Podcast appearances and mentions of william z foster

Send us a textJoin us for a thought-provoking conversation with Chris Catron as we dissect the evolving dynamics of leftist movements, from the millennial wave to the emerging Zoomer left. We're making the bold statement that the recent Leninist turn intertwined with neo-Kautskyism is reshaping contemporary leftist politics. Exploring the rise of neo-Stalinist and Trotskyist tendencies, we also tackle the challenges faced by groups like the Democratic Socialists of America in integrating Trotskyist organizations.Our dialogue with Chris ventures into the heart of leftist ideological shifts, scrutinizing the friction between radical liberalism and Marxist-Leninism, especially in the wake of MAGA-Communism. There's an intriguing spotlight on historical figures such as Earl Browder and William Z. Foster, juxtaposed with modern platforms like the PSL and Monthly Review. The discussion critically examines the left's response to mainstream political figures, including the complexities of Bernie Sanders' and Jeremy Corbyn's influence on progressive politics.Finally, we unravel the layers of U.S.-Israel relations since the 1980s and the intricacies of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Chris offers insights into the paradoxes within leftist politics, from protest voting frustrations to the psychological barriers of breaking away from the Democratic Party. We also reflect on Marxist critiques, the frustrations with critical theory, and the cycles of generational shifts in political sentiment. This episode promises an enlightening exploration of historical memory, political norms, and the enduring challenges of building solidarity within leftist movements. Musis by Bitterlake, Used with Permission, all rights to BitterlakeSupport the showCrew:Host: C. Derick VarnIntro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesArt Design: Corn and C. Derick VarnLinks and Social Media:twitter: @varnvlogblue sky: @varnvlog.bsky.socialYou can find the additional streams on YoutubeCurrent Patreon at the Sponsor Tier: Jordan Sheldon, Mark J. Matthews, Lindsay Kimbrough, RedWolf

This is the second in a series of Dr. Jerome Corsi's deep dive into the truth about today's Woke Culture, Neo-Marxism, Maoism and how we got to where we are. In this edition of the Truth Central, Dr. Corsi looks at the influence of Neo-Marxists Bella Dodd, William Z. Foster, Frank Marshall Davis (Barack Obama's communist mentor) and William Ayers on the building of what "evolved" into what we see today as the "Woke Culture" in America.If you like what we are doing, please support our Sponsors:Get RX Meds Now: https://www.getrxmedsnow.comMyVitalC https://www.thetruthcentral.com/myvitalc-ess60-in-organic-olive-oil/Swiss America: https://www.swissamerica.com/offer/CorsiRMP.phpGet Dr. Corsi's new book, The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: The Final Analysis: Forensic Analysis of the JFK Autopsy X-Rays Proves Two Headshots from the Right Front and One from the Rear, here: https://www.amazon.com/Assassination-President-John-Kennedy-Headshots/dp/B0CXLN1PX1/ref=sr_1_1?crid=20W8UDU55IGJJ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ymVX8y9V--_ztRoswluApKEN-WlqxoqrowcQP34CE3HdXRudvQJnTLmYKMMfv0gMYwaTTk_Ne3ssid8YroEAFg.e8i1TLonh9QRzDTIJSmDqJHrmMTVKBhCL7iTARroSzQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=jerome+r.+corsi+%2B+jfk&qid=1710126183&sprefix=%2Caps%2C275&sr=8-1Join Dr. Jerome Corsi on Substack: https://jeromecorsiphd.substack.com/Visit The Truth Central website: https://www.thetruthcentral.comGet your FREE copy of Dr. Corsi's new book with Swiss America CEO Dean Heskin, How the Coming Global Crash Will Create a Historic Gold Rush by calling: 800-519-6268Follow Dr. Jerome Corsi on X: @corsijerome1Our link to where to get the Marco Polo 650-Page Book on the Hunter Biden laptop & Biden family crimes free online:https://www.thetruthcentral.com/marco-polo-publishes-650-page-book-on-hunter-biden-laptop-biden-family-crimes-available-free-online/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-truth-central-with-dr-jerome-corsi--5810661/support.

On the second episode of Organized the Unorganized, we kick things off with an account of the institutional formation of the CIO, and then get to the organization's key personalities. John L. Lewis, the founding president of and driving force behind the CIO, unsurprisingly gets a fair amount of time, and we focus in particular on the reasons for his bold leadership at this decisive moment in history. We also introduce Sidney Hillman, the only other real center of power in the organization besides Lewis in the early CIO, as well as some of the key organizers of the CIO, most of whom hailed from the United Mine Workers of America. Guests, in order of appearance: Melvyn Dubofsky, Professor Emeritus of History and Sociology at Binghamton University; Nelson Lichtenstein, Professor of History at UC-Santa Barbara; Jeremy Brecher, Labor Historian; Erik Loomis, Professor of History at the University of Rhode Island; Steve Fraser, Labor Historian; Lisabeth Cohen, Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies at Harvard University; Ahmed White, Nicholas Rosenbaum Professor of Law at the University of Colorado-Boulder; Robert Cherny, Professor Emeritus of History at San Francisco State University; Dorothy Sue Cobble, Distinguished Professor Emerita of History and Labor Studies at Rutgers University Clips, in order of appearance: John L Lewis, “The Future of Organized Labor” speech, November 28, 1935, in the “John L. Lewis papers, 1879-1969,” Wisconsin Historical Society, 493A/9 (0:00, 19:42); Mike Wallace, “John L. Lewis,” Biography, https://youtu.be/2fwAr3_oHKg?si=cJwo8qZpFAQ0WX0R (8:01); Sidney Hillman, "America's Town meeting -- WJZ & Network - June 14, 1935 -- Mr. Sidney Hillman," Box 1, Folder 2, Sidney and Bessie Hillman Recording Discs, 1935, Collection Number 6225 AV, https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/KCL06225av.html (26:58); “UAW Audiovisual Collection: 1955 Documentary on the CIO,” Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University Quotes, in order of appearance: William Z. Foster, Misleaders of Labor, p. 133, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b5111691&seq=139; Robert Zieger, The CIO: 1935-1955, p. 25; Melvyn Dubofsky and Warren van Tine, John L. Lewis: A Biography, p. 163; Walter Reuther and James Carey, introduction to John Brophy, A Miner's Life: An Autobiography, https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Miner_s_Life/LD_tAAAAMAAJ?hl=en Songs, in order of appearance: George Jones, “This is what the union has done,” George Korson Bituminous Songs Collection, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200197194/; Sarah Ogan Gunning, “I'm Goin' to Organize, Baby Mine (part 1),” The Lomax Kentucky Recordings, https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/212; Pete Seeger, “Which Side Are You On?”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XEnTxlBuGo Theme music by Drake Tyler. Quote music is Martin Tallstrom's cover of “Freight Train,” used here with permission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9LEUMgBkX8.

This is the second in a series of Dr. Jerome Corsi's deep dive into the truth about today's Woke Culture, Neo-Marxism, Maoism and how we got to where we are. In this edition of the Truth Central, Dr. Corsi looks at the influence of Neo-Marxists Bella Dodd, William Z. Foster, Frank Marshall Davis (Barack Obama's communist mentor) and William Ayers on the building of what "evolved" into what we see today as the "Woke Culture" in America. Today's The Truth Central features commentary from Dr. Corsi's new book: The Truth About Neo-Marxism, Cultural Maoism and Anarchy. Pick up your copy today on Amazon: https://www.thetruthcentral.com/the-truth-about-neo-marxism-cultural-maoism-and-anarchy-exposing-woke-insanity-in-the-age-of-disinformation/Get your FREE copy of Dr. Corsi's new book with Swiss America CEO Dean Heskin, How the Coming Global Crash Will Create a Historic Gold Rush by calling: 800-519-6268Follow Dr. Jerome Corsi on Twitter: @corsijerome1Our website: https://www.thetruthcentral.comOur link to where to get the Marco Polo 650-Page Book on the Hunter Biden laptop & Biden family crimes free online: https://www.thetruthcentral.com/marco-polo-publishes-650-page-book-on-hunter-biden-laptop-biden-family-crimes-available-free-online/Our Sponsors:MyVital https://www.thetruthcentral.com/myvitalc-ess60-in-organic-olive-oil/ Swiss America: https://www.swissamerica.com/offer/CorsiRMP.php The MacMillan Agency: https://www.thetruthcentral.com/the-macmillan-agency/ Pro Rapid Review: https://prorrt.com/thetruthcentralmembers/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-truth-central-with-dr-jerome-corsi--5810661/support.

[Repost from Revolutionary Left Radio] - This episode aims to serve as an introduction to the Trade Union Educational League (TUEL) which was the vehicle through which the communists in the U.S. from 1920-1935 aimed to base themselves amongst the proletariat and transform the labor movement into, as Marx said, an "organizing centre of the working class for its broad interest of complete emancipation." We focus particularly on the TUEL's activity from 1920-1929.Topics discussed are the need for revolutionary theory for a revolutionary movement, the role of the industrial proletariat in a proletarian socialist struggle, the shortcomings of William Z. Foster's prior two syndicalist leagues that operated from 1912-1917, and the work of TUEL militants in the mining, needle trades, and textile industries.Interested in studying Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and applying Marxism to the labor movement? Contact us: aj5284@proton.me; LenniM17@proton.me; massstrugglepod@protonmail.comSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@protonmail.comMusic: Space Baby is a revolutionary wrapper and artist. Intro/Outro: "Mount Tai"Support the show

Chase from Mass Struggle joins Breht to discuss American labor history and communist political theory in relation to the trade union struggle through the lens of TUEL, or the Trade Union Educational League (1920 -1929). Together they discuss trade union consciousness, the necessity of a vanguard party, William Z. Foster, the limitations of spontaneity, specific actions taken by TUEL in their struggle against bosses and labor beurocrats, the importance of revolutionary theory, and then they even have a comradely back and forth over the differences between MLs and MLMs on the question of China. Chase on instagram: @massstrugglepod     Emails for contact: massstrugglepod@protonmail.com; aj5284@proton.me; lenniM17@proton.me     Link to the Vote No episode      Recommended Reading: From Bryan to Stalin     Outro Music: "Vote No (Which Side Are You On)" by Space Baby ft. Red Teamsters and Math Rock Matt Follow Space Baby on Insta HERE   --------------------------   Support Rev Left Radio on Patreon or make a one time donation

Two books for your summer reading. First long-time labor guru Bill Fletcher Jr's second novel: The Man Who Changed Colors is a mystery where a shipyard worker falls to his […] The post Summer Reading: Bill Fletcher, Jr. The Man Who Changed Colors and Working Class Giant: The Life of William Z. Foster appeared first on KKFI.

William Z. Foster was one the most recognized and respected labor leaders in U.S. history. Chris Townsend is his prodigy. A long-time union organizer and, with the support of others, is instrumental in the unionization of Starbucks stores across the country.   Book: Working Class Giant by Arthur Zipser https://www.intpubnyc.com/browse/working-class-giant/ Links: The Undercover Organizers Behind America's Union Wins-Portside https://portside.org/2023-04-04/undercover-organizers-behind-americas-union-wins   Secret Union Tactic Fuels Unprecedented Labor Wins- Bloomberg News Original- YouTube: https://youtu.be/6xDlvGn0F6A   Greg's ZZs Blog: http://zzs-blg.blogspot.com/   ChrisTownsendt#WorkingClassGiant#WillamFoster#WillaimZFoster#Salting#Union#Strabucks#Amazon#zzblog#PatCummings#GregGodels#JazBrisack#HowardSchultz#LaborOrganizing3ComingFromLeftField#WorkingClass #ClassStruggle#LaborHistory

First published in 1981, Working Class Giant: The Life of William Z. Foster is the classic biography of the radical American labor organizer and Communist politician. A new edition includes a foreword by today's guest, union activist and organizer Chris Townsend, who talks about how Foster's life and legacy continues to inspire a new generation of workers. On this week's Labor History in Two: Coxey's Army Marches on the Nation's Capitol (1894), and the day that updated National Labor Relations Board rules regarding the formation of new unions went into effect (2012). Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. #LaborRadioPod #History #WorkingClass #ClassStruggle @GeorgetownKILWP #LaborHistory @UMDMLA @ILLaborHistory @AFLCIO @StrikeHistory #LaborHistory @wrkclasshistory @IntPubNYC

An edited live recording of our 7/2022 Red Start session on "Organizing Methods in the Steel Industry" by William Z. Foster.

