Michael Laxer
April 25th Always! Fascism Never Again! - Paulo Raimundo
Paulo Raimundo speaks, April 25, 2024 April 25, 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal. That revolution...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 254 min read
A "beacon of hope and a testament to the power of the people": WFTU & FIR celebrate 50th Anniversary of Carnation Revolution
April 25, 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal. That revolution showed the true power of the people...
Michael Laxer
Apr 166 min read
What is the founding date of the Communist Party of Cuba?
The symbolism of the date on which the socialist character of the Revolution was proclaimed: those who fought in the Bay of Pigs already...
Michael Laxer
Apr 168 min read
Property and Debt in Ancient Rome
The Roman concept of property is essentially creditor-oriented. As Rome’s power grew, practices quickly became predatory. House of the...
Michael Laxer
Apr 151 min read
Ban the Atomic Bomb!
Ban the Atomic Bomb, Painting, Hans Grundig GDR, 1954 Grundig (1901 - 1958) was a German artist who joined the Communist Party in 1926....
Michael Laxer
Apr 142 min read
CPSU: Hero Fighting Party of the USSR
"Politruk" Junior Political Officer Alexey Yeremenko leading a counterattack against enemy positions moments before being killed in July,...
Michael Laxer
Apr 134 min read
Amílcar Cabral in Moscow 1971: Speech at the 24th Congress of the CPSU
Cabral, on the left, with another delegate to the Congress in Moscow, 1971 The immortal and unique genius of Lenin and his teachings are...
Michael Laxer
Apr 127 min read
Why Culture Is Not the Only Tool for Defining Homo sapiens in Relation to Other Hominins
We need a broad comparative lens to produce useful explanations and narratives of our origins across time. An ancient skull excavated...
Michael Laxer
Apr 102 min read
Martí's Party, the essence of the Cuban Revolution
The Communist Party of Cuba on the anniversary of the founding of the Cuban Revolutionary Party (translated from the Spanish): "(...) To...
Michael Laxer
Apr 102 min read
David Bowie in the USSR
While the photos of singer David Bowie in the capital of the Soviet Union are cool enough, the story of how Bowie got to Moscow is really...
Michael Laxer
Apr 101 min read
Soviet Blagoveshchensk on the Amur River, USSR 1977
Published in 1977 this postcard folder has images of the Far Eastern river city of Blagoveshchensk that was in the Amur Oblast of the...
Michael Laxer
Apr 915 min read
The Myth That India’s Freedom Was Won Nonviolently Is Holding Back Progress
Some struggles can be kept nonviolent, but decolonization never has been—certainly not in India. Public domain image of Gandhi leaving a...
Michael Laxer
Apr 66 min read
How Elite Infighting Made the Magna Carta
Although the Magna Carta typically is depicted as the birth of England’s fight to create democracy, the 13th-century struggle was to...
Michael Laxer
Apr 54 min read
NATO: A Womb of Wars -- The KKE on the 75th anniversary of the imperialist war alliance
British troops exercise in Estonia as part of the NATO's eFP, 2017 - Photo: Cpl Timothy Jones/MOD, OGL 3 <http://www.nationalarchives.gov...
Michael Laxer
Apr 46 min read
No to NATO! -- 75 Years of imperialism and war crimes in the service of capitalism
Public domain image of NATO troops in Lithuania, 2014 April 4 marks the 75th anniversary of the formation of the imperialist war alliance...
Michael Laxer
Apr 42 min read
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated April 4th, 1968
No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream....
Michael Laxer
Apr 32 min read
Ulan-Ude 1973: Home of the Soviet Union's (and the world's) largest Lenin bust
The Lenin Bust in the Square of the Soviets Ulan-Ude is a city that lies in the Siberian Far East near Lake Baikal and the Mongolian...
Michael Laxer
Mar 291 min read
Red Army Victory! -- Stamps of the Red Army #7
Image from a Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It shows a famous scene from the Victory...
Michael Laxer
Mar 2812 min read
Maxim Gorky b. March 28, 1868
Gorky and Lenin in conversation, sketch USSR 1947 The great Maxim Gorky was born March 28, 1868. According to USSR Magazine in March,...
Michael Laxer
Mar 275 min read
Sergei Kirov b. March 27, 1886
Kirov speaking at the tribune of XVII congress of the CPSU, painting Pyotr Belousov (1912-1989) The great revolutionary and Bolshevik...
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