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FROM THE FRONTLINES

I Nearly Passed Out … for $75

Rowan Smith, Philadelphia, PA In a matter of minutes, I felt my whole body go numb and my vision cloud over. Like many workkers scraping by while the rich get richer, I needed to make some quick cash to survive. I turned to donating plasma. I knew the process came with a laundry list of potential side effects —one not listed was...

An Encounter with Zohran

Emma W, New York, NY I was heading uptown on the 1 train. The doors opened at a station on the Upper West Side and in stepped Zohran Mamdani, flanked by an assistant and a bunch of security. He was standing right next to me, so I introduced myself. He smiled and nodded when I told him I...

Meeting with YDSA Comrades

Kate Witiak, Philadelphia, PA As communists, we are always happy to engage in common work with other left organizations on points of agreement, and to discuss the best way forward for the movement. In this spirit, I met up with two YDSA members: one was a national staffer with a paid internship position, and the other the co-chair of a university chapter...

How Marxism Helped Me Talk to My MAGA Dad

My dad and I have argued about Trumpism for years with no real progress. I've shown him articles, videos, and evidence to no effect. My angry responses only drove him further away. The Marxist method, however, gave me a different way in: instead of telling him he was wrong, I acted in a patient, systematic, and persistent way. I...

Even Nanna Gets Behind Communism

Douglas County is a pretty "red" place, with mostly retirement-aged folks and country boys. I'm 22 and so far it's just me and my mother who are members of the RCA here. I was at lunch with my girlfriend's parents and her nanna. Her family are all Jehovah's Witnesses. My girlfriend mentioned I sold a newspaper, and I was terrified to talk about it because I wanted to make a good ...

I Visited Cuba. The U.S. Siege Is Barbaric.

Benjamin Esson, The Bronx, NY I visited Cuba twice as an American communist who supports the revolution. I was shocked at the extent of the devastation resulting from the US siege. While last year we experienced four-hour blackouts every day, this time we had just four hours of power a day. Sometimes, none at all. I arrived in the middle...

We Pay for the State’s Negligence

Chris B, Pittsburgh, PA When I was working at a local shelter, an older gentleman approached me with a letter and asked if I could read it as he was unable to due to a stroke. We learned that the Department of Treasury had claimed he owed a debt that must be paid back immediately or he would have his benefits deducted. After we...

Homeless at 78

Mia Jimenez, Los Angeles, CA There’s a 96-year-old woman named Mildred who teaches ballet at the local rec center. After class one day, she told me about her life. She was born in 1930 on a farm in Texas. Her father worked multiple jobs to provide for his 13 children, and he did it with a smile. The racism and lack...

Google Workers Hate AI

I work as a designer for Google. Last year, our bosses sent an internal memo telling full-time employees to either go "all in" on AI or accept a severance package. One creative lead on my team took the package and left, and another ended up leaving months later. The ones who stayed were not necessarily excited. Since then, our work has devolved into generating images and videos with AI for ...

Didn’t Expect Much, Got Less than Nothing

After my first year of college, I joined a group chat with my childhood friends. What should have been a nice reunion —reminiscing about days past when life was simple —instead led to familiar anxieties. We're all searching for jobs because we hate the ones we have, and we all struggle with the continual decline of capitalism. Every conversation with my friends returns to the...

COMMUNIST NEWS

The communist is the party’s official newspaper.

It is different from any other publication you’ll find in the US today. Behind this newspaper, there’s a vast network of communist activity from coast to coast. It is a tool for organizing in the streets, at protests and strikes, for building communist cells in our neighborhoods, workplaces, and campuses.

Yes, we’re Bolsheviks living in the digital age—that’s why you’re reading this on our website, and we also use social media and a podcast. But we’re not the kind of internet leftists who stay inside and “do politics” online. That’s why we need something we can carry with us into the streets and put into people’s hands. The physical paper is an instrument for building a real-life organization.

Something Is Rotten in the State of Ukraine

Something Is Rotten in the State of Ukraine

Not that you would have heard about it in the western media, but Ukraine has been rocked by a series of corruption scandals reaching the highest echelons of law enforcement in the last few days.

A PROGRAM FOR REVOLUTION

WHAT WE FIGHT FOR

The RCA is a party of class fighters committed to the overthrow of capitalism. We fight for a world of superabundance and reject the artificial scarcity of a system based on the pursuit of profits. We fight to establish a workers’ government to tackle the roots of war, inequality, oppression, and climate catastrophe.

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