Please enjoy the second part of our series where we host comrade Dr. Barry Lituchy from Brooklyn College for lectures on fascism in Europe. It is vitally important for us as Communists today to understand the significant role that fascism is playing in the current US/EU/NATO conflict with Russia. Comrade Georgi Dimitrov put it correctly when he said that "Fascism acts in the interests of the extreme imperialists, but it presents itself to the masses in the guise of champion of an ill-treated nation, and appeals to outraged national sentiments..." This lecture was recorded on March 17th, 2022. Long live the anti-fascist struggle! Down with fascism in Ukraine! Connect with PSMLS: linktr.ee/PSMLS Join the PCUSA: linktr.ee/partyofcommunists Literature Used: N/A Recommended Literature: Ukrainian leftist criticizes Western war drive with Russia: US is using Ukraine as ‘cannon fodder' by Yuliy Dubovyk (2022) multipolarista.com/2022/03/14/ukrainian-leftist-wa… The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International by Georgi Dimitrov (1938) www.lulu.com/shop/georgi-dimitrov/the-fascist-offe… PCUSA Women's Commission Selected Writings (2022) www.lulu.com/shop/pcusa-womens-commission/pcusa-wo… History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) www.marxists.org/archive/browder/way-out/index.htm The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-peters/the-communist-par… Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-stalin/foundations-of-l… 0:00 Introduction 0:16 Opening lecture 5:48 Buying into propaganda? (Q&A) 8:41 Imperialists' end goal? (Q&A) 10:51 Stand with Russia 15:15 Slobodan Milošević? (Q&A) 16:33 Euro-American diaspora? (Q&A) 19:42 Putin & economics? (Q&A) 22:38 A plague on both your houses 23:56 Dubovyk's article 26:25 Western imperialism 28:56 US funding fascists? (Q&A) 29:39 Role of China? (Q&A) 32:07 Role of the National Question 32:45 Closing remarks

The People's School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents selected articles from Volume 18, No. 12 of "The Communist," put out by the Communist Party USA in December 1939. This article by William Z. Foster entitled "Lenin and Stalin as Mass Leaders" goes into the particular historical significance of the contributions of comrades Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin to the world Communist movement. These comrades played an invaluable role both in the fields of Marxist-Leninist theory and practice, as well as in the building of socialism in the world's first worker's and peasant's states. We hope you learn something new! Connect with PSMLS: linktr.ee/PSMLS Literature Used: Lenin and Stalin as Mass Leaders (1939) www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/communist/v18n12… Recommended Literature: Readers' Guide to Marxist Classics by Maurice Cornforth (1954) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/maurice-cornforth/readers-… Dialectical and Historical Materialism by J.V. Stalin (1938) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-stalin/dialectical-and-h… Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-stalin/foundations-of-l… Communists and the Liberation of Europe by Maxine Levi (1945) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/maxine-levi/communists-and… Party of Communists USA Link Tree: linktr.ee/partyofcommunists 0:00 Lenin and Stalin as Mass Leaders 3:31 Great Marxian Theoreticians 8:21 Brilliant Political Strategists 16:03 Outstanding Mass Organizers 22:50 Peerless Mass Activizers 31:25 Some General Conclusions

Please enjoy this PSMLS reading of an article by comrade C.E. Ruthenberg entitled "The Bolshevists: Gravediggers of Capitalism," published in January 1919 in The Ohio Socialist. Today we celebrate comrade Ruthenberg's 140th birthday and we consider this video a tribute to his contributions to the Communist movement in America. This article was written prior to the establishment of what was then founded as the Communist Party of America (CPA), and gives the general reaction of the left-wing of the socialist movement in the USA to the events of the Great October Socialist Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Given the hindsight available to us, this article proves to be an outstanding forecast of the instrumental role in history ultimately played by the Bolsheviks. It is our duty to fill the shoes of those like comrade Ruthenberg, so as to carry on the Bolshevik struggle for the building of a Soviet America. We hope you learn something new! Connect with PSMLS: linktr.ee/PSMLS Join the PCUSA: linktr.ee/partyofcommunists Literature Used: The Bolshevists: Gravediggers of Capitalism by C.E. Ruthenberg (1919) www.marxists.org/history/usa/parties/spusa/1919/01… Recommended Literature: Black and Red: The Role of Communists in the Black Liberation Movement (2022) www.lulu.com/shop/party-of-communists-usa/black-an… History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) www.marxists.org/archive/browder/way-out/index.htm History of the Communist Party of the United States by William Z. Foster (1952) williamzfoster.blogspot.com/ The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-peters/the-communist-par… Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster (1932) ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/towardsovietamer.pdf Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-stalin/foundations-of-l…

Second episode in our discussion of the life and thought of William Z. Foster. On this go around Lucas Carpenter and Tim Shields join the show to do a deep dive over Foster's proposed methods for effective labor organizing. In particular we examine his pamphlets Organizing Methods in the Steel Industry and Strike Strategy. We also discuss the techniques of pink sheeting, role of popular education in organizing, and competing conceptions of leadership identification and development. This and more on the latest episode of Laborwave Radio. Laborwave Radio has joined the Channel Zero Network, an english-based anarchist radio/podcast network run by radical media makers. Explore the network's co-conspirators at channelzeronetwork.com Send comments and questions about labor organizing to laborwavenews@gmail.com Please support Laborwave Radio by subscribing to our patreon at patreon.com/laborwaveWe have gifts depending on the tier you join, and exclusive access to our archives and Discord server. Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, it helps our content reach new listeners. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/laborwave-radio/id1536697871

Please enjoy this PSMLS reading of A. Landy's 1929 article "The Right of Revolution: An American Revolutionary Tradition" published in that year's July edition of "The Communist," the former theoretical organ of the CPUSA, and the current theoretical organ of the PCUSA. Landy lays out a brilliant case as to why the right of revolution is indeed an American tradition, as well as why it is important to study and learn from our own revolutionary history. Going forward, it is our duty as working-class Americans to struggle for a workers' government, the only government that can truly be "of the people, by the people, and for the people." Connect with PSMLS: linktr.ee/PSMLS Join the PCUSA: linktr.ee/partyofcommunists Literature Used: The Right of Revolution: An American Revolutionary Tradition (1929) www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/communist/v08n07… Recommended Literature: Black and Red: The Role of Communists in the Black Liberation Movement (2022) www.lulu.com/shop/party-of-communists-usa/black-an… History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) www.marxists.org/archive/browder/way-out/index.htm History of the Communist Party of the United States by William Z. Foster (1952) williamzfoster.blogspot.com/ The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-peters/the-communist-par… Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster (1932) ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/towardsovietamer.pdf Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-stalin/foundations-of-l… 0:00 Introduction 3:04 A Denial of the Right of Revolution 7:29 The American Revolution 10:05 Before the Civil War 17:22 The Civil War

Please enjoy this PSMLS reading of a Red Patriot article entitled "A Defense of the Science of Marxism-Leninism," by Xavier, published June 2022. Red Patriot is the official organ of the Central Committee of the League of Young Communists USA (LYCUSA) and provides its readers with a Communist analysis of contemporary issues confronting American youth. This article explains why Marxism-Leninism is a science and defends it against slander by those who wish to harm the revolutionary movement of the working class. We hope you learn something new! Connect with PSMLS: linktr.ee/PSMLS Join the PCUSA: linktr.ee/partyofcommunists Literature Used: A Defense of the Science of Marxism-Leninism by Xavier (2022) redpat.org/2022/06/a-defense-of-the-science-of-mar… Recommended Literature: Black and Red: The Role of Communists in the Black Liberation Movement (2022) www.lulu.com/shop/party-of-communists-usa/black-an… History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) www.marxists.org/archive/browder/way-out/index.htm History of the Communist Party of the United States by William Z. Foster (1952) williamzfoster.blogspot.com/ The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-peters/the-communist-par… Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster (1932) ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/towardsovietamer.pdf Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-stalin/foundations-of-l…

Please enjoy this PSMLS reading of Emilian Yaroslavski's 1934 article "Marxism and Anarchism" published in that year's December edition of "The Communist," the former theoretical organ of the CPUSA, and the current theoretical organ of the PCUSA. In light of the recent attacks by anarchists on our comrades in Northern California, this reading serves to educate workers on the dangers of anarchism and its utter irreconcilability with socialism. If all anarchists can do is destroy, how is socialism going to be built? We hope you learn something new! Connect with PSMLS: linktr.ee/PSMLS Join the PCUSA: linktr.ee/partyofcommunists Literature Used: Marxism and Anarchism by Emilian Yaroslavski (1934) www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/communist/v13n12… Recommended Literature: Black and Red: The Role of Communists in the Black Liberation Movement (2022) www.lulu.com/shop/party-of-communists-usa/black-an… History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) www.marxists.org/archive/browder/way-out/index.htm History of the Communist Party of the United States by William Z. Foster (1952) williamzfoster.blogspot.com/ The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-peters/the-communist-par… Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster (1932) ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/towardsovietamer.pdf Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-stalin/foundations-of-l…

William Z. Foster: A Critical Examination Nick Driedger discusses the life and ideas of William Z. Foster, taking a critical look at his ideas about “boring from within” and the “militant minority” as it relates to union strategies. Foster was a momentary IWW, later became

Please enjoy this PSMLS reading of L. Magyar's 1934 article "What is Fascism?" published in that year's April edition of "The Communist," the former theoretical organ of the CPUSA, and the current theoretical organ of the PCUSA. This article provides interesting insight into the perspective of the Communist International during the period of "class against class," ahead of the later "united front" period. It articulately explains the rise of fascism in Europe, as well as how German fascism was to be used as a battering ram for an invasion of the Soviet Union. We hope you learn something new! Connect with PSMLS: linktr.ee/PSMLS Join the PCUSA: linktr.ee/partyofcommunists Literature Used: What is Fascism? by L. Magyar (1934) ourcloud.usvanguard.net/s/qpLZCkDHxZitoPp Recommended Literature: Black and Red: The Role of Communists in the Black Liberation Movement (2022) https://www.lulu.com/shop/party-of-communists-usa/black-and-red/paperback/product-pqeqyd.html History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) www.marxists.org/archive/browder/way-out/index.htm History of the Communist Party of the United States by William Z. Foster (1952) williamzfoster.blogspot.com/ The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) https://www.lulu.com/shop/j-peters/the-communist-party-a-manual-on-organization/paperback/product-1e48qqp2.html Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster (1932) ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/towardsovietamer.pdf Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/shop/jv-stalin/foundations-of-leninism/paperback/product-1wkqz545.html

William Z Foster's writings have been lighting up the labor organizing space recently. What do they say, and what is their relevance? We bring on Chris Townsend, former UE staff and ATU Organizing Director to find out. Follow TVLR on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheValleyLab... Follow TVLR on Twitter: @LaborReporters Follow Jacob on Twitter: @JacobM_AL Follow TVLR Co-Creator David Story on Twitter: @RadiclUnionist ✦ CONTACT US ✦ Our phone number is 844-899-TVLR (8857), call or text us live on air, or leave us a voicemail and we might play it during the show! ✦ OUR ADVERTISERS KEEP US ON THE AIR! Support them if you can. ✦ The attorneys at MAPLES, TUCKER, AND JACOB fight for working people. Reach out to them and let them represent you in your workplace injury claim. On the Web: www.mtandj.com Contact: (855) 617-9333 Do you want to organize your workplace? The MACHINISTS UNION represents workers in several industries including healthcare, the defense industry, woodworking, and more. On the Web: https://www.iamaw44.org/ Contact: (256) 286-3704 / organize@iamaw44.org. Do you need good union laborers on your construction site, or do you want a union construction job? Reach out to the IRONWORKERS LOCAL 477. On the Web: http://ironworkers477.org/ Contact: 256-383-3334 (Jeb Miles) / local477@bellsouth.net The NORTH ALABAMA DSA is looking for folks to work for a better North Alabama, fighting for liberty and justice for all. They prioritize mutual aid, municipal-activism, and union solidarity. On the Web: https://www.facebook.com/NorthAlabama... Contact / Join: DSANorthAlabama@gmail.com IBEW LOCAL 136 is a group of over 900 electricians and electrical workers providing our area with the finest workforce in the construction industry. We provide our members with excellent training at no cost, livable wages with paid benefits, and a lifelong career working with people who care about you. If you are a working electrician or electrical worker, or if you'd like to pursue a career in the electrical trades, we want you to join us! IBEW Local 136 provides equal opportunity and does not discriminate due to religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status or nationality. You belong here. On the Web: https://ibew136.org/ Contact: (205) 833-0909 IFPTE - We are engineers, scientists, nonprofit employees, technicians, lawyers, and many other professions who have joined together to have a greater voice in our careers. Our union is a bottom-up, member-based organization that helps professional and technical employees raise wages, benefits, working conditions, and advocate over public policies that impact our professions and communities. With over 80,000 members spread across the U.S. and Canada, we invite you and your colleagues to consider the benefits of engaging in collective bargaining. On the Web: https://www.ifpte.org/ Contact: (202) 239-4880 THE HUNTSVILLE INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD is a union open to any and all working people. Call or email them today to begin organizing your workplace - wherever it is. On the Web: https://hsviww.org/ Contact: (256) 651-6707 / organize@hsviww.org ENERGY ALABAMA is accelerating Alabama's transition to sustainable energy. We are a nonprofit membership-based organization that has advocated for clean energy in Alabama since 2014. Our work is based on three pillars: education, advocacy, and technical assistance. Energy Alabama on the Web: https://alcse.org/ Contact: (256) 812-1431 / dtait@energyalabama.org    ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This is an unabridged audiobook-style reading of William Z. Foster's 1936 pamphlet 'Organizing Methods in the Steel Industry,' the first known how-to guide for organizers. In the years following the violently-busted 1919 steel strike, of which Foster had been a lead organizer, steel organizing in the USA had ground to a halt. After the signing of the National Labor Relations Act by President Roosevelt, a new generation of organizers were ready to give it another go and Foster shared what he had learned through the previous failed drive, carefully politicizing the courses of action that would be required in order to achieve union militancy. Reading by Megan

