Michael Laxer
75 years ago, the KKK and anti-communists teamed up to violently stop a folk concert in NY
Rioters during the attacks in Peekskill By Nina Silber, Professor of History, Boston University Few Americans today know about the events...
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Michael Laxer
Jun 171 min read
Daily LIFT #1373
Graphic for the Communist Party USA 7th National Convention, June 1930 -- Daily LIFT #1373
Michael Laxer
Mar 222 min read
Communist parties of Mexico and the USA demand an end to imperialist campaign against Cuba
Communist parties in Mexico and the United States have joined those in countries like Canada, Uruguay, the Dominican Republic and Ireland...
Michael Laxer
Feb 274 min read
Lenin: A Worker of Miracles - Moissaye J. Olgin
V. I. Lenin makes a speech at the funeral of Sverdlov. Moscow, March 1919 Surrounded by the ancient walls of the Kremlin, where the...
Michael Laxer
Jan 171 min read
Daily LIFT #1146
Read for the Future, CPUSA graphic, 1927 -- Daily LIFT #1146
Michael Laxer
Jan 121 min read
Daily LIFT #1141
Angela Davis and Gus Hall, CPUSA presidential ticket, 1980 -- Daily LIFT #1141 "In 1980 Gus Hall and Angela Davis ran for President and...
Michael Laxer
Apr 22, 20235 min read
Communists around the world mourn the death of South African Comrade Chris Matlhako
With statements from the SACP and parties in Greece, the Netherlands, Turkey, the USA, Britain and Kenya. Photo via the CPUSA Communists...
Michael Laxer
Mar 1, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #891
"Peace, Jobs, Civil Rights, Democracy, Socialism", CPUSA graphic by the great American left artist Hugo Gellert (1892-1985) -- Daily LIFT...
Michael Laxer
Jan 26, 20235 min read
"Power to the People": Angela Davis b. January 26, 1944
Libertad Para Angela Davis, Cuban Poster 1971 A Cuban in solidarity with US freedom fighter, civil rights and communist activist Angela...
Michael Laxer
Sep 22, 20222 min read
"Working class internationalism is an essential weapon in the struggle against imperialism."
From "The Struggle for Leninist Concepts of Proletarian Internationalism" - Gus Hall, 1969 "Working class internationalism is an...
Michael Laxer
Sep 1, 20222 min read
Happy Birthday to the CPUSA!
The Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA) was formed on September 1, 1919. The button above was from the People Before Profits: Gus Hall &...
Michael Laxer
Feb 15, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #649
Mass Communist rally at Madison Square Garden, New York City USA, 1931 -- Daily LIFT #649
Michael Laxer
Jul 2, 20213 min read
No new Cold War!
The most fatal and dangerous virus is capitalism! Anti-NATO protest, Washington DC March 2019 July 1 saw the release of two powerful...
Michael Laxer
Feb 23, 20211 min read
"Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction" - WEB Du Bois b. Feb. 23, 1868
Cover of a Soviet book published in 1971 dedicated to life and writings of W.E.B. Du Bois. In the Letter of an American Communist -- the...
Michael Laxer
Dec 8, 20202 min read
"Your great uprising, a living poem of freedom and justice composed by 250 million people."
CPUSA solidarity statement with striking workers and farmers in India On November 26 India witnessed the largest general strike in the...
Michael Laxer
Oct 1, 20201 min read
Daily LIFT #294
Communist rally in Los Angeles, September 7, 1935 -- Daily LIFT #294
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