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Daily LIFT #1704
Leadership of the Red Army in its final victorious days over Nazism -- Daily LIFT #1704 Graphic from the English language Soviet Press, 1945

The Left Chapter
Aug 111 min read


Daily LIFT #1703
Two Soviet Red Army snipers in camouflage during one of the final offensive drives of the Great Patriotic War, March, 1945 -- Daily LIFT...

The Left Chapter
Aug 101 min read


Daily LIFT #1674
American soldiers swim across the Elbe to greet their Soviet allies. A still from the 1949 Soviet film "Meeting on the Elbe". -- Daily...

The Left Chapter
Jul 81 min read


Imperialism's strategy of confrontation and aggression -- PCP
The Portuguese Communist Party on imperialism, EU and NATO militarism, US tariffs, Gaza, the war in Ukraine, anti-Communist historical...

The Left Chapter
May 304 min read


"Anti-communism will not prevail, historical truth will triumph"
Joint statement by the KKE, AKEL, the Portuguese CP and the CP of Bohemia and Moravia on the anti-communist actions of EPP MEPs ...

The Left Chapter
May 202 min read


80 years after the victory over fascism: No to militarism and war! For peace and co-operation! - PCP
Soviet War Memorial in Berlin -- Drrcs15, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Statement of the Portuguese Communist Party released in...

The Left Chapter
May 124 min read


Daily LIFT #1630
Soviet Marshal Konev hailed by the liberated citizens as the Red Army enters Prague, 9 May 1945 -- Daily LIFT #1630 Never forget the...
Michael Laxer
May 91 min read


Putin and Díaz-Canel meet in Moscow
Image via the PCC By Leticia Martínez Hernández, translated from the Spanish Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed Cuban President...

The Left Chapter
May 82 min read


Eighty Years On: Remembering the Defeat of Fascism – or Witnessing Its Return?
Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park, Berlin -- JoachimKohlerBremen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Biljana Vankovska As we...

The Left Chapter
May 85 min read


Daily LIFT #1629
Salute To the Red Army at the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK, February 1943 -- Daily LIFT #1629 The people of the UK in 1943 understood...

The Left Chapter
May 81 min read


Global South leaders join Victory Day events in Moscow as Europe stays away
Marking the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat, Global South leaders are gathering in Moscow, while EU remains absent. Mamayev...

The Left Chapter
May 83 min read


We must always be alert to the danger of fascism
Image via the PCC Remarks by Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee...

The Left Chapter
May 45 min read


We honour V.I. Lenin "the defender of peoples’ struggle for national and social liberation, social justice, peace, and socialism"
Joint Statement of Communist and Workers’ Parties on the 155th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin Joint Statement of Communist and...

The Left Chapter
Apr 226 min read


Soviet memorials must be defended. Treaties are to be respected.
Defending Soviet memorials also means showing up in large numbers on May 8 and9 - Photo: Little Polar Bear 2015 / Wikimedia Commons / CC...

The Left Chapter
Apr 57 min read


Message of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust - NCPY
Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons New Communist Party of Yugoslavia, Message of Remembrance for the Victims of the...
Michael Laxer
Jan 272 min read


The start of a difficult path to victory: The Red Army defends Moscow, 1941
Red Army forces marching through Moscow to the front, December, 1941 - RIA Novosti archive, image #429 / Oleg Ignatovich / CC-BY-SA 3.0...
Michael Laxer
Dec 5, 20247 min read


Loss, Sacrifice and Victory -- Second World War Art of the Soviet Ukraine
Known as the Great Patriotic War in the USSR the Second World War left deep social scars and trauma that it took many years for the...
Michael Laxer
Jun 9, 20242 min read


Daily LIFT #1354
Lenin and others in Red Square for the military parade and speeches, May 25, 1919 -- Daily LIFT #1354
Michael Laxer
May 25, 20241 min read


The Partisans: Behind Enemy Lines
From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...
Michael Laxer
May 17, 20242 min read


"Never forget the outstanding role of the Soviet army in the military defeat of Nazism" - FIR
Soviet War Memorial in Berlin - Tx0h, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons The...
Michael Laxer
May 11, 20244 min read
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