Category: Current events

For an American Marxist-Leninist Anti-Fascism

For an American Marxist-Leninist Anti-Fascism

Published by Victor Vaughn on March 1, 2024

Featured image: Members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (XV International Brigade), with Jack Shulman Written by John Palameda for the Red Phoenix, 2017. At the 21st International Seminar on Problems of the Revolution in Latin America hosted by the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador in Quito, the American Party of Labor presented a paper on the issue of fascism as one of chief concerns for contemporary Marxist-Leninists in the United States. The rise of fascism has indeed dominated left discourse in 2017 across tendency, as rapidly expanding anti-fascist movements have waged direct and indirect struggle against the forces of reaction from…

Capitalism is the Oppression of Women

Capitalism is the Oppression of Women

Published by Victor Vaughn on March 1, 2024

by Polina Brik The oppression of women is an inevitable component of capitalism. Women experience pervasive sexism and discrimination on a daily basis: lack of identity, harassment, being treated as men’s appendages – our voices are simply neglected. When we speak up, we are silenced and reminded of our position as men’s accessories. But where does this misogyny stem from? Historically, women have been regarded as personal property of men. The division of labor caused by the emergence of private property was the starting point of subordination of women to men. Exploited in both the workplace and at home through the…

Statements of Principles

Statements of Principles

Published by Victor Vaughn on March 1, 2024

What breakthroughs are at the core of Marxism-Leninism? 1) That the transition from capitalism to socialism requires the revolutionary overthrow of the exploiting classes and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat. 2) That the transition between capitalism to socialism and from socialism to communism can only be brought about under the dictatorship of the proletariat. 3) That the dictatorship of the proletariat shall be under the leadership of a vanguard party made of representatives of the working class. 4) That the socialist period must take the form of a centralized state-planned economy to replace profit motive. 5) That…

What have the House Select Committee’s Hearings on the Trump-led riots at the Capitol revealed?

What have the House Select Committee’s Hearings on the Trump-led riots at the Capitol revealed?

Published by Hari Kumar on July 22, 2022

What have the House Select Committee’s Hearings on the Trump led riots at the Capitol revealed? An update on the Trump mob assault invasion of the Capitol; January 6 2021 Introduction: On the January 6th 2021 an attempt was made by the electorally beaten, then President Trump – to overturn the election results favouring Biden, by assembling a mob to storm the Capitol. This, and Trump’s stalling and repeated claims of ‘stolen elections’ has been subject to a slow drip of investigations aimed at him. These reached a summit at the recent series of hearings at the Congress has unveiled…

Book Review: Molotov’s Memoirs (W.B. Bland)

Book Review: Molotov’s Memoirs (W.B. Bland)

Published by Hari Kumar on June 23, 2022

Below, we reproduce William Bland’s review of Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics, as it appeared in the October 1993 issue of COMpass (issue 108). A PDF of the work as it was originally published is available at the Marxists Internet Archive via this link. -ML Currents Today, June 2022 Albert Resis (Ed.): ‘MOLOTOV REMEMBERS: INSIDE KREMLIN POLITICS’; Chicago; 1993. Vyacheslav Molotov was Stalin’s closest comrade-in-arms, and held for many years very important positions in the Soviet Union. One might have hoped, therefore, that his memoirs would have contained valuable information on the way in which revisionists managed to wreck socialism…

An Open Letter On Putin’s War On Ukraine; to the website “Selected Marxist-Leninist Writings”

An Open Letter On Putin’s War On Ukraine; to the website “Selected Marxist-Leninist Writings”

Published by Hari Kumar on March 18, 2022

Presented below is an excerpt; download the entire article as a PDF via this link. An Open Letter On Putin’s War On Ukraine; to the website “Selected Marxist-Leninist Writings” by Marxist-Leninist Currents Today Introduction We give below an open response to some of the main points of an article by Erdogan A with MLG, titled “Imperialism – in Ukraine Particular”. This can be found at: https://neodemocracy.blogspot.com/2022/03/imperialism-in-ukraine-particular.html (March 2, 2022). The viewpoint of ‘Marxist-Leninist Currents Today’ was put in two articles, written before the open war. However they anticipated a possible – perhaps even likely – Russian invasion of Ukraine, which…

Imperialist Danse Macabre over the Peoples of Ukraine

Imperialist Danse Macabre over the Peoples of Ukraine

Published by Hari Kumar on February 11, 2022

Presented below is an excerpt; download the entire article as a PDF via this link. Protagonists locked in a power-struggle include USA-led NATO encircling Russia’s perimeters; as Russia masses troops at Ukraine’s border; Germany, the European Union, and Ukranian oligarchs have all put their oars in; even capitalists of floundering post-Brexit UK. What is behind events and what can we expect? NB: A shorter version of this is at Berlin Left blog. Introduction The hijack of the socialist USSR in 1954 by Khruschev is well understood by Marxist-Leninists. [1] This article is restricted to the events in Ukraine following the…

Theses at a time of an obvious attempted re-division of world ‘spheres of interest’ – What support should Marxists give to Russia?

Theses at a time of an obvious attempted re-division of world ‘spheres of interest’ – What support should Marxists give to Russia?

Published by Hari Kumar on February 6, 2022

Presented below is an excerpt; download the entire article as a PDF via this link. We recently reviewed the stand-off in the borders around Ukraine between the USA-NATO, European Union, Ukraine and Russia. [1] However we note disturbing signs of an opportunist support for Russia from some sections of the Marxist left. They prompt these theses to spur potential debates at this critical time – within Marxist circles. In today’s world, any war is unlikely to be a localized affair. It inevitably becomes part of the international rivalry between the imperialist nations. As these become wars for power and markets…

Elections 2021 and Peruvian reformist politicians – Promises, promises…

Elections 2021 and Peruvian reformist politicians – Promises, promises…

Published by Hari Kumar on November 9, 2021

Recent Presidents of Peru were a lousy lot: Alberto Fujimori (jailed 25 years for terror); Alan García (committed suicide charged with bribery from Brazilian firm Odebrecht); Alejandro Toledo (fugitive from Obdebrecht); Pedro Pablo Kuczinski (house arrest Obdebrecht); Martin Vizcarra (impeached twice, banned from office for jumping lines for COVID vaccination). Who comes next? After much delay, Pedro Castillo was declared to have won Presidential elections against Keiko Fujimori (Alberto’s daughter). What can workers and peasants of Peru expect of Castillo? Capitalists aim to simply gull Peruvian toilers yet again. More false promises of fighting imperialism without revolution. Previously, this dead-end…

A Case History of Vaccine Nationalism – Deconstructing the AstraZeneca Story

A Case History of Vaccine Nationalism – Deconstructing the AstraZeneca Story

Published by Hari Kumar on April 27, 2021

Also published via The Left Berlin, April 2021 In the wake of the COVID pandemic broke out a search was rightly unleashed for a vaccine. But this has been far from an impeccable victory for science. This article makes three points: First an evident series of scientific errors made by Astra-Zeneca. Secondly a myriad of potential for conflicts of interest exists between prominent scientists, giant drug companies, regulatory agencies meant to monitor safety and government. Thirdly, scientists are vulnerable to pressures of fame, greed and nationalism – just like anybody else. This case history of Astra-Zeneca again exposes why private…