Please enjoy this PSMLS reading of comrade Moses Miller's 1950 pamphlet "N*zis Preferred: The Ren*zification of Western Germany." This text masterfully exposes the preferential attitude of American finance capital towards N*zi fascists in post-WWII Germany. Capitalist media feeds us the false history that the GDR was a repressive, barbaric state, etc. If you're looking for these traits, look no further than former N*zi officials and N*zi sympathizers who helped lead the West German government with the knowledge and encouragement of the USA's government. We hope you learn something new! Connect with PSMLS: linktr.ee/PSMLS Join the PCUSA: linktr.ee/partyofcommunists Literature Used: N*zis Preferred: The Ren*zification of Western Germany by Moses Miller (1950) ourcloud.usvanguard.net/s/AaS6CfG3LwMNHrF Recommended Literature: History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) www.marxists.org/archive/browder/way-out/index.htm History of the Communist Party of the United States by William Z. Foster (1952) williamzfoster.blogspot.com/ The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-peters/the-communist-par… Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster (1932) ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/towardsovietamer.pdf Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-stalin/foundations-of-l… 0:00 Introduction 0:08 Sewing Up German Steel 2:35 Operation Ruhr 7:02 It Depends On How You Look At It 9:32 Bombs Away 11:45 It Pays To Have Friends 14:59 Old Reliables 19:34 Birth Of The "New Order" 24:31 N*zis Preferred 31:35 It's Only The Beginning 36:06 Streamlining The Cold War 41:53 Germans Against N*zism 44:54 Phil Murray's "Short" Memory 52:32 "Socialists" Whom The Bankers Love 56:33 Building A New Germany 1:05:39 Blueprint For War 1:11:27 Don't Sit This One Out

Nick Driedger joins the show to discuss the legacy and ideas of William Z. Foster, former president the Communist Party USA and trade unionist involved in the early IWW and AFL. We adopt a critical lens discuss Foster's concepts of a "militant minority" and "boring from within" as a strategy for pulling conservative unions to the left. Driedger also explains the reaction and criticism leveled against Foster's ideas when he presented them to the IWW in 1911. This and more on the latest episode of Laborwave Radio. Laborwave Radio has joined the Channel Zero Network, an english-based anarchist radio/podcast network run by radical media makers. Explore the network's co-conspirators at channelzeronetwork.com Send comments and questions about labor organizing to laborwavenews@gmail.com Please support Laborwave Radio by subscribing to our patreon at patreon.com/laborwaveWe have gifts depending on the tier you join, and exclusive access to our archives and Discord server. Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, it helps our content reach new listeners. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/laborwave-radio/id1536697871

The People's School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents Chapter 20 from comrade William Z. Foster's 1955 work entitled "History of the Three Internationals." What was the reason for the split between the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks? What role did the Party of a New Type play in the development of Marxism internationally? How did it relate to the opportunism of the Second International? Foster answers all these questions are more in this brilliant analysis of Lenin's Party of a new type. We hope you learn something new! Connect with PSMLS: linktr.ee/PSMLS Literature Used: History of the Three Internationals (1955) archive.org/details/william-z.-foster-history-of-t… Recommended Literature: Readers' Guide to Marxist Classics by Maurice Cornforth (1954) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/maurice-cornforth/readers-… Dialectical and Historical Materialism by J.V. Stalin (1938) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-stalin/dialectical-and-h… Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-stalin/foundations-of-l… Communists and the Liberation of Europe by Maxine Levi (1945) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/maxine-levi/communists-and… PSMLS Website: peoplesschool.org/ Party of Communists USA Website partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/ 0:00 Lenin: The Party of a New Type 3:47 Lenin and His Work 7:32 The Building of a Revolutionary Program 12:51 Early Development of the Party in Russia 19:17 The Birth of Bolshevism: London, 1903 23:55 The International Intervenes

The People's School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents 3 selected sections from William Z. Foster's 1952 work entitled "History of the Communist Party of the United States of America." It is essential for us American Communists to understand how the Bolshevik revolution impacted the labor and Communist movements in our country. In these sections, Foster provides valuable insight into the Bolshevik Revolution's impact on Marxism in America. We hope you learn something new! Connect with PSMLS: linktr.ee/PSMLS Literature Used: History of the Communist Party of the United States of America (1952) williamzfoster.blogspot.com/2013/01/chapter-ten-ru… Recommended Literature: Readers' Guide to Marxist Classics by Maurice Cornforth (1954) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/maurice-cornforth/readers-… Dialectical and Historical Materialism by J.V. Stalin (1938) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-stalin/dialectical-and-h… Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-stalin/foundations-of-l… Communists and the Liberation of Europe by Maxine Levi (1945) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/maxine-levi/communists-and… PSMLS Website: peoplesschool.org/ Party of Communists USA Website partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/ 0:00 Introduction 0:19 The Impact of the Revolution Upon the American Labor Movement 4:56 The Teachings of Marxism-Leninism 14:43 Marxism-Leninism and the American Marxists

If you're not a patron you can get the full episode by visiting patreon.com/workstoppage and support us with $5 a month. We've talked about the importance of unions being organized and run in a “rank-and-file” manner a million times on the show, but we hadn't really had a good opportunity to sit down and layout exactly what that means.  On this episode, we discuss what exactly rank-and-file unionism is, what it is not, and why it's so vital if we want to build effective organizations that will fight for the working class.  We go through counter examples of Consumer Co-ops, ESOPs, and the methodology used for many bureaucratically run unions here in the US, Business Unionism.  We finish off by discussing a short guide to rank-and-file organizing used by communists during the Depression, Organizing Methods in the Steel Industry by William Z Foster, and how that methodology is still relevant today.  On part two of this series, we will discuss several examples of rank and file unionism in practice in more detail. Join the discord: discord.gg/tDvmNzX Follow the pod @WorkStoppagePod on Twitter, John @facebookvillain, and Lina @solidaritybee

We welcomed today Chris Townsend to discuss his four decades as a union organizer and the relevance of William Z. Foster's book, “American Trade Unionism” on today's labor struggles.  Book:  American Trade Unionism by William Z. Foster https://www.intpubnyc.com/product/american-trade-unionism/ Link to Greg's blog: http://zzs-blg.blogspot.com   #ChrisTownsend # American Trade Unionism #WilliamFoster #UE #ATU #podcast #Amazon #ChrisSmalls #GregGodels #ZZblog #PatCummings #ComingFromLeftField

Enjoy this clip from our 2021 class " 'Left-Wing' Communism: An Infantile Disorder pt. 5," that discusses the "Communist" label. Why do so-called "revolutionaries" run away from that word? Does abandoning the "Communist" label further the interests of the working class? Or does this further the interests of the capitalist class? We hope this clip sheds some light on this crucial issue. Connect with PSMLS: https://linktr.ee/PSMLS No Literature Used Recommended Literature: Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st... Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder by V.I. Lenin (1920) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/vi-le... Mastering Bolshevism by J.V. Stalin (1937) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/josep... http://www.marx2mao.com/Stalin/MB37.html The Crisis in the Socialist Party by William Z. Foster (1936) https://digital.library.pitt.edu/isla... Marxism & Revisionism by V.I. Lenin (1908) https://www.marxists.org/archive/leni... Wage Labor & Capital by Karl Marx (1847) https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx... The Collapse of the Second International by V.I. Lenin (1915) https://www.marxists.org/archive/leni... Dizzy with Success by J.V. Stalin (1930) https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar... Speeches on the American Communist Party by J.V. Stalin (1929) http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow/docum... PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/

Enjoy this class going over a portion of comrade William Z. Foster's 1952 text "The History of the Communist Party of the United States of America." This class specifically highlights the role played by the Communist Party in the 1930s, the relations it had to the Democratic Party, and the role it ultimately played in the anti-fascist people's front during the Second World War. We hope this class helps clarify misconceptions about CPUSA history, particularly as it relates to the era of the 1930s. Connect with PSMLS: https://linktr.ee/PSMLS Literature Used In This Class: History of the Communist Party of the United States of America by William Z. Foster (1952) https://archive.org/details/william-z... Recommended Literature: The Way Out by Earl Browder https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow... The Enemy Forgotten by Gilbert Green (1956) https://vajeqiwijoli.myshelfink.icu/e... The Lesson of Germany by Gerhart Eisler, Albert Norden, & Albert Schreiner (1945) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/alber... PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/ Timecode Key: (Q&A) =Question & Answer / Response 0:00 Introduction 0:21 Reading 1 3:31 Trump's influence 4:32 American fascism's development? (Q&A) 7:33 Fascism countdown clock? (Q&A) 8:35 U.S. WW2 involvement? (Q&A) 9:52 U.S. spreading fascism? (Q&A) 11:07 American fascism? (Q&A) 18:23 Eleanor Roosevelt? (Q&A) 20:39 Reading 2 22:28 Stages of the CPUSA 24:53 Reading 2 cont. 27:14 Popular vs United Front? (Q&A) 30:52 U.S. People's Front? (Q&A) 32:31 AFL-CIO? (Q&A) 37:50 'Degeneracy'? (Q&A) 41:28 Reading 3 42:19 Historical context 46:12 People's front vs. Communist work? (Q&A) 50:07 'Lesser-evilism'? (Q&A) 55:37 Huey Long 56:51 Social fascism? (Q&A) 59:42 Left-wing reaction 59:55 Opposing 'tailism' 1:00:26 Current parallels? (Q&A) 1:02:53 Communists & Democrats? (Q&A) 1:10:05 CIA & the New Left 1:10:17 U.S. soc-dem failures 1:11:11 'Alternative lifestyles'? (Q&A) 1:12:18 Petty bourgeoisie & fascism? (Q&A) 1:15:57 Capitalist election financing 1:17:05 Concluding remarks & ending

Enjoy this clip from our 2018 class "PSMLS Origins and History" covering the historic role that is currently being played by the People's School for Marxist-Leninist Studies. The PSMLS is performing the vital duty of carrying the torch of Communist schooling and education in the U.S. Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information No Literature Used Recommended Literature: Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st... Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder by V.I. Lenin (1920) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/vi-le... Mastering Bolshevism by J.V. Stalin (1937) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/josep... http://www.marx2mao.com/Stalin/MB37.html The Crisis in the Socialist Party by William Z. Foster (1936) https://digital.library.pitt.edu/isla... Marxism & Revisionism by V.I. Lenin (1908) https://www.marxists.org/archive/leni... Wage Labor & Capital by Karl Marx (1847) https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx... The Collapse of the Second International by V.I. Lenin (1915) https://www.marxists.org/archive/leni... Dizzy with Success by J.V. Stalin (1930) https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar... Speeches on the American Communist Party by J.V. Stalin (1929) http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow/docum... PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/

This week Jason continues to teach us about the history of American socialism. We pick up with the collapse of the old left, discuss the birth of the New Left, the New Communist Movement, and end with the End of History and the turn inward.Cannon, James P. The History of American Trotskyism, 1928-1938 : Report of a participant. New York: Pathfinder, 2002.Drucker, Peter. Max Shachtman and His Left : A Socialist's Odyssey Through the "American century. Amherst: Prometheus, 2001.Foner, Philip S. The Great Labor Uprising of 1877. New York: Pathfinder, 2002.Ginger, Ray. The Bending Cross : A biography of Eugene Victor Debs. Chicago, Ill: Haymarket Books, 2007.Gornick, Vivian. The Romance of American Communism. London Brooklyn, NY: Verso, 2020.Johanningsmeier, Edward P. Forging American Communism : The Life of William Z. Foster. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994.Kelley, Robin D. Hammer and hoe : Alabama Communists During the Great Depression. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.Kipnis, Ira. The American Socialist Movement, 1897-1912. Chicago, Ill: Haymarket Books, 2004.Naison, Mark D. Communists in Harlem During the Depression. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005.Weinstein, James. The Decline of Socialism in America, 1912-1925. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1984.Music: Fortunate Son- Circle JerksSupport the show (http://patreon.com/theregrettablecentury)

