Fuck Yeah Marxism-Leninism

A Communist should have largeness of mind and he should be staunch and active, looking upon the interests of the revolution as his very life and subordinating his personal interests to those of the revolution; always and everywhere he should adhere to principle and wage a tireless struggle against all incorrect ideas and actions, so as to consolidate the collective life of the Party and strengthen the ties between the Party and the masses; he should be more concerned about the Party and the masses than about any private person, and more concerned about others than about himself. Only thus can he be considered a Communist.
--Mao Zedong

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Africa & U.S. Imperialism: Post-Colonial Crises and the Imperatives of the African Revolution

By Abayomi Azikiwe
Editor, Pan-African News Wire

Note: The following lecture was delivered at the Africa & U.S. Imperialism Conference held in Detroit on May 18, 2013. The event was sponsored by the Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI) and also featured presentations by Atty. Jeff Edison of the National Conference of Black Lawyers, Dr. Rita Kiki Edozie, Director of African American and African Studies at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Cheick Oumar and Moussa Rimau, two graduate students at MSU from Mali, Tachae J. Davis of Workers World Youth Fraction and a student at Macomb Community College. A special address was delivered by the Venezuelan Consulate in Chicago Jesus Rodriguez Espinoza. To watch the video of the address delivered by the Venezuelan diplomat just click on the website below:
(Part 1)
(Part 2)

May 25, 2013 represents the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the forerunner of the present African Union which formed in 2002. This conference today is taking place at a critical time within the history of Africa and the Diaspora.

Los Angeles: Class and Discussion on Paris Commune of 1871

Friday, May 17 - 7pm to 9pm

Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice, 5278 West Pico Blvd, Los Angeles

142 years ago the workers of Paris took over the city and launched the world’s first workers’ state. The commune lasted 2 1/2 months and although it was drowned in blood when the German capitalist class united with the French bosses, the experience of the Commune validated the theory of class struggle and gave birth to many components of workers’ states that emerged later in history. Join with Workers World activists and others for a brief presentation and open discussion on this amazing development in workers’ history.

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NYC Forum: Poor People’s March & Hands Off Assata
Friday, May 17 - 7pm to 9pm
Solidarity Center, 147 W. 24 St., 2nd Fl., Manhattan
Report on May 11-12 Poor People’s March for Jobs & JusticeHear: Larry Hales, People’s Power Assembly Movement organizer who went to Baltimore to help organize the March to D.C.See video footage of the 41-mile March including a defiant protest at Walmart and rallies. Edited by People’s Video Network.Hands Off Assata Shakur! Video clip from 1997 meeting with Assata at World Youth Festival in Cuba, filmed by late PVN videographer, Key MartinIntroductory remarks by Monica Moorehead, Workers World Managing Editor, who met Assata at the World Youth Forum in Cuba.Sponsored by Workers World PartyDinner @ 6:30 pm for small donation;Presentations @ 7 pmFor info: 212-627-2994http://www.workers.org/

NYC Forum: Poor People’s March & Hands Off Assata

Friday, May 17 - 7pm to 9pm

Solidarity Center, 147 W. 24 St., 2nd Fl., Manhattan

Report on May 11-12 Poor People’s March for Jobs & Justice

Hear: Larry Hales, People’s Power Assembly Movement organizer who went to Baltimore to help organize the March to D.C.

See video footage of the 41-mile March including a defiant protest at Walmart and rallies. Edited by People’s Video Network.

Hands Off Assata Shakur!

Video clip from 1997 meeting with Assata at World Youth Festival in Cuba, filmed by late PVN videographer, Key Martin

Introductory remarks by Monica Moorehead, Workers World Managing Editor, who met Assata at the World Youth Forum in Cuba.

Sponsored by Workers World Party
Dinner @ 6:30 pm for small donation;
Presentations @ 7 pm

For info: 212-627-2994
http://www.workers.org/

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Harlem, New York: “Hands Off Assata Shakur” protest called by the Black Is Back Coalition, May 9, 2013.

