by S Hausner To the young man pondering over his life, wondering whom to take as his model, I say— Don’t ponder, model it on Comrade Dzerzhinsky. From a poem by Mayakovsky The proletarian youth, with their usual bravery and yearning to action, should indeed follow Mayakovsky’s recommendation here and model their lives on Felix [...]
We republish these three poems by the Irish revolutionary Bobby Sands—written under the pen-name Marcella while imprisoned in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh Prison by the British imperialists—in tribute to the Easter Uprising of 1916, when the Irish revolutionaries, under the especially esteemed and outstanding leadership of the socialist James Connolly, rose in arms against [...]
Bourgeois Ideology and the Refuse of All Classes By Kavga Bourgeois culture is a cadaver which produces countless caricatures of the romantic thief—the disgraced bourgeois whose avenue for criminal acts within the framework of bourgeois law and order closes, at which point he becomes an extra-legal criminal predator. Robin Hood, and, as the gentleman detective [...]
Struggle Sessions Editorial Board This topic is of specific importance to revolutionaries in the US; our position is formulated on the basis of two-line struggles between the left and right in the US as well as an evaluation of the history of the International Communist Movement. We reject the terminology of “proletarian feminism” on the [...]
by Cathal “The changed attitude of the young people to questions of sexual life is of course based on a ‘principle’ and a theory. Many of them call their attitude ‘revolutionary’ and ‘communist’. And they honestly believe that it is so. That does not impress us old people. Although I am nothing but a gloomy [...]
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 [...]
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Lenin Introduction On the surface, even a short article about Huey P. Newton’s theory of intercommunalism might seem outdated or even pointless.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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
