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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


Daily LIFT #904
Lenin centennial poster, People's Republic of Albania 1970 -- Daily LIFT #904
Michael Laxer
Mar 17, 20231 min read


Daily LIFT #899
Lenin image, Soviet Russia Today Magazine, 1937 -- Daily LIFT #899
Michael Laxer
Mar 11, 20231 min read


Daily LIFT #890
Lenin, Leader of the International, Igor Radoman USSR, 1979 -- Daily LIFT #890
Michael Laxer
Feb 27, 20231 min read


Daily LIFT #889
The Future Belongs to Communism, poster, USSR 1986 -- Daily LIFT #889
Michael Laxer
Feb 24, 20231 min read


Daily LIFT #886
In the Name of Lenin - J. Lukavsky, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, 1980s -- Daily LIFT #886
Michael Laxer
Feb 18, 20231 min read


Daily LIFT #885
Lenin image w. the quote "The Party is the intelligence, honour and conscience of our times". USSR poster, February, 1981 -- Daily LIFT...
Michael Laxer
Feb 17, 20231 min read


Daily LIFT #881
"Lenin", sculpture USSR, S. Merkurov, from USSR Magazine, January 1949 -- Daily LIFT #881 From the Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Merkurov,...
Michael Laxer
Feb 9, 20232 min read


Daily LIFT #875
Go To The Shops -- Go To The Factories, Daily Worker Lenin Subscription Drive, USA 1926 -- Daily LIFT #875
Michael Laxer
Feb 1, 20231 min read


Langston Hughes b. February 1, 1901
Lenin Lenin walks around the world. Frontiers cannot bar him. Neither barracks nor barricades impede. Nor does barbed wire scar him....
Michael Laxer
Feb 1, 20231 min read


Daily LIFT #869
Masses Rally in Lenin's Memory in Chicago and New York, 1926 -- Daily LIFT #869 An illustration in The Daily Worker announcing upcoming...
Michael Laxer
Jan 22, 20231 min read


Daily LIFT #868
Lenin Peace Stamp, USSR 1960 -- Daily LIFT #868
Michael Laxer
Jan 20, 20231 min read


Lenin Stained Glass Window, Oakland, California, 1970
Lenin Stained Glass Window, Oakland, California, 1970 The stained glass window that American economist Stanton R. Smith had commissioned...
Michael Laxer
Jan 20, 20231 min read


Daily LIFT #865
Lenin Monument, Ulan Bator, Mongolian People's Republic, 1976 -- Daily LIFT #865
Michael Laxer
Jan 14, 20231 min read


"During a reactionary war a revolutionary class cannot but desire the defeat of its government"
During a reactionary war a revolutionary class cannot but desire the defeat of its government... ...A revolution in wartime means civil...
Michael Laxer
Jan 12, 20233 min read


Daily LIFT #864
An Order of Lenin Medal, USSR -- Daily LIFT #846 "As a general rule, in all countries of the world the parliamentary representatives of...
Michael Laxer
Jan 12, 20231 min read


A sword is not our emblem: How the seal of the USSR was designed
On the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -- the world's first workers' and socialist state --...
Michael Laxer
Dec 30, 20223 min read


We salute the centenary of the founding of the USSR - Communist Party of Chile
Symbol of the Communist Party of Chile -- Image via party's website Today is the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Union of...
Michael Laxer
Dec 30, 20222 min read


Daily LIFT #856
"Everything for the good of humanity, for the sake of humanity.", Soviet poster 1977 -- Daily LIFT #856 What is Soviet power? What is the...
Michael Laxer
Dec 27, 20222 min read


Daily LIFT #853
Lenin Monument, Ulan Bator, Mongolian People's Republic 1976 -- Daily LIFT #853
Michael Laxer
Dec 18, 20221 min read
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