After exploding in the Latinx community of Los Angeles, the anti-ICE movement has spread nationwide and become the most militant and determined opposition to Trump. Marxists must resolutely support immigrant workers in their struggle against ICE, while pointing to the Democrats’ complicity in the US’s racist border policies — and maintaining our opposition to the very existence of borders and nations.
As Congress sends threatening letters to the Party for Socialism and Liberation and immigrant rights organizations, the entire left must unite to defend them, regardless of our differences and while remaining honest in our criticisms of them.
For two years, Firebrand local branch the Denver Communists has campaigned against the Drip Café, which is operated by an explicitly anti-LGBTQ+ Christian church. Here we detail the protest campaign’s history and tactics, from confrontations with neo-Nazis to street performances by drag queens, as the café storefront has become a battleground in the broader struggle against reaction and organized bigotry in the US.
By now it’s an all-too familiar story, as predictable as it is infuriating. A Black teenager is confronted by police over something minor. The police escalate the situation, and the teen tries to run away, only to be shot and killed by one of the cops. The community...
It is rare to come across a book which covers such hefty topics with both depth and brevity. At just over 300 pages, one such volume is Thinking Systematics: Critical–Dialectical Reasoning for a Perilous Age and a Case for Socialism, by Canadian Marxists Murray E. G....
The ruling ideas of any age are the ideas of the ruling class. — Marx and Engels The consciousness of the working class has always been mixed. Acceptance of the dominant capitalist ideas is combined with resentment for and opposition to oppression and exploitation....
During the postwar boom, from 1945 through the early 70s, the ruling class in the United States was relatively united. “Politics stops at the water’s edge,” as the saying went. Foreign policy stayed the same no matter who was in office, while the US used its position...
Gaza The official number of Gazans killed by the Zionist entity since October 7, 2023 is over 50,000, many thousands of which were children and the elderly. The real number is very likely much higher. The respected British medical journal, Lancet, estimated in July of...
Palestine and Marxism, the latest book by Swiss-Syrian scholar and activist Joseph Daher, is an important intervention into debates around Palestine. With its sharp theorizing of Palestinian liberation and resistance — armed and otherwise — it is a valuable read for...
Two weeks ago, Donald Trump’s second term in the White House reached another new low when he and Vice President JD Vance hosted Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. The meeting, which was broadcast on live television, was expected to conclude...
In a few short weeks, Donald Trump’s second presidential administration has quickly established new lows in reactionary cruelty and chaos compared to his first. With an entrenched far-right nationalist movement behind him in his MAGA minions, and more support from key...
Tackling a topic as big as the current state of the economy is not easy. One could write volumes about it and still only scratch the surface, and indeed many have done just that. In order to avoid trying to boil the ocean, we will instead focus on a few specific...
In the very early morning hours of New Year’s Day, a rented Ford pickup truck driven by a United States military veteran barreled down a crowded Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing fourteen revelers and injuring another thirty-five. After the truck disabled itself...
Earlier this week, Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, died at the advanced age of 100. The outpouring of tributes to Carter as news of his death broke reflected his great popularity. Though he was despised by the right-wing during his presidency,...
In the early hours of December 4, Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was shot and killed by a lone gunman on his way to an investor meeting in Midtown Manhattan. UHC is the largest health insurer in the United States, covering over 50 million people — more...
In the 1930s, the Soviet Union was wracked by intense violence known as the Great Terror or the Great Purge. During this time, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin initiated a series of public show trials to eliminate his political competition within the Communist Party. ...
It is often the case that newly radicalizing Marxists end up confused about our relationship to Maoism. Is it just “Marxism in China” or “socialism with Chinese characteristics”? Is it a newer form of Marxism which we can learn from and engage with? What Maoist ideas,...
What does the election say about current consciousness? Are a majority of Americans now MAGA racists? People approach elections pragmatically. The majority decides how to vote on the basis of lesser-evilism. They estimate which candidate will be better for themselves...
This article is a partisan intervention. Being a communist means taking sides, specifically the side of the international working class and all oppressed peoples. As Marx and Engels wrote, communists “have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat...
Read part one here: Why Socialists Don’t Vote for Our Enemies Won’t it be easier to organize under a Democrat? All else being equal, probably not. The variables at work in determining the prospects for working-class organization go beyond which party is in the White...
As imperialism keeps intensifying through new and expanding military operations around the world in the drive to access new markets for the capitalist class, communists must understand why we should view soldiers as workers. We also need to consider how to persuade...
Is fascism an immediate threat in the US, or anywhere else? A lot of people with different kinds of politics seem to think so. As someone who looks at the leftist corners of the internet quite a bit, I can safely say I see the word “fascism” used to describe things...
Read Samidoun’s statement: We keep resisting: US and Canada sanction Samidoun. “The first casualty of war is truth.”—Aeschylus On October 15, the US government sanctioned the Palestinian prisoner support network, Samidoun, and declared it a “sham charity” that...
Sir,We congratulate the American people upon your re-election by a large majority.If resistance to the slave power was the reserved watchword of your first election, the triumphant warcry of your re-election is, Death to Slavery.— Karl Marx to Abraham Lincoln,...