Ex-Struggle Sessions

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Struggle Sessions Editorial Board Since the publication of our response to the 100 Flowers submission Shake the Earth, we have received a number of emails from readers including the original author both thanking us for our intervention and offering a number of criticisms, additions, and suggestions. Following these suggestions, we want to expand on a [...]

by Cathal “During the course of the nineteenth century, the bourgeoisie, feeling with varying degrees of alarm how iniquitous and precarious was its power over the masses of the toiling people, tried to vindicate its existence by the philosophy of criticism, positivism, rationalism, pragmatism and other attempts to distort the purely materialist thought emanating from [...]

by Kavga This examination will remain fairly restrained in order to get some clarity on the question of leadership. Like an agitation, we will remain sharp and focused, dispensing up front with any false originality. This kind of precision means a limited examination; we will therefore restrain from entering into questions which brush up against [...]

We publish this submission from a reader of Struggle Sessions in the continued interests of forwarding debate in the USA on the contents and the core of Marxist doctrine, in the interests of deepening understanding of Maoism, and in the interests of imposing Maoism as the command and guide of the World Proletarian Revolution not [...]

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 [...]