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Michael Laxer
3 days ago1 min read
Daily LIFT #1521
The magnificent Karl Marx Monument in the center of Karl-Marx-Stadt with youth from the 5th Festival of German-Soviet Friendship, 1980,...
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Michael Laxer
5 days ago1 min read
Daily LIFT #1519
Marx & Engels, illustration, Nikolai Zhukov (1908-1973), USSR One of Zhukov's many famous sketches. Zhukov, who was a People’s Artist of...
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Michael Laxer
5 days ago10 min read
One Genius Worked Alongside Another: Marx & Engels
Manfred Brückels, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons A look at the remarkable partnership and friendship of Marx and Engels from the...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 21 min read
Daily LIFT #1507
Karl Marx at Work, lithograph, V. Lapin, USSR 1957 -- Daily LIFT #1507
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Michael Laxer
Nov 281 min read
Daily LIFT #1504
Marx and Engels at the Rheinische Zeitung, oil on canvas, E. Capiro -- Daily LIFT #1504 This classic image is available on a number of...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 111 min read
Daily LIFT #1466
Marx & Lenin, graphic, USSR 1984 -- Daily LIFT #1466
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Michael Laxer
Sep 283 min read
The Red Banner of the USSR
A look at the history and symbolism of the Red Banner of the USSR from the September, 1982 issue of Socialism: Principles, Practice,...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 41 min read
Daily LIFT #1436
A family visits the Marx & Engels monument in the Marx-Engels-Forum in Berlin, German Democratic Republic, summer of 1986 -- Daily LIFT...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 302 min read
Fred Hampton born, August 30, 1948
The great revolutionary and freedom fighter, Fred Hampton, was born August 30, 1948. A leader of the Black Panthers he was murdered by...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 287 min read
Panoramic Soviet Moscow 1971 -- 21 Images
From a postcard packet published in the USSR in 1971, here we are sharing 21 panoramic images of the Soviet capital, some with our text...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 231 min read
Daily LIFT #1428
Soviet stamp art for the German Democratic Republic 30th anniversary. Shows the Palast der Republic, the coat of arms of GDR and Marx,...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 216 min read
Engels: "We are now approaching a social revolution"
The Engels statue in Manchester -- travelmag.com , CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons An...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 121 min read
Daily LIFT #1394
Karl Marx at the Lectern, stamp, People's Republic of Albania 1968 -- Daily LIFT #1394
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Michael Laxer
Jul 11 min read
Daily LIFT #1384
Forward to Communism!, illustration E. Arurunyan, USSR c. 1983
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Michael Laxer
Jun 296 min read
The Organic Composition of Capital -- Karl Marx
Writing to his friend Engels in August, 1852, Marx jotted down what is perhaps the first attempt to summarize his views on the organic...
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Michael Laxer
Jun 191 min read
Daily LIFT #1375
Workers of the World Unite!, illustration, USSR c. 1926 -- Daily LIFT #1375
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Michael Laxer
Jun 41 min read
Daily LIFT #1364
Profile photo of the great Karl Marx bust in Karl-Marx-Stadt, German Democratic Republic 1971 -- Daily LIFT #1364
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Michael Laxer
May 51 min read
Daily LIFT #1337
Marx addresses a meeting of the First International, pencil drawing, Nikolai Nikolaevich Zhukov, USSR 1939-40. Karl Marx was born May 5,...
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Michael Laxer
May 51 min read
Karl Marx: Remembrances of Engels, Liebknecht & Lafargue
A leaflet of remembrances of Karl Marx published in the 1940s in the UK that we republish here in honour of Marx's birthday, May 5, 1818....
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Michael Laxer
Apr 2714 min read
Statement on the 30th anniversary of our April 1994 democratic breakthrough - South African Communist Party
South African Communist Party Statement on the 30th anniversary of our April 1994 democratic breakthrough Wednesday, 27 April 1994 marked...
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