Michael Laxer
Greek Communists denounce Greece's participation in NATO nuclear exercises
A Greek F-16 Viper The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) reports that fighter planes worth millions of euros, bought with the money of the...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 173 min read
Warped US government priorities make climate disasters worse
When the US funds wars and fossil fuel subsidies instead of green jobs and disaster recovery, it punishes those who can least afford it....
Michael Laxer
Oct 176 min read
Not Just Its Neighbors, Israel Makes War on the Entire World
Israel’s relationship with the UN and the rest of the world is at a breaking point, and U.S. obstruction offers no solution to this...
Michael Laxer
Oct 161 min read
Daily LIFT #1470
In Yenan, in front of the platform on which Chairman Mao delivered his famous speech Serve the People in 1944, officers and soldiers of...
Michael Laxer
Oct 162 min read
United Action Can Defeat War Measures Act - Communist Party of Canada 1970
Canadian troops on patrol in Montreal during the War Measures Act On October 16, 1970 the federal Trudeau government used the pretext of...
Michael Laxer
Oct 1616 min read
Chinese Red Army's Long March begins, October 16, 1934
Soldiers of the Second Front Army after the march. The Long March, which would prove to be one of the most significant military campaigns...
Michael Laxer
Oct 163 min read
'Starvation Has Become a Lethal Weapon': Up to 21,000 Dying Daily From War-Fueled Hunger
"Today's food crises are largely manufactured," said an Oxfam campaigner, pointing to Israel's use of starvation as a weapon of war in...
Michael Laxer
Oct 161 min read
History Will Absolve Me! -- Fidel Castro's iconic speech, October 16, 1953
On October 16, 1953 Fidel Castro gave his iconic History Will Absolve Me speech before a Cuban court. He was on trial for his leading...
Michael Laxer
Oct 151 min read
Daily LIFT #1469
An aspiring engineering designer Chinese Young Pioneer constructs a mechanical aircraft model at a Pioneer summer camp, People's Republic...
Michael Laxer
Oct 155 min read
When Children Are Murdered, What Is There to Celebrate?
By Vijay Prashad After news broke that Han Kang—the South Korean author—had won the Nobel Prize for Literature, her father—the novelist...
Michael Laxer
Oct 153 min read
Thousands march in Havana in solidarity with Gaza and Palestine
By Katherin Hormigó Rubio Photos: Dunia Álvarez Palacios and Estudios Revolución859, translated from the Spanish The Anti-Imperialist...
Michael Laxer
Oct 141 min read
Daily LIFT #1468
In the Name of Millions of Our Children We Demand Peace, mosaic, Nadia Khodasevich Léger, France -- Daily LIFT #1468 Nadia Khodasevich...
Michael Laxer
Oct 143 min read
It won't just be Haitians who suffer due to anti-immigrant lies in the US
Politicians are attempting to redefine who counts as an “American,” with my Black immigrant family and people like us on the outside....
Michael Laxer
Oct 144 min read
'Unspeakable Cruelty': Israeli Strikes on Gaza Hospital, Refugee Camps Kill Dozens
"When will our country stop funding this madness?" asked U.S. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib. "When?" Flames from the strike on the hospital...
Michael Laxer
Oct 134 min read
Mapping the Solidarity Economy
The worker-owned collective ChiCommons helps Chicago residents find local mutual aid-based organizations. The community owned Wild Onion...
Michael Laxer
Oct 134 min read
Corporate Politics and the Big Party Debate in BC
Image via X By Gabriel Haythornthwaite Leading up to the Oct 19th BC general election, corporate media giant Global TV hosted an elite...
Michael Laxer
Oct 133 min read
Palestinian Diplomat Calls Israeli Assault on Northern Gaza 'Genocide Within the Genocide'
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly "examining a plan to seal off humanitarian aid to northern Gaza," which could...
Michael Laxer
Oct 131 min read
Daily LIFT #1467
Yuri Gagarin, mosaic portrait, Nadia Khodasevich Léger, France -- Daily LIFT #1467 Marvelous portrait of the Soviet cosmonaut icon. Nadia...
Michael Laxer
Oct 123 min read
South Africans push for the adoption of ‘Apartheid Bill’ to isolate Israel
Thousands of Cape Townians braved sweltering heat by taking to the streets to make their voices heard. Photo by Mzi Velapi By Mzi Velapi,...
Michael Laxer
Oct 121 min read
Nicaragua severs diplomatic ties with Israel
Nicaragua has decided to sever all diplomatic ties with Israel. The move was announced by Nicaragua’s Vice President Rosario Murillo, who...
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