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Michael Laxer
May 17, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #459
Fidel Castro has a quick lunch in Houston, Texas, April 1959 -- Daily LIFT #459
Michael Laxer
Apr 22, 20212 min read
"Lenin is a truly exceptional phenomenon in human life"
Lenin Pin USSR c. 1970 -- Daily LIFT #440 Today is the anniversary of Lenin's birth. Amilcar Cabral: We are not saying anything new....
Michael Laxer
Apr 18, 20214 min read
Castro speaks to the 2nd Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba, 1980
"We still have a long way to go and many problems to solve as we build socialism, but history has already shown that our ideas are far...
Michael Laxer
Apr 17, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #437
Castro addresses an audience in a theatre in Odessa, USSR 1981 -- Daily LIFT #437
Michael Laxer
Apr 7, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #428
Castro and Allende at a rally during Castro's visit to Chile, 1971 -- Daily LIFT #428
Michael Laxer
Mar 17, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #414
Khrushchev and Castro meet for the first time, New York, 1960 -- Daily LIFT #414 Khrushchev commented on how they "enclosed each other in...
Michael Laxer
Feb 24, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #398
Fidel Castro and Camilo Cienfuegos prepare for a charity baseball game in Cuba, 1959 -- Daily LIFT #398 Their team was named the...
Michael Laxer
Feb 16, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #392
Fidel Castro speaks in Colon, Cuba shortly after the triumph of the revolution, January 1959 -- Daily LIFT #392 On February 16, 1959...
Michael Laxer
Feb 6, 20211 min read
Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban Revolutionary, Born February 6, 1932
Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban Revolutionary, Born February 6, 1932 Camilo Cienfuegos was one of the principle revolutionary leaders who, along...
Michael Laxer
Feb 4, 20212 min read
Second Declaration of Havana, February 4 1962
Fidel Castro delivers the Second Declaration of Havana -- one of the most important anti-imperialist documents of the modern world --...
Michael Laxer
Jan 20, 20211 min read
Amílcar Cabral, assassinated January 20, 1973
"In our present historical situation...there are only two possible paths for an independent nation: to return to imperialist domination...
Michael Laxer
Jan 19, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #375
Castro speaks to a crowd in Camaguey, Cuba just after the triumph of the revolution, January 1959 -- Daily LIFT #375
Michael Laxer
Jan 8, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #365
Fidel Castro enters Havana greeted by huge, jubilant crowds, January 8, 1959 -- Daily LIFT #365 On January 8 1959, Fidel Castro entered...
Michael Laxer
Dec 23, 20201 min read
Daily #352
Fidel Castro and legendary Newfoundland Premier Joey Smallwood meet in Gander, September, 1973 -- Daily LIFT#352 Castro made several...
Michael Laxer
Dec 14, 20201 min read
Daily LIFT #347
Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro meet for the first time, Havana, December 1994 -- Daily LIFT #347 The beginning of a remarkable comradeship...
Michael Laxer
Dec 9, 20201 min read
Daily LIFT #343
Fidel Castro is greeted by huge crowds as he visits Chile and tours with Salvador Allende, 1971 -- Daily LIFT #343
Michael Laxer
Dec 3, 20201 min read
Daily LIFT #338
Fidel Castro addresses the closing session of the Second Congress of the Federation of Cuban Women, Havana, November 29, 1974 -- Daily...
Michael Laxer
Nov 25, 20201 min read
Daily LIFT #333
Fidel Castro addressing a crowd of nearly one million people in Havana, 1959 -- Daily LIFT #333 “We have no alternative but to dream, to...
Michael Laxer
Nov 25, 20201 min read
Remembering Fidel
Fidel Castro died November 25, 2016. Today we remember the great freedom fighter, internationalist and communist Fidel Castro who died...
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