Michael Laxer
When the workers first held power: Joanny Berlioz on the Paris Commune
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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Michael Laxer
- Mar 14
- 1 min
Karl Marx's Grave Memorial Unveiled, Highgate Cemetery, London, 1956
Karl Marx's Grave Memorial Unveiled, Highgate Cemetery, London, 1956 The now famous and iconic memorial at the grave of Karl Marx in...
Michael Laxer
- Mar 2
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #892
Marx and Engels writing the Communist Manifesto, Vitaly Polyakov (1925-1997) USSR 1961 -- Daily LIFT #892 Vitaly Polyakov was a Soviet...
Michael Laxer
- Feb 28
- 16 min
Red Review #87: -- International Left and Labour News
With news from Italy, Germany, the USA, Finland, Tunisia, the DPRK and elsewhere. There is also a section with statements from Communist...
Michael Laxer
- Feb 21
- 7 min
Engels on the Communist Manifesto, 1888
Deco cover from a 50s Canadian edition of the Communist Manifesto February 21, 1848 is widely regarded as the date on which the...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 30
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #873
Karl Marx Bust, 1918, Soviet sculptor, painter and graphic artist, Georgy Dmitrievich Alekseev (1881-1951) -- Daily LIFT #873
Michael Laxer
- Jan 29
- 1 min
The "light of Marxism permits us to understand human history"
Karl Marx among the Parisian workers, Rostislav Nikolayevich Galitsky (1920-1979), USSR It is because the light of Marxism permits us to...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 16
- 1 min
Eleanor Marx b. 16 January, 1855
"Above all, the feeling of class consciousness and the understanding of the class struggle have grown beyond all expectation, and with...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 25, 2022
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #838
Workers of the World Unite! -- Karl Marx poster, USSR 1968 -- Daily LIFT #838
Michael Laxer
- Nov 22, 2022
- 3 min
Corporations that fund food banks do so out of self-interest
By Dennis Raphael Food banks are good because they feed hungry people. Corporations that fund food banks are good because they help feed...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 12, 2022
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #832
Lenin speaking at the opening of a temporary monument to Marx and Engels, Moscow, November 7, 1918 -- Daily LIFT #832
Michael Laxer
- Nov 10, 2022
- 3 min
The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky - Lenin, November 10, 1918
On November 10, 1918, Vladimir Lenin completed work on the pamphlet The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky. - Bourgeois...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 2, 2022
- 3 min
Daily LIFT #826
Monument to Karl Marx, Leningrad (bronze and stone) sculpture Nikolai Tomsky, USSR 1932 -- Daily LIFT #826 Nikolai Tomsky (sometimes...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 1, 2022
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #825
Karl Marx Among the Workers of Paris, Soviet artist Rostislav Nikolayevich Galitsky (1920-1979) -- Daily LIFT #825
Michael Laxer
- Sep 25, 2022
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #802
Karl Marx poster, People's Republic of China c. 1975 -- Daily LIFT #802
Michael Laxer
- Sep 25, 2022
- 1 min
Emancipation of Labor formed in Russia, Sept. 25, 1883
Soviet stamp in honour of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Georgi Plekhanov, 1956 From USSR Magazine, September 1963: "September 25,...
Michael Laxer
- Sep 21, 2022
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #799
Stamp commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx, Mongolian People's Republic, 1968 -- Daily LIFT #799
Michael Laxer
- Sep 13, 2022
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #794
Soviet stamp in honour of the 100th anniversary of Das Kapital 1967 -- Daily LIFT #794
Michael Laxer
- Aug 27, 2022
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #783
Soviet stamp for the 150th anniversary of Karl Marx's birth -- Daily LIFT #783
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