By Shadab Murtaza In contemporary left-wing political discourse, particularly in debates surrounding anti-imperialist struggle, two distinct liberal tendencies have become increasingly evident. The first is an openly bourgeois liberal current that accepts the imperialist system as natural, inevitable, and structurally permanent. The second, and more theoretically problematic, tendency presents itself as Marxist or communist while remaining confined—both analytically and polit

First published in the Soviet magazine Socialism: Theory and Practice in September, 1985: The life of the fighter for the people's happiness, Ho Chi Minh, (''worldlywise" - in Vietnamese) was both colourful and eventful. His real name was Nguyen Tat Thanh (1890-1969). He was the son of a village teacher. He began his revolutionary activity in his early youth. At the age of 15 he was a liaison for the local patriotically-minded democrats fighting against the French colonialist

Lenin directing the Bolshevik uprising from Smolny, illustration from a Soviet history book, 1968 -- Daily LIFT #1830

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

Lenin in conversation with local peasants, illustration, P. Vassiliev, USSR c. 1948 -- Daily LIFT #1816

Joint Statement on the 108th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, November 24, 2005 The Communist and Workers’ Parties signing this Joint Statement wish, among other means, to honour the October Revolution, which illuminated the strength of the revolutionary class struggle — the power of the exploited and oppressed — when they surge to the forefront and turn the wheel of history forward, towards social emancipation. It was a Revolution inseparably linked wit

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

From the Soviet Press, 1962, a moving account of the great John Reed. Yelizaveta Drabkina was only 16 years old when she took part in the October 1917 Revolution. She met and spoke to Lenin on many occasions. Her book Black Crusts, which is widely read in the Soviet Union, centers on the period. In 1961 she published The Story of an Unwritten Book, in which she describes John Reed's part in the Russian Revolution. She was a close friend of the American journalist. REVOLUTIONA

Lenin portrait first published in the United States in November, 1926 -- Daily LIFT #1791

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

By Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau and the Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba ( translated from the Spanish ) Today we commemorate an event that forever changed the course of history: the Great October Socialist Revolution. On November 7, 1917 (October 25 in the Julian calendar), the Russian working class and people, guided by the light of Marxism and Lenin's leadership, demonstrated that a new world was not

On the 108th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution ( translated from the Spanish ) 108 years ago, on November 7, 1917, the Great October Socialist Revolution triumphed, which opened for humanity the historic transition from the outdated capitalist mode of production to socialism. We pay homage to Lenin and the cadres of the Bolshevik Communist Party. Following the example of the Paris Commune of 1871, the proletariat led by the Bolshevik Party conquered power,

Revolution is Your Right! -- Communist Party of Turkey Today, 700 million people live in extreme poverty, while 3.5 billion more struggle to survive below the poverty line. In contrast, just 3 thousand capitalists now control a total wealth of 16 trillion dollars. Our people, too, suffer deeply from this greatest assault of impoverishment in human history. While millions of workers live below the hunger and poverty thresholds, the ten richest capitalists have increased their

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

From the Soviet Press, 1962: THE OCTOBER SOCIALIST REVOLUTION in Russia is commemorated in the postal issues of the other socialist countries as well. Hungary issued two large stamps -- of 60 filler and 1 forint denominations -- for the fortieth anniversary of the world's first Soviet state. They bear the dates "1917-1957. One shows a dove, the symbol of peace, framed by the flags of the socialist countries; the other a portrait of Lenin. The Rumanian People's Republic marked

Trump and Netanyahu on September 29 at the White House -- public domain image Workers Party of Ireland Statement: Imperialism’s plan for...

Lenin in Razliv, 1917, Arkady Rylov, USSR, 1936 -- Daily LIFT #1740

Lenin in Tampere, Finland, 1905, Painting, Aleksandr Moravov, 1951 -- Daily LIFT #1739 The painting depicts the first time that Lenin met...

Lenin Graphic, USSR, 1984 -- Daily LIFT #1738

Conversation at the birch trees, sketch N. Zhukov USSR, 1959 -- Daily LIFT #1732 From the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1979: Nikolai...