Michael Laxer
Joe Slovo b. May 23, 1926
Winnie Mandela, Nelson Mandela and Joe Slovo at the Communist Party's first public meeting in South Africa in 1990, after being banned...
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Michael Laxer
May 225 min read
Some Myths Regarding the Genesis of Enterprise
Not only were “modern” elements of enterprise present and even dominant already in Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC, but the...
Michael Laxer
May 224 min read
Why Chile has a Palestinian football team – the bigger history
Supporters of Club Deportivo Palestino at a match v Deportes Copiapó, at Estadio Municipal de La Cisterna, Santiago, Chile. Carlos yo /...
Michael Laxer
May 212 min read
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union in facts and figures 1985
From the Soviet English language magazine Socialism: Theory and Practice in February, 1985 this is a look at the great revolutionary,...
Michael Laxer
May 181 min read
Viktor Koretskii, Soviet poster artist b. May 18, 1909
Koretskii, (also sometimes translated as Koretsky), was an astonishingly prolific Soviet artist created some of the USSR's most iconic...
Michael Laxer
May 172 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 169 min read
Historical conclusions from the tactics of the anti-fascist fronts: The contemporary struggle of communists against fascism
Contribution of the Workers Party of Ireland at the European Communist Action meeting in Madrid (11th May 2024): Dear Comrades:...
Michael Laxer
May 157 min read
Seven Features of Ancient Enterprise
The changing context for enterprise through the centuries reminds us that business activities are not universal but fluid and alter...
Michael Laxer
May 143 min read
The character of capitalism
Vladimir Lenin at the 2nd Congress of the RSDLP in 1903, painting, Sergei Arsenevich Vinogradov Back in 1903 the Russian...
Michael Laxer
May 116 min read
Parallels Between Archaic Entrepots and Modern Offshore Banking Centers
Offshore banking and tax-avoidance centers are nothing new; they’ve been with us for millennia. Singapore skyline at night - Bijay...
Michael Laxer
May 84 min read
The death of Cuban revolutionary Antonio Guiteras at El Morrillo, May 8 1935
By Ariel Pazos Ortiz, translated from the Spanish On May 8, 1935, Antonio Guiteras fell at El Morrillo, an old abandoned fort on the...
Michael Laxer
May 52 min read
Lenin in Sverdlov Square, May 5, 1920
On May 5, 1920 Lenin gave his famous "Speech To Men Of The Red Army Leaving For The Polish Front". It is not the speech itself that is...
Michael Laxer
May 51 min read
Karl Marx: Remembrances of Engels, Liebknecht & Lafargue
A leaflet of remembrances of Karl Marx published in the 1940s in the UK that we republish here in honour of Marx's birthday, May 5, 1818....
Michael Laxer
May 52 min read
Seven Pairs of the Clean and Seven Pairs of the Unclean
Seven Pairs of the Clean and Seven Pairs of the Unclean, Vladimir Mayakovsky Sketch, 1919 Famed Soviet poet, writer and artist Mayakovsky...
Michael Laxer
May 36 min read
Seeing Red: Our Ancient Relationship With Ocher and the Color of Cognition
Extensive ocher use reflects the culture and cognitive abilities of early humans, who inherited an affinity for red from primate...
Michael Laxer
May 11 min read
International Workers' Day - 14 historic posters
Today, May 1st, is International Workers' Day, a celebration of working class solidarity and militancy around the world. A holiday in...
Michael Laxer
Apr 292 min read
Red Army liberates nazi prison at Brandenburg-Görden, April 27, 1945
From press in the German Democratic Republic, 1985: Constructed between 1927 and 1935, the four buildings making up the ...
Michael Laxer
Apr 2714 min read
Statement on the 30th anniversary of our April 1994 democratic breakthrough - South African Communist Party
South African Communist Party Statement on the 30th anniversary of our April 1994 democratic breakthrough Wednesday, 27 April 1994 marked...
Michael Laxer
Apr 272 min read
Streets of Stalingrad (Volgograd) USSR 1970s
We have looked several times at the history of the Battle of Stalingrad and the city that it occurred in in posts like Victory at...
Michael Laxer
Apr 265 min read
What Does Play Tell Us About Human Evolution?
By Brenna R. Hassett Our species devotes a singular amount of time to an utterly unserious aspect of life: play. This begs the question:...
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