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Michael Laxer
Feb 55 min read
Washington’s Fantasy of a War Against China
Public domain image By Vijay Prashad The fragility of U.S. power was clear when a small Chinese startup released the DeepSeek machine...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 51 min read
Daily LIFT #1558
Socialist Construction Under the Banner of Lenin, illustration, USSR 1982 -- Daily LIFT #1558
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Michael Laxer
Feb 43 min read
ALBA-TCP expresses solidarity with migrants, Cuba and Mexico
Image via ALBA-TCP The Heads of State and Government of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Treaty...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 41 min read
Raúl Castro and Díaz-Canel congratulate Communist Party of Vietnam
February 3 marked the 95th anniversary of the formation of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV). The CPV received messages of solidarity...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 31 min read
Daily LIFT #1557
Comrade Nguyễn Ái Quốc (Ho Chi Minh), representing the Communist International, forms the Communist Party of Vietnam in Hong Kong,...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 33 min read
Communist Party of Vietnam receives congratulatory messages from around the world
Messages came from the People's Republic of China, Cuba, Belarus, the DPRK, France, the USA, India, Laos, Russia and many other countries...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 33 min read
Official Gaza Death Toll Soars to Nearly 62,000 as Thousands of Missing Now Presumed Dead
British lawmaker Jeremy Corbyn called for Israeli officials, and countries that have funded the bombardment of Gaza, to "face justice for...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 21 min read
Daily LIFT #1556
Vocational school students in the USSR, 1972 -- Daily LIFT #1556 The young men at top were training to become bakers while the young...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 22 min read
Rehabilitation and rebirth in the postwar USSR
A brief, illustrated look at the remarkable Soviet recovery in the wake of the utter devastation of WWII. One of the most remarkable...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 11 min read
Soviet Health Service, 1984
Out on Call The right of Soviet citizens to health care is laid down in the Constitution of the USSR. All forms of medical care are free...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 11 min read
Daily LIFT #1555
Georgy Malenkov, Ho Chi Minh and Mao on a Vietnamese stamp, 1954 -- Daily LIFT #1555 Fascinating stamp from when Malenkov was briefly...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 11 min read
The Women's Bill of Rights, 1988
The Women's Bill of Rights was a call to action and program issued by the organization Women for Racial and Economic Equality in the...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 11 min read
Victorio Codovilla, Yelena Stasova and Ho Chi Minh, Moscow, 1961
Victorio Codovilla, Yelena Stasova and Ho Chi Minh, Moscow, 1961 A remarkable photo from the 22nd Congress of the CPSU in Moscow, 1961....
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Michael Laxer
Feb 11 min read
Iraqi Communist Party condemns banning of Syrian Communists
Logo of the Iraqi Communist Party The Iraqi Communist Party is condemning Syria’s new regime for dissolving and banning both the Syrian...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 13 min read
Díaz-Canel Bermúdez meets with global representatives in Havana
On the third day of the “Por el Equilibrio del Mundo” Conference, the Cuban President met with representatives of Venezuela, Spain's...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 316 min read
In the Attack on Pro-Palestinian Campus Speech, More Than Jobs Are at Stake
Students and professors across the country are being witch-hunted for their position on Palestine, in a serious threat to democracy,...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 312 min read
A world turned upside down - Peter Mertens speaks at “Por el Equilibrio del Mundo”
Peter Mertens in 2020 - pvdaptb, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Speech by Peter Mertens at the Opening Session of the 6th...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 3124 min read
Why We Evolved to Dream at Night and What Dreams Mean
We forget most of our dreams. So why do we have them? By Leslie Alan Horvitz No one knows why we dream. It stands to reason that dreams...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 312 min read
Cuba denounces Trump's Guantanamo plan
Public domain image The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a statement denouncing Donald Trump's grotesque plan to imprison...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 303 min read
Díaz-Canel meets with “Por el Equilibrio del Mundo” delegates in Havana
These included Jorge Arreaza, executive secretary of ALBA-TCP, Atilio Borón, José Luis Centella, president of the Communist Party of...
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