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Is left populism the answer to the revolutionary impasse of the 21st century? In his latest, Matthew J. Hunter takes on Chantal Mouffe’s theory expounded in her work For A Left Populism, interrogating its Eurocentric and reformist characteristics. He writes that until this milieu becomes more inclusive and audacious in leading the diverse demographics it…
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Intergalactic colonialism, anti-fascist revolution, raids against ICE concentration camps, urban uprisings, fierce class struggle, and more themes and concepts have become—in a sense—commonplace in art today.
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“And the revolution itself must not by any means be regarded as a single act…, but a series of more or less powerful outbreaks rapidly alternating with periods of more or less complete calm. For that reason, the principal content of the activity of our Party organization, the focus of this activity, should be work…
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With the increase of fascistic violence from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its subsidiaries, Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol, and the growing federal occupation of U.S. cities, it is imperative for organizers to compile “How-To” guides to help others resist this oppression. Comrades from Minneapolis have put out an excellent breakdown of…
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LOS ANGELES—President Donald Trump’s assault on the migrant and immigrant communities of Los Angeles has passed the 100-day mark, syncopated by relentless Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol raids on workplaces and homes. Since June 6, the Trump administration has kidnapped 4,163 people across the L.A. area, according to public data released on Aug. 6. …
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“The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days. But we must recognize that tactics must be adapted to conditions—sometimes negotiations, sometimes mass mobilization, and, when necessary, armed resistance.” — Nelson Mandela, Conversations with Myself (2010) LOS ANGELES—President Donald Trump’s assault on the migrant and immigrant communities…
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The Prairieland case has rightly sent a shock through the progressive strata of the American working class and oppressed groups. Out of the 22 people arrested and “tortured” over last year’s July 4th demonstrations, the first eight have received prison sentences of 450 years cumulatively.
“We don’t plan to lose money.” –Anonymous Shell analyst Malcolm Harris—author of the Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials, Shit Is Fucked Up And Bullshit: History Since the End of History, and Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World—has written perhaps his most audacious book yet. What’s Left? Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis attempts…
The most recent book published by Dr. Gerald Horne, “Armed Struggle? Panthers and Communists; Black Nationalists and Liberals in Southern California through the Sixties and Seventies” is perhaps his best and most applicable work to today’s communists and organizers.
In the early years of the turn of the century, it wasn’t just internal party struggle that was stirring the revolutionary movement in Tsarist Russia, massive class unrest was exponentially growing.
The Second Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party was a pivotal moment in the Russian Marxist movement and cemented Lenin as one of the key leaders.
The name of the newspaper would be Iskra—the Spark—from a line in the poem by a Decembrist, “The spark will kindle the flame.” Lenin thought it was befitting of this new revolutionary party.
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