The Left Chapter

15/10/2026

Communist Parties Globally Condemn Police Violence Against Comrades in India

“Hands off the Indian Communists, the people and the youth! All those arrested must be released immediately!” Statements from the Communist and Left Parties in Greece, Turkey, Pakistan, Iran, Bangladesh, Britain and India.

“Hands off the Indian Communists, the people and the youth! All those arrested must be released immediately!” Statements from the Communist and Left Parties in Greece, Turkey, Pakistan, Iran, Bangladesh, Britain and India.International Relations Section of the Central Committee of the Communist ...

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Lenin Bust, USSR 1924

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"The young Mao of Asking the Vast Earth swims into a river swollen by the storm because, he says, its temper can be understood. Fifty years after his death, this may be one reason young Chinese people are returning to him, having inherited another China and entered another current, formed by socialist construction, market reforms, new social contradictions, and an imperialist capitalist world order in violent transition. Mao cannot tell us in advance where the current will lead. What he offers is the conviction that it can be studied—and that, through organization and struggle, forces that appear weak can acquire the strength to change its course."

Michael Day, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsBy Tings ChakThe television series Asking the Vast Earth (问苍茫, 2023) opens with a scene of a young Mao Zedong swimming in the Xiang River, swollen from the heavy rains. A fisherman calls from the bank to the lone swimmer: ‘You fool, you’re askin...

15/10/2026

By the map of military operations, illustration, N. Zhukov USSR, 1960

From the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1979:

Nikolai Nikolaevich Zhukov

Born Nov. 19 (Dec. 2), 1908, in Moscow; died there Sept. 24, 1973. Soviet graphic artist, People’s Artist of the USSR (1963), corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1949). Member of the CPSU since 1945.

Zhukov studied at the industrial arts technicums in Nizhny Novgorod (1926–28) and Saratov (1928–30). From 1943 he was the art director of the M. B. Grekov Studio of Military Artists. He worked on a front-line newspaper (1941–45) and on the newspaper Pravda (1942–43). He created a series of thematic easel drawings (including the V. I. Lenin series, done in watercolor, pencil, India ink, and autographic lithography, from 1940; About Children, done in pencil and watercolor, 1943–68; The Nuremberg Trial, Italian crayon, 1946; all in the Tret’iakov Gallery and other museums and in the artist’s possession). He also did illustrations (for the book The Story of a Real Man by Polevoi, published in 1952; Memories of Marx and Engels, published in 1956) and posters. He received the State Prize of the USSR (1943, 1951) and was awarded the Order of Lenin, two other orders, and medals.

15/10/2026

October Evening, J. J. Lankes, 1921

Lankes was a famed American woodcut illustrator. This piece appeared in the American leftist magazine The Liberator, of which he was a contributing editor.

15/10/2026

The 81st anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) was celebrated across the Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK) with events on both October 9 and 10 that included a women's hockey match, floral tributes being laid at the statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, an evening gala of youth and students and a performance at the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium attended by Kim Jong Un.

All images via the KCNAThe 81st anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) was celebrated across the Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK) with events on both October 9 and 10 that included a women's hockey match, floral tributes being laid at the statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim J...

15/10/2026

The New Title Deeds, illustration, People's Republic of China 1950

From the PRC press: The final stage of land reform and redistribution from the feudal landlords is reached when the new peasant land owners receive their title-deeds bearing a red official seal.

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A Revolutionary Life: Images of Georgi Dimitrov #88: Dimitrov in Vranya, near Sophia on the eve of the 5th Congress of the Bulgarian Communist Party, December 1948

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Thomas Sankara murdered October 15, 1987

Image: Comrades Thomas Sankara and Fidel Castro. Castro is Awarding Sankara the Order of Jose Marti, 1984

The great revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara was murdered in a coup on October 15, 1987.

Sankara became the first president of Burkina Faso in 1983. His administration initiated a radical, anti-imperialist and anti-IMF program that included nationalizations, infrastructure building, promoting education and advancing the rights of women.

After 4 years in power he was assassinated during a military coup. Tragically, despite their popularity, many of his reforms were undone though now, decades later the Ibrahim Traoré government has taken up his torch again.

“Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms, a loan, food aid, blackmail . We are fighting this system that allows a handful of men on earth to rule all of humanity."

"Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence. I hear the roar of women’s silence. I sense the rumble of their storm and feel the fury of their revolt." -Thomas Sankara

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"The PQ victory was secured with the lowest plurality (28%) in the province’s history due to a uniquely competitive five-party contest. In contrast to indulgent appeasement attitudes in English Canada towards Albertan ‘separatism’, the return of the national question in Québec—31 years after the razor-edge result of the second sovereignty-association referendum—has put the establishment on a yellow-alert status."

Paul St-Pierre Plamondon on election night -- image via Paul St-Pierre Plamondon on XBy Gabriel Haythornthwaite, The DNA ReportWith only 8 days until Alberta’s pre-annexation referendum, The DNA Report engages a third round of This Week In Annexation with commentary on the minority government vict...