Mass Struggle

Summer Study and Personal Theoretical Development

In addition to inviting you to join in on a profoundly inspiring educational opportunity, I reflect on what I think have been some some pretty major weaknesses in Mass Struggle. Join the Revolutionary Marxist Students comrades for a summer study, totally online (except where in-person is available!). Facilitators from all schools and chapters will be leading up this 6-week course. This study is not just for students, but is for workers too! Contact RMS as soon as possible at RMSNC@disroot.org. Follow RMS on Instagram: @marxist_students [https://www.instagram.com/marxist_students/?hl=en] Support Mass Struggle: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggle [https://www.patreon.com/massstruggle] Follow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePod [https://www.instagram.com/massstrugglepod/] Follow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod [https://twitter.com/massstrugglepod] Contact me: massstrugglepod@protonmail.com Music: Space Baby [https://open.spotify.com/artist/1roZzwVIoXtBF97g4TImeL] is a revolutionary wrapper and artist. Intro/Outro: "Mount Tai" [https://open.spotify.com/track/3iUmRdfQSw1NDzy7Xov2Wo] Support the show [https://ww.patreon.com/massstruggle]

Labor Militants: the Trade Union Educational League (TUEL)

[Repost from Revolutionary Left Radio] - This episode aims to serve as an introduction to the Trade Union Educational League (TUEL) which was the vehicle through which the communists in the U.S. from 1920-1935 aimed to base themselves amongst the proletariat and transform the labor movement into, as Marx said, an "organizing centre of the working class for its broad interest of complete emancipation." We focus particularly on the TUEL's activity from 1920-1929. Topics discussed are the need for revolutionary theory for a revolutionary movement, the role of the industrial proletariat in a proletarian socialist struggle, the shortcomings of William Z. Foster's prior two syndicalist leagues that operated from 1912-1917, and the work of TUEL militants in the mining, needle trades, and textile industries. Interested in studying Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and applying Marxism to the labor movement? Contact us: aj5284@proton.me [aj5284@proton.me]; LenniM17@proton.me [LenniM17@proton.me]; massstrugglepod@protonmail.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggle [https://www.patreon.com/massstruggle] Follow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePod [https://www.instagram.com/massstrugglepod/] Follow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod [https://twitter.com/massstrugglepod] Email: massstrugglepod@protonmail.com Music: Space Baby [https://open.spotify.com/artist/1roZzwVIoXtBF97g4TImeL] is a revolutionary wrapper and artist. Intro/Outro: "Mount Tai" [https://open.spotify.com/track/3iUmRdfQSw1NDzy7Xov2Wo] Support the show [https://ww.patreon.com/massstruggle]

Vote No: UPS Struggle and Marxist Labor Organizing

Former Revolutionary Marxist Students, Audrey and Lenni, discuss their recent article [https://cosmonautmag.com/2023/08/the-ups-struggle-and-the-tasks-of-marxists-in-the-labor-movement/] on the Teamsters Mobilize Vote No campaign, the ways in which the Tentative Agreement and the Teamsters for a Democratic Union leadership betrays UPS workers and the entire working class, how opportunists misguide the workers in their struggle against their oppressors, and what the tasks of Marxist in the labor movement are today. Find the article here: https://cosmonautmag.com/2023/08/the-ups-struggle-and-the-tasks-of-marxists-in-the-labor-movement/ [https://cosmonautmag.com/2023/08/the-ups-struggle-and-the-tasks-of-marxists-in-the-labor-movement/] Contact Audrey and Lenni by emailing them at: aj5284@proton.me [aj5284@proton.me]; LenniM17@proton.me [LenniM17@proton.me] Check out Revolutionary Marxist Student's journal Red Horizon: https://marxiststudents.wordpress.com/red-horizon/ [https://marxiststudents.wordpress.com/red-horizon/] Read William Z. Foster's From Bryan to Stalin: https://www.bannedthought.net/USA/CPUSA/WZFoster/WZFoster-FromBryanToStalin-1937-OCR-sm1.pdf [https://www.bannedthought.net/USA/CPUSA/WZFoster/WZFoster-FromBryanToStalin-1937-OCR-sm1.pdf] Listen to Space Baby's "Vote No": https://open.spotify.com/album/1FNUwy7li7s6uiIEVyJmFC?si=JRSFH4FFQNmsKV8hvfYQWA [https://open.spotify.com/album/1FNUwy7li7s6uiIEVyJmFC?si=JRSFH4FFQNmsKV8hvfYQWA] Support the show [https://ww.patreon.com/massstruggle]

Revolutionary Marxist Students

Jacki and Rajeeb of Revolutionary Marxist Students introduce us to the thinking and methods of struggle behind this revolutionary student organization. We discuss the importance of revolutionary theory for a revolutionary movement, the role of education institutions in bourgeois society, the role of the student movement in a proletarian socialist revolution, how to do united front work as maoists, why students must be organized to participate in struggle, and the role of their theoretical journal, Red Horizon, in their organizing and educating of students. Follow RMS on instagram: @marxist_students [https://www.instagram.com/marxist_students/] Website: https://marxiststudents.wordpress.com [https://marxiststudents.wordpress.com] Sign the Petition: https://noimperialistrecruitment.wordpress.com [https://noimperialistrecruitment.wordpress.com] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggle [https://www.patreon.com/massstruggle] Follow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePod [https://www.instagram.com/massstrugglepod/] Follow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod [https://twitter.com/massstrugglepod]  Email: massstrugglepod@gmail.com Support the show [https://ww.patreon.com/massstruggle]

Towards a Proletarian Feminist Organization: the Split from AF3IRM

In a struggle against the right opportunism of AF3IRM's leadership--a US-based, women's organization that focuses particularly on the violence of the sex trade--numerous members split from the organization and now aim to start a new, revolutionary proletarian feminist organization. Gigi, Feroz, Esperanza and Jacqui join me to discuss the failures of AF3IRM's leadership and what a new proletarian feminist organization might look like. Read the summation and criticism here! [https://proletarianfeminist.medium.com/our-split-from-af3irm-shedding-light-on-our-issues-to-encourage-our-growth-towards-a-real-76cd1bcae395] Questions: 1. What was the fundamental two line struggle that emerged within AF3IRM? 2. What are some of the ways in which right opportunism is manifested within both AF3IRM and SEIU? 3. How could a scientific, materialist and communist analysis of nationality and race have prevented AF3IRM's mishandling of questions that arose internally around white supremacy and membership? 4. How do we combat economism while also linking up with the masses in the day-to-day struggles, whether it be in a women's organization or a labor organization? 5. What does keeping politics in command mean to you? 6. In light of the errors of leadership being bourgeois commandism and ultra-democracy, what does correct leadership look like? 7. What's the purpose of internal and open line struggle? 8. What does critiquing choice feminism beyond the sex trade look like? 9. Why must all of our organizations center class struggle in our fight against all forms of exploitation and oppression? Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggle [https://www.patreon.com/massstruggle] Follow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePod [https://www.instagram.com/massstrugglepod/] Follow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod [https://twitter.com/massstrugglepod]  Email: massstrugglepod@gmail.com Support the show [https://ww.patreon.com/massstruggle]