by Cathal 1. Political Power Grows from a Plate of Lentils the Barrel of a Gun “There can be no competition between a mutual aid society and a revolutionary circle... But if in this same mutual aid society there develops a certain political tendency—not to aid revolutionaries, for instance, or to exclude illegal books from [...]
Intercommunalism is Not a Marxist Concept
By Cathal “The economic relationships of imperialism constitute the basis of the existing international situation.” -V.I. Lenin Introduction On the surface, even a short article about Huey P. Newton’s theory of intercommunalism might seem outdated or even pointless. Newton produced the theory at a time when the Black Panther Party which he led was on [...]
In Defense of Polemics
the winter has backed down almost killing everything and him staring at a shotgun giving up on his notions of being a lousy drunk and a poor poet satisfying his hands to the task of a propagandist The poem used as introduction is from an unknown source active in the movement. It speaks of the [...]
There Is No Civil War Ahead
Struggle Sessions Editorial Board There are comrades, nationally and internationally, who raise concerns about a Civil War approaching in the US. We believe these views to be unfounded, and in some cases a bi-product of spending too much time on the Internet and digesting the bourgeois news uncritically. It is necessary to approach problems with [...]
Open Letter to the Former National Network of FTP Organizations and Its Supporters
Struggle Sessions Editorial Board Open Letter to the Former National Network of FTP Organizations and Their Supporters Struggle Sessions has issued articles detailing our criticism of the ideology and working methods of the falsified “Maoist” organization “MCP-OC” and at no point do we intend to neglect this fact of history. Our fundamental opposition is to [...]
New Years Statement 2021
Struggle Sessions Editorial Board The current situation in the world and in the US What characterized 2020? Great uprisings and rebellions of the masses of the world, shaking the old order’s faith in their vicious “social peace”, where now they talk about the explosiveness of the masses and dream impossible dreams of blood, drowning that [...]
Spectral Fascism
By Kavga There is a tendency among the groveling opportunists of the legal left to see fascism anywhere and everywhere; it is impossible to hide disgust for such viewpoints. These views rely on a liberal tradition, and is like a flea-ridden dog that has been beaten all its life and instinctively rolls over on its [...]
Political Education Does Not Come From Reddit: What You “Learn” Will Be Wrong
Struggle Sessions Editorial Board Some time back, a group of social media users asked our Editorial Board to help them moderate an online forum. We declined and stated extensively our reasoning behind our decision, going so far as to recommend that their internet projects be abandoned for something useful. Instead of having the principles and [...]
The Psychology of the Unsettled
Article by CathalAn examination of two basic viewpoints within the contemporary struggles Organization and Disorganization The objective situation outruns the ability of the US left to meet it with proper response. This creates a contradiction between, on the one hand, a general state of need for an organized leading body and, on the other hand, [...]
Some Comments on the Document “On Maoism Itself” of the RCP of Canada
We have produced the following unofficial translation of this document in the interest of developing two-line struggle internationally. We reserve various disagreements with the following document from the Ecuadorian comrades, particularly the use of “Gonzalo Thought” which in our view is not interchangeable with the contributions of universal validity of Chairman Gonzalo. However, we find [...]