Editor’s note: To celebrate Chairman Gonzalo on his birthday, we present a small collection of poetry and literature dedicated to him. Many of these are written by new writers who have not been featured on Struggle Sessions before as a showcase of the new voices of those in the US who are producing art in …
Continue reading For Chairman Gonzalo Pt. 3: Poetry and Literature Collection
By the Struggle Sessions Editorial Board Friends and readers of the Struggle Sessions Journal,The first edition of the Struggle Sessions print journal will be ready for pre-order by the end of this month, and we will begin shipping the first edition soon afterwards. This will come with a simple web store to order the print …
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By the Struggle Sessions Editorial Board Within a week of the murder of Chairman Gonzalo by the Peruvian state, while class-conscious workers across the world immortalized him as the greatest communist of the current era, the American magazine Jacobin published a hit-piece on the Chairman that seeks to erase and nullify his leadership and legacy. …
Introduction By Facundo For all students of Maoism, for all who follow the words of Chairman Gonzalo, we do ourselves a great service by studying the documents in “For the New Flag” by the Communist Party of Peru, which are presented below. Readers should take special interest in these documents because they were written after …
Editor’s Note: We publish here an unofficial translation of the epitaph for Chairman Gonzalo which opens the document, found on pukainti.blogspot.com here, titled: HA MUERTO EL PRESIDENTE GONZALO¡LA CLASE Y PUEBLOS OPRIMIDOS DEL MUNDO ESTAMOS DE LUTO Y EN PIE DE GUERRA! Eagle of eagles, old red sun, comrade, chairman, under a red sky, among …
Author’s Note: Dedicated to Chairman Gonzalo, who was assassinated after being imprisoned for 29 years on September 11, 2021, by the old Peruvian state with its intentional medical neglect and slow and steady torture. Chairman Gonzalo was the head of the red line of the International Communist Movement and the Great Leader of the Communist …
by S Mazur “With this general prosperity in which the productive forces of bourgeois society are developing so luxuriantly, as much as this is at all possible within the limits of bourgeois relations, there can be no question of a real revolution. Such a revolution is only possible in those periods where these two characters, …
Continue reading The Historical Development of the U.S. Proletariat: A Rebuff of J Sakai’s Settlers
Editor’s Note: We publish below an unofficial translation of the notes on a 1987 lecture on the history of philosophy by Chairman Gonzalo, retrieved from VND-Peru.blogspot.com. The lecture was originally published by VND Peru as part of their celebration of 200 Years of Karl Marx in 2018. We translate it and publish it here because …
Continue reading Chairman Gonzalo’s Philosophy Seminar (Notes 1987)
By an anonymous contributor Editor’s Note: This text reproduces some poems and presents biographical information of the Bulgarian revolutionary and writer Nikola Vaptsarov. We hope that this will serve as an introduction to his life and work for our readers, demonstrating the connection between life in the class struggle and art operative for the revolutionary …
Continue reading Introduction to The Partisan Poetry of Nikola Vaptsarov
by Kavga The ravings of reactionaries generally do enough to condemn themselves and so do not require the intellectual engagement of the left, in fact deserving only direct physical and ideological confrontation. In the case of Jordan Peterson however, his hallmark tactic of attacking Marxism by conflating it with postmodernism merits some examination as this …
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