Podcast Mass Struggle

[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 c…

Former Revolutionary Marxist Students, Audrey and Lenni, discuss their recent article on the Teamsters Mobilize Vote No campaign, the ways in which the Tentative Agreement and the Teamsters for a Democratic Union leadership betrays UPS workers and the entire working class, how opportunists misguide the workers in their struggle against their oppres…

Jacki and Rajeeb of Revolutionary Marxist Students introduce us to the thinking and methods of struggle behind this revolutionary student organization. We discuss the importance of revolutionary theory for a revolutionary movement, the role of education institutions in bourgeois society, the role of the student movement in a proletarian socialist r…

In a struggle against the right opportunism of AF3IRM's leadership--a US-based, women's organization that focuses particularly on the violence of the sex trade--numerous members split from the organization and now aim to start a new, revolutionary proletarian feminist organization. Gigi, Feroz, Esperanza and Jacqui join me to discuss the failures o…

Adrian and Arty from Dare to Struggle join me to discuss the organization's recent summation of their organizing against privatization in NYC. Be sure to read the summation, check out Dare to Struggle on instagram (@daretostrugglenyc), and link up with them in NYC here! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggle Follow Mass Struggle on …

This episode is a reading and reflection on section I--"Self-Criticism"--of The Work of the April Joint Plenum of the Central Committee and Central Control Commission. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggle Follow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePod Follow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@gm…

This episode is a reading of "The Meaning of Imperialism" by Jose Maria Sison from Selected Readings from the Works of Jose Maria Sison. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggle Follow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePod Follow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@gmail.com Support the show…

This episode is a reading of and reflection on a 10th Party Congress document (1921) of the Communist Party of Russia on party building that discusses the Bolshevik's experience pertaining to changing conditions that consequently determined the form of organization, methods of work and primacy of tasks. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/mas…

This episode is a reading and reflection on "The Mass Line" by the Communist Party of Peru (PCP). Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggle Follow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePod Follow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@gmail.com Support the show…

Today we learn about the campaign to Defend Ka Louie! We speak with Ka Luis Jalandoni, Chief International Representative of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and Senior Advisor to the NDFP Negotiating Panel; Coni Ledesma, member of the NDFP Negotiating Panel and MAKIBAKA International Representative; Eevee, member of the Glob…

This is a brief assessment of US society following the American Revolution of 1776, the War of 1812 and the Civil War, as well as the character of each war. DM me on Instagram or email me if you want to sign up for the Sunday Nov. 20th or Saturday Dec. 3rd Organizing 101 Trainings/Workshops! Free resources and Support the how: https://www.patreon.c…

This episode is a brief introduction to communist organizing! Outline: 1. Basic Principles for Organizing 2. Sectors, Territories and Contact Making 3. An Organizing Conversation 4. The Mass Campaign 5. Workshop it! Support the showBởi Mass Struggle

This episode is a reflection on the role legal democratic organizations will play in our party building and united front work, the relationship between the legal democratic and open revolutionary mass organizations, and on right and "left" opportunism in legal democratic organizations. 1. Why must we build the party through united front work? 2. Ho…

We do a little US history today with Too Black, writer, organizer and co-host of the Black Myths Pod. We discuss the history of the Deacons for Defense and Justice, then Too Black tells us about the current organizing effort concerning the Pendleton 2 who participated in the Indiana Prisoner Rebellion of 1985. SEND 2 LETTERS TO FREE THE PENDLETON 2…

This episode is an investigation into the question of people's war or protracted people's war in the capitalist and capitalist-imperialist countries. I argue against the universality of protracted people's war and for the strategy of people's war, or people's revolutionary civil war, for the industrial capitalist and imperialist metropoles. "Proble…

At the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, the Executive Committee adopted this appendix to the Theses on Comintern Tactics in December, 1922. This episode is a reading of Theses on the United Front. Access free resources and support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggle Follow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePod Follo…

This episode is a reflection on Urban Perspective by CPI (Maoist). Access additional, free resources and support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggle Follow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePod Follow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@gmail.com Support the show…

This episode is part three to a three-part series on Charles Bettleheim's Class Struggles in the USSR, First Period: 1917-1923. Check out the summary of each section of this book on our Mass Struggle patreon for free. Part Three discusses the development of the relations between the party and the masses towards the end of and after the civil war, t…

