“Once again I repeat that I am not an impartial, objective critic. My judgments are nourished by my ideals, my sentiments, my passions.” − José Carlos Mariátegui. Lima, 1928. We open with this quote from Mariátegui to showcase without question that we are all imprinted with a class bias. We are biased in our advocacy …
Political Economy and Prostitution
stitution January 14, 2019 strugglesessions “On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among the proletarians, and in public prostitution.”—Marx …
New Years Statement from Struggle Sessions
We are a new and growing theoretical journal dedicated firmly to the struggle for a correct ideological grasp of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. We enter 2019 confidently on this basis, taking up our modest post in the world proletarian revolution which soars ever higher in the age of strategic offensive! We reiterate the truth that imperialism, fascism, and …
Women At the Highest Levels
at the Highest Levels December 28, 2018 strugglesessions Women cadres were in the center of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) and made up the majority of its Central Committee at the pinnacle of the People’s War. To keep up with this great tradition, sexism within Communist Parties today must be rebelled against so that women …
Commemorating the 125th anniversary of the birth of Chairman Mao Zedong meands reconstituting the Communsit Party
By Cajeme Iniciador I have long aspired to reach for the clouds And I again ascend Chingkangshan. Coming from afar to view our old haunt, I find new scenes replacing the old. Everywhere orioles sing, swallows dart, Streams babble And the road mounts skyward. Once Huangyangchieh is passed No other perilous place calls for a …
The Dialectic of Peoples War
Chairman Mao teaches us that the world is made up of contradictions, particularly the law of opposites[1]. These two opposites, or the two aspects – one primary, the other secondary – are in constant contention. In all contradictions. This gives the thing – any thing – motion and development. All things cannot remain still and …
Do not Reverse the Verdict: A Tribute to Comrade Joseph Stalin
On the occasion of the 140th birthday of Comrade Stalin, we are reposting this article from Red Guards Austin. “The Central Committee of the CPC pointed out in its letter of June 14 that the “struggle against the personality cult” violates Lenin’s integral teachings on the interrelationship of leaders, party, class, and masses, and undermines …
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Revolutionary Optimism
Revolutionary Optimism “Being communists, we fear nothing. Moreover, our Party has steeled us to challenge death itself, and to carry our life on our fingertips so that we may give it whenever the revolution demands it.” (Chairman Gonzalo, Interview with El Diario, 1988) “On the question of nuclear weapons and nuclear war the second difference …
Without Power
“Salvo el poder todo es ilusiónasaltar los cielos con la fuerza del fusil” Was a slogan sung by the prisoners of Castro Castro Penal, known as one of the toughest prisons in the world. In the 80s and 90s this prison was a shining trench of combat and was under the control of the Communist …
Popular Justice
September 6, 2018 “The Party leads the struggle of the masses in function of Power, which is the principal revindication” — Communist Party of Peru, General Political Line As revolutionaries we are faced with two primary social contradictions differing in nature: those among the people and those between the people and their enemies. In both …
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