Translated by Red Phoenix staff. Validity of Karl Marx’s Revolutionary Thought. There are many occasions in which the defenders of capitalism have proclaimed the obsolescence of Marxism and the certain possibility of the triumph of the social revolution of the… Read More ›
Theory
200 Years On from His Birth – May 5th 1818 to May 5th 2018 – WAS MARX ‘RIGHT?’
By Hari Kumar On the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx’s birth, many commemorations of this great man will be made. Even his bourgeois enemies will no doubt acknowledge, how brilliant he was. However, these observers will also label him as… Read More ›
In China, Capitalism is Being Consolidated, Not Socialism
From: En Marcha (Central Organ of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador), November 22, 29, December 5 and 13 2017. Translation by George Gruenthal. During the 1980s, China’s economy was already shifting to “market forces,” a process that deepened with the… Read More ›
EMEP: Speech at the Centenary Celebration of the October Revolution in Paris
Dear comrades and friends, First of all, on behalf of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations (CIPOML) we would like to thank the Workers’ Communist Party of France (PCOF), one of the founding members of our conference, for… Read More ›
21st Century Socialism: A New Theorisation of Old Anti-Marxist Ideas
By Alejandro Rios Originally published as Socialismo de Siglo XXI: Nueva Teorizacion de Viejas Ideas Antimarxistas, Ediciones de la Revolucion Ecuatoriana (Quito, 2008). Originally appeared in English translation in Revolutionary Democracy, Volume XIV, No. 2, September 2008. Introduction The offensive… Read More ›
Why Does the Pseudo-Left Hate Grover Furr?
Grover Furr is an American professor and author. He has taught at Montclair State University in New Jersey for over four decades, and has written essays, articles and books on Soviet history in both Russian and English. Though his body… Read More ›
Editorial: A New Beginning, A Reaffirmed Commitment
“The era of proletarian revolutions has only just begun. The emergence of socialism is a historical necessity emanating from the very development of society. It is inevitable. The counterrevolutions that have occurred, the obstacles that have arisen, may prolong the… Read More ›
Why Marxism-Leninism in the 21st Century United States?
The heightening of the ecological, economic, and social crises of capitalism during the summer of 2017 from Charlottesville to Houston cast a new urgency on the work of the rapidly consolidating left in the United States. As the left reawakens… Read More ›
Claims and Facts About the Right of Nations to Self-determination
Published in Evrensel, 23 October 2017. Reprinted with permission. Claims and facts about the right of nations to self-determination, following the independence referendums in Iraqi Kurdistan and Catalonia. Arif KOŞAR Following the independence referendums in Iraqi Kurdistan and Catalonia, the right… Read More ›
Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution
Join the American Party of Labor; Bayan-USA; the Party of Communists, USA; the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, the Workers World Party, the Party for Socialism and Liberation; the Harlem Coalition Against War, the United National Anti-War Committee; the International Action… Read More ›
The Actuality of Capital After 150 Years
Reprinted with permission of the Labour Party (EMEP), Turkey. Capital, the masterpiece of Karl Marx, the founder of scientific socialism, is 150 years old. The analysis made in the first volume of this work, which was the only published volume… Read More ›
False Equivalency and the Fetishism of Free Speech
In the days following the murder of activist Heather Heyer as a result of the fascist attack in Charlottesville, leftists far and wide correctly condemned the words and actions of the neo-fascist Trump, who explicitly – and repeatedly – declared a… Read More ›
For an American Marxist-Leninist Anti-Fascism
At the 21st International Seminar on Problems of the Revolution in Latin America hosted by the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador in Quito, the American Party of Labor presented a paper on the issue of fascism as one of chief… Read More ›
Capitalism is the Oppression of Women
by Polina Brik The oppression of women is an inevitable component of capitalism. Women experience pervasive sexism and discrimination on a daily basis: lack of identity, harassment, being treated as men’s appendages – our voices are simply neglected. When we… Read More ›
International Platform of the ICMLPO (Unity & Struggle)
The following international platform has been endorsed and adopted by the APL. ON CAPITALISM, THE WORKING CLASS AND THE FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM I. Capitalism and the Working Class 1. Since society has split into classes, the whole of history has… Read More ›