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International Notes: March 22
Brazil: Massive labor demonstration The Communist Party of Brazil (Partido do Comunista do Brasil), supported a labor demonstration held on Wednesday March 15. The ultra right wing president, Michel Temer, whom the communists and left consider illegitimate because of the way he took power after the removal of left-center president Dilma Rousseff last summer, has been rushing through a whole series of measures that seriously hurt the country’s social...
International Notes: March 12
Ecuador: Communist Party Calls for Unity Pact in Runoff Elections The Communist Party of Ecuador is calling for a “unity pact” of progressive and people’s parties and organizations in the lead up to the runoff election for president. They are calling it a “democratic pact for life and for respect for differences”. Outgoing President Rafael Correa, of the Alaniza País party, which the Communist Party supports, is not running for...
Free speech, for-profit speech, and class struggle
How do we interpret "freedom of speech" in the context of class struggle and the fight for equality?
Houston TX party club building a front against Trump
Every other day we're at a demonstration and the movement is growing.
The "urgency of now" in building the democratic resistance
Actions each day affirm that the possibilities to build a broad, democratic movement that can stem the tide are here.
Democracy is key to defeating Trump
The fight for democracy is not a side-show, a tangent separate from “real” resistance to Trump and his ultra-right allies.
International Notes: January 23
Ecuador: Communist Party supporting Alianza Pais candidate The Communist Party of Ecuador is urging its members and friends to get involved in the campaign for the first round of the general election to be held on February 19. The candidate of incumbent president Rafael Correa’s “Alianza Pais” coalition, Lenin Moreno, and his vice presidential running mate, Jorge Glas, whom the communist and other left wing parties support, appear to be...
Marxist Strategy and Tactics: Unity, Resistance, and the Fight for Democracy
Every day, another Cabinet pick; every day, another shock. Trump’s victory has left our movement reeling, trying to figure out how to fight on every front at once. Immigrant rights, LGBTQ equality, environmental protection, collective bargaining, Social Security, reproductive choice, worker rights, civil rights— every piece of the progressive agenda is under attack. Building the resistance will take every bit of our collective knowledge and experience. Please join us for...
International Notes: January 18th
Germany: Communists disapprove ruling on fascists The German Communist Party (Deutsche Kommunistische Partei) has responded to Tuesday’s ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court that the extreme right wing National Democratic Party (NPD, or Nationaldemokratisches Partei Deutschlands) will not be banned. The NDP is a ferociously anti-Semitic, racist and nationalist organization whose leaders’ rhetoric often resembles those of the old National Socialists. It has no federal parliamentary representation but has...