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Michael Laxer
13 hours ago11 min read
Exploring Ancient Understandings of Meteorites in Archaic Societies
By KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks (NSF’s NOIRLab) - Geminids Over Kitt Peak National Observatory, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.o...
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Michael Laxer
15 hours ago4 min read
February Strike of 1941: When Citizens Took to the Streets Against the Nazis
Remembering how Amsterdam's working class stood up against Adolf Hitler's extermination of the Jews. A commemoration of the strike in...
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Michael Laxer
2 days ago2 min read
The coming of the collective farms in the USSR
From the Soviet English language magazine Socialism: Principles, Practice, Prospects, 1983. The late twenties was a turbulent time for...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 171 min read
Juan Almeida Bosque, Cuban Revolutionary & Poet b. February 17, 1927
Raul Castro, Antonio Nunez Jimenez, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Juan Almeida Bosque and Ramiro Valdes in 1959 shortly after the Cuban...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 136 min read
The Communist Party of Vietnam: 95 Years of Struggle and Social Transformation
As Vietnam Plus reports , the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) hosted a ceremony in Havana on the evening of February 12 to celebrate the...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 125 min read
How Bolshevism Was Born
Reminisces of the Second Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party from Fridrikh Lengnik, Krupskaya and Martyn Lyadov....
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Michael Laxer
Feb 113 min read
SACP pays tribute to Namibian liberation struggle stalwart Sam Nujoma
Nujoma in 1978 - public domain image South African Communist Party tribute to Namibian liberation struggle stalwart, President Sam Nujoma...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 79 min read
Spontaneous Revolutions: Darwin’s Diagrams of Plant Movement
After weeks of watching young tendrils slowly corkscrew their way toward the sun, Charles Darwin invented a system for making botanic...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 65 min read
Camilo Cienfuegos: Symbol of Courage and Commitment to the Revolution
A look at the great Cuban revolutionary on the anniversary of his birth. By Katherin Hormigó Rubio, translated from the Spanish Camilo...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 22 min read
Rehabilitation and rebirth in the postwar USSR
A brief, illustrated look at the remarkable Soviet recovery in the wake of the utter devastation of WWII. One of the most remarkable...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 11 min read
Soviet Health Service, 1984
Out on Call The right of Soviet citizens to health care is laid down in the Constitution of the USSR. All forms of medical care are free...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 11 min read
The Women's Bill of Rights, 1988
The Women's Bill of Rights was a call to action and program issued by the organization Women for Racial and Economic Equality in the...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 11 min read
Victorio Codovilla, Yelena Stasova and Ho Chi Minh, Moscow, 1961
Victorio Codovilla, Yelena Stasova and Ho Chi Minh, Moscow, 1961 A remarkable photo from the 22nd Congress of the CPSU in Moscow, 1961....
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Michael Laxer
Jan 281 min read
José Martí born January 28, 1853
The great, iconic Cuban revolutionary José Martí was born January 28, 1853. From People's China, October 1953, 100 years after his birth...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 272 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...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 264 min read
Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1983: Facts and Figures
Lenin illustration, USSR 1984 From the Soviet Press, 1983: In 1983, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union marked its 80th anniversary....
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Michael Laxer
Jan 245 min read
Our Ability to Think in Terms of Numbers Is Universal, Abstract, and Independent From Language
Frederick L. Coolidge explains the link between numerosity and language. morebyless, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons By Marjorie Hecht...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 185 min read
Cultural Revolution in the USSR
The 1928 Literacy courses on a cooperative farm in the Voronezh Region (Central Russia) From Socialism: Principles, Practice, Prospects...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 112 min read
Remembering Celia Sanchez: The Heroine of the Cuban Revolution
By Xenia Balón de la Cuesta, translated from the Spanish The heroine of the Sierra and the plains, a symbol of Cubanness and humanism, is...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 74 min read
10 Symbols of the Revolution in Havana
Choosing just ten locations in the capital that reflect Cuba's revolutionary work was a considerable challenge. This task is complicated...
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