Photos by Ken Bleezewalker

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Buffalo, N.Y.: Class on Marxism and Anarchism
Wednesday, May 22 - 6pm to 9pm
IAC Office, 367 Delaware Ave (near Tupper), upstairs
A class will be held which will outline the history of and interplay between the two main currents in socialist ideology, Marxism and Anarchism. The object is both to provide historical and ideological understanding and to connect this understanding to the real political conditions here in Buffalo, in the US and in the world generally. Active discussion is encouraged, as is representation from multiple political tendencies.

Buffalo, N.Y.: Class on Marxism and Anarchism

Wednesday, May 22 - 6pm to 9pm

IAC Office, 367 Delaware Ave (near Tupper), upstairs

A class will be held which will outline the history of and interplay between the two main currents in socialist ideology, Marxism and Anarchism. The object is both to provide historical and ideological understanding and to connect this understanding to the real political conditions here in Buffalo, in the US and in the world generally. Active discussion is encouraged, as is representation from multiple political tendencies.

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Houston, Texas: People demonstrate against the U.S. government’s $2 million bounty on Black freedom fighter Assata Shakur, who has lived in exile in Cuba since 1994. May 14, 2013

“If the U.S. wants to find terrorists, look in the mirror!”

Photos by Gloria Rubac

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Imperialists are behind escalated attacks on Syria

By David Sole

Despite the open and obvious controlling hand of the U.S. and other imperialist powers behind the Syrian opposition, some claiming to be on the “left” continue to call for support of the rebels. The Syrian protest movement may have begun with genuine grievances and goals. But the armed opposition to the Syrian government has clearly become an imperialist intervention to overthrow a government that long has been unwilling to submit to Washington and Israel.

A manifesto issued by a so-called “Global Campaign of Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution” was published on May 1 in the Socialist Worker, organ of the International Socialist Organization in the United States. Its demands echo those of the U.S. government and its NATO allies. They say the departure of President Bashar al-Assad and the victory of the “rebels” would “begin a speedy recovery towards a democratic future.” But where in the world has imperialism brought benefits to the colonized people?

Cheered as it reaches Washington: Poor People’s March sets new goals for struggle

By Monica Moorehead

Washington, D.C. — The second day of the Poor People’s March for Jobs and Justice, May 12, began with excitement as 13 young people, who had been walking all night from Baltimore, met up with the main group just 10 miles north of Washington. The 13 were activists from the Occupy movements of Baltimore, Washington and New York.

The people who had started marching the previous morning greeted the overnight marchers with cheers, applause and a welcoming speech by Larry Holmes, one of the leaders of the national campaign. Together, the two groups — about 100 people — then marched the last segment of the 41-mile trek from Baltimore to Washington, D.C.

Those able to stay in Washington ended the march with a strategy session to discuss future actions. Rev. Witherspoon and Sharon Black, a leader of the campaign from Baltimore, raised three proposals, all of which were greeted with enthusiastic applause.

1. To hold a national tribunal on police terror (in a place not decided yet). It would be both a gathering in person and a speak-out via the internet.

2. To demand a hearing in the U.S. Congress on police brutality in the United States.

3. To support the OUR Walmart upcoming week of activities from May 28 to June 7, which include a march to Walmart’s Bentonville, Ark., corporate offices, and will culminate in a call for a strike of the underpaid Walmart workers and a demand for unionization.

Poor People’s March from Baltimore to Washington, D.C., May 11-12, 2013.

More than 150 people participated in the Poor People’s March from Baltimore to Washington, D.C. in commemoration of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign organized by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The march focused on police brutality and terror — more than 300 Black people were killed by police and vigilantes in 2012 — and the widespread poverty, unemployment and desperation. People gathered at the site in Baltimore where Anthony Anderson Sr. was so brutalized by the police he died of his injuries. The 41 mile march went through Baltimore to Freedom Plaza in D.C.

Photos by Brenda Sandburg

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Demonstration against apartheid. by George Cohen New York, New York, United States Apparently May 1, 1977

Demonstration against apartheid.
by George Cohen
New York, New York, United States
Apparently May 1, 1977

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