featuring Karl Marx. On the stamp is written: "Workers of the world, unite!" -- Daily LIFT #1715

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Aug 25, 20251 min read
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