The Unity Imperative: Lessons for Building the Anti-Fascist Alliance

Joe Sims Members of the Communist Party USA and Young Communist League proceed along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington during the Poor People’s Campaign’s Moral March, June 18, 2022. | Jose Luis Magana / AP The call for unity resonates across a wide swath of today’s democratic and social movements. Attend any demonstration and you’re likely…

U.S. Imperialism’s Supremacist Ideology Can Be Defeated by Liberation Struggle Solidarity

Rainer Shea The pitch that the U.S. empire makes is one of a shared conquest. Or, to put it more bluntly, a shared project to steal from other civilizations. The American imperialists have stolen an entire continent from the Natives, stolen over ten trillion dollars worth of wealth created through the labor of African slaves, and distributed…

Gramsci in the Midst of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)

Tricontinental Dossier no. 54 (July 2022) An Interview with MST Militante Neuri Rossetto Introduction Despite the persistent hegemony of capitalism and its ruling neoliberal ideology, various forms of resistance, social struggle, and proposals for an emancipated future continue to emerge. This is taking place in the face of economic, political, social, and environmental crises as…

Revolutionary Cuba Delivers Marching Orders to the US Left to Defeat Imperialism for All Humanity

Jacqueline Luqman “I recently joined the National Network on Cuba’s 15th “May Day International Brigade” of Voluntary Work and Solidarity with Cuba. The full brigade takes place from April 24 to May 8, 2022, in Havana, Artemisa, Villa Clara and Santiago de Cuba provinces, and includes one week of work and education alongside Cuban workers,…

Aurora: Communist Women in the Donbas Resistance

Jim “Fergie” Chambers Katya and Svetlana show off their Soviet-themed redesign of the DPR flag A 3-part interview with Svetlana and Katya, from the Donetsk Marxist-Feminist organization 13.05.2022, DONETSK, DONETSK PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC- Nearly two weeks ago, I spent the May 1st, International Worker’s Day, with six members of the Donestk-based Marxist feminist group “Aurora.” The…

“Don’t Mess With Donbas”: A Day with American Communist Ex-pat and DPR Veteran Russell “Texas” Bentley

Jim “Fergie” Chambers Earlier this week, I was pleased to make the acquaintance of Russell “Texas” Bentley, a 62 year-old native of Austin, Texas. In 2014, after a long and adventurous life, including a tour in the US army in Germany, and various forms of activism in the US, he made his mind up to…

“Stay Safe”: The Whole World Is in Harms’ Way

Jim “Fergie” Chambers This house, a small homestead for a family of 6, in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, was hit with a Ukrainian rocket last week. Shells continued to land nearby as we spoke with this family yesterday, as they have very day for 8 years In short, those of us who have any…

The Immortal Regiment, Moscow, 9 May 2022

Oleg Yasinsky (Image by Oleg Yasinsky) “Our dead will not leave us in disgrace. Our fallen are like sentinels”, sang Vladimir Vysotsky, the Soviet Union’s most popular troubadour, in his famous song “He did not return from combat”. The heart of the cultural identity of the people of the USSR was our historical memory of…

Siliconology

Apparatchik Arte et Labore, 2021 Bourgeois technophilia, not to mention the rotten New York-Los Angeles “avante-garde,” is a perverse pastime kept alive with dollars made in surveillance and repression. The heat and blood of revolutionary struggle will produce futurities beyond anything they can imagine. The cosmos are not theirs to claim. In a January 2020 essay published…

Borotba: Fighting Fascism is the Duty of Everyone on the Planet

Borotba Statement by Borotba (Struggle), a revolutionary Marxist organization banned in Ukraine since 2014. Translated for Struggle-La Lucha by Greg Butterfield. May 9 marks the 77th anniversary of the Day of Victory over Nazi Germany. Almost a century separates us from those events. However, right now we see what a colossal impact they continue to…

The Palestinian Left Will Not Be Hijacked

Samar Al-Saleh and L.K. “American Imperialism is the Bitter Enemy of the Palestinian People,” from the Palestine Poster Project Archives. A Critique of Palestine: A Socialist Introduction The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine’s political program, Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine (1969), emphasized the indispensable role of political thought in the Palestinian national…

No to the Covid Passport!

Ezkerraldea antifaxista.- These are not good times for the working class. To the historical setbacks due to the collapse of the different liberating projects, we must now add the campaign of total domestication sponsored by the apparatuses of power. Not even in our worst hypotheses could we have imagined that the unrest and tension among…