Lia Ferrante The following first appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of Breaking the Chains magazine, which you can purchase here. We must not underestimate the immense revolutionary power of women to ignite, fight, and win. The 1917 Russian Revolution that established the first socialist state in the world had two revolutions: one in February…
Category: Socialism
ANWO Presentation to the African People’s Socialist Party 2020 Plenary
The Plenary of the African People’s Socialist Party is an annual gathering of member organizations of the Uhuru Movement. During the Plenary, organizations and departments report on their work as it relates to forwarding the revolutionary trajectory making the African revolution. As an organization created by the Party, ANWO has a responsibility to report on…
Huey P. Newton and Martin Luther King Jr.: Revolutionary Love and Unity
Archishman Raju Both Newton and King sought to create a united front for peace and socialism. “Both refused to be dogmatic and creatively synthesized ideas to apply them in their struggle.” We live in times of change, in a world where protest and rebellion but also confusion and anarchy define politics. A new world is…
Lenin: How to Oppose an Unjust War
Greg Butterfield The Leninist view of how to fight against imperialist war remains one of the most controversial and defining characteristics of the communist movement, because it means standing up to the capitalist class at the moment its fangs are bared. Why do we think it’s important to study what Russian revolutionary V.I. Lenin wrote…
I Believe that Socialism is the Key to a Better World
Gloria Verdieu From a talk by Gloria Verdieu at Queen Bee’s Art and Cultural Center in San Diego. Verdieu shared the stage with poets from the San Diego / Tijuana reEvolutionary Poets Brigade at an evening of “Poetry, Education, and Voter Registration.” Thank you, Jim for inviting me to speak at this important event. A…
A New Revolutionary Subject
Marta Harnecker and Tassos Tsakiroglou This exchange between Marta Harnecker and Greek journalist Tassos Tsakiroglou was conducted in advance of the conference on 150 Years of Marx’s Capital: Reflections for the Twenty-First Century, held in Athens in January 2017. The interview first appeared in the Greek newspaper Efmerida ton Syntakton. What follows is a revised…
Che Guevara: A Singular Letter
María del Carmen Ariet García This article is taken from volume 8 of the journal Paradigma, Anuario Institucional del Centro de Estudios Che Guevara, dedicated to the Socialist Transition in Cuba, which will be presented soon. The letter to which reference is made appears in the book “Epistolario de un tiempo. Letters 1947-1967”. “I write…
Guevara in the Reflections of Anastás Mikoyán
Ernesto Che Guevera with Anastás Mikoyán, first vice-president of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Excerpt from the book “Anatomy of the Caribbean Crisis” by Sergo Mikoyán, Chapter XIV, “Che Guevara”. Fragments of an interview with journalist I.R. Grigulievich granted by Anastás Mikoyán, a few months before his death. You were able to meet…
African Puppets of Imperialism Must Go!
A-APRP Revolutionary Pan-Africanism calls us to unite and forge a definitive struggle against neo-colonialism: Forward to one unified socialist Africa. The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) thanks you for your participation in the 2019 commemorations of African Liberation Day. This special day of work, study and organizing has become an institution across not only the…
Violence Against Black Women: Learning from Black Socialist Feminists
Rachel Domond, Roxbury resident Founders of the Combahee River Collective Beverly Smith (second from left), Barbara Smith (second from right) and Demita Frazier (right) organized a protest in 1979 against a string of murders of Black women in Boston. April 1 marked the 40th anniversary of a protest against the “Roxbury Murders” of 1979. A…
Gandhi, Marx and the Ideal of an ‘Unalienated Life’
Akeel Bilgrami, Jipson John, and P. M. Jitheesh Akeel Bilgrami is an Indian philosopher of international eminence and scholarship. He graduated from Elphinstone College, University of Bombay, in 1970 and went to the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Thereafter, he moved to the United States and earned a PhD in philosophy from the…
Workers Power and the Spanish Revolution
Black Rose Federation In a political moment where the tide of fascism appears to be on the march, looking at past examples can provide inspiration, hope and lessons. In this valuable and lucid long-form essay, veteran writer and activist Tom Wetzel details what George Orwell described when first arriving in anarchist dominated Barcelona as his first…
