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Daily LIFT #1436
A family visits the Marx & Engels monument in the Marx-Engels-Forum in Berlin, German Democratic Republic, summer of 1986 -- Daily LIFT...
Michael Laxer
Sep 4, 20241 min read


Fred Hampton born, August 30, 1948
The great revolutionary and freedom fighter, Fred Hampton, was born August 30, 1948. A leader of the Black Panthers he was murdered by...
Michael Laxer
Aug 30, 20242 min read


Panoramic Soviet Moscow 1971 -- 21 Images
From a postcard packet published in the USSR in 1971, here we are sharing 21 panoramic images of the Soviet capital, some with our text...
Michael Laxer
Aug 28, 20247 min read


Daily LIFT #1428
Soviet stamp art for the German Democratic Republic 30th anniversary. Shows the Palast der Republic, the coat of arms of GDR and Marx,...
Michael Laxer
Aug 23, 20241 min read


Engels: "We are now approaching a social revolution"
The Engels statue in Manchester -- travelmag.com , CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons An...
Michael Laxer
Aug 21, 20246 min read


Daily LIFT #1394
Karl Marx at the Lectern, stamp, People's Republic of Albania 1968 -- Daily LIFT #1394
Michael Laxer
Jul 12, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1384
Forward to Communism!, illustration E. Arurunyan, USSR c. 1983
Michael Laxer
Jul 1, 20241 min read


The Organic Composition of Capital -- Karl Marx
Writing to his friend Engels in August, 1852, Marx jotted down what is perhaps the first attempt to summarize his views on the organic...
Michael Laxer
Jun 29, 20246 min read


Daily LIFT #1375
Workers of the World Unite!, illustration, USSR c. 1926 -- Daily LIFT #1375
Michael Laxer
Jun 19, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1364
Profile photo of the great Karl Marx bust in Karl-Marx-Stadt, German Democratic Republic 1971 -- Daily LIFT #1364
Michael Laxer
Jun 4, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1337
Marx addresses a meeting of the First International, pencil drawing, Nikolai Nikolaevich Zhukov, USSR 1939-40. Karl Marx was born May 5,...
Michael Laxer
May 5, 20241 min read


Karl Marx: Remembrances of Engels, Liebknecht & Lafargue
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....
Michael Laxer
May 5, 20241 min read


Statement on the 30th anniversary of our April 1994 democratic breakthrough - South African Communist Party
South African Communist Party Statement on the 30th anniversary of our April 1994 democratic breakthrough Wednesday, 27 April 1994 marked...
Michael Laxer
Apr 27, 202414 min read


The Paris Commune: The first proletarian revolutionary political power in the history of humanity
From China Pictorial Magazine, March 1971, a short, edited illustrated look at the Paris Commune at its centenary: On March 18,1871 the...
Michael Laxer
Mar 18, 20244 min read


Frederick Engels’ Speech at the Grave of Karl Marx, Highgate Cemetery, London March 17, 1883
Frederick Engels’ Speech at the Grave of Karl Marx, Highgate Cemetery, London March 17, 1883: On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three...
Michael Laxer
Mar 17, 20243 min read


Daily LIFT #1194
Karl Marx portrait, Hugo Gellert USA, New Masses Magazine March, 1938 -- Daily LIFT #1194
Michael Laxer
Mar 14, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1192
Ho Chi Minh, Marx & Lenin, graphic, Socialist Republic of Vietnam -- Daily LIFT #1192
Michael Laxer
Mar 12, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1172
Marx, Engels, Lenin stamp for the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1961 -- Daily LIFT #1172
Michael Laxer
Feb 17, 20241 min read


Communist Party is the Vanguard of the Working Class: Marx, Engels, Lenin
From Socialism: Theory and Practice, August 1983: In their works Marx, Engels and Lenin discussed in detail the role of the proletarian...
Michael Laxer
Oct 1, 20234 min read


Daily LIFT #1035
Cover of the Civil War in France, Soviet English language edition 1971 -- Daily LIFT #1035 A timely reminder on the truth about bourgeois...
Michael Laxer
Sep 18, 20231 min read
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