Party of Communists USA NY/NJ Club

06/22/2020

"Early in the film Reds, a witness asks if John Reed and Louise Bryant were socialists. “They must’ve been, but I don’t think they were of any importance. I don’t remember them at all.” The irony here being that John and Louise were monumentally important, but tragically they are hardly remembered except for those who care to know about them. Who were John and Louise Bryant? If Marx wrote that the specter of Communism was haunting Europe, and if the Bolsheviks were the ones who succeeded in turning that vision into a reality, then John and Louise were nothing less than the heralds of the new era: the epoch long transition from Capitalism to Communism. John Reed and Louise Bryant were the ones who emerged and let the whole world know that Communism was no pipe dream that would never see the light of day, but that it was very real and that the specter was now on the doorstep of the whole world."
by Roger Hallisey

Reds (1981) – Movie Review June 19, 2020 Z. G. MartyrsReds, Film Reviewed by Roger HalliseyEarly in the film Reds, a witness asks if John Reed and Louise Bryant were socialists. “They must’ve been, but I don’t think they were of any importance. I don’t remember them at all.” The irony he...

06/15/2020

"Colombia is not a beachhead nor an aircraft carrier of the gringos to invade Venezuela.

Hey, Trump, in case you didn't know it, Colombia and Venezuela are two sister nations born from the sword and the struggle led by the liberator Simon Bolivar. South America is not the backyard of the United States The Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny are no more than a fantasy, a neocolonial rant of certain rulers of the White House. Respect our freedom and our independence. The self-determination of the south, in unity, is and will remain our great dream until it is acheived. We will be a great nation of sister republics. This strategic vision of Bolivar has not lost its validity, nor has it been defeated; it is still the route to our future."

Get out! Yankees out! Go home! June 15, 2020 Joseph Hancock [Editors note: The following is a statement of the FARC-EP, Segunda Marquetalia, about the recent announcement that the United States is sending 800 troops to Colombia in an area close to Venezuela] Colombia is not a beachhead nor an aircr...

06/04/2020

"The history of modern, civilised America opened with one of those great, really liberating, really revolutionary wars of which there have been so few compared to the vast number of wars of conquest which, like the present imperialist war, were caused by squabbles among kings, landowners or capitalists over the division of usurped lands or ill-gotten gains. That was the war the American people waged against the British robbers who oppressed America and held her in colonial slavery, in the same way as these “civilised” bloodsuckers are still oppressing and holding in colonial slavery hundreds of millions of people in India, Egypt, and all parts of the world.

About 150 years have passed since then. Bourgeois civilisation has borne all its luxurious fruits. America has taken first place among the free and educated nations in level of development of the productive forces of collective human endeavour, in the utilisation of machinery and of all the wonders of modern engineering. At the same time, America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism. The American people, who set the world an example in waging a revolutionary war against feudal slavery, now find themselves in the latest, capitalist stage of wage-slavery to a handful of multimillionaires, and find themselves playing the role of hired thugs who, for the benefit of wealthy scoundrels, throttled the Philippines in 1898 on the pretext of “liberating” them, and are throttling the Russian Socialist Republic in 1918 on the pretext of “protecting” it from the Germans."
Lenin - Letter To American Workers, 1918

05/31/2020

"The government of Versailles cries, “Incendiarism!” and whispers this cue to all its agents, down to the remotest hamlet, to hunt up its enemies everywhere as suspect of professional incendiarism. The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar!" - Karl Marx

*Brief book explaination*

05/30/2020

"The murder of George Floyd is an act of police terror and cowardice that demonstrates the total disregard for the human rights and dignity of the poor and working-class peoples. An unarmed and innocent African-American was slowly executed by ‘peace officers’ who are entrusted and sworn to protect their fellow citizens. The Party of Communists USA strongly condemns the recent murder of George Floyd by white supremacist officers of the Minneapolis Police Department on Monday, May 25, 2020. What the Minneapolis Police Department and the City of Minneapolis have proven once again is that they protect the privileges, property, and the power structure of the monopoly capitalist class. NOTHING HAS CHANGED SINCE ‘STRANGE FRUIT’! A communist, Abel Meeropol wrote the poem in 1937 that became a song performed by Billie Holiday in 1939."

Read more here: https://leagueofyoungcommunistsusa.org/party-of-communists-usa-statement-on-the-recent-murder-of-george-floyd-and-other-african-americans-in-the-united-states-of-america/

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05/30/2020

"Veterans For Peace calls for the immediate withdrawal of the Minnesota National Guard. We are appalled to see military weapons, vehicles and equipment once again deployed in U.S. cities to control community members who are reacting to a long history of state-sanctioned violence. When an already embattled community is subjected to militarized intimidation, by design, their environment becomes a war zone. We call on all those who are serving with the National Guard to refuse to serve violent and racist interests."

Veterans For Peace calls for the immediate withdrawal of the Minnesota National Guard. We are appalled to see military weapons, vehicles and equipment once again deployed in U.S. cities to control community members.

05/29/2020

Statement For Immediate Release by the Party of Communists USA:

Message to the people of Minneapolis, the Trump administration has given the National Guard authority to use lethal force. The National Guard is equipped with body armor and M4 Carbines. The police are covering their badge numbers. There is now a predator drone 20k feet in the air doing circles around Minneapolis. And information we have gotten is there are N***s from Houston TX coming to Minneapolis to most likely agitate the situation more or start shooting innocent people. With this information we firmly urge everyone in Minneapolis to be cautious given the high risk of death.

05/25/2020

"As we celebrate this holiday [and honor all American and foreign servicemembers, combatants, and civilians who have lost their lives or have suffered from physical and mental wounds during war,] the American ruling class and the Military Industrial Complex push us further towards war and continue to raise tensions with multiple different countries. In the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, a time where international solidarity is more important than ever [...] To abolish war, we need first to abolish the profit system."

Statement by the Veterans Commission of the Party of Communists USA on the Occasion of Memorial Day May 24, 2020 Joseph HancockThis Memorial Day, May 25th, 2020, the Veterans Affairs Commission of the Party of Communists USA would like to take the opportunity to honor all American and foreign servic...

05/15/2020

"In many ways Leftbook has aided in growing the leftist community in America, including assisting in the growth of the Marxist-Leninist community. However the cons of Leftbook are so glaring and substantial, that it outweighs the good it does; many of said cons, which will be detailed in this article, specifically aid in destroying the leftist movement in America."

Leftbook: Destroying the Leftist Movement in America May 12, 2020 Proud MLWritten by O’Connell and SaoirseImportant note about the authors: The two authors have spent years on Leftbook before breaking from it and its toxic environment. This article, this analysis, is by former leftbookers with li...

05/14/2020

"The League of Young Communists USA (LYCUSA) stands in solidarity with our Cuban comrades, who were fired upon last week by a domestic terrorist at the Cuban Embassy in Washington DC. The LYCUSA understands that this act of terror is just another act in a long line of US government fueled hostility. We denounce the rabid anti-communism which fueled this attack and hope for continued safety of the Cuban diplomats and their people, who want for nothing but peace."

LYC condemns attack on the Cuban Embassy and lack of US response May 4, 2020 comrade1917 The League of Young Communists USA (LYCUSA) stands in solidarity with our Cuban comrades, who were fired upon last week by a domestic terrorist at the Cuban Embassy in Washington DC. The LYCUSA understands that....