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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…

On Communist Morality

On Communist Morality

Published by Victor Vaughn on March 1, 2024

by Francis Isolde — In their ideological battle against the revolutionary working class, the bourgeoisie has advanced a great many myths and purposefully false perceptions and accusations of revolutionary activists. It was a common line in Cold War propaganda that communists are “amoral.” The idea advanced here is that because communists didn’t fit with the notions of morality advanced by the capitalist countries, that they challenged the “sacred” constructs of nationalism, religious hegemony, racial apartheid, bourgeois class domination and bourgeois private property. All of this signified that they were entirely without moral compass in their actions. To those informed only…

Lin Biaoism and the Third World: How Idealism Distorts Class

Lin Biaoism and the Third World: How Idealism Distorts Class

Published by Victor Vaughn on March 1, 2024

by Victor Vaughn An odd phenomenon is haunting the halls of Maoism – a chauvinist set of ideas loosely forged from the writings of Chinese military officer and politician Lin Biao. These ideas, to the extent to which they form coherent ideology at all, can roughly be termed “Lin Biaoism.” To be perfectly clear, I am under no impression that “Lin Biaoism” is an entirely new ideology. Lin Biao’s works are not significant enough to constitute a new stage of revolutionary science. What does exist is a wing of Maoism, usually associated with the “third-worldist” variety, that upholds the works…

Revisionism and the Process of Capitalist Restoration

Revisionism and the Process of Capitalist Restoration

Published by Victor Vaughn on March 1, 2024

by Alfonso Casal Most people reading this can agree on two incontestable facts: namely, that in 1956 a revisionist clique headed by Nikita Khrushchev took control of the Soviet party and state; and in 1991, the Soviet Union was dismembered and dissolved, and capitalism fully reestablished in its former territories. Our theoretical disagreements center on what happened between those two points. There are two antipodal, yet equally erroneous views that one often hears regarding what happened during those three decades. The first, which corresponds to a sort of primitive Maoism, is that Khrushchev made his speech at the 20th Party…

The Workers’ Party of Korea and Revisionism

The Workers’ Party of Korea and Revisionism

Published by Victor Vaughn on March 1, 2024

Written by Bill Bland for the Communist League INTRODUCTION In his paper entitled ‘THE WPK’S STRUGGLE AGAINST REVISIONISM’, Comrade Dermot Hudson expresses agreement with a reported statement by Nina Andreyeva: “As the Russian communist leader Dr. Nina Andreyeva remarked at the Copenhagen Seminar on the Juche Idea in 1995…” (Dermot Hudson: ‘The WPK’s Struggle against Modern Revisionism’; p. 1). The statement concerned was to the effect that the critique of modern revisionism made by the Workers’ Party of Korea was ” … more throroughgoing and mature … ” (Nina Andreyeva: Statement at Copenhagen Seminar on the Juche Idea’ (1995), cited…

The Case of Sultan-Galiyev

The Case of Sultan-Galiyev

Published by Victor Vaughn on March 1, 2024

This article was published by Alliance (Marxist-Leninist) as part of the publication Alliance, issue #51, “Pan-Arabic or Pan-Islamic ‘Socialism.’” By Comrade Bland of the Communist League (UK); was written for the Marxist-Leninist Bureau Report no 3; and presented to the Stalin Society (circa 1994) Marxist-Leninist Research Bureau Report No. 3, dated 1995 MIR-SAID SULTAN-GALIYEV* was a Volga Tatar who was born in a village in Bashkiria in 1880. He studied first at the village mekteb (Muslim primary school), and then at the teacher’s training college of Kazan. He returned to his native village as a teacher, and then went to…

The “Doctor’s Case” and the Death of Stalin

The “Doctor’s Case” and the Death of Stalin

Published by Victor Vaughn on March 1, 2024

An extended annotated version of a report presented to the Stalin Society in London in October 1991, by Bill Bland, for the Communist League (UK) INTRODUCTION By Alliance Marxist-Leninist There have been many requests recently to Alliance for a web-edition of this document. Comrade Bland often neglected his own writings, even forgetting that he may have researched any topic. Although this article was not printed as an official document of the Communist League (CL), it was a critical part of the corpus of work that Bland performed as the leader of the CL. Against many others, Bland defended the role of…

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…

On Palestine, the Palestine Liberation Movement, and USA Imperialism: A Marxist-Leninist View

On Palestine, the Palestine Liberation Movement, and USA Imperialism: A Marxist-Leninist View

Published by Hari Kumar on November 6, 2023

In response to the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack prompting the wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people By Hari Kumar, Red Phoenix international correspondent. Introduction The history of the Palestinian liberation movement is very convoluted and long. Furthermore the many tomes that have been published on it over the years do not make for an easy summary. But perhaps at bottom, the history of the theft of Palestinian land is not very complicated, as Finkelstein makes clear: “Looking back after two decades of study and reflection, I am struck most by how uncomplicated the Israel-Palestine conflict is. There is no…

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