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Michael Laxer
Jan 26, 20241 min read
Daily LIFT #1153
Rehabilitation of the Anshan Iron and Steel Works, woodcut by Ku Yuan, People's Republic of China, 1952 -- Daily LIFT #1153
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Michael Laxer
Jan 25, 20241 min read
Daily LIFT #1152
Communist cadres at work in the countryside, People's Republic of China 1970 -- Daily LIFT #1152 The wealth of society is created by the...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 24, 20246 min read
Houthis Emerge as Latest Threat to U.S. Control Over Global Shipping
A powerful symbol of the U.S.-led global security order is increasingly under threat by the Yemeni rebel group. The lack of a robust...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 22, 20241 min read
Daily LIFT #1150
Be self-reliant and work hard!, poster, People's Republic of China 1970, Daily LIFT #1150
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Michael Laxer
Jan 19, 20241 min read
Daily LIFT #1148
Two Welders, oil painting, uncredited, People's Republic of China 1972 -- Daily LIFT #1148
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Michael Laxer
Jan 19, 20241 min read
Daily LIFT #1147
Friendship Among the Table-Tennis Players, water-colour painting, Tung Chen-sheng, People's Republic of China, 1972
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Michael Laxer
Jan 13, 20241 min read
The working class must exercise leadership in everything - Mao
Mao photo, January 1969. The working class must exercise leadership in everything. The people's democratic dictatorship needs the...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 13, 20241 min read
Daily LIFT #1142
On the Docks, Illustration for a Chinese revolutionary opera, People's Republic of China, 1969 -- Daily LIFT #1142
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Michael Laxer
Jan 9, 20246 min read
What Is to Be Done?
By Richard D. Wolff In 1863, the Russian social critic, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, published a novel entitled “What Is to Be Done?” Its story...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 8, 20241 min read
Daily LIFT #1138
Youth rising in the countryside, illustration, People's Republic of China 1968 -- Daily LIFT #1138
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Michael Laxer
Jan 6, 20241 min read
Daily LIFT #1136
The Red Sun is in Our Hearts, woodcut Chin Chun, People's Republic of China 1966 -- Daily LIFT #1136
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Michael Laxer
Jan 6, 20244 min read
Elections in Taiwan: Does the Island Choose Further Confrontation With China?
By Wim De Ceukelaire On January 13, the residents of Taiwan, an island off the coast of China, will go to the polls to elect a new...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 5, 20241 min read
Daily LIFT #1135
Chairman Mao in His Youth, illustration, People's Republic of China, 1968 -- Daily LIFT #1135
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Michael Laxer
Jan 4, 20241 min read
Daily LIFT #1134
Bringing books for the villagers, woodcut, Sung Ke-Chun, People's Republic of China 1966 -- Daily LIFT #1134
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Michael Laxer
Jan 2, 20242 min read
Cuba and China launch new headquarters of an ophthalmological hospital in Hefei
Image via Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs In another example of Cuban and Chinese internationalist medical solidarity in action, Granma...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 1, 20248 min read
2023: The year in review on The Left Chapter
Palestinian flags fly at a Solidarity with Gaza march in Toronto, Canada on October 21 -- from our post: "End the Siege of Gaza Now!":...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 27, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #1127
Communist rural political study group, People's Republic of China, 1967, illustration by Liu Chih-kuei (a production team bookkeeper of a...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 26, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #1126
People's Army, poster, People's Republic of China, 1967 -- Daily LIFT #1126 A poster based on a quotation from Chairman Mao: "Without a...
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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,...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 14, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #1116
Chairman Mao sculpture, Liu Kai-chu, People's Republic of China 1961 -- Daily LIFT #1116 Liu Kai-chu was a well-known Chinese sculptor,...
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