On 22 April 2020, all anti-imperialists, socialists and revolutionaries throughout the world commemorated the 150th birth anniversary of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov or Lenin, the great Marxist thinker, leader of the revolutionary proletariat, founder of the first socialist state, and prolific author of books and articles. Tap here for a paper by Prof. Jose Ma. Sison on the life and legacy of the great Lenin. [Photo colorization by Klimbim]

The Covid-19 pandemic, which broke into the world stage in January 2020, has contributed to the socio-economic crisis of global capitalism, already teetering near the edge of another recession, finally falling into the chasm. Worst affected by the twin tsunamis are the billions of impoverished working people both in imperialist countries, in their neocolonies, and the few states assertive of their national independence, Tap here for a paper by Joma Sison summarizing the fast-unfolding international situation. [Illustration based on ILO photo]

In the fall of 1938, the Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth CPC Central Committee was held in Yan'an. This photo shows members of the presidium of the plenary session. Front row from left: Kang Sheng, Mao Zedong, Wang Jiaxiang, Zhu De, Xiang Ying and Wang Ming; back row from left: Chen Yun, Bo Gu, Peng Dehuai, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai and Zhang Wentian. [Photo/The history of the CPC]

Between September 1926 and March 1927, the Communist Party of China leads three armed uprisings by the Shanghai working class. Photo shows a formation of armed workers who joined the Shanghai uprising. [Photo/History of the CPC] For more historical photos of events in China's new-democratic revolution (Part 1), tap here.

Following the unsuccessful Autumn Harvest Uprising in September 1927, Mao Zedong led its remaining men to the Jinggang Mountains, founding there the first rural revolutionary base. The picture shows the oil painting "Autumn Harvest Uprising". [Photo/Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution.] For the latest on the "Universality of People's War" debate, tap here.

Police block workers from marching to Indonesia’s national palace to demand higher wages during a major May Day 2019 protest action. Photo source: Donal Husni/NurPhoto via Getty Images via www.vox.com. Tap here for more photos of the May Day 2019 commemoration across the world.

More than 120 Filipinos and their international friends in Europe gathered to celebrate 50 years of struggle for social and national liberation in the Philippines on 31 March 2019. Billed as a “Tapestry of Resistance,” the event in Amsterdam, the Netherlands resonated with many other gatherings in the Philippines and overseas that commemorated the 50th anniversary of the founding of the New People’s Army. Tap here for more details.

On 17 November 2018, 300,000 people of the working class and the middle class of France rose up in militant mass demonstrations to protest the fuel tax hike and rising fuel prices. Characteristically, they wore the yellow vest to signal their economic and social distress. Eighteen mass demonstrations, centered in Paris and carried out nationwide, broke out up to the most recent one of March 16, 2019 dubbed as “The Ultimatum”. For more details, tap here.

The year 2018 marks the 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth and the 170th anniversary of the Communist Manifesto. It also marks the 125th birth anniversary of Mao. Throughout the world, many Marxist, socialist, Left labor and anti-imperialist parties and organizations are initiating or joining commemorative events in this regard. Tap here for more information.