Please enjoy the first of a two-part series covering the constitution of the Party of Communists USA (PCUSA), the only Marxist-Leninist Bolshevik Party of a New Type in the US. This series is a great introduction to what a Bolshevik Party constitution looks like and how the structure of Bolshevik Parties is connected to the history of the world Communist movement. Connect with PSMLS: https://linktr.ee/PSMLS Literature Used In This Class: Constitution of the Party of Communists USA (PCUSA) https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/abou... Recommended Literature: The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet... Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st... History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow... Why Communism? by Moissaye J. Olgin (1933) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/moiss... History of the Communist Party of the United States by William Z. Foster (1952) https://archive.org/details/history-o... PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/ Timecode Key: (Q&A) = Question & Answer / Response 0:00 Introduction 0:14 Reading 1 3:00 The term 'vanguard' 3:39 Reading 2 6:07 Additional commissions 6:25 CC vs. PB? (Q&A) 7:26 Dialectical & historical materialism? (Q&A) 9:15 'The Communist' magazine? (Q&A) 10:11 Constitution's history 10:39 Reading 3 11:26 PCUSA's Pledge 13:36 Reading 3 cont. 14:42 Carry the torch 15:11 Pledge's history? (Q&A) 17:21 Reading 4 20:41 Criticism & self-criticism 21:36 Bureaucracy? (Q&A) 23:23 Reading 5 26:30 Crisis in the Socialist Party 28:19 Stalin on criticism 28:39 Good standing? (Q&A) 29:47 Concluding remarks & ending

The People's School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents the fifth and final part of our five-part series covering the pamphlet "Party Building and Political Leadership" by comrades William Z. Foster, James Ford, Charles Krumbein, and Alex Bittleman. This part talks about the importance of understanding Marxism-Leninism as a science, as well as the importance of being able to adequately study, learn, and apply Marxism-Leninism in our time. This text should prove useful to anyone looking to help build socialism in the United States. Connect with PSMLS: https://linktr.ee/PSMLS Literature Used In This Class: Party Building and Political Leadership by William Z. Foster, James Ford, Alex Bittleman, and Charles Krumbein (1937) https://archive.org/details/PartyBuil... Recommended Literature: The Meaning of San Rafael by Henry Winston (1971) https://ourcloud.usvanguard.net/s/3Fk... Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st... Mastering Bolshevism by J.V. Stalin (1937) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/josep... Guidelines on the Organizational Structure of Communist Parties, on the Methods and Content of their Work by the Third Congress of the Communist International (1921) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/third... 7849qz.html?page=1&pageSize=4 The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet... History of the Communist Party USA by William Z. Foster (1952) https://archive.org/details/history-o... PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/ Timecode Key: (Q&A) = Question & Answer/Response 0:00 Introduction 0:25 Reading/Lecture 1 5:09 Staying consistent 5:34 African People's Socialist Party (Q&A) 7:02 Enver Hoxha 7:50 Center the class struggle 8:35 Reading/Lecture 2 15:30 Science of Marxism-Leninism 17:18 PCUSA vs. CPUSA 17:37 Black & Red 17:47 Hammer and Hoe 17:54 Science of Marxism-Leninism cont. 18:59 Concluding remarks & ending

Some of those in the broader American leftist community misunderstand Huey Long to be a friend of the working class. Far from being any sort of "socialist," let alone Communist, "In [Huey Long's] opinion, it was either Share Our Wealth in America 'or Communism.' " It is crucial that Communists be able to identify the difference between those who are fighting for the working class and those who are merely using the revolutionary fervor of the working class for the gain of the capitalist class. We hope this clip helps clarify this common misunderstanding! Interested in attending a class? Sign up here: https://gem.godaddy.com/signups/4c405... Connect with PSMLS: https://linktr.ee/PSMLS Recommended Literature: The Way Out by Earl Browder https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow... History of the Communist Party of the United States (Ch. 27) by William Z. Foster (1952) http://williamzfoster.blogspot.com/ The Enemy Forgotten by Gilbert Green (1956) https://vajeqiwijoli.myshelfink.icu/e... The Lesson of Germany by Gerhart Eisler, Albert Norden, & Albert Schreiner (1945) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/alber... Recommended Listening: Lindbergh by Woodie Guthrie (1944) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw9qJ... PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/

Please enjoy this PSMLS reading of Moses Miller's 1950 pamphlet "Soviet 'Anti-Semitism': The Big Lie!" This pamphlet decisively debunks the conspiratorial myth that the Soviet Union, of all places, was "anti-semitic." We hope you learn something new! Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Literature Used: Soviet "Anti-Semitism": The Big Lie! by Moses Miller (1950) https://archive.org/details/miller-mo... Recommended Literature: History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow... History of the Communist Party of the United States by William Z. Foster (1952) http://williamzfoster.blogspot.com/ The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet... Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster (1932) http://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/... Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st... PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/

This week Jason teaches us about the history of American socialism. We start with the beginnings of the movement in the late 19th century and ends just after the Second World War. Cannon, James P. The history of American Trotskyism, 1928-1938 : report of a participant. New York: Pathfinder, 2002.Drucker, Peter. Max Shachtman and his left : a socialist's odyssey through the "American century. Amherst: Prometheus, 2001.Foner, Philip S. The great labor uprising of 1877. New York: Pathfinder, 2002.Ginger, Ray. The bending cross : a biography of Eugene Victor Debs. Chicago, Ill: Haymarket Books, 2007.Gornick, Vivian. The romance of American communism. London Brooklyn, NY: Verso, 2020.Johanningsmeier, Edward P. Forging American communism : the life of William Z. Foster. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994.Kelley, Robin D. Hammer and hoe : Alabama Communists during the Great Depression. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.Kipnis, Ira. The American socialist movement, 1897-1912. Chicago, Ill: Haymarket Books, 2004.Naison, Mark D. Communists in Harlem during the depression. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005.Weinstein, James. The decline of socialism in America, 1912-1925. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1984.Music: Talking Union- Pete Seeger Support the show (http://patreon.com/theregrettablecentury)

Please enjoy this PSMLS reading of comrade William Z.Foster's 1941 pamphlet "Communism vs. Fascism." The lumping together of these two polar opposite systems causes dangerous confusion for the working masses. We hope this reading clarifies the obvious and clear distinctions between these two political systems. Enjoy! Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Literature Used: Communism versus Fascism by William Z. Foster (1941) https://studylib.net/doc/8069811/will... Recommended Literature: History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow... History of the Communist Party of the United States by William Z. Foster (1952) http://williamzfoster.blogspot.com/ The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet... Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster (1932) http://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/... Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st... PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/

Please enjoy the fourth and final part of a four-part series on the basic tenets of a Leninist Party (i.e. a Party of a New Type). This episode goes into the current manifestation of the only Leninist Party currently within the United States, the PCUSA (Party of Communists USA). We hope you learn something new! Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Literature Used In This Class: N/A Recommended Literature: Revisionism, Opportunism, Poly-Marxism by Gaspar Jorge Garcia Gallo (1974). Republished by the S.I.M.S.G. (Staten Island Marxist Study Group) in 1989 under the Educational Department of the Staten Island Club of the Communist Party U.S.A. https://ourcloud.usvanguard.net/s/4pe... Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st... The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet... History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) by the C.C. of the CPSU (1939) https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar... History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow... Stalin's Speeches on the CPUSA by J.V. Stalin (1929) https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar... PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/ Timecode Key: (Q&A) = Question & Answer / Response 0:00 Introduction 0:08 Lecture 1 6:56 Internationales? (Q&A) 7:41 Hugo Chavez? (Q&A) 10:07 Old CPUSA issues 11:23 Cuba, Stalin, & Chavez 12:39 AES democratic centralism? (Q&A) 13:14 More Internationales? (Q&A) 16:36 Old CPUSA 19:48 Pre-Party Formation? (Q&A) 20:47 Perestroika support? (Q&A) 23:18 Jarvis Tyner story 24:20 Dem-cent & Perestroika? (Q&A) 30:39 Lecture 2 38:02 Haywood clarification 38:28 PLP 39:29 Other US Parties? (Q&A) 41:15 Splitting over tactics? (Q&A) 43:32 Ideological splits? (Q&A) 49:30 Stalin & H.G. Wells 49:52 YCL radicalization? (Q&A) 50:54 PSMLS vs. public universities 51:23 Previous CPUSA experiences 52:22 DSA & Dem-Cent? (Q&A) 53:30 Marxism & Revisionism 54:26 Sam Webb's Blog 57:49 Reading Recommendations 58:28 Importance of PCUSA History 59:42 Hoxhaism 1:01:42 Contemporary Splits 1:02:22 Communist Bloodline 1:03:24 More on Hoxhaism? (Q&A) 1:05:26 WWP Experiences 1:06:33 Democratic Centralism 1:07:56 CIA Chicanery? (Q&A) 1:09:03 Bolsheviks & Pre-Party Formation? (Q&A) 1:10:58 Stalin Destroys Liberalism 1:12:21 Other Party Experiences 1:12:55 J. Peters' Book 1:13:37 Market socialism? (Q&A) 1:15:39 CPUSA Revisionism? (Q&A) 1:16:54 Changing Global Framework 1:18:21 Concluding Remarks

The People's School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents the fourth part of a five-part series covering the pamphlet "Party Building and Political Leadership" by comrades William Z. Foster, James Ford, Charles Krumbein, and Alex Bittleman. This specific episode pulls primarily from comrade James Ford's contribution to the pamphlet. Strengthening the Party, particularly within ethnic and diverse communities, is an essential component of building the Communist movement. This text should prove useful to anyone looking to help build socialism in the United States. Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Literature Used In This Class: Party Building and Political Leadership by William Z. Foster, James Ford, Alex Bittleman, and Charles Krumbein (1937) https://archive.org/details/PartyBuil... Recommended Literature: The Meaning of San Rafael by Henry Winston (1971) https://ourcloud.usvanguard.net/s/3Fk... Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st... Mastering Bolshevism by J.V. Stalin (1937) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/josep... Guidelines on the Organizational Structure of Communist Parties, on the Methods and Content of their Work by the Third Congress of the Communist International (1921) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/third... 7849qz.html?page=1&pageSize=4 The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet... The Way Out by Earl Browder (1941) https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow... History of the Communist Party USA by William Z. Foster (1952) https://archive.org/details/history-o... Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster (1932) https://www.marxists.org/archive/fost... PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/ Timecode Key: (Q&A) = Question & Answer/Response 0:00 Introduction 0:40 Reading/Lecture 1 10:27 Avoiding imitation? (Q&A) 12:55 Mass org importance 13:50 Reading/Lecture 2 20:18 New technology 21:20 Reading/Lecture 3 28:13 Skepticism of black community 33:37 Latino recruiting 34:42 Alabama crop sharers (Q&A) 35:28 Mutual aid 37:08 Communist subculture 38:11 CPUSA & ethnic communities 39:12 Meaning of San Rafael 39:29 Ending

