Mass Struggle
Mass Struggle
Mass Struggle
A podcast on revolutionary theory for revolutionary practice.
Summer Study and Personal Theoretical Development
In addition to inviting you to join in on a profoundly inspiring educational opportunity, I reflect on what I think have been some some pretty major weaknesses in Mass Struggle. Join the Revolutionary Marxist Students comrades for a summer study, totally online (except where in-person is available!). Facilitators from all schools and chapters will be leading up this 6-week course. This study is not just for students, but is for workers too! Contact RMS as soon as possible at [email protected]...
May 26, 2024
28 min
Labor Militants: the Trade Union Educational League (TUEL)
[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 ...
Oct 10, 2023
2 hr 49 min
Vote No: UPS Struggle and Marxist Labor Organizing
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 oppressors, and what the tasks of Marxist in the labor movement are today. Find the article here: https://cosmonautmag.com/2023/08/the-ups-struggle-and-...
Aug 27, 2023
1 hr 48 min
Revolutionary Marxist Students
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 revolution, how to do united front work as maoists, why students must be organized to participate in struggle, and the role of their theoretical jou...
Apr 22, 2023
1 hr 19 min
Towards a Proletarian Feminist Organization: the Split from AF3IRM
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 of AF3IRM's leadership and what a new proletarian feminist organization might look like. Read the summation and criticism here! Questions: What wa...
Feb 26, 2023
1 hr 28 min
Dare To Struggle: Sum It Up
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 instagram: @MassStrugglePod Follow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: [email protected] Support the show
Feb 24, 2023
1 hr 5 min
"Self-Criticism" - Joseph Stalin
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: [email protected] Support the show
Feb 5, 2023
29 min
The Meaning of Imperialism - Jose Maria Sison
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: [email protected] Support the show
Jan 11, 2023
10 min
When the Bolsheviks Militarized the Party
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/massstruggle Follow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePod Follow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@gm...
Jan 4, 2023
34 min
"The Mass Line" - Communist Party of Peru
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: [email protected] Support the show
Dec 26, 2022
46 min
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