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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

A view of the Firestone rubber factory in Harbel, Liberia, 2012 -- Bwoart, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Darius David Sumo...

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

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

Set of Karl Marx stamps, German Democratic Republic, 1953 -- Daily LIFT #1713

Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Jorge Coulon ‘History repeats itself:...

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

Karl Marx illustration, Robert Diedrichs, German Democratic Republic 1970 -- Daily LIFT #1594

Free German Youth mass rally in front of the Karl Marx Monument on the evening of October 9, 1971, Karl-Marx-Stadt, German Democratic...

Starmer on the HMS Iron Duke off the coast of Estonia, December 2024 -- Number 10, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons “The first Cold War...

The magnificent Karl Marx Monument in the center of Karl-Marx-Stadt with youth from the 5th Festival of German-Soviet Friendship, 1980,...

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

Manfred Brückels, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons A look at the remarkable partnership and friendship of Marx and Engels from the Soviet Magazine Socialism: Theory and Practice, December 1985. It follows it from Paris, 1844 to after Marx's death as Engels worked to ensure that volumes two and three of Capital were finished and published. Preface: The 19th century produced an extraordinary number of giants of the human spirit in all areas – great writers, composers, scien