Please enjoy the third part of a four-part series on the basic tenets of a Leninist Party (i.e. a Party of a New Type). This episode discusses an article by Gaspar Jorge Garcia Gallo of the Communist Party of Cuba, which discusses the themes of revisionism and opportunism. We hope you learn something new! Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Literature Used In This Class: Revisionism, Opportunism, Poly-Marxism by Gaspar Jorge Garcia Gallo (1974). Republished by the S.I.M.S.G. (Staten Island Marxist Study Group) in 1989 under the Educational Department of the Staten Island Club of the Communist Party U.S.A. https://ourcloud.usvanguard.net/s/4pe... Recommended Literature: Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st... The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet... History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) by the C.C. of the CPSU (1939) https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar... History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow... Stalin's Speeches on the CPUSA by J.V. Stalin (1929) https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar... PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/ Timecode Key: (Q&A) = Question & Answer / Response 0:00 Lecture 1 7:49 Leninism vs. Maoism? (Q&A) 8:47 Opportunist examples? (Q&A) 9:54 Litmus test? (Q&A) 11:44 Disagreements on definitions? (Q&A) 12:47 "Revisionism"? (Q&A) 16:05 Staying dialectical? (Q&A) 18:40 "Class reductionism" (Q&A) 21:32 DSA deception 22:02 What constitutes revisionism? (Q&A) 23:58 Lecture 2 30:28 Poly-Marxism rejects Leninism 33:19 Contemporary Poly-Marxists? (Q&A) 34:00 Sino-Soviet split 35:24 Opportunist DSA 36:21 CPUSA decay? (Q&A) 39:24 Stalin on Revisionism 40:59 "Individual" Marxism 41:55 Bourgeois baggage 42:23 Poly-Marxism has failed 45:53 When reality changes the truth changes? (Q&A) 48:28 More reading recommendations 48:49 CPUSA's "Reflections on Socialism" 51:43 Even more reading recommendations 52:11 Anarchists: not our allies 55:06 And even more reading recommendations 55:56 "Social Fascism?" (Q&A) 57:39 PSMLS combats these trends 58:22 DSA experience 58:55 Communist "center"? (Q&A) 1:01:26 Market socialism? (Q&A) 1:05:34 Poly-Marxism rejects vanguardism 1:06:00 Molotov Remembers 1:07:09 Ideology, strategy & tactics 1:08:16 Breadtube breeding reactionary ideology 1:08:52 Venom of liberalism 1:10:18 Another Stalin quote 1:11:37 Online "Marxism" 1:12:29 Final reading recommendations 1:13:17 Concluding remarks

Please enjoy the second part of a four-part series on the basic tenets of a Leninist Party (i.e. a Party of a New Type). It is very easy for individuals on the left to consider themselves Communists. Marxist-Leninists understand that Communists are part of a collective, and are not driven by individualism. Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Literature Used In This Class: N/A Recommended Literature: Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st... The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet... Guidelines on the Organizational Structure of Communist Parties, on the Methods and Content of their Work by the Third Congress of the Communist International (1921) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/third... History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow... Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster (1932) http://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/... PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/ Timecode Key: (Q&A) = Question & Answer / Response 0:00 Introduction 1:02 Opening Lecture 7:13 On "role models" 8:17 Honesty 9:03 Obligations 9:52 "Left" Communism 11:15 Revolutionary love 13:02 Join & leave 14:01 Oaths 14:48 Organizational attrition 15:26 More join & leave 16:17 Youth on "vows" 18:08 Contracts 19:34 Loyalty 21:37 Role of the individual 22:44 Leaving the Party? (Q&A) 31:52 Individualist baggage 32:36 Bertolt Brecht quote 36:29 Bourgeois baggage 37:43 Reviving collectivism 38:31 Building collectivism? (Q&A) 40:20 Battling liberalism 41:03 Baggage & individualism 42:08 On anti-collectivism 43:08 Promoting collectivism 43:46 Saying something "wrong" 44:52 More on the individual 49:20 George Orwell & individualism? (Q&A) 52:19 Socialism Betrayed 54:14 Identifying bourgeois tendencies? (Q&A) 56:29 Democratic centralism 57:00 Trotsky's individualism 58:41 Disagreeing with leadership? (Q&A) 1:01:06 Democratic centralism example 1:02:21 Criticism & self-criticism? (Q&A) 1:04:12 Communism is a way of life 1:04:37 Avoiding CPUSA reformism? (Q&A) 1:08:28 Ending

The People's School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents the third part of a five-part series covering the pamphlet "Party Building and Political Leadership" by comrades William Z. Foster, James Ford, Charles Krumbein, and Alex Bittleman. This specific episode pulls from Alex Bittlemans' contribution to the pamphlet. Building the Party is an essential component of the Communist movement. This text should prove useful to anyone looking to help build the Communist movement. Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Literature Used In This Class: Party Building and Political Leadership by William Z. Foster, James Ford, Alex Bittleman, and Charles Krumbein (1937) https://archive.org/details/PartyBuil... Recommended Literature: Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st... Mastering Bolshevism by J.V. Stalin (1937) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/josep... Guidelines on the Organizational Structure of Communist Parties, on the Methods and Content of their Work by the Third Congress of the Communist International (1921) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/third... 7849qz.html?page=1&pageSize=4 The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet... History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow... History of the Communist Party USA by William Z. Foster (1952) https://archive.org/details/history-o... Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster (1932) https://www.marxists.org/archive/fost... PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/ Timecode Key: (Q&A) = Question & Answer/Response 0:00 Introduction 0:52 Reading/lecture 1 8:30 Written by Bittleman 8:39 Party & mass movements? (Q&A) 9:14 Revolutionary progress? (Q&A) 11:51 Repeating past success? (Q&A) 16:15 Revolution in the '30s? (Q&A) 17:55 Socialism is a Science 18:21 Former Communist influence 20:53 Pyongyang declaration? (Q&A) 23:39 Reading/lecture 2 36:43 Develop Communists 37:27 Increase ideological maturity 38:24 Party & the mass movement 38:48 Business Plot 39:13 Henry Wallace? (Q&A) 39:32 Ending

The People's School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents the second part of a five-part series covering the work by comrades William Z. Foster, James Ford, Charles Krumbein, and Alex Bittleman. Building the Party is an essential component of the Communist movement. This text should prove useful to anyone looking to help build the Communist movement. Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Literature Used In This Class: Party Building and Political Leadership by William Z. Foster, James Ford, Alex Bittleman, and Charles Krumbein (1937) https://archive.org/details/PartyBuil... Recommended Literature: Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st... Mastering Bolshevism by J.V. Stalin (1937) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/josep... Guidelines on the Organizational Structure of Communist Parties, on the Methods and Content of their Work by the Third Congress of the Communist International (1921) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/third... 7849qz.html?page=1&pageSize=4 The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet... History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow... History of the Communist Party USA by William Z. Foster (1952) https://archive.org/details/history-o... Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster (1932) https://www.marxists.org/archive/fost... PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/ Timecode Key: (Q&A) = Question & Answer/Response 0:00 Introduction 1:14 Reading/lecture 1 11:07 Going "underground" 12:12 Non-communist orgs 12:31 Mass orgs? (Q&A) 14:32 Reading/lecture 2 27:11 Mass org leadership? (Q&A) 28:18 Emphasizing commonalities? (Q&A) 30:19 Opposing gatekeeping 31:22 Unionized work? (Q&A) 32:42 Increased polarization & internet? (Q&A) 37:54 Reading/lecture 3 44:53 William Z. Foster? (Q&A) 45:41 Capitalizing on opportunities 46:12 "Coming out" as Communist 47:51 Polemics vs. sharp criticism 48:33 More on mass org leadership 49:20 Ideological grounding 50:05 Balancing attention 50:30 Attacking other Parties 50:48 Conclusion

Please enjoy the first of a two-part series over the Party pamphlet "Organization and Structure of the Communist Party." This pamphlet outlines the foundational principles of how a Leninist Bolshevik party is structured and organized. Marxist-Leninists understand that real Communists are only those actively working in a Leninist Party and engaging in Party work on behalf of the working class. Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Literature Used In This Class: Guidelines on the Organizational Structure of Communist Parties, on the Methods and Content of their Work by the Third Congress of the Communist International (1921) https://www.lulu.com/en/ca/shop/third... Recommended Literature: The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet... Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st... History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow... Why Communism? by Moissaye J. Olgin (1933) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/moiss... History of the Communist Party of the United States by William Z. Foster (1952) https://archive.org/details/history-o... PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/ Timecode Key: (Q&A) = Question & Answer / Response 0:00 Introduction 0:31 Reading 1 2:55 Socialism w/ American characteristics? (Q&A) 8:15 Anti-vanguard groups? (Q&A) 10:10 Reading 2 11:32 In touch with the masses? (Q&A) 13:23 "Tailing" the masses 14:29 Carde & leadership 15:10 Stalin on the CPUSA 16:03 "Tailin the masses cont. 16:49 Organic nature of the Party? (Q&A) 18:05 Vanguardism in the west 19:25 Reading 3 21:44 "Power-hungry" Communists 24:12 Bureaucratic dualism 24:50 Constant common struggle 25:19 More dualism 25:49 Leninist Parties vs. Bourgeois Parties 26:18 Criticisms of bureaucracy? (Q&A) 30:28 Reading 4 31:57 Connecting Party organs w/ members (Q&A) 33:54 Establishing an identity 35:11 Formal democracy? (Q&A) 37:39 More Party & the masses 40:43 Bureaucracy & the state 41:27 Anarchism: "individualist socialism" 45:36 Reading 5 48:27 Build the Party 49:11 Contradictions under socialism 49:36 Capitalist hegemony 50:02 Modern applicability? 51:09 National vs. local work? (Q&A) 51:59 State of American Communist movement? (Q&A) 54:38 Democratic centralism 55:52 Things haven't changed that much 56:16 Discipline 57:17 Party before & after the revolution? (Q&A) 58:14 More on discipline 58:42 Party work's importance 59:09 Strengthen rank-and-file 59:21 On "book worship" 1:01:49 Communism vs. fascism? (Q&A) 1:04:07 Even more dualism 1:05:12 William Z. Foster 1:05:53 Watch our "Factionalism" class 1:06:37 Facebook individualism 1:07:04 Why join PCUSA? 1:08:47 PCUSA is you 1:09:07 Why McCarthyism happened 1:10:25 Ending

The People's School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents the first part of a five-part series covering the work by comrades William Z. Foster, James Ford, Charles Krumbein, and Alex Bittleman. Building the Party is an essential component of the Communist movement. This text should prove useful to anyone looking to help build the Communist movement. Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Literature Used In This Class: Party Building and Political Leadership by William Z. Foster, James Ford, Alex Bittleman, and Charles Krumbein (1937) https://archive.org/details/PartyBuil... Recommended Literature: Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st... Mastering Bolshevism by J.V. Stalin (1937) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/josep... Guidelines on the Organizational Structure of Communist Parties, on the Methods and Content of their Work by the Third Congress of the Communist International (1921) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/third... 7849qz.html?page=1&pageSize=4 The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet... History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow... PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/ Timecode Key: (Q&A) = Question & Answer/Response 0:00 Introduction 1:16 Reading/lecture 1 12:39 Education & Org. Depts. 13:03 The "Jimmy Higgins" work 14:38 Mass org. building? (Q&A) 15:39 CPUSA & FDR? (Q&A) 18:37 National Industrial Recovery Act 19:18 Eagle from the NIRA 20:04 Anti-Communist politicians? (Q&A) 21:41 Reading/lecture 2 29:16 Importance of Party education 29:43 New member involvement 30:20 Recruiting non-Communists? (Q&A) 31:33 Reading/lecture 3 34:55 Red diaper babies 36:09 Communists & perception of violence 37:20 Communist childhood 38:44 Israeli & Jewish Communists 40:28 More red diaper babies 41:05 Becoming too insular? (Q&A) 42:38 Implementing Communist subculture? (Q&A) 43:10 Young pioneers 43:33 Recap & more red diaper babies? (Q&A) 44:19 Ending

The People's School presents the third and final part of a three-part series covering J. Peters's book: The Communist Party Manual on Organization. In order to be effectively functioning members of a Communist Party, we must have an understanding of how the Party is to be organized in accordance with the Leninist model. This text is available for purchase through our partner publishing house: New Outlook Publishers. Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Literature Used In This Class: The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet... Recommended Literature: Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st... Mastering Bolshevism by J.V. Stalin (1937) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/josep... Guidelines on the Organizational Structure of Communist Parties, on the Methods and Content of their Work by the Third Congress of the Communist International (1921) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/third... History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow... PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/ 0:00 Introduction 0:28 Club assignments 3:01 Know you comrades 3:22 Club member rank 4:01 Role of the newspaper 7:07 Canvassing 8:30 Old CPSUA tabling 10:10 Distributing literature 11:22 Tabling & canvassing 11:30 Importance of print edition 12:17 Isolated with reactionaries 12:56 Local left groups 13:21 Convincing people ideologically 14:11 Comfort zones 16:40 More on convincing people 17:04 Agitation literature 18:41 Even more on convincing people 20:43 Club organizer 22:03 Agit-prop director 23:08 Strengthening clubs 23:46 Ending

