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 [...]
The Pseudo Intellectualism of Joshua Moufawad-Paul: Regarding “Critique of Maoist Reason”
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 [...]
The People, In Uniform
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 [...]
Maoism V.s. “Maoist Third Worldism”: Responding to Criticism From a Reader
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. [...]
Editorial Self-Criticism and Criticism: On Human Rights and Proletarian Revolution
Editorial Board Self-Criticism and Criticism: On Human Rights and Proletarian Revolution By the Struggle Sessions Editorial Board and Tiburcio Struggle Sessions is always working to be a platform for debate and ideological struggle. We are always eager to share and promote two-line struggle, as it is what the purpose of this platform is. In the [...]
“Human Rights” and Proletarian Revolution
"Human Rights" And Proletarian Revolution NOTE BY EDITORIAL BOARD: This is the view of the author and not the Editorial Board or Editors. While we unite with the fact that human rights is the language the imperialist bourgeoisie uses to attack revolutionaries, the Editorial Board engaged in a oversight in publishing this piece, which endorses [...]
The Third Instrument
The Third Instrument Article by Cathal Note: These views reflect those of the author. They do not reflect the official position of any organization in the US and especially abroad and should not be taken as such. Introduction “Concrete political aims must be set in concrete circumstances. All things are relative, all things [...]
A Hammer To Smash The Enemy
Part 3: Maoism outside of China, class annihilation, and Party militarization Article by Kavga In this part we contend more with the theory of the sea of armed masses by looking at other tendencies within the Maoist movement outside of China, again in both their positive and negative aspects. Charu Majumdar, one of the two main fathers of Indian Maoism, once represented what is [...]
A Hammer to Smash the Enemy
Part 2 Sheng-wu-lien and the mass militarization Article by Kavga In 1967, a radical left-wing group, Sheng-wu-lien, issued a document Whither China?, a take on the first section of Mao’s On New Democracy. The document opens by calling into question the May 7 directive by comparing it to the Soviet model of peaceful [...]
A Hammer to Smash The Enemy
Part 1 The Shanghai Commune Article By Kavga To this day, the Shanghai Commune is the highest pinnacle yet reached in the world proletarian revolution. It’s emergence was a historical event unlike any other, one that carried the example of the Paris Commune to new and greater heights, not only propelling the Great [...]