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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
By Cathal 1. In the formula of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism it is Maoism that is principal, it is mainly Maoism which serves as the theoretical framework for conquering and maintaining power in the modern world. It is mainly Maoism which is universal and must be applied creatively to the concrete conditions of all countries on earth. 2. [...]
¾ Dead It is our duty to invoke itthe only real divinitythe massesit is our duty to call on it with prayers of the fanatic We take part only in the Eucharist of mingling our bloodwith the blood of the people. Consecrated.Our trinity?the class, Marxism and the revolution To hell with Jesus and old ghostsold [...]
By 3/4 dead Officer, you are a pig...Because you have denied us the dignity of humanswith your batons and formationswith your law and your order Helmets to protect your pigheadednessarmor to protect your greedy selfish little pig heartsBoots to step on our neckschains to string us up, this is the anatomy of a pig We [...]
By Cathal “Consider it as an audacious step that we must take; all audacious steps are the beginning of a new task, and the new has a problem: a terrain not sufficiently known; let's take firm steps, being sure that all beginnings are nothing but that, the beginning, that many issues will be developed, because [...]
By 3/4 dead The refined gentleman takes the stage at the stadium for his inauguration Gray hair and glasses, brimming with confident resolve “our army is the people, in uniform” he says The revisionist hens cackle in victory The “Communist Party” on the “peaceful road” the refined gentleman tells the people without uniforms that there [...]
By S. Mazur The long-gone Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM), Leading Light Communist Organization (LLCO), and the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Movement (RAIM) are part of a small petty bourgeois trend known as "Maoist" Third-Worldism (TWism). They contend that there is no proletariat to organize in the imperialist countries, and as so are largely abstentionists from revolutionary practice. [...]
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