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LIVE REPORTS FROM THE PALESTINE SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT

If you're mobilizing in any action in solidarity with Palestine, we want to hear from you! Whether it's a march, walkout, student encampment, or labor action; or if you have photos, videos, interviews, or any valuable snippets of information; please send them in.

PARTY BUILDING

Send your reports on recruitment, cell building, education, selling the paper, and any other communist party-building activity.

• Try not to get too sucked into secondary details. Draw out the general lessons that showcase that we are doing everything we can to find other communists, organize them, and spread our ideas.
• Highlight and celebrate your successes, but also explain how you achieved them, as well as positive and negative lessons for next time. This will help other cells in a similar situation.

PROTEST REPORT

Send your reports from the struggle: protests, rallies, or other political events.

• Focus on the mood on the ground; the best slogans & speeches put forward by the movement; what kind of contingent we brought; our slogans and how we connected the aspirations of the movement with the communist perspective.
• Include information about the impact of the communists: recruits; signups; positive interactions; papers sold; etc.
• Get into the habit of interviewing people who engage with us, and include direct quotes and opinions in the report. You can also record these interactions for the podcast, video, or for your local social media.

LABOR REPORT

Send reports from the workplace and trade union movement. Are you on strike? Has your boss been withholding wages? Are you trying to unionize your workplace? Are you walking a picket line? We want to hear from the frontlines of the class struggle!

• Try to include quotes and opinions from your coworkers or the workers in the struggle. You can use the report as an opportunity to interview and discuss with them, and also tell them about The Communist.
• There's no need to include every bit of detail: try and stick to the main issues and what our readers need to know!

NEWS UPDATES

Bring the communist perspective on a recent news event.

Heard something in the news that perfectly demonstrated the crisis of capitalism? Tell us what, why, and how it happened; and what communists have to say and do about it.

CLASS HATRED / LIFE UNDER CAPITALISM

A short piece of agitation which exposes a particular horror or excess of capitalism, and the gaping divide between the haves and have-nots.

• Make it lively, witty, and angry! Ridicule the rich and their system; rail against the misery of the poor.
• You don't need to put forward a full program of socialist revolution. Although you could mention a relevant demand at the end.

ANECDOTE

Share quotes and snippets of conversations that you overheard on the street, while engaging in communist activity, or while talking with friends, family, or coworkers.

• We want to hear ordinary people's impressions and thoughts about political events, the state of society, and their problems of everyday life under declining American capitalism.
• Please include any information about the people themselves: were they a worker, high school student, small business owner, activist, etc.

WHY I'M A COMMUNIST

Let us know why you became a communist! Whether it was a political event, a book, or other personal experience.

• In particular, what was it that drew you to joining the Revolutionary Communists of America, and why should other communists do the same?
• Be vivid: include a story or anecdote that taps into the emotion you felt that urged you to fight for revolution.

ASK THE COMMUNIST

Have a question for the Revolutionary Communists of America? Do you want an answer to a question on Marxist theory or tactics, or advice on building a cell in your area? Submit your questions here!

SUGGESTIONS AND FEEDBACK

Do you have feedback on the newspaper’s content or form? Do you have a suggestion for an article topic or a type of content you’d like to see in a future issue of The Communist (whether you want to write it yourself or not)? Send us your thoughts!

OTHER

Does your contribution not fit into one of the categories listed above? Submit your text or audio-visual content here!

Keep the style simple and approachable. Think: if an excited young new communist, or a recently radicalized worker, heard this directly from you, would it sound natural and appealing to them?

Keep your contributions to 300 words or less. If you have suggestions for a longer article, select “Suggestions and Feedback” from the dropdown to submit your idea or proposal.

Don't forget to attach good photos & videos to go along with any reports from the movement! Especially, any photos showing the communist contingent.