Please enjoy a class over comrade Stalin's 1906-1907 work Anarchism or Socialism. This pamphlet meticulously dissects the undialectical flaws of anarchist ideology that all communists should be made aware of. Interested in attending classes? Email info@psmls.org for more information. Literature Used In This Class: Anarchism or Socialism by J.V. Stalin (1906-1907) https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar... Recommended Literature: Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st... Communism Versus Fascism by William Z. Foster (1941) https://digital.library.pitt.edu/isla... Felix Dzerzhinsky: A Biography (several authors) (1988) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/rozal... Dizzy with Success by J.V. Stalin (1930) https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar... Fraud, Famine, and Fascism by Douglas Tottle (1987) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/dougl... https://ia801606.us.archive.org/28/it... Stalin: Man of Contradiction by Kenneth Cameron (1987) http://michaelharrison.org.uk/wp-cont... Mission to Moscow by Joseph Davies (1945) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EzWt... Soviet Anti-Semitism: The Big Lie by Moses Miller (1949) https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/vie... Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder by V.I. Lenin (1920) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/vi-le... Theory as a Guide to Action by Earl Browder (1939) https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow... History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) Short Course (ch. 12, sec. 4) Liquidation of the Remnants of the Bukharin-Trotsky Gang of Spies, Wreckers and Traitors to the Country. https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar.... Another View of Stalin by Ludo Martens (1994) https://stalinsocietypk.files.wordpre... Blood Lies by Grover Furr (2014) http://www.readmarxeveryday.org/blood... The Communist Manifesto by Marx & Engels (1848) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/karl-... Ending Song: Anthem of the USSR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK2GU... PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/ 0:00 Introduction 2:42 What is anarchism? 5:28 Anarchists & counter-revolution? (Q&A) 7:49 Angela Davis's revisionism 8:43 Anarcistic individuals 9:18 Anti-Leninists 10:04 SR Party 10:36 More Angela Davis 11:19 Anti-fascist brigades 11:59 Reading 1 18:03 Anarchism and individualism 18:22 Anarchism vs. Marxism 18:46 Stalin vs. Wells 19:16 Right-wing anarchism 20:08 Western individualism 21:41 Reading 2 27:03 More western individualism 28:30 Newest anarchist antics? (Q&A) 29:36 Lenin Quote 30:09 Ending

Please enjoy the fifth and final part of a five-part PSMLS series covering the history of the American Communist Movement, with the obvious international context necessary to comprehend its development. You probably know a lot about the C.P.S.U., but how much do you know about American Communist history? We hope you learn something new! Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Watch the Series: Part 1: https://youtu.be/qt-UtQrvJmU Part 2: https://youtu.be/6z_2s5tDt_A Part 3: https://youtu.be/0B7NBjMz9ms Part 4: https://youtu.be/rC47mjz5Xqk No Literature Used In This Class Recommended Literature: History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow... History of the Communist Party of the United States by William Z. Foster (1952) http://williamzfoster.blogspot.com/ The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet... Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster (1932) http://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/... Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st... Socialism Betrayed by Roger Keeran & Thomas Kenny (2010) https://valleysunderground.files.word... PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/ Timecode Key: (Q&A) = Question & Answer/Response 0:00 Introduction 0:49 Civil rights period 2:00 Youth radicalization 2:41 "New left" 5:15 70s & the peasantry 5:51 American peasant class? (Q&A) 8:31 Lumpenproletariat? (Q&A) 10:05 Sino-Soviet split's impact? (Q&A) 12:27 Stalin as an excuse for Mao 16:23 More lumpenproletariat? (Q&A) 16:50 Role of Vietnam? (Q&A) 22:23 Even more lumpenproletariat? (Q&A) 22:58 Trade-unionism? (Q&A) 24:57 U.S.S.R. experiences? (Q&A) 28:53 Khrushchev & Brezhnev? (Q&A) 32:52 Socialism Betrayed 33:32 Leadership & trust 33:57 Ending

The People's School presents the second part of a three-part series covering J. Peters's book: The Communist Party | A Manual on Organization. In order to be effectively functioning members of a Communist Party, we must have an understanding of how the Party is to be organized in accordance with the Leninist model. This text is available for purchase through our partner publishing house: New Outlook Publishers. Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Literature Used In This Class: The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet... Recommended Literature: Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st... Guidelines on the Organizational Structure of Communist Parties, on the Methods and Content of their Work by the Third Congress of the Communist International (1921) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/third... History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow... Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster (1932) http://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/... PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/ Timecode Key: (Q&A) = Question & Answer / Response 0:00 Introduction 1:01 Reading/Lecture 1 6:25 PCUSA organization? (Q&A) 9:03 Reading/Lecture 2 12:59 Importance of Organization 13:24 Reading/Lecture 3 21:56 Capitalize on strengths 22:19 Avoid burnout 22:37 Encouraging participation? (Q&A) 23:07 This text works 23:33 Ending

Episode 39:This week we're continuing our reading of Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis.The full book is available online here:https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis [Part 1 - 2]1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD [Part 3 - This Week]2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN'S RIGHTSReading – 00:28Discussion – 33:10[Part 4 - 5]3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN'S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN[Part 6]4. RACISM IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT[Part 7]5. THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO BLACK WOMEN[Part 8]6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN'S PERSPECTIVE [Part 9]7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISM[Part 10]8. BLACK WOMEN AND THE CLUB MOVEMENT [Part 11]9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT [Part 12 - 13]10. COMMUNIST WOMEN[Part 14 - 15]11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST [Part 16 - 17]12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS [Part 18-19]13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVEFootnotes:1) – 00:48Douglass, op. cit., p. 469. 2) – 01:01Ibid., p. 472. 3) – 01:37Ibid. 4) – 02:04Ibid. 5) – 02:34Stowe, op. cit. Frederick Douglass included the following comments in his autobiography: “In the midst of these fugitive slave troubles came the book known as Uncle Tom's Cabin, a work of marvelous depth and power. Nothing could have better suited the moral and human requirements of the hour. Its effect was amazing, instantaneous, and universal. No book on the subject of slavery had so generally and favorably touched the American heart. It combined all the power and pathos of preceding publications of the kind, and was hailed by many as an inspired production. Mrs. Stowe at once became an object of interest and admiration.” (Douglass, op. cit., p. 282) 6) – 03:17Stowe, op. cit., p. 107. 7) – 05:07See Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, “Microbes and the Manufacture of Housework,”Chapter 5 of For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1978). Also Ann Oakley, Woman's Work: The Housewife Past and Present (New York: Vintage Books, 1976). 8) – 06:19See Eleanor Flexner, Century of Struggle: The Women's Rights Movement in the U.S. (New York: Atheneum, 1973). Also Mary P. Ryan, Womanhood in America (New York: New Viewpoints, 1975). 9) – 07:04See Aptheker, Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion (New York: Humanities Press, 1966); Harriet H.Robinson, Loom and Spindle or Life Among the Early Mill Girls (Kailua, Hawaii: Press Pacifica, 1976). Also Wertheimer, op. cit., and Flexner, op. cit. 10) – 07:49Robinson, op. cit., p. 51. 11) – 08:22See discussion of this tendency to equate the institution of marriage with that of slavery in Pamela Allen, “Woman Suffrage: Feminism and White Supremacy,”Chapter V of Robert Allen, Reluctant Reformers (Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1974), pp. 1368. 12) – 09:28Wertheimer, op. cit., p. 106.13) – 10:07See Flexner, op. cit., pp. 38–40. Also Samuel Sillen, Women Against Slavery (New York: Masses and Mainstream, Inc., 1955), pp. 11–16. 14) – 11:18Sillen, op. cit., p. 13. 15) – 12:10Ibid. 16) – 12:31Ibid., p. 14. 17) – 14:15Liberator, January 1, 1831. Quoted in William Z. Foster, The Negro People in American History (New York: International Publishers, 1970), p. 108. 18) – 16:10Sillen, op. cit., p. 17.19) – 16:53Ibid. 20) – 17:04The first woman to speak publicly in the United States was the Scottish-born lecturer and writer Frances Wright (see Flexner, op. cit., pp. 27–28). When the Black woman Maria W. Stewart delivered four lectures in Boston in 1832, she became the first native-born woman to speak publicly (see Lerner, op. cit., p. 83).21) – 17:49Flexner, op. cit., p. 42. See the text of the constitution of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society in Judith Papachristou, editor, Women Together: A History in Documents of the Women's Movement in the United States (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., A Ms. Book, 1976), pp. 4–5. 22) – 18:21Sillen, op. cit., p. 20.23) – 18:45Ibid., pp. 21–22. 24) – 19:22Ibid., p. 25. 25) – 21:29Flexner, op. cit., p. 51.26) – 22:46Ibid. 27) – 23:53Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage, History of Woman Suffrage,Vol. 1 (1848–1861) (New York: Fowler and Wells, 1881), p. 52. 28) – 24:51Quoted in Papachristou, op. cit., p. 12. See Gerda Lerner's analysis of the pastoral letter in her work The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women's Rights and Abolition (New York: Schocken Books, 1971), p. 189. 29) – 25:03Quoted in Papachristou, op. cit., p. 12.30) – 25:42Ibid. 31) – 26:57Sarah Grimke began publishing her Letters on the Equality of the Sexes in July, 1837. They appeared in the New England Spectator and were reprinted in the Liberator. See Lerner, The Grimke Sisters, p. 187. 32) – 27:31Quoted in Alice Rossi, editor, The Feminist Papers (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), p. 308. 33) – 27:46Ibid. 34) – 28:5834. Quoted in Flexner, op. cit., p. 48. Also quoted and discussed in Lerner, The Grimke Sisters, p. 201. 35) – 30:49Angelina Grimke, Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States. Issued by an Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women and Held by Adjournment from the 9th to the 12th of May, 1837 (New York: W. S. Dorr, 1838), pp. 13–14. 36) – 31:17Ibid., p. 21. 37) – 31:34Flexner, op. cit., p. 47. 38) – 32:43Lerner, The Grimke Sisters, p. 353.

Please enjoy the fourth part of a five-part PSMLS series covering the history of the American Communist Movement, with the obvious international context necessary to comprehend its development. You probably know a lot about the C.P.S.U., but how much do you know about American Communist history? We hope you learn something new! Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Watch the Series: Part 1: https://youtu.be/qt-UtQrvJmU Part 2: https://youtu.be/6z_2s5tDt_A Part 3: https://youtu.be/0B7NBjMz9ms Part 5: https://youtu.be/TGm63bqqLBA No Literature Used In This Class Recommended Literature: History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow... History of the Communist Party of the United States by William Z. Foster (1952) http://williamzfoster.blogspot.com/ The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet... Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster (1932) http://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/... Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st... Afghanistan - Washington's Secret War by Phillip Bonosky (1985) ISBN-10: 0717807320 ISBN-13: 978-0717807321 The Road to Life by A.S. Makarenko (1925-1935?) https://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvin... PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/ Timecode Key: (Q&A) = Question & Answer/Response 0:00 Introduction 1:00 Opening Lecture 10:25 Gorbachev & the CPUSA? (Q&A) 11:56 U.S.S.R. & U.S.A. exchange 12:43 Gorbachev vs. Leninism 13:38 Sam Webb? (Q&A) 14:43 Perestroika supporters? (Q&A) 17:15 Ebbs & flows 22:39 Tiananmen Square 24:58 Eastern bloc's demise 25:48 JCP Revisionism 26:10 1991 CPUSA convention 30:57 Gorbachev ideology? (Q&A) 32:54 Fall of Angela Davis 34:49 Radio Free Europe & Asia 35:36 Red diaper babies? (Q&A) 37:35 CPUSA split 42:20 Socialism Betrayed 43:43 Afghanistan & the U.S.A. 44:40 Gorbachev's election 45:06 Ending

The People's School presents the first part of a three part series covering J. Peters's book: The Communist Party | A Manual on Organization. In order to be effectively functioning members of a Communist Party, we must have an understanding of how the Party is to be organized in accordance with the Leninist model. This text is available for purchase through our partner publishing house: New Outlook Publishers. Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Literature Used In This Class: The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet...​ Recommended Literature: Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st...​ Guidelines on the Organizational Structure of Communist Parties, on the Methods and Content of their Work by the Third Congress of the Communist International (1921) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/third...​ History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow...​ Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster (1932) http://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/...​ PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/​ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/​ Timecode Key: (Q&A) = Question & Answer / Response 0:00​ Introduction 0:09​ Reading & lecture 4:24​ Means of production 5:16​ Delegates, basic industry, & teachers? (Q&A) 12:11​ Emphasis on the proletariat 13:03​ Information workers? (Q&A) 14:12​ Cellular tower workers? (Q&A) 14:54​ CPUSA regression 17:27​ Shop papers 18:29​ Neighborhood clubs 19:30​ Ending

