Michael Laxer
Daily LIFT #1435
Ho Chi Minh in Dresden, German Democratic Republic, July 1957 -- Daily LIFT #1435 He was with Vietnamese children who had found a new...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 24 min read
After Weekend Walkouts, US Hotel Worker Strikes Grow on Labor Day
"We refuse to accept wages that can't support our families. It's insulting. And it ends now." Image via Unite Here in X By Jessica...
Michael Laxer
Sep 23 min read
The Congress of the Peoples of the East, September 1920
Between September 1 and September 7, 1920, The Congress of the Peoples of the East called by the Communist International (Comintern) was...
Michael Laxer
Aug 311 min read
Daily LIFT #1434
Gorky St. as Seen from Okhotny Rd. 1952, Autolithograph, Emmanuil Bernstein USSR -- Daily LIFT #1434
Michael Laxer
Aug 315 min read
Join Us to Expose and Oppose the US and Israel’s Flouting of International Law
From September 10-30, we will gather before the U.S.’ U.N. Mission and the Israeli Consulate demanding both nations desist from further...
Michael Laxer
Aug 312 min read
Salaspils and the "Ost" plan
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
Aug 303 min read
South African farmworkers march to demand a ban on harmful pesticides
The protestors want Germany to stop exporting 67 hazardous pesticides that are banned in Europe, to South Africa Women on Farms are...
Michael Laxer
Aug 3023 min read
Sanitation in Namibia Is a Catastrophe for Its People and Environment
More than a million Namibians lack adequate access to toilets, resulting in one of the world’s highest rates of open defecation. A couple...
Michael Laxer
Aug 308 min read
Growing Challenges for Dems in Arab and Muslim Voting Hotspots Across the U.S
While the Gaza War has brought attention to the political influence of Arab and Muslim Americans amid the election season, their growing...
Michael Laxer
Aug 301 min read
Daily LIFT #1433
Erich Honecker with Angela Davis -- Daily LIFT #1433 General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of the German Democratic Republic,...
Michael Laxer
Aug 303 min read
UK Continues Use of Anti-Terrorism Law to Arrest Palestine Defenders
"1984 has arrived and is alive and well in the United Kingdom," said musician Roger Waters. Video screenshot via Sarah Wilkinson on X By...
Michael Laxer
Aug 302 min read
Greek Communists denounce European tour of the Ukrainian Azov brigade
Azov soldier marching in Kiev, 2020 -- spoilt.exile, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons...
Michael Laxer
Aug 302 min read
Fred Hampton born, August 30, 1948
The great revolutionary and freedom fighter, Fred Hampton, was born August 30, 1948. A leader of the Black Panthers he was murdered by...
Michael Laxer
Aug 293 min read
'Israel's Starvation Strategy': IDF Fires on World Food Program Team
"This is totally unacceptable and the latest in a series of unnecessary security incidents that have endangered the lives of WFP's team...
Michael Laxer
Aug 291 min read
Daily LIFT #1432
Leonid Brezhnev lighting the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow, USSR, May 8, 1967 -- Daily LIFT #1432
Michael Laxer
Aug 293 min read
US workers need protection from record-breaking heat
2,000 workers die from extreme heat every year. As temperatures rise, we need federal standards for water breaks, shade, and other basic...
Michael Laxer
Aug 292 min read
West Bank attacks kill at least 18 as Israel launches massive military assault
Image via Al Jazeera video screenshot With the world doing little to stop its genocidal attacks in Gaza and with the firm military...
Michael Laxer
Aug 281 min read
Daily LIFT #1431
Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev in conversation during the Great Patriotic War, 1943 -- Daily LIFT #1431
Michael Laxer
Aug 282 min read
'Deeply Complicit': US Has Sent Israel Over 50,000 Tons of Weaponry in 11 Months
On average, the Biden administration has sent Israel "a weapons shipment every 12 hours" since October, noted the IMEU Policy Project. US...
Michael Laxer
Aug 284 min read
Declaration of the XI Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of ALBA-TCP on Venezuela
Image via X The 11th Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of ALBA-TCP (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our...
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