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Communist Manifesto - Stamps of the GDR #22
Communist Manifesto - Stamps of the GDR #22 A stamp honouring the Communist Manifesto featuring Marx & Engels. The twenty-second in our...
Michael Laxer
May 2, 20231 min read


Karl Marx -- Stamps of the GDR #18
Karl Marx -- Stamps of the GDR #18 The eighteenth in our new The Left Chapter series looking at over 70 stamps from the German Democratic...
Michael Laxer
Apr 28, 20231 min read


Daily LIFT #926
Marx & Engels Stamps, USSR -- Daily LIFT #926
Michael Laxer
Apr 23, 20231 min read


Daily LIFT #925
Proletarians of All Countries Unite! -- painting, L. V. Kozlov, USSR 1973
Michael Laxer
Apr 21, 20231 min read


Daily LIFT #922
"Karl Marx", and "Vladimir Lenin", oil on paper portraits, Aleksei Alekseevich Shovkunenko, USSR -- Daily LIFT #922 From the Great Soviet...
Michael Laxer
Apr 17, 20231 min read


Proletarians of All Lands Unite -- Stamps of the GDR #7
Proletarians of All Lands Unite! -- Stamps of the GDR #7 Marvelous stamp from the 20th anniversary year of the Socialist Unity Party...
Michael Laxer
Apr 11, 20231 min read


Communist Manifesto -- Stamps of the GDR #4
Marx & Engels Stamp in honour of the Communist Manifesto - Stamps of the GDR #4 The fourth in our new The Left Chapter daily series...
Michael Laxer
Apr 6, 20231 min read


Daily LIFT #912
Karl Marx Statue, drawing V. Vysotsky USSR -- Daily LIFT #912
Michael Laxer
Mar 29, 20231 min read


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...
Michael Laxer
Mar 18, 202310 min read


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 14, 20231 min read


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
Mar 2, 20231 min read


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 28, 202316 min read


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
Feb 21, 20237 min read


Daily LIFT #873
Karl Marx Bust, 1918, Soviet sculptor, painter and graphic artist, Georgy Dmitrievich Alekseev (1881-1951) -- Daily LIFT #873
Michael Laxer
Jan 30, 20231 min read


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 29, 20231 min read


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
Jan 16, 20231 min read


Daily LIFT #838
Workers of the World Unite! -- Karl Marx poster, USSR 1968 -- Daily LIFT #838
Michael Laxer
Nov 25, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT#837
Marx Bust, USSR -- Daily LIFT #837
Michael Laxer
Nov 23, 20221 min read


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 22, 20223 min read


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 12, 20221 min read
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