This episode is part one to a three-part series on Charles Bettleheim's Class Struggles in the USSR, First Period: 1917-1923. Check out the summary of each section of this book on our Mass Struggle patreon for free. Part One discusses the class contradictions of Russia on the eve of 1917, socialism as a period of transition and continued class stru…

This episode is part two of our three-part series on Charles Bettleheim's Class Struggles in the USSR, First Period: 1917-1923. Check out the summary of each section of this book on our Mass Struggle patreon for free. Part Two discusses the development and movement of the contradictions between the party and the peasantry and the party and the prol…

This episode is a reflection on "On Correcting Mistaken Ideas in the Party" by Mao Tse-tung. Mentioned: Constructive Criticism: A Handbook, by Gracie Lyons. Access additional, free resources or support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggle Follow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePod Follow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod…

This episode is an 11-point reflection generated from my reading of comrade Ajith's essay "The Vanguard in the 21st Century" found in Of Concepts and Methods: 'On Postisms' and Other Essays. Access additional, free resources or support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggle Follow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePod Follow Mass Str…

This episode is a reading and reflection on chapter seven of The Mass Line and the American Revolutionary Movement, "The Initiative, Creativity and Ideas of the Masses," by Scott Harrison. Access free bonus material or support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggle Follow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePod Follow Mass Struggle on …

This episode is a reading of and reflection on Where Do Correct Ideas Come From? by Mao Zedong. Support the show and access free bonus material: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggle Follow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePod Follow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@gmail.com Support the show…

This episode is a reading and reflection on chapter six of The Mass Line and the American Revolutionary Movement, "Have Faith in the Masses." Support the show and access free bonus material: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggle Follow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePod Follow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email us: massstrugg…

(This episode was previously released on the Faith and Capital podcast). In this episode, Chase reads through and comments on Section III of the Communist Party of the Philippines' (CPP) course Activist Study (ARAK): The Mass Line. This text is a great introduction for people who want study the mass line and develop mass work. It accessibly follows…

This episode is a reading and reflection on chapter five of The Mass Line and the American Revolutionary Movement, "Who Are the Masses?" Support the show and access free bonus material: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggle Follow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePod Follow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email us: massstrugglepod…

This episode is a reading and reflection on chapter four of The Mass Line and the American Revolutionary Movement, "Misconceptions and Distortions of the Mass Line." Support the show and access free bonus material: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggle Follow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePod Follow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStruggle…

This episode is a reading and reflection on chapter three of The Mass Line and the American Revolutionary Movement, "A Quick Overview of the Mass Line." Support the show and access free bonus material: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggle Follow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePod Follow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email us:…

This episode is a reflection on Joseph Stalin's Dialectical and Historical Materialism. (this episode was previously released for the Faith and Capital podcast) Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggle Follow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePod Follow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email us: massstrugglepod@gmail.…

This episode is a reading of and reflection on "Liberal Feminism," a chapter from Anuradha Ghandy's Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement. (this episode was previously released for the Faith and Capital podcast) Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggle Follow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePod Follow Mass Struggle on…

This episode is a reflection on Karl Marx's Wage Labour and Capital. (this episode was previously released for the Faith and Capital podcast) Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggle Follow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePod Follow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email us: massstrugglepod@gmail.com Graphic Design:…

This episode is a reflection on Rosa Luxemburg's Reform or Revolution? (this episode was previously released for the Faith and Capital podcast) Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggle Follow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePod Follow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email us: massstrugglepod@gmail.com Graphic Desig…

This episode is a reflection on "MASS WORK," a document for cadre members of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) written during a rectification campaign in the 1990s. (this episode was previously released for the Faith and Capital podcast) Find the text here: https://massline.info/ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggle Fol…

This episode is a reflection on Friedrich Engles's Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. (this episode was previously released for the Faith and Capital podcast) Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggle Follow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePod Follow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email us: massstrugglepod@gmail.co…

Welcome to Mass Struggle, a podcast on revolutionary theory for revolutionary practice. I'm a student and practitioner of revolutionary communism and am using this as a means of promoting the practical and theoretical power of marxism-leninism-maoism. The podcast will consist of personal commentaries, reflections and readings on revolutionary texts…