Cuban youth marching on April 3, 2026 The Workers Party of Ireland extends warm revolutionary solidarity to the Cuban people, their Communist Party and their revolutionary process, which for more than six decades has stood as a living example of socialist construction under the most aggressive conditions of imperialist hostility. Cuba’s struggle is not symbolic, it is concrete and rooted in the struggle between a sovereign socialist country and the global capitalist system th

Vladimir Lenin at a subbotnik in the Kremlin, May 1, 1920, painting, Mikhail Sokolov, USSR 1936 -- Daily LIFT #1964 To learn more about Lenin at the subbotnik see: Three reminiscences of Lenin

Lenin Reading a Book, Pyotr Vasilyev, USSR 1972 -- Daily LIFT #1963

Lenin and Krupskaya in Gorky, late summer 1922 From the Soviet Sputnik Magazine, June 1969: Among reminiscences of Lenin appearing in the Press for the first time in connection with the approaching centenary of his birth, are what Lenin's wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, called "My Answers to a Questionnaire from the Brain Institute in 1935". The questionnaire itself has been lost, but the questions can be reconstructed from the answers: He walked rapidly, without ever swaying or sw

Glory to the Soviet Army!, postcard illustration, USSR 1978 -- Daily LIFT #1952

Lenin Reading Pravda, oil on canvas Vsevolod Medvedev (1912-1985), USSR 1965 From The Workers Monthly Magazine in April, 1926 this is a translation of an article by V. I. Lenin from 1905. The translation is interesting as it is somewhat different from other translations of the same article and it has a different title as it is elsewhere often called something along the lines of Party Organisation and Party Literature: THE socialist proletariat must consider the basic principl

USSR postage stamp, 1965, "Marxism-Leninism - an eternally living revolutionary doctrine." -- Daily LIFT #1932

V. I. Lenin meets with members of the Executive Committee of the IV Congress of the Comintern (Marcel Cachin, Clara Zetkin, Bela Kun, Sen Katayama), painting, E. Shirokov, USSR 1976 -- Daily LIFT #1930

Street barricades in Dublin during the 1916 Easter Uprising -- public domain image Easter Oration: Workers Party of Ireland, 5 th April 2026 Comrades and friends, The ideals of Easter 1916 Every year our Party, the Workers Party, commemorates the Easter Rising of 1916. This is far more than simply tradition. Today, we gather not only to remember the past. It is also about looking forward. The Easter Rising of 1916 occupies a unique place in our history: a moment whose politi

Vietnamese stamp for the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution featuring Ho Chi Minh and Lenin -- Daily LIFT #1915

An F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft on the flight deck of the USS Gerald R. Ford, March 2026 -- public domain image By D. Raja, General Secretary, Communist Party of India Fourteen months into his second term as President of the United States, Donald Trump has overseen a dramatic expansion of American military operations across several regions of the world. In this short span, the United States has carried out strikes or armed operations in at least seven countries including Som

Still He Directs the Struggle!, illustration for the first anniversary of Lenin's death, USA, 1925 -- Daily LIFT #1911

Parisians stand around a toppled statue of Emperor Napoleon I, considered the symbol of imperial despotism, during the Commune Written in 1926 by Alexander Trachtenberg this is an in-depth look at the impact of the Paris Commune on the thinking of Marx, Engels and Lenin. Trachtenberg (1884–1966) was a prominent American Marxist educator, and longtime activist in the US socialist movement and later the Communist Party USA. He is best known for founding International Publishers

Pen Sketch of Lenin, USA, March 1925 -- Daily LIFT #1907

Just as the false claims of betrayal on January 3 are now easily disproved, so too are the claims of betrayal in the two months since. Delcy Rodríguez at a ceremony for the signing of the Hydrocarbon reform law in January -- image via X By Manolo De Los Santos The early morning hours of January 3, 2026, marked an inflection point in Venezuela and Latin America’s centuries-long struggle for self-determination and independence. Operation Absolute Resolve, ordered by the Trump a

Lenin at the First (Constituent) Congress of the Comintern The First (Constituent) Congress of the Comintern was held in Moscow between March 2–6, 1919. Here we republish a lengthy, comprehensive history of this critically important revolutionary working-class organization that existed from 1919 to 1943 from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia in 1979. Text: The Communist International (also called the Comintern or the Third International), an international organization that existe

V.I. Lenin and N.K. Krupskaya in the 151st consolidated evacuation hospital. Moscow. 1919, painting, Mikhail Natarevich, USSR, 1958 -- Daily LIFT #1866

Lenin speaks on the eve of the Revolution, cartoon, USA 1970s -- Daily LIFT #1865

From the British Communist publication The Workers' Dreadnought, this article by Lenin was published for the first time in English at the end of January, 1921. The German “Lefts” (Communistiche Arbeiter Partei), after having considered this question, have definitely rejected the proposition of participation in reactionary Trade Union activities. They consider that mere denunciation and declamation against the reactionary, counter-revolutionary unions is sufficient. The barre

A Dry-Point Sketch of Lenin done during a meeting in Moscow first published in the UK in January, 1921 -- Daily LIFT #1857