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 […]
The American secular religion may be a steadfast belief in the potency of bourgeois democracy, but today the youth are by and large non-believers. Those who retain hope for the prospects of politics increasingly recognize the centrality of alternative forms of struggle. As Ricardo Soto demonstrates in “Political Disengagement among the Young,” Generation Z is the generation most open to […]
Dear comrade, Do we want another four years of Donald Trump in the White House? This is the question we should be asking ourselves as we prepare to vote on November 3. Millions have already answered and are getting ready to vote Trump out. Others are not so sure they want to cast a vote for the Biden-Harris ticket or anyone else. But this is no time […]
The attempted police murder of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, cannot be tolerated! It highlights the culture of systemic racism that has pervaded the United States since even before its founding. The police once again tried to execute a Black man and instead triggered a series of events through their own brutal actions. Violence brings resistance: a person of power […]
By Jamal Rich The supposedly “revolutionary” (even so-called Marxist!) books on the colony analogy, now in mass circulation, were written by white radicals who have abandoned the struggle against racism, and by Black radicals who seek rhetorical shortcuts to liberation.1 By portraying Black people collectively in the U.S. as a colony, these radicals assist the ruling class’s aim of diverting the […]
By CJ Atkins Recently, there seems to have developed a certain anxiety on the part of some party members concerning the rising fortunes of social democracy in our country. In a few pre-convention discussion pieces and in comments made at various national meetings, worries have been expressed that the CPUSA is not doing enough to differentiate itself from social democrats. […]
Written by Maicol David After the first three rounds of “Super Tuesday” which followed Bernie Sanders’ victories in the Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada primaries/caucuses, it has become clear that a majority of primary voters believe that Joe Biden is the best candidate to defeat Donald Trump in the November 2020 elections. Unfortunately, the youth vote is being blamed for […]
Written by Emily Kerreman “Everyone thinks they’re a communist when they’re your age.” “When you grow up, you’ll understand how the world really works.” “It’s so funny to hear kids defending socialism.” Young Communists like myself hear no shortage of comments like these. Surely, people tell us, the system will make more sense when we’re older. Surely we’re socialists only […]