Michael Laxer
Tula: Hero City of the USSR
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...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 28, 202311 min read
Michael Parenti on hegemony, monopoly capitalism and culture
Excerpts from an essay by the great Michael Parenti -- Monopoly and Culture -- in Political Affairs Magazine (a journal of the Communist...
Michael Laxer
Dec 26, 20231 min read
Comrade Chairman Mao b. Dec. 26, 1893
Mao illustration, People's Republic of China, 1967 One of the greatest liberators, revolutionaries and leaders in history, Chairman Mao,...
Michael Laxer
Dec 17, 20231 min read
Soviet Olympic Kiev -- 12 Panoramic Views of the City 1980
Today we are looking at a folder of panoramic postcards of Kiev, Ukrainian SSR that were released in the lead up to the Olympic Summer...
Michael Laxer
Dec 10, 20236 min read
Do Grandmothers Hold the Key to Understanding Human Evolution?
By Brenna R. Hassett Of the innumerable species on the planet, just a bare handful have evolved to have one of the most counterintuitive...
Michael Laxer
Dec 9, 202312 min read
Dolores Ibárruri on the defeat of Republican Spain
Spanish Civil War Communist and anti-fascist leader Dolores Ibárruri -- popularly known as "La Pasionaria" --was born on December 9,...
Michael Laxer
Dec 5, 20232 min read
Chess in the face of evil: Moscow 1941-42
In between battles, peaceful duels proceeded over a chessboard. The photo was taken in 1942 on the Northwestern Front by Lake Ilmen. From...
Michael Laxer
Dec 5, 20232 min read
Soviet Kharkov 1984: 17 Panoramic Views
Proletarian Square Published in 1984 in both Ukrainian and Russian this postcard folder contained 17 panoramic style views of Kharkov (or...
Michael Laxer
Dec 2, 20234 min read
Was the Sphere the First Geometrical Form Made by Humans?
Shaped stone balls from Qesem Cave, c. 420,000–200,000 years old. Photo Credit: Assaf, Ella, Wikipedia Commons By Deborah Barsky...
Michael Laxer
Dec 1, 20232 min read
Bread and Roses poem released, December 1, 1911
Rose Schneiderman who popularized the slogan Bread and Roses The great and inspiring trade union classic poem Bread and Roses was first...
Michael Laxer
Nov 29, 20232 min read
Second Session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia, Nov. 29 1943
State Coat of Arms of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia The Second Session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National...
Michael Laxer
Nov 28, 20232 min read
Kerch: Hero City of the USSR
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
Nov 21, 20231 min read
Our "strength is the strength of justice, progress and history" - Amílcar Cabral
Comrades Amílcar Cabral & Fidel Castro "Our hearts are also with our brothers in Cuba, who have shown that even when surrounded by the...
Michael Laxer
Nov 10, 20234 min read
From the Kremlin to Kilimanjaro: Commemorating the October Revolution
This past Tuesday, November 7 marked the 106th anniversary of the beginning of the Great October Socialist Revolution. This statement,...
Michael Laxer
Nov 6, 20231 min read
War Monuments and Sights of Soviet Kiev 1975 -- 16 Vintage Photographs
As we noted in a previous post, November 6 is the anniversary of the liberation of Kiev from the Nazis by the Red Army in 1943. It was...
Michael Laxer
Oct 29, 20231 min read
Lenin's Cause
V. I. Lenin, P. Staronosov, USSR 1935 "We are not saying anything new. Today everybody, even the colonialists and imperialists, fully...
Michael Laxer
Oct 26, 20238 min read
Here They Are! - Lenin at the YCL Congress, October 1920
Lenin Speaks at the 3rd Young Communist League (YCL) Congress, October 1920 - painting B. Johanson, USSR "THE CIVIL WAR was still raging...
Michael Laxer
Oct 25, 20231 min read
Venera 10 lands on Venus
On October 25, 1975, the Soviet spacecraft Venera 10 landed on the surface of Venus. This was just 3 days after Venera 9 had landed on...
Michael Laxer
Oct 24, 20235 min read
The State - V. I. Lenin
First published in 1929 in Pravda "The State" was the text of a lecture delivered in Sverdlov University in 1919. Here are some key...
Michael Laxer
Oct 18, 20234 min read
The British Roots of the Conflict in Palestine
By Saurav Sarkar Israeli flags are flying over all government buildings in the United Kingdom currently, but this isn’t the first time...
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