A recent poll found that 34% of Americans under 30 say they have a “favorable view” of communism. It’s not hard to see why. Gen Z has known nothing but crisis, instability, and societal decline.
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Millennials to Gen Z: “Here’s My Recession Prep List”
In a dystopian turn, TikTok’s latest viral trend is … Millennials giving advice to Gen Z on how to survive a recession.
Mental Health Is Worse Than Ever and Treatment Is a Nightmare
The immense pressure of living under a dying capitalist system exacts a massive toll on the working class and our mental health. Privately-owned mental healthcare is killing Americans; we can’t trust our mental health to the blind forces of the market.
Capitalists Gun for Student Loan Borrowers’ Paychecks
Last month, the Trump administration restarted collections on unpaid federal student loans. In addition to wage garnishment, those in default will face seizure of tax refunds, withholding of federal benefits, hits to their credit scores, and more.
Trump Ramps Up Attacks on Universities
The Trump administration’s “Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism”is nothing but a smokescreen for attacks on democratic rights and cuts to education funding.
Capitalism’s Literacy Crisis
America’s long-standing literacy crisis is only getting worse. In the world’s richest country, only 79% of adults in the US are literate enough to paraphrase a text or make low-level inferences about it.
Letter from a Teacher: “One Classroom at a Time” Won’t Change the World
While training as teachers, we were told what a positive impact we are going to have on any child in our classroom. But the world won’t change one classroom at a time.
Communists Say: Capitalism Is Incompatible with Free Speech!
The brutality of the bourgeois clampdown on Palestine solidarity is teaching a new generation a painful but important lesson: free speech is not a guarantee under capitalism.
Palestine Solidarity Protests Escalate in Face of Campus Repression
Despite repression and slander, college campuses in the belly of the beast have become a central mobilization point for the Palestine protest movement, echoing the great upsurge of students and workers against the Vietnam War in the 1960s and ‘70s.
To AZ State Rep. Joseph Chaplik: Capitalism Is Teaching the Kids Communism!
Arizona State Representative Joseph Chaplik recently complained to ASU officials over the IMT’s upcoming “Marxism training” at one of the largest campuses in the country. We thank him for promoting our upcoming Marxist school!
Momentum Continues with #CommunismOnCampus Campaign!
All around the world students are enthusiastically engaging with the revolutionary ideas of Marxism! 2022 is shaping up to be the IMT’s biggest ever mobilization among students.
#CommunismOnCampus: Who Has the Youth Has the Future!
The International Marxist Tendency is out in force as new academic terms begin all around the world. Find us with the hashtag #CommunismOnCampus.
The Communist: Voice of America’s Communist Generation
The Communist is the official newspaper of the party of the Revolutionary Communists of America. 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.
The RCA is on a mission to carry Bolshevism into the political arena of a country that’s ripe for it. Yes, we’re Bolsheviks living in the digital age, and we also use social media and our podcast to spread the communist program. 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—a genuine Communist Party of fighters.