Anyone who aspires to be a real communist or to understand the theory of modern communism must study Lenin’s pamphlet The State and Revolution. Lenin was able to nearly finish this monumental contribution to Marxism and revolution while on the run, living underground...
Gentrification is the systematic process of displacing poor people from a community and replacing them with more affluent people, all in the interest of profit. It has become a primary local policy of the representatives of the ruling class and is clearly carried out...
I'm the Deputy Chairman of the State of Illinois Black Panther Party, Fred Hampton. A lot of people don't understand the Black Panther Party's relationship with white, mother country radicals. A lot of people don't even...
La labor de prisioneros tiene larga historia en el desarrollo de los Estados Unidos. De hecho, personajes de la clase dirigente británica recibieron el empeño colonial temprano con los brazos abiertos como una estrategia de desechar la sobrepoblación. Mientras la...
The Marxist view of society starts with questions of power, such as: who holds power, how, and to what end? In class societies, these questions focus on issues of ownership, since ownership determines who has the power to decide what happens with land, banks, mines,...
Editorial note: Leader of the Burkinabè Revolution, Thomas Sankara was a Marxist and Pan-Africanist revolutionary who became president of Burkina Faso in August 1983 at the age of 33. The following is a transcript from the documentary, "Thomas Sankara." Transcription...
It would be virtually impossible to over-state the impact of the Russian Revolution which began in February 1917. At the beginning of that year, the world was in a very dismal state. World War I, the first imperialist world war, had been raging in Europe for two and a...
Editor’s note: A Spanish translation of this article is available here. It's essential for Marxists--and anyone on the Left--to firmly grasp the lessons of Lenin's "Left-Wing" Communism and how those lessons relate to our the tasks of party building, mass work, and...
Editor's Note Louise Thompson Patterson was a key figure in the U.S. communist movement and the Harlem Renaissance, noted as both an activist and a theorist who wrote about intersectionality long before the word came into popular parlance....