Michael Laxer
Remembering Ruth First, assassinated August 17, 1982
Ruth First was born in 1925 to parents Julius First and Matilda Levetan who emigrated to South Africa from Latvia in 1906 and became...
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Michael Laxer
May 231 min read
Joe Slovo b. May 23, 1926
Winnie Mandela, Nelson Mandela and Joe Slovo at the Communist Party's first public meeting in South Africa in 1990, after being banned...
Michael Laxer
Jan 103 min read
Joe Slovo: Internationalist and Communist
South African Communist Party on the legacy and internationalism of Joe Slovo Joe Slovo with Winnie Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and Nelson...
Michael Laxer
Aug 25, 20238 min read
"Eternal glory to all those who fell in the fight against colonialism, racism and apartheid!"
Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, was in...
Michael Laxer
May 23, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #948
Winnie Mandela, Nelson Mandela and Joe Slovo at the Communist Party's first public meeting in South Africa in 1990, after being banned...
Michael Laxer
Jan 9, 20229 min read
Red Review #39: International Left and Labour News
The thirty-ninth edition of our weekly review of international left and labour news with stories from the USA, South Africa, Kazakhstan,...
Michael Laxer
Jan 6, 20221 min read
Joe Slovo, South African Communist & anti-Apartheid icon, d. Jan 6, 1995
Today is the anniversary of the death of Joe Slovo, an iconic hero in the fight against Apartheid in South Africa. Slovo was the General...
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