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Michael Laxer
Jun 1, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #723
Castro and Brezhnev in Havana, 1974 -- Daily LIFT #723
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Michael Laxer
May 27, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #719
Fidel Castro and Ernest Hemingway, Havana, May 1960 -- Daily LIFT #719 Castro is holding trophies for wins in an annual fishing...
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Michael Laxer
May 10, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #708
Comrades Che Guevara and Fidel Castro in discussion -- Daily LIFT #708
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Michael Laxer
May 1, 20221 min read
Huge crowds in Havana rally for IWD under the slogan Cuba Vive y Trabaja
For the first time in three years a mass rally was held in Havana to celebrate International Workers' Day. Under the slogan Cuba Vive y...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 12, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #689
Yuri Gagarin and Fidel Castro meet, Havana 1961 -- Daily LIFT #689
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Michael Laxer
Apr 5, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #685
Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev in Red Square, Moscow USSR, May Day 1963 -- Daily LIFT #685
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Michael Laxer
Mar 10, 20226 min read
Che Guevara: 32 images from 1940-1967
Over the course of February we shared daily photos of Che Guevara, iconic revolutionary leader and hero. These came from a Soviet archive...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 21, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #655
Leonid Brezhnev and Fidel Castro in Cuba, 1974 -- Daily LIFT #655
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Michael Laxer
Feb 9, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #644
Fidel Castro visits the Murmansk fish factory, USSR 1963 -- Daily LIFT #644
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Michael Laxer
Jan 25, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #632
Fidel Castro visits Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd (Stalingrad) during the construction of the Motherland Calls memorial complex, USSR 1963...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 11, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT#599
Fidel Castro speaks at a reception during his visit to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam held by the Workers' Party of Vietnam,...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 10, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #597
Fidel Castro greets North Vietnamese Prime Minister Phạm Văn Đồng during his visit to the South Vietnam liberated area, September 1973 --...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 2, 20211 min read
The rebels land in Cuba on the Granma, Dec. 2, 1956 -- Revolutionary Armed Forces Day
On December 2, 1956 Fidel and Raul Castro, Che, Camilo Cienfuegos and 78 other revolutionaries ran aground on the Cuban shoreline near...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 2, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #591
Fidel Castro visits the office where Ho Chi MInh and the Vietnamese Politburo planned their resistance, 1973 -- Daily LIFT #591
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Michael Laxer
Nov 25, 20212 min read
Daily LIFT #587
Castro and Allende greeted by huge crowds during Castro's visit to Chile in November, 1971 -- Daily LIFT #587 " When the revolution...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 20, 20211 min read
"I think the main aspect of our solidarity is extremely simple: it is to fight"
Comrades Amílcar Cabral and Fidel Castro "To end up with, I should just like to make one last point about solidarity between the...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 18, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #581
Fidel Castro is presented with the rifle of National Liberation Front of South Vietnam hero Ho Duc during his visit to the liberated...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 16, 20214 min read
Revolutions are not easy. No one believes that revolutions are easy - Fidel Castro
Excerpt from a speech Castro gave during his visit to Chile, 50 years ago today. Hands Off Cuba. Castro speaks during his tour of Chile,...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 10, 20211 min read
Castro in Chile, 1971
50 years ago today Fidel Castro began his historic 23 day visit to Chile and President Allende. On November 10, 1971, Fidel Castro landed...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 5, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #571
Castro and Brezhnev meet with future cosmonauts at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Centre, 1972 -- Daily LIFT #571
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