A True Accounting of the CPUSA In Its Members Own Words
Exploring an anti-democratic organization designed to stifle the Communist movement.
History
What Blood Libel Is – and What It Isn’t
Online zionist rhetoric is distorting the definition of blood libel. What does the term really mean and how do present conversations damage conversations about antisemitic tropes?
Revolutionary History: The Commune is Dead — Long Live the Commune!
152 years ago, the city of Paris threw off the shackles of the reactionary government of France and repudiated the conservative political order.
Revolutionary History: The Haymarket Massacre and the Origins of May Day
Eight men — socialist and anarchist leaders — stood accused. The trial, Illinois v. Spies et al., started on June 21, 1886, and went on until August 11. The judge was openly hostile to the defendants. No union members or anyone with socialist sympathies was permitted to be seated on the jury. The jury returned eight guilty verdicts. The judge sentenced all but one man to be hanged.
Dispossession in Portland
Portland, Oregon, has a reputation as a hub of “progressivism.” This reputation, however, is refuted by the history — and current realities — of the city; it is a mere […]
Terror in Memphis, the Police and the People
“Killer cops aren’t the exception and they aren’t “the bad apple that spoils the bunch.” They are the intended outcome of the policy that unleashes stormtroopers in blue on the streets of every poor and majority-Black neighborhood in every city.
All Support to Castillo!
José Pedro Castillo Terrones, the democratically elected, legitimate president of Peru, has been ousted by the right-reactionary wing of Peru’s ruling class. President Castillo, a former union leader and school teacher who stood as the candidate of Free Peru, a Marxist party, ran on the most progressive platform in the country’s history, and beat Keiko Fujimori, leader of the right-fascist and neoliberal Popular Force party, in the 2021 elections. Since those elections, every reform put forward by President Castillo’s progressive government has been obstructed by a reactionary-right opposition bloc in the country’s Congress. This obstructionism has earned the opposition-dominated Congress a staggering 10% approval rating from an increasingly disgusted public. Initially, Castillo attempted to reach conciliation with the moderate wing of the opposition; he governed as a moderate left-wing social democrat for 18 months, despite his radically progressive election platform and the clear mandate he received from his political base in Peru’s working classes and peasantry. From the start of his presidency, Castillo lacked the necessary revolutionary infrastructure to see through his ambitious plan. The Castillo government was unable to dislodge Peru’s entrenched political establishment, characterized by right-wing neoliberalism and anti-Indigenismo racism.
Revolutionary History: Babeuf and the Conspiracy of Equals, 1796
A radical faction attempted to carry the French Revolution into an egalitarian utopia. Although they failed, their conspiracy would inspire revolutionaries for centuries to come, including Marx and Lenin.
A Revolution within the Revolution: The Triumph of Cuba’s New Family Code
Cuba’s new Family Code is the culmination of decades of emancipatory struggle and progress under the island-nation’s socialist revolution — a world-historical triumph and a brilliant light of hope.
Revolutionary History: The St. Louis Commune, 1877
How did socialists in St. Louis, Missouri briefly convert a spontaneous rail strike into a revolutionary commune, uniting Black and white workers? And why did they ultimately fail?