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

The Great Grave: Lenin is Dead, but His Work Lives On, colour lithograph, Moscow 1924 -- Daily LIFT #1855 Lenin died January 21, 1924

From the Soviet Magazine Socialism: Theory and Practice, January 1984. A moving look at the final months of Lenin's life. Sixty years have passed since the death of Lenin (January 21, 1924), a brilliant thinker and revolutionary, the founder and leader of the Communist Party and the Soviet state. The number of people left who knew him personally, who worked alongside him is diminishing with every passing year. However, quite a few reminiscences of his contemporaries have come

Remembrances of Lenin, illustration, I. Smirnov, USSR 1983 -- Daily LIFT #1852

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