Editor's note: To celebrate Chairman Gonzalo on his birthday, we present a small collection of poetry and literature dedicated to him. Many of these are written by new writers who have not been featured on Struggle Sessions before as a showcase of the new voices of those in the US who are producing art in [...]
November Announcement: Call for Letters and Volunteers
By the Struggle Sessions Editorial Board Friends and readers of the Struggle Sessions Journal,The first edition of the Struggle Sessions print journal will be ready for pre-order by the end of this month, and we will begin shipping the first edition soon afterwards. This will come with a simple web store to order the print [...]
Eagles and Vultures: Jacobin’s Attempts to Erase Class Struggle and Attack Chairman Gonzalo
By the Struggle Sessions Editorial Board Within a week of the murder of Chairman Gonzalo by the Peruvian state, while class-conscious workers across the world immortalized him as the greatest communist of the current era, the American magazine Jacobin published a hit-piece on the Chairman that seeks to erase and nullify his leadership and legacy. [...]
For the New Flag
Introduction By Facundo For all students of Maoism, for all who follow the words of Chairman Gonzalo, we do ourselves a great service by studying the documents in “For the New Flag” by the Communist Party of Peru, which are presented below. Readers should take special interest in these documents because they were written after [...]
For Chairman Gonzalo Pt. 2
Editor's Note: We publish here an unofficial translation of the epitaph for Chairman Gonzalo which opens the document, found on pukainti.blogspot.com here, titled: HA MUERTO EL PRESIDENTE GONZALO ¡LA CLASE Y PUEBLOS OPRIMIDOS DEL MUNDO ESTAMOS DE LUTO Y EN PIE DE GUERRA! Eagle of eagles, old red sun, comrade, chairman, under a red sky, [...]
For Chairman Gonzalo
Author's Note: Dedicated to Chairman Gonzalo, who was assassinated after being imprisoned for 29 years on September 11, 2021, by the old Peruvian state with its intentional medical neglect and slow and steady torture. Chairman Gonzalo was the head of the red line of the International Communist Movement and the Great Leader of the Communist [...]
The Historical Development of the U.S. Proletariat: A Rebuff of J Sakai’s Settlers
by S Mazur “With this general prosperity in which the productive forces of bourgeois society are developing so luxuriantly, as much as this is at all possible within the limits of bourgeois relations, there can be no question of a real revolution. Such a revolution is only possible in those periods where these two characters, [...]
The Ongoing Crisis in the Steel Industry and the Coming Capitalist Offensive
By S. Mazur In the context of the general transformations of US imperialism during the most recent economic crisis, the owners of US Steel are carrying out a program of restructuring in a renewed attack on steel workers. US Steel is the second largest integrated steel producer in the US. With the pretext of low [...]
Chairman Gonzalo’s Philosophy Seminar (Notes 1987)
Editor's Note: We publish below an unofficial translation of the notes on a 1987 lecture on the history of philosophy by Chairman Gonzalo, retrieved from VND-Peru.blogspot.com. The lecture was originally published by VND Peru as part of their celebration of 200 Years of Karl Marx in 2018. We translate it and publish it here because [...]
Introduction to The Partisan Poetry of Nikola Vaptsarov
By an anonymous contributor Editor's Note: This text reproduces some poems and presents biographical information of the Bulgarian revolutionary and writer Nikola Vaptsarov. We hope that this will serve as an introduction to his life and work for our readers, demonstrating the connection between life in the class struggle and art operative for the revolutionary [...]