In this class, we learn about the origins and history of the People's School for Marxist-Leninist Studies! The PSMLS is carrying the torch of a vital historical legacy, and it is important for participants and listeners to be aware of this. Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information No Literature Used Recommended Literature: Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st...​ Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder by V.I. Lenin (1920) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/vi-le...​ Mastering Bolshevism by J.V. Stalin (1937) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/josep...​ http://www.marx2mao.com/Stalin/MB37.html​ The Crisis in the Socialist Party by William Z. Foster (1936) https://digital.library.pitt.edu/isla...​ Marxism & Revisionism by V.I. Lenin (1908) https://www.marxists.org/archive/leni...​ Wage Labor & Capital by Karl Marx (1847) https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx...​ The Collapse of the Second International by V.I. Lenin (1915) https://www.marxists.org/archive/leni...​ Dizzy with Success by J.V. Stalin (1930) https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar...​ Speeches on the American Communist Party by J.V. Stalin (1929) http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow/docum...​ Ending Song: Anthem of the German Democratic Republic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XauG-...​ PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/​ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/​ Timecode Key: (Q&A) = Question & Answer/Response 0:00​ PSMLS Origins & History 10:33​ XXI Americanism? (Q&A) 11:45​ Neocolonialism? (Q&A) 14:24​ PSMLS Importance 15:17​ Conclusion

The People's School for Marxist-Leninist studies presents an extension of the class on January 7th, which covered the events that took place at the U.S. Capitol building on January 6th, 2021. This class focuses on the Marxist-Leninist response to these events. Listen and enjoy. Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Watch the United Front Series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK7Ae...​ Watch the first class on the Putsch: https://youtu.be/18M-IPC-ad8​ Literature Used In This Class: The History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) https://www.bannedthought.net/USA/CPU...​ America's Pro-Worker Parties React to D.C. Riots: https://www.idcommunism.com/2021/01/t...​ KKE General Secretary Statement: https://www.idcommunism.com/2021/01/k...​ Recommended Literature: The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet...​ Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st...​ Guidelines on the Organizational Structure of Communist Parties, on the Methods and Content of their Work by the Third Congress of the Communist International (1921) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/third...​ Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder by V.I. Lenin (1920) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/vi-le...​ https://www.marxists.org/archive/leni...​ The United Front: The Struggle Against Fascism And War by Georgi Dimitrov (1938) http://resistir.info/livros/dimitrov_...​ Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti (1997) https://eastsidemarxism.files.wordpre...​ The Way Out by Earl Browder https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow...​ The Struggle Against Fascism by Clara Zetkin (1923) https://www.marxists.org/archive/zetk...​ PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/​ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/

Please enjoy the first part of a five-part PSMLS series covering the history of the American Communist Movement, with the obvious international context necessary to comprehend its development. You probably know a lot about the C.P.S.U., but how much do you know about American Communist history? We hope you learn something new! Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Note: This class was recorded on 2/15/18, not on 2/8/18. We apologize for the incorrect date on the screen. Watch the series: Part 2: https://youtu.be/6z_2s5tDt_A Part 3: https://youtu.be/0B7NBjMz9ms Part 4: https://youtu.be/rC47mjz5Xqk Part 5: https://youtu.be/TGm63bqqLBA No Literature Used In This Class Recommended Literature: History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow... History of the Communist Party of the United States by William Z. Foster (1952) http://williamzfoster.blogspot.com/ The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet... Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster (1932) http://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/... Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st... Guidelines on the Organizational Structure of Communist Parties, on the Methods and Content of their Work by the Third Congress of the Communist International (1921) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/third... PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/ Timecode Key: (Q&A) = Question & Answer/Response 0:00 Introduction 0:42 Socialist Party split 1:10 Mensheviks vs. Bolsheviks 2:27 Positions on the First Split 4:06 Major split in the 1950s 5:15 Split into PSL 6:51 Split over Revisionism 8:54 Split to the New Left 11:18 Comintern importance 11:46 PCUSA is new or old left? (Q&A) 13:08 Concurrent context 13:43 PCUSA wasn't a split 14:43 Rise of the Maoists 15:34 New Left & Vietnam 17:57 Red-baiting in New York 18:30 Left unity & revisionism? (Q&A) 21:03 Herbert Marcuse quote 23:05 Contradictions in the West 29:40 Dissolution of the Comintern

Please enjoy the third part of a five-part PSMLS series covering the history of the American Communist Movement, with the obvious international context necessary to comprehend its development. You probably know a lot about the C.P.S.U., but how much do you know about American Communist history? We hope you learn something new! Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Watch the Series: Part 1: https://youtu.be/qt-UtQrvJmU Part 2: https://youtu.be/6z_2s5tDt_A Part 4: https://youtu.be/rC47mjz5Xqk Part 5: https://youtu.be/TGm63bqqLBA Literature Used In This Class: Guidelines on the Organizational Structure of Communist Parties, on the Methods and Content of their Work by the Third Congress of the Communist International (1921) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/third... Recommended Literature: History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow... History of the Communist Party of the United States by William Z. Foster (1952) http://williamzfoster.blogspot.com/ The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet... Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster (1932) http://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/... Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st... PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/ Timecode Key: (Q&A) = Question & Answer/Response 0:00 Review 2:25 Splits in the Communist movement 4:20 Fusion line 5:43 Early 1980s 6:47 Gorbachev & Perestroika 9:39 CPUSA split 10:37 21 Preconditions? (Q&A) 14:14 CPUSA 1991? (Q&A) 17:17 "Fusion" Parties? (Q&A) 18:04 Committees of Correspondence? (Q&A) 20:01 Communist Party structure 22:01 CPUSA post-2000 24:04 U.S. Friends of the Soviet People 25:36 Birth of PCUSA 26:16 Workers World & PSL 29:06 Post-2000 purges? (Q&A) 30:34 Conclusion

Please enjoy this comprehensive discussion about Huey Long, the America First Committee, and the historical and contemporary ways in which American finance capital has been linked with fascism. This class seeks to clarify many of the misconceptions that people have about fascism, as well as devious characters such as Huey Long and organizations such as the America First Committee and the American Liberty League. Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Literature Used In This Class: https://leagueofyoungcommunistsusa.or...​ Haas, Edward F. “Huey Long and the Communists.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, vol. 32, no. 1, 1991, pp. 29–46. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4232863. Accessed 24 Feb. 2021. History of the Communist Party of the United States (Ch. 27) by William Z. Foster (1952) http://williamzfoster.blogspot.com/20...​ US far-right activists received $500,000 in cryptocurrency ahead of Capitol Hill riot by Steve Sweeney (2021) https://morningstaronline.co.uk/artic...​ Recommended Literature: The Way Out by Earl Browder https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow...​ History of the Communist Party of the United States (Ch. 27) by William Z. Foster (1952) http://williamzfoster.blogspot.com/​ The Enemy Forgotten by Gilbert Green (1956) https://vajeqiwijoli.myshelfink.icu/e...​ The Lesson of Germany by Gerhart Eisler, Albert Norden, & Albert Schreiner (1945) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/alber...​ Recommended Listening: Lindbergh by Woodie Guthrie (1944) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw9qJ...​ PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/​ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/​ Timecode Key: (Q&A) =Question & Answer / Response 0:00​ Class Intro 1:11​ Huey Long Reading Session 1 4:04​ Pause for Questions 1 5:48​ Share the Wealth = Fascism? (Q&A) 6:41​ Fascist competence 7:39​ Long's Racism 8:06​ Huey Long Reading Session 2 10:14​ Scapegoats for Fascism? (Q&A) 11:00​ What Makes Huey Long a Fascist? (Q&A) 12:38​ International Analogy 13:44​ Huey Long Historical Revisionism 15:11​ Bernie Sanders Comparisons 15:56​ William Foster Reading Session 19:16​ Reading 2 Clarification 20:24​ Smedley Butler Clarification? (Q&A) 21:28​ Fascist Deception 22:02​ Finance Capital Backing Trump? (Q&A) 26:35​ America First Committee 27:16​ Charles Lindbergh 28:14​ American Exceptionalism? (Q&A) 29:03​ American Fascist Development 30:42​ Misuse of "Liberty" & A.D.A. (Q&A) 33:47​ Fascists vs. Communists 35:04​ Anti-War vs. Pro-Fascist (Q&A) 35:30​ Morning Star Reading Session 38:55​ Reading 3 Clarification 39:54​ Definitely a Coup (Q&A) 42:18​ Communist Finances? (Q&A) 44:27​ Finance Capital & Fascism (Q&A) 48:44​ Organizing Today? (Q&A) 51:25​ More Finance Capital & Fascism 53:03​ "America First" Today 54:29​ Finance & Fascism? (Q&A) 54:49​ Fascism = Faux Movement 55:31​ Electoral Safe Harbor Deadline 56:10​ Reading Recommendations 58:54​ New Member Comment 59:14​ Finance Capital & The Holocaust 59:53​ Contemporary Analysis of Fascism 1:02:14​ Focus on Class Awareness 1:04:13​ Fascism Clarification? (Q&A) 1:06:40​ More Finance Capital & The Holocaust 1:07:24​ Global Fascist Unity? (Q&A) 1:09:23​ Antifa and Left Unity 1:10:57​ Socialism = Marxism-Leninism 1:11:17​ Huey Long Good or Bad? (Q&A) 1:13:07​ Class Collaboration 1:14:17​ Public Support for Socialism? 1:16:08​ Deceiving the Masses 1:17:37​ Concluding Remarks

Please enjoy this introductory class on the basic tenets of a Leninist Party (i.e. a Party of a New Type). It is very easy for individuals on the left to consider themselves Communists. Marxist-Leninists understand that Communists are part of a collective, and are not driven by individualism. Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Literature Used In This Class: N/A Recommended Literature: The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet...​ Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st...​ Guidelines on the Organizational Structure of Communist Parties, on the Methods and Content of their Work by the Third Congress of the Communist International (1921) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/third...​ History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow...​ Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster (1932) http://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/...​ PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/​ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/​ Timecode Key: (Q&A) = Question & Answer / Response 0:00​ Introduction 0:40​ "Individual" Communists 3:46​ Clubs & Districts? (Q&A) 5:11​ North American leftists? (Q&A) 8:06​ Clubs are collective 9:46​ Liberal subjectivism 10:51​ Soc Dems & Communists 11:44​ Class struggle intensifies 12:25​ Liberal do-nothing-ism 14:30​ North America & third-worldism? (Q&A) 21:26​ Blunders of anarchism 23:15​ PCUSA vs. other Parties 25:42​ Socialist capitulation 27:30​ Conclusion

Please enjoy this PSMLS class on various introductory Marxist texts. The majority of the literature mentioned in this episode is linked here in the description. Happy reading comrades! Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Literature Used In This Class: Socialism: Utopian & Scientific by Friedrich Engels (ch. 3) (1880) https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx...​ The State & Revolution by V.I. Lenin (ch. 1) (1917) https://www.marxists.org/archive/leni...​ The Communist Manifesto by Marx & Engels (ch. 3 ) (1848) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/karl-...​ https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx...​ Recommended Literature: Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st...​ Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder by V.I. Lenin (1920) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/vi-le...​ Mastering Bolshevism by J.V. Stalin (1937) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/josep...​ http://www.marx2mao.com/Stalin/MB37.html​ The Crisis in the Socialist Party by William Z. Foster (1936) https://digital.library.pitt.edu/isla...​ Marxism & Revisionism by V.I. Lenin (1908) https://www.marxists.org/archive/leni...​ Wage Labor & Capital by Karl Marx (1847) https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx...​ The Collapse of the Second International by V.I. Lenin (1915) https://www.marxists.org/archive/leni...​ Dizzy with Success by J.V. Stalin (1930) https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar...​ Speeches on the American Communist Party by J.V. Stalin (1929) http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow/docum...​ Ending Song: USSR National Anthem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06jl...​ PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/​ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/​ Timecode Key: (Q&A) = Question & Answer / Response 0:00​ Introduction 0:12​ State and Revolution reading 2:44​ Lenin and MLK 4:06​ Marxsim whitewashed 4:45​ What is Kautskyism? (Q&A) 7:37​ Lenin's audience? (Q&A) 8:19​ Marxsim whitewashed cont. 9:14​ Chauvansim & fascism? (Q&A) 10:25​ Manifesto reading 12:16​ Working class parties 13:07​ Manifesto background 13:37​ Universal reformer(s)? (Q&A) 14:35​ Sectarianism? (Q&A) 17:59​ Manifesto reading cont. 20:39​ The middle class 21:42​ Ferdinand Lassalle 22:37​ Reactionary utopian socialism 24:10​ Bourgeois "socialism" 24:49​ Proletariat & unions? (Q&A) 27:35​ Anarchists & industrialization? (Q&A) 29:19​ Manifesto reading cont. 32:18​ Congressional "progressives" 33:06​ Dulled revolutionary potential 33:32​ CPUSA = social democrats 34:55​ Liberal pitfalls 35:34​ Bourgeois "socialism" cont. 36:18​ Engels reading 40:10​ Utopian socialism & white supremacy 40:56​ Utopianism & idealism 41:24​ Book recommendations 48:02​ Leftist trap organizations? (Q&A) 50:29​ 1848 revolutions 51:30​ Changing landscape 52:45​ Not scaring people? (Q&A) 56:46​ Concluding remarks 59:26​ Ending

