On the occasion of the 140th birthday of Comrade Stalin, we are reposting this article from Red Guards Austin. "The Central Committee of the CPC pointed out in its letter of June 14 that the “struggle against the personality cult” violates Lenin’s integral teachings on the interrelationship of leaders, party, class, and masses, and undermines [...]
Revolutionary Optimism “Being communists, we fear nothing. Moreover, our Party has steeled us to challenge death itself, and to carry our life on our fingertips so that we may give it whenever the revolution demands it.” (Chairman Gonzalo, Interview with El Diario, 1988) “On the question of nuclear weapons and nuclear war the second difference [...]
“Salvo el poder todo es ilusión asaltar los cielos con la fuerza del fusil” Was a slogan sung by the prisoners of Castro Castro Penal, known as one of the toughest prisons in the world. In the 80s and 90s this prison was a shining trench of combat and was under the control of the [...]
On Social Fascism “One may say without exaggeration that the most central task of our days (nay, perhaps even of our entire epoch) is to defeat social-democracy, the main factor of the international counter revolution.”- Clara Zetkin [Speech to the Fourth Comintern Congress, 1922] Introduction Any theorization of social democracy as social fascism will necessarily [...]
“The Party leads the struggle of the masses in function of Power, which is the principal revindication” — Communist Party of Peru, General Political Line As revolutionaries we are faced with two primary social contradictions differing in nature: those among the people and those between the people and their enemies. In both cases we [...]
“The basic question of every revolution is that of state power. Unless this question is understood, there can be no intelligent participation in the revolution, not to speak of guidance of the revolution.” – VI Lenin, The Dual Power Marxist Center, and especially its supporters in the Seattle area and to a lesser extent Philadelphia [...]
Ruido Guerrillero: turning punk into a weapon for the people The death of the hippie movement in the 60s gave way to the most unrelenting, uncontrollable rage and emotion from an acutely disenfranchised sector of the working class youth. The youth in the mid-70s leading up the 80s looked at the world with disgust, for [...]
