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Public Resolutions of the First Conference of the Organizing Committee for a Maoist Communist Party

On National Liberation Given that: a. the contradiction between oppressor/exploiting nations and oppressed/exploited nations remains the primary contradiction of our era of capitalist-imperialism; b. capital has become a fully realized global system with value chains traversing borders with ease; however the point of origin and point of return

Racism

The Mass Line: Communist Militants Speak on Dayton

This is an interview with comrades who were present at the attempted Dayton KKK rally last week. "The Mass Line" is a column where on the ground activists are encouraged to speak their minds and offer advice derived from social practice regarding organizing, offer criticism/engage in self-criticism, and promote

News

Police Attack Black Men at Apartment Complex in Saint Louis Suburb

By: Nat Turner A resident sent us this video of an incident of police overkill at the Oak Park Apartments in Spanish Lake, Missouri, earlier this evening around 8:00 PM. According to witnesses, a Saint Louis County police officer pulled up to two black men sitting outside of their

Justice Cup Renews Struggle in Saint Louis During Stanley Cup

By: Nat Turner Photo courtesy: Richard ReillyWe believe in the freedom and liberation of all people. We understand the current crisis in our country as part of a longer history of racialized and gendered violence, environmental injustice, ableism, queer and trans-phobia, and mass incarceration. This is why we believe it

History

The Ebb And Flow Of Freedom: Haiti, Cuba, and Jamaica in the Age of Bourgeois Revolution

Guest Piece by: Zach the Red The power of the Haitian Revolution reverberated across the planet, but the revolution made its most profound and lasting impacts on the neighboring slave societies of the Atlantic world. In the nearby colonies of British Jamaica and Spanish Cuba, enslaved people, free people of

What Happened in Dayton?

The Left were pleased with yesterday’s news that the Klan, which had announced its desire to hold a rally in diverse Dayton, OH (51.7% White, 42.9% Black), was only able to send a delegation of 9 pathetic looking settlers waving Confederate and American flags and pitiful signs.

Tears of Satan: Dedicated to Officer Julia Crews

Julia Crews is a former police officer in Ladue, Missouri that shot sister Ashley Hall over a piece of fruit.Why do you cry, Miss Satan? Did you cry When you tried to take my sister's life In Ladue, over a piece of rotten fruit? Ladue, where those who rob

Can We Build A Society for All Animals?

By: Comrade August You don’t have to look hard to find absurd, laughable statements made in the name of animal rights. Whether it’s PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) asking us to stop using “anti-animal language” like “kill two birds with one stone,” or an earnest

Defeat US Imperialism! Liberate the Inner Colonies!

A Brief Outline of Imperialism and the Current World Situation What is imperialism? Imperialism is capitalism that has developed to a point where it is no longer based on free competition among small industrial producers, but where competition has been completely erased internally due to the formation of industrial monopolies

The Black Church and the Black Revolution

Part of being a Communist is realizing and working with the fact that the masses we seek to organize and develop for revolution already have developed their own institutions and formations that they support and which provide some semblance of tangible benefit for their communities — hence continued support for these

Ideological Social Democracy Is Social Fascism: Yet Again

I’ve been a bit apprehensive in the past about using the old Comintern era label of “social fascism” because it’s often thrown around in the most sectarian, harmful, petty and foolish ways — the average rank and file DSA member is by no means or any definition of the

A Year in the Life of a Revolutionary Mass Organization: FTP-AC

With the conclusion of 2018, we wish to summarize the experiences and struggles of our ‘For the People’ mass organization in Atlantic City. This analysis was delayed due to recent developments in the city over the past three months, and the rectification of many errors. This caused an intensification of

I Really Don’t Care if Jussie Smollett Lied.

It’s a given that even when a Black person in the United States is the victim of crime that results in their death (see Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin, Vonderritt Myers), they are subject to a second assassination of their character. If I somehow end up dead at the hands

War Against All Puerto Ricans: A Review

“Empires are devils disguised as guardian angels. The American flag is a skull and crossbones over two bunches of bananas. Democracy is a lady who presents herself with a machine gun between her legs, tear gas at her breast and her hat adorned with pistols and .45 revolvers.” — Don Pedro

Current Events

For Lil’ Jazmine.

"...every time a member of the New Afrikan nation dies under this imperialist order, it is a genocide."

Big Pigs Spank Little Pigs in Saint Louis

Four white Saint Louis Metropolitan Police Department officers, Dustin Boone, Bailey Colletta, Randy Hays and Christopher Myers were indicted this afternoon on federal charges after Boone, Hays and Myers brutally beat a black officer named Luther Hall (identified as L.H.) who was working undercover during last year’s Stockley

His Name was Danye Jones. And You Ain’t Gonna Forget It.

Clayton, Missouri is the capital and nerve center of Saint Louis County. Many people in the Greater STL Metropolitan area come here to shop and handle other business of that nature. The main attraction for most is the Saint Louis Galleria (don’t go to Plaza Frontenac if you want

Current Events

A Man Was Lynched in Saint Louis on October 17th

"These are not accidents, or mistakes, or coincidences. There is a targeted, careful, directed conspiracy to eradicate or intimidate proletarian black leadership..."

Current Events

Shootings, Migrants, And U.S. Fascism

"...these people are not interested in polemics and debates with the 'left'. They seek to kill because they sense that their day is done."

News

Peaceful Protesters Held Longer than Killer Cop in Dallas: What does this Mean?

"9 progressive protesters were released earlier today after being arrested Sunday for demonstrating outside a Dallas Cowboys game..."

Art

Some Thoughts on Revolutionary Art

"...To depict a slum is one thing, to depict the masses of tenants rising up against a slumlord and transforming the community through their own hands is another."

News

A Maoist’s Thoughts on the Murder of Botham Jean

"...A black man was just murdered in his own apartment in Dallas, a city which has Black people in two powerful city positions."

Criticism

If the Masses Don’t Trust You, they Gon’ Shoot You — Still.

"...Many Communists make the mistake of sequestering themselves in libraries and among their own clique or circle of friends, using them as a sort of stand in for the masses."