Please enjoy the first part of a two-part PSMLS series on comrade Joseph Stalin's outstanding 1937 publication titled Mastering Bolshevism. This pamphlet goes into detail about how to build and strengthen party cadre and is a breath of fresh air when compared to the infectious individualism of our time. Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Literature Used In This Class: Mastering Bolshevism by J.V. Stalin (1937) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/josep...​ http://www.marx2mao.com/Stalin/MB37.html​ Literature Mentioned In This Class: Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st...​ Communism Versus Fascism by William Z. Foster (1941) https://digital.library.pitt.edu/isla...​ Felix Dzerzhinsky: A Biography (several authors) (1988) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/rozal...​ Dizzy with Success by J.V. Stalin (1930) https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar...​ Fraud, Famine, and Fascism by Douglas Tottle (1987) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/dougl...​ https://ia801606.us.archive.org/28/it...​ Stalin: Man of Contradiction by Kenneth Cameron (1987) http://michaelharrison.org.uk/wp-cont...​ Mission to Moscow by Joseph Davies (1945) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EzWt...​ Soviet Anti-Semitism: The Big Lie by Moses Miller (1949) https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/vie...​ Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder by V.I. Lenin (1920) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/vi-le...​ Theory as a Guide to Action by Earl Browder (1939) https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow...​ History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) Short Course (ch. 12, sec. 4) Liquidation of the Remnants of the Bukharin-Trotsky Gang of Spies, Wreckers and Traitors to the Country. https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar...​. Another View of Stalin by Ludo Martens (1994) https://stalinsocietypk.files.wordpre...​ Blood Lies by Grover Furr (2014) http://www.readmarxeveryday.org/blood...​ Recommended Literature: The Communist Manifesto by Marx & Engels (1848) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/karl-...​ Ending Song: Anthem of the USSR by Paul Robeson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO6q_...​ PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/​ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/​ Timecode Key: (Q&A) = Question & Answer / Response 0:00​ Introduction 0:16​ Reading (intro & ch. 1) 5:37​ Alexei Rykov 7:11​ The Moscow Trials 9:37​ Zinoviev & Kamenev? (Q&A) 12:38​ Say no to anarchism 13:14​ Zinoviev's politics? (Q&A) 14:59​ Trotskyites today? (Q&A) 17:06​ Origins of wreckers 18:22​ Kirov's murder? (Q&A) 18:56​ Zinoviev & Kamanev cont. 20:10​ Reading (ch. 1) 25:15​ Strengthening vigilance? (Q&A) 28:31​ Capitalist invaders 30:36​ Context of the pamphlet 31:18​ Contemporary application? (Q&A) 32:48​ Reading (ch. 1 cont.) 35:12​ International perspective 35:39​ Role of Yezhov? (Q&A) 37:31​ Reading (ch. 2) 43:59​ Stalin's dialectical analysis 44:49​ Saboteurs & spies 46:02​ Dizzy with success 47:06​ Modern capitalist encirclement 49:03​ Reading recommendations 52:07​ Learn from the past 52:22​ Significance of Africa 52:54​ More strengthening vigilance? (Q&A) 55:23​ Unfounded accusations 55:49​ Fraud, Famine, & Fascism 56:11​ Ludo Martens on Trotsky 56:51​ Yezhov & Yagoda 59:06​ Stalin: Man of Contradiction 1:00:00​ Concluding remarks 1:02:24​ Ending

Please enjoy the first part of a two-part PSMLS series on a Q&A session with the General Secretary of the Party of Communists USA, Dr. Angelo D'Angelo. We hope that picking this comrade's brain allows you to learn something new. Enjoy listening! Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information No Literature Used In This Class Recommended Literature: We Charge Genocide by William L. Patterson (1951) https://www.blackpast.org/global-afri...​ The Crisis in the Socialist Party by William Z. Foster (1936) https://digital.library.pitt.edu/isla...​ History of the Communist Party of the United States by William Z. Foster (1952) http://williamzfoster.blogspot.com/​ Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st...​ Guidelines on the Organizational Structure of Communist Parties, on the Methods and Content of their Work by the Third Congress of the Communist International (1921) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/third...​ PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/​ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/​ Timecode Key: (Q&A) = Question & Answer(s) 0:00​ Introduction 1:20​ 1960s world Communist movement 3:18​ Sino-Soviet split? (Q&A) 7:52​ Tito & Hoxha 11:03​ Marshall Plan & Nonaligned Movement? (Q&A) 14:56​ Truth of Marshall Plan? (Q&A) 15:35​ Role of McCarthyism 19:08​ Communist mass organizations 23:19​ New left started from scratch 23:54​ List of "subversive organizations" 25:43​ Communist success 26:26​ Old archives? (Q&A) 29:45​ William L. Patterson 30:53​ Proletarion internationalism? (Q&A) 35:36​ "Anti-communist" cartoon 36:16​ CIO & Communists 37:24​ Concluding words 39:38​ Ending panel

Please enjoy the second part of a two-part PSMLS series on a Q&A session with the General Secretary of the Party of Communists USA, Dr. Angelo D'Angelo. We hope that picking this comrade's brain allows you to learn something new. Enjoy listening! Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Watch the Series: Part 1: https://youtu.be/bnDGXYcjrPc​ No Literature Used In This Class Recommended Literature: Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st...​ Guidelines on the Organizational Structure of Communist Parties, on the Methods and Content of their Work by the Third Congress of the Communist International (1921) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/third...​ Dialectical and Historical Materialism by J.V. Stalin (1938) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-sta...​ The Crisis in the Socialist Party by William Z. Foster (1936) https://digital.library.pitt.edu/isla...​ Ending Song: DPRK National Anthem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VovFa...​ PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/​ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/​ Timecode Key: (Q&A) = Question & Answer(s) 0:00​ Introduction 0:20​ CPUSA vs. PCUSA? (Q&A) 2:37​ PCUSA, WWP, & DSA? (Q&A) 4:06​ PCUSA distinguishing features? 7:19​ CPUSA ideological decay 10:30​ CPUSA deserted the workers 10:58​ Tightrope analogy 11:38​ CPUSA & anti-Leninism 17:28​ Impact of 1991 17:56​ RCP? (Q&A) 22:24​ Tales of CP revisionism 25:10​ Actions over words 25:45​ RCP & COC? (Q&A) 28:09​ Global optimism 29:41​ PCUSA guiding principle? (Q&A) 31:19​ Why PCUSA? (Q&A) 37:21​ Conclusion

Please enjoy a rough historical outline for the lineage of the Party of Communists USA. Communist roots run deep, and it's important for us to be aware of where we've been so we can better understand where we're going. Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Literature Used In This Class: N/A Recommended Literature: The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet...​ Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st...​ Guidelines on the Organizational Structure of Communist Parties, on the Methods and Content of their Work by the Third Congress of the Communist International (1921) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/third...​ History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow...​ History of the Communist Party of the United States by William Z. Foster (1952) http://williamzfoster.blogspot.com/​ Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster (1932) http://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/...​ PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/​ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/​ Timecode Key: (Q&A) = Question & Answer / Response 0:00​ Intro 0:50​ PCUSA historical outline 4:36​ "ML" Communist Parties? 5:55​ U.S. propaganda machine 6:22​ "ML" Parties still anti-Soviet? (Q&A) 9:04​ Comintern of a New Type? (Q&A) 14:00​ More PCUSA historical outline 17:12​ Communist splits 18:50​ Perestroika & the black market 21:09​ Role of Khrushchev 23:37​ Learning from mistakes 24:15​ Opportunists & revisionists in power? (Q&A) 27:14​ The house that Stalin built 28:24​ Ideological decay 29:29​ China & Bukharin 31:37​ Conclusion

The People's School for Marxist-Leninist studies presents a vital class on the events that took place at the U.S. Capitol building on January 6th, 2021. This class features readings from Michael Parenti, William Z. Foster, and Clara Zetkin. Listen and enjoy. Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Watch the United Front Series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK7Ae...​ Literature Used In This Class: Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti (1997) https://eastsidemarxism.files.wordpre...​ The History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) https://www.bannedthought.net/USA/CPU...​ The Struggle Against Fascism by Clara Zetkin (1923) https://www.marxists.org/archive/zetk...​ Recommended Literature: The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet...​ Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st...​ Guidelines on the Organizational Structure of Communist Parties, on the Methods and Content of their Work by the Third Congress of the Communist International (1921) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/third...​ The United Front: The Struggle Against Fascism And War by Georgi Dimitrov (1938) http://resistir.info/livros/dimitrov_...​ The Way Out by Earl Browder https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow...​ PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/​ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/​ Timecode key: (Q&A) = Question and answer 0:00​ Historical comparisons to Capitol Hill event 2:42​ Introduction 2:55​ “Blackshirts and Reds” reading (ch.1) 4:13​ “What Fascism Is” by William Z Foster (reading) 7:27​ Revolt of the middle class 8:07​ Velvet glove vs. iron fist 9:15​ Social Democrats leading to fascism? (Q&A) 11:14​ What can we do? (Q&A) 12:26​ Clarification on social Democrats question (Q&A) 14:04​ Our immediate enemy 15:13​ How do we clarify neoliberalism vs. fascism? (Q&A) 17:41​ Technocracy 18:16​ The role of the police? (Q&A) 20:23​ Reactionary focus 21:06​ “Struggle Against Fascism” by Clara Zetkin (reading) 23:03​ Fascism's mass character (reading) 26:02​ Marxism Leninism as a science 26:21​ Recruitment tactics of fascists 27:03​ Understanding fascism 27:35​ How can we redirect the revolutionary energy (Q&A) 28:27​ Let them sabotage themselves 29:10​ Decay of capitalism 29:56​ PB statement PCUSA 33:04​ Importance of United front 35:21​ Definition of fascism 36:24​ Who should be included in the United front (Q&A) 37:49​ How do we enact a United front (Q&A) 39:40​ Imperialist elements 40:14​ American anti-communist propaganda 40:58​ Good tactic 41:37​ 1923 attempted coup comparison 42:46​ Careful analysis 43:47​ Defenders of bourgeois democracy 44:16​ Overestimating the situation 45:17​ American fascist campaigns 46:23​ Be prepared 47:12​ Must not be dogmatic 47:45​ Proper response? (Q&A) 49:23​ Importance of ideology 50:14​ Proper banner for activism? (Q&A) 52:05​ Great task 52:28​ Our message 53:17​ A milestone for American fascism 53:58​ Get our views out 54:57​ Relationship with Joe Biden's administration? (Q&A) 56:37​ Media's view 57:34​ Difference between republicans and democrats 58:42​ Read Dimitrov

Please enjoy the second part of a five-part PSMLS series covering the history of the American Communist Movement, with the obvious international context necessary to comprehend its development. You probably know a lot about the C.P.S.U., but how much do you know about American Communist history? We hope you learn something new! Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Watch the Series: Part 1: https://youtu.be/qt-UtQrvJmU Part 3: https://youtu.be/0B7NBjMz9ms Part 4: https://youtu.be/rC47mjz5Xqk Part 5: https://youtu.be/TGm63bqqLBA No Literature Used In This Class Recommended Literature: History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow... History of the Communist Party of the United States by William Z. Foster (1952) http://williamzfoster.blogspot.com/ The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet... Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster (1932) http://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/... Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st... Guidelines on the Organizational Structure of Communist Parties, on the Methods and Content of their Work by the Third Congress of the Communist International (1921) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/third... PSMLS Website: http://peoplesschool.org/contact/ Party of Communists USA Website: https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/ Timecode Key: (Q&A) = Question & Answer/Response 0:00 Introduction 0:45 Communist Youth Groups 4:38 Old vs. New Left 5:59 Robert F. Williams 7:13 Sino-Soviet Split? (Q&A) 9:10 Chicago 7 & SDS? (Q&A) 12:37 Changes in the U.S.A. 14:12 More Old vs. New Left 18:01 SDS and Marxism 22:38 New Left & the U.S.S.R. 24:58 SDS & Weather Underground? (Q&A) 26:58 Superstructure vs. Base? (Q&A) 28:47 Dialectics & the New Left 30:40 SDS & Occupy Wall St.? (Q&A) 32:02 Historical Context 32:35 SDS experience 32:59 SDS & the Draft 33:14 More Dialectics & the New Left 33:32 Staten Island Closure? (Q&A) 34:14 Chicano movement 34:57 Conclusion