The experience of the Barcelona en Comú city government is ripe with lessons for communists on the nature of city governments, particularly in light of Zohran Mamdani’s Democratic primary victory in NYC.
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Zohran Mamdani Stuns Establishment: Is This a Step Toward a Socialist NYC?
Zohran Mamdani, a self-described socialist, stunned Wall Street and the Democrat establishment by winning the Democratic nomination for New York City Mayor.
Where Is America Going?
This is not merely a transient political or economic crisis, but a crisis of the regime of bourgeois rule and of world capitalism itself. After a long delay, we have returned to an epoch of world revolution.
Ask The Communist: Can Sanders Take Over the Democrats?
Communists must work tirelessly to point out the impossibility of reconciling the interests of the exploiters and the exploited. Trying to take over one of the class enemy’s parties does exactly the opposite—it blurs class lines.
Why Communists Can’t Support Zohran Mamdani
Rather than building the influence of socialism, NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is tainting that word through false promises and associating himself with the rotten and discredited Democratic Party.
What Luigi Mangione Shows Us About Class Consciousness
Luigi Mangione, alleged shooter UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has become a folk hero for millions of ordinary workers. The widespread support for Luigi is a harbinger of titanic class battles that lie ahead.
Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth: A Marxist Critique
The name of Frantz Fanon is intimately associated with the anticolonial struggle of the postwar period, and his major work, The Wretched of the Earth, is regularly cited as a handbook for anti-imperialist struggle around the world.
Cops Capture Suspected CEO Shooter Luigi Mangione
Alleged CEO shooter Luigi Mangione has been received as a modern-day folk hero. On the surface, he had everything going for him. And yet, the grinding misery capitalism inflicts on humanity affected him deeply.
How to Win the Masses
Communists need to explain to the masses of the working class that solving their problems requires a fundamental break with capitalism. We can learn from previous revolutions to guide our work today.
From Our Program: Down with the Democrats and Republicans! Build a Communist Party!
Both Democrats and Republicans rule in the interests of capital, supporting austerity, exploitation, oppression, and American imperialism. The American working class needs a party of our own.
How Communists Use Bourgeois Elections
Lenin explained that participation in bourgeois elections and legislative bodies was an essential tactic in the struggle to win the masses to communism.
The Communist: The 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.