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Red Guards Austin – A Year Summation of the Life of a Militant Maoist Organization in the U.S. Central South

  We received this summation of the Red Guards Austin collective and are publishing it with their permission. We are in fraternity with these comrades and think this is a contribution worth sharing, however the views expressed here are their own, and do not necessarily represent the views of maosoleum or of the Liaison Committee for a New Communist Party or any of its branches. Prologue: The…

Sandra Bland was Murdered for her Activism

We have what seems to be yet another case of a black woman dying while under police custody. Sandra Bland’s death seems on the surface to be tragic, but just one more body to the body count of the genocide of black people in the United States. However, given the history in the United States of how local, state, and federal law enforcement colludes and is often indistinguishable from explicitly…

What is Proletarian Feminism?

This is the first of a series of notes that will be relatively short, and by no means exhaustive, but are put forth as both a summation and intervention of the theoretical and practical context of gender liberation in general and proletarian feminist struggle in the particular, both within the context of the United States, and the global context – taking on the particularities of gender…

ALL OUT FOR ERIC GARNER!

From the NEW COMMUNIST PARTY (LIAISON COMMITTEE)

Last week Mike Brown’s murderer, the cop Darren Wilson was not indicted by the St. Louis grand jury, for the execution of Mike Brown. Not only is he now a free man, he has become a millionaire because of donations from racists and payments for television interviews. Today, the grand jury in NYC did not indict the cop Daniel Pantaleo who…

Today marks the anniversary of the CIA-backed assassination of Burkina Faso's President Thomas Sankara. Rumors of his assassination point to the forces of his former colleague Blaise Compaoré backed by the social-democratic president of France François Mitterrand, and also to the US backed Charles Taylor of the Settler-colonial state of Liberia. In either case, Imperialism's reaction to Sankara is a testament to his Revolutionary fervor.

He was one of the most successful Marxists-Leninists Africa has ever seen, in terms of what he accomplished for and with his people.

Within four years, Sankara transformed Burkina Faso from a poor country Neo-colonial nation, dependent on Western imperialism, to an economically independent and socially progressive nation. By redistributing land from the feudal landlords who sided with Imperialism and giving it directly to local peasants revolution in rural areas made leaps in social relations. Sankara nationalized oil wealth and used the money to double school attendance and half infant mortality.

Sankara's feminist policies propelled women into the forefront of the struggle in a patriarchal neo-colonial society, unleashing women as a mighty force for the revolution. While taking many commandist errors, and not separating the party from the gun, Still Sankara is a testament to the overlapping of National Liberation, Anti-colonial Resistance success with Communist leadership.

Neither Assad Nor NATO: Further Notes On Kurdistan And The Universality Of People’s War

Originally posted on New Communist Party - Liaison Committee:

The YPG’s (People’s Defense Units) that have been fighting the enemies of the people and carrying out the political tasks of the revolutionary democratic movement led by the Kurds.

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Short Answer to a Question on Productive and Non-Productive Labor

A comrade (A.M.) in an online forum asked:

Do transportation and retail labor add value to a commodity? If so, why?

My inclination is to say yes, but I can’t really explain why.

We need to understand that “productive” in terms of the abstracted model of Capital is not a moralistic or political proposition. It is a mathematical one. Productive labor is the one that according to the formulas in…

Originally posted on New Communist Party - Liaison Committee:

Recently there were polemics exchanged between Joe Sims of the CPUSA national staff and the Southern California branch of the Young Communist League, on the matter of patriotism and the national question in the US. Comrades in the YCL had released a post on July 4th(No Room For Patriotism in Capitalism-Imperialism-Colonialism) in…