Michael Laxer
John Reed: Eyewitness to revolution
A short look at the life of John Reed, famed American leftist writer who chronicled the events of the Russian Revolution in his famed...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 15, 202311 min read
Comrade Zhou Enlai: A remarkable revolutionary life in 55 photos
Published in 1978 in honour of the great Marxist-Leninist revolutionary hero of the Chinese people, Comrade Zhou Enlai, this archive of...
Michael Laxer
Oct 12, 20238 min read
Sergo Ordzhonikidze: The Bolshevik Organizer of Industry
On the anniversary of his birth, October 12, 1886, a look at the life of the great Georgian Bolshevik revolutionary and hero Grigory...
Michael Laxer
Oct 7, 202314 min read
Erich Honecker on the formation of the GDR, October 7, 1949
October 7 marks the anniversary of the formation of German Democratic Republic in 1949. Having come into being as a result of the Second...
Michael Laxer
Oct 6, 20231 min read
Fidel Castro on the revolutionary importance of the USSR 1970
Today there are, as we know, theoretical super-revolutionaries, super-Leftists, veritable "supermen" if you will, who can destroy...
Michael Laxer
Oct 1, 20234 min read
Building the Chengdu–Kunming railway in the People's Republic 1970
A look at the construction of the Chengdu-Kunming railway during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of...
Michael Laxer
Oct 1, 20234 min read
Communist Party is the Vanguard of the Working Class: Marx, Engels, Lenin
From Socialism: Theory and Practice, August 1983: In their works Marx, Engels and Lenin discussed in detail the role of the proletarian...
Michael Laxer
Sep 22, 20234 min read
Tallinn liberated by Red Army, September 22, 1944
The Estonian capital of Tallinn was liberated from Nazi occupation by the Red Army on September 22, 1944. Among the Red Army heroes who...
Michael Laxer
Sep 16, 20232 min read
Novorossiysk: Hero City of the USSR, liberated Sept. 16 1943
Malaya Zemlya Memorial From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great...
Michael Laxer
Sep 12, 20231 min read
Amílcar Cabral, Guinean Revolutionary Leader b. September 12, 1924
Amílcar Cabral, Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean revolutionary, theoretician and independence leader, was born September 12, 1924. He was...
Michael Laxer
Sep 12, 20233 min read
Lessons of the fascist coup in Chile
The Presidential Palace -- in which Salvador Allende fought to the death -- is bombed during the fascist coup, September 11, 1973....
Michael Laxer
Sep 12, 20231 min read
Steve Biko murdered, Sept. 12, 1977
The tremendously courageous anti-apartheid South African activist Steve Biko died on September 12, 1977. Having been arrested in late...
Michael Laxer
Sep 11, 20233 min read
KKE on the 50th anniversary of the coup in Chile and the "formulation of a revolutionary strategy"
One of the most horrific photos from the terrible day of the fascist coup in Chile There is a large section of the western liberal or...
Michael Laxer
Sep 11, 20231 min read
The Highest Example of Heroism -- Salvador Allende: Video
The Highest Example of Heroism -- Salvador Allende Today is the 50th anniversary of the US and western backed fascist coup that overthrew...
Michael Laxer
Sep 11, 20234 min read
There Was No Pinochet Miracle -- Only Menace and Dictatorship
Pinochet and Kissinger, 1976 By Thomas Palley, Common Dreams September 11, 2023, marks the fiftieth anniversary of General Pinochet’s...
Michael Laxer
Sep 7, 202311 min read
Speech by Fidel Castro at the 4th Conference of Nonaligned Nations, Sept. 7, 1973
Castro at the conference, September 7, 1973 On September 7, 1973 Fidel Castro gave a speech at the 4th Conference of Nonaligned Nations...
Michael Laxer
Sep 5, 20232 min read
September 5, 1957 opened the way to victory: Communist Party of Cuba
On the anniversary of the Cienfuegos uprising of September 5, 1957, the Communist Party of Cuba released a statement written by Daina...
Michael Laxer
Aug 28, 20231 min read
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom anniversary
Today marks the 60th anniversary of the historic US civil rights March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It drew at least 250,000...
Michael Laxer
Aug 27, 20231 min read
Remembering W.E.B. Du Bois, scholar, civil rights activist, historian and communist: Video
W.E.B. Du Bois, the scholar, civil rights activist, historian and communist was born in 1868 in Massachusetts. He died on August 27, 1963...
Michael Laxer
Aug 25, 20238 min read
"Eternal glory to all those who fell in the fight against colonialism, racism and apartheid!"
Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, was in...
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