How to Retreat

May 4, 2024 Cde-Editor Hudson 1

Only one thing will do: not to die, but to live; not to be held in jail, but to escape and be free; not to be a lone voice crying out, but to be the organizer of a vast chorus.

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The Hostage Syndrome

May 2, 2024 Cde-Editor Katsfoter 2

Only with national liberation sections, each of which with its own armed wing, each of which must have authority to veto the direction of the party-to-be, can the workers movement be purged of the chauvinism that now infects it.

Tend the Garden

April 18, 2024 Cde. G. Gracchus 1

We must act now as Red Gardeners so that we may create an army of gardeners. We must raise up legions of shepherds and caretakers.

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Organize Within the DSA!

April 12, 2024 Cde-Editor Katsfoter 0

It is exceedingly easy to apply a mechanical analysis to the DSA and dismiss the “party” without a second thought – but we are not in the third period and the DSA is not the SDP.

A crowd of workers and peasants, drawn in a line-drawing style, surround a figure with hands upraised as the sun shines behind them. The words BATTLE LINES are written across the image.

Battle Lines

April 5, 2024 Cde-Editor Katsfoter 5

Who are our friends? Who are our enemies? These are questions that it is critical for us to answer in order to advance our movement.

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The Cult-Building Tendency

April 2, 2024 Cde-Editor Katsfoter 3

This is the essence of the cult-form: in order to extract labor and money from its membership, commit abuses with impunity, and maintain absolute control over the money and labor lodged in the organization and its members, the leadership must maintain absolute control and block all avenues of accountability.