October 1st – Communism vs Fascism Join the PSMLS as we read passages from Communism vs Fascism by former CPUSA General Secretary William Z. Foster. Cold War Propaganda, which began with monopoly media moguls like William Randolph Hearst, who knew the American working class hated fascist barbarism, tried to obfuscate the working class and pro-democracy […]
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September 24th – Zionism and Communism Join the PSMLS as we look at the history of Communism and Zionism. While we do not support Zionism, as it is a reactionary bourgeois ideology, it is important to look at the history of when Communists worked in coalition with more left-leaning Zionist elements and what tactical and
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September 17th – Belarus: the Last Soviet Republic Join the Peoples School at 8 pm EST on Tuesday, September 17th as we discuss the history of Belarus after the treacherous counter-revolution of 1991 which illegally broke up the USSR. We will discuss the politics, government, Party, and the situation in Belarus during the 1990s. Please join
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September 10th – This Monstrous War Join the Peoples School at 8 pm EST on Tuesday, September 10th as we explore Australian Journalist Wilfred Burchett’s This Monstrous War documenting the history of the liberation of the Korean Peninsula from Imperial Japan, the occupation of the South by the United States, and the brutal fascist dictatorship
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August 27th – Molotov-Ribbentropp Pact Join the Peoples School at 8 pm EST on Tuesday, August 27th as we discuss the Molotov Ribbentropp Pact. It is a commonly confused concept. Bourgeois educational and cultural institutions generally claim that the Molotov-Ribbentropp Non-Aggression Pact was an alliance between Nazi Germany and Soviet Union in their “shared conquest
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August 20th – Fascism and Social Revolution – Book by R. Palme Dutt Join us on August 20th as we read excerpts from the book Fascism and Social Revolution by R. Palme Dutt provided to us by New Outlook Publishers. We will discuss the Communist definition of fascism and what its defining features are. We
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August 13th – The Panama Canal and its Role in Imperialism. PSMLS in collaboration with the Cervantes Fraternal Society (cervantesfs.org). Tonight, we will be working together with the Cervantes Fraternal Society to discuss a brief history of the Panama Canal. We will discuss how and why Panama broke off from Greater Colombia in the late
Harry Bridges was an Australian but moved to the US and became one of the most prolific trade unionists in US history. He along with the Communist Party led the Great San Francisco General Strike. In this class, PSMLS joins with Harry Bridges School of Labor to explore more of his life in labor. Please join
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Ultra-leftism and Petty-Bourgeois Radicalism has the tendency to disrupt Communist Parties. This phenomenon is not a new one but has existed during the days of Marx and later Lenin. These movements have individualism at their heart. Please join us tonight at 8 pm EST/5 pm PST to learn more. Next week’s class will be a
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The Comintern of 1935 tasked all Communists to become the patriots of their countries against fascism. We will focus on the campaign led by the Daily Worker journalist Lester Rodney, under the leadership of the Party to make “Communism 20th century Americanism,” by writing in the press, creating YCL-led picketing, and collecting petitions to integrate
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