“NYPD kills on patrol! How are we going to stop them? Community control!” chanted the crowd following the direction of Jessica Schwartz, an organizer representing the New York Community Action Project. The National Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression (NAARPR) called a “national day of protest” for Saturday, September 19, to demand an immediate stop to police crimes, a complete […]

Step by step we have seen the slave power advancing; poisoning, corrupting, and perverting the institutions of the country; growing more and more haughty, imperious, and exacting. The white man’s liberty has been marked out for the same grave with the black man’s.—Frederick Douglass, “Speech on the Dred Scott Decision,” 1857 “Loud and exultingly have we been told that the […]

One of the perennial debates in the world communist movement is on the issue of coalitions and united fronts: whether communists should participate in them, and if so, how and under what circumstances. A few parties, claiming the communist or Marxist-Leninist title, oppose participating in such cooperative structures. Most, however, taking off from Dimitrov’s 1935 report to the 7th Congress of the […]

“A new constitution will lay the foundations for a massive youth-led movement against neoliberalism in Chile,” said Daniela Serrano, a Chilean communist youth representative on the eve of the 47th anniversary of the overthrow of Salvador Allende’s Popular Unity Government. “We have come so far, but still have so far to go.” On August 29, the Young Communists of Chile […]

By Marc Brodine Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, “November is about defeating fascism.” She’s right. While we shouldn’t take anything Trump says at face value, since he often says things that are lies, distortions, or just outrageous in order to distract, the fact that he has already repeatedly cast doubt on the results of the fall elections is worrisome. He is anxious […]

Ever since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, leftist youth organizations across the world have been in the forefront of both providing relief and resisting attempts to attack the rights of people. An instance of this has been the “Recycle Kerala” initiative launched by the communist Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), which raised over USD 1.4 million to help […]