The People’s School for Marxist-Leninist Studies

Join the PSMLS as we look at the history of Communism and Zionism. While we do not support Zionism, as it is a reactionary bourgeois ideology, it is important to look at the history of when Communists worked in coalition with more left-leaning Zionist elements and what tactical and strategic goals were served. Visit us at: Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.us Party of Comm...

Join the PSMLS as we read passages from "Communism vs Fascism" by former CPUSA General Secretary William Z. Foster. Cold War Propaganda, which began with monopoly media moguls like William Randolph Hearst who knew the American working class hated fascist barbarism, tried to obfuscate the working class and pro-democracy movements by equating Socialism with fascism. In reality, the socialist system...

Tonight, we will be working together with the Cervantes Fraternal Society to discuss a brief history of the Panama Canal. We will discuss how and why Panama broke off from Greater Colombia in the late 1800s. We will also discuss how the US used the Panama Canal for its imperialist gains. Visit us at: Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.us Party of Communists USA: partyofcomm...

The US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and August 8th 1945 were the first and only time nuclear weapons were used in on a civilian population. The nuclear bombings have long been pushed as “necessary evils” by the US bourgeois state. Tonight the Peoples School along with the Asian-American Friendship Congress (aafc.us.org) seek to dispel this myth and show these acts for the atroc...

In this class, we read excerpts from the book Fascism and Social Revolution by R. Palme Dutt provided to us by New Outlook Publishers. We will discuss the Communist definition of fascism and what its defining features are. We will also discuss Communist strategies for combating fascism via an organized working class and democratic elements of other social classes as allies in the fight against fas...

Bourgeois educational and cultural institutions generally claim that the Molotov-Ribbentrop Non-Aggression Pact was an alliance between Nazi Germany and Soviet Union in their “shared conquest of Europe”. This is categorically false. The Soviet Union understood the threat of Nazism and Fascism early on and spared no effort in building an anti-fascist collective security agreement with the bourgeois...

Harry Bridges was an Australian who moved to the US and became one of the most prolific trade unionists in US history. He along with the Communist Party led the Great San Francisco General Strike. In this class, the PSMLS joins with the Harry Bridges School of Labor to explore more of his life in labor. Visit us at: Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.us Party of Communists...

The Comintern of 1935 tasked all Communists to become the patriots of their countries against fascism. We will focus on the campaign led by the Daily Worker journalist Lester Rodney, under the leadership of the Party to make “Communism 20th century Americanism,” by writing in the press, creating YCL-led picketing, and collecting petitions to integrate Black athletes into the Major Baseball League....

This class will discuss the American Revolution and Declaration of Independence from a Historical Materialist point of view. Visit us at: Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.us Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net New Outlook Publishers: newoutlookpublishers.store Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 14:30 After the Seven Years War 21:10 Q&A 1 28:45 Prelude to the Revo...

As part of our series honoring and commemorating the 80th anniversary of different battles of the Great Patriotic War, the Second World War, we will be looking at the 80th Anniversary of the Allied Operation Overlord (better known as D-Day) and Soviet Operation Bagration. This class is special as it allows us as Americans to honor our brave anti-fascist soldiers who fought in a rare justified Amer...

Join us this week as we study the irregular trial and unjust execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. We will have a viewing from the 1983 documentary "The Unquiet Death of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg." Visit us at: Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.us Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net New Outlook Publishers: newoutlookpublishers.store Timestamps: 0:00 Intro...

Join us this week as the LGBT+ commission of the PCUSA does a class on the book we published through New Outlook Publishers “Communist and the LGBT+ Struggle: An Anthology, Volume 1.” Subjects from the book we will cover is the LGBT+ in socialist countries, and the LGBT+ movement in America. Visit us at: Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.us Party of Communists USA: partyof...

Visit us at: Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.us Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net New Outlook Publishers: newoutlookpublishers.store 0:00 Introduction 1:00 Background 7:15 Emergence of the New Left 9:00 Q&A 1 22:30 Protests begin: 1964-1967 32:00 Video - MLK Speech "Beyond Vietnam" 32:30 Video - Newsreel covering April 1967 Spring Mobilization to End the...

Ultra-Leftism and Petty Bourgeois Radicalism, phenomena which have existed since the time of Marx and Lenin, have caused disruption and disunity throughout the history of the Communist movement. This class provides an introduction to Ultra-Leftism in general, and it also covers the recent Beijing Declaration on Ending Division and Strengthening Palestinian National Unity. The Beijing Declaration h...

In this class, we will dive into the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the problems therein. We’ll learn about this history of NATO during the Cold War, and how the alliance postured itself against the USSR and the Warsaw Pact. Lastly, we will explore the history of NATO during the period of American Unipolarity in the wake of the counter-revolution in the USSR, and how NATO h...

Visit us at: Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.us Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:30 On the Peoples Schule 4:00 The Spirit of the Warsaw Ghetto and Passover 9:00 Nazi Germany's Invasion of Poland 11:10 Video - The Warsaw Ghetto - US Holocaust Memorial Museum 18:15 Q&A 1 27:00 April 19 1943 - May 16 1943 31:00 Video - Clip f...

The PSMLS presents a long-awaited class on the Spanish Civil War, with an overview of the entire war itself and the different forces involved as well as the contribution of American communists to the Republican forces. We will also highlight the reactions and involvement of powers internationally, including a section on the USSR’s anti-fascist foreign policy. Visit us at: Peoples School for Marxis...

Visit us at: Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.us Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:00 Video - I Love My Land - Tribute to Women 14:30 Q&A 1 24:30 Video, continued 40:30 Q&A 2 48:45 Clara Zetkin - Lenin on the Woman Question 57:30 Q&A 3 1:07:00 Conclusion

Visit us at: Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.us Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:10 Video - History of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and Aftermath 10:00 Background of the Incident 13:20 Q&A 1 22:00 Second Video on Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 30:40 Women for Racial and Economic Equality Article on the Fire 36:00 "Downto...

Visit us at: Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.us Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction - History and Background of the 2024 World Youth Festival 7:00 Video - UN Press Conference from the American Delegation to the WFY 18:30 Q&A 1 27:30 Video - PCUSA International Secretary Interview with Russia Today's Don Courter 34:00 Video - Am...

Visit us at: Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.us Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:50 Video - Women's International Democratic Federation 1981 Congress 16:15 Q&A 1 20:10 Video - Women's International Democratic Federation, continued 35:20 Q&A 2 38:30 Video - Rude Awakening - Soviet Film Project (Soviet Jews and Israel) 48:30...

This class is the SERIES FINALE in our series on the History of U.S. Imperialism, with a class on the Fall of American Unipolarity! This covers events and developments from 2020 to the present day. It focuses on the failure of American Imperialism abroad and the return of multipolarity in the world. This is an incredible milestone for our PSMLS as we complete a nine class series on U.S. Imperialis...

This class is a presentation from the Women’s Commission of the PCUSA on Women Communists: Then and Now, looking at women primarily from the latter half of the 20th century and who were Communists, or fellow travelers heavily involved with the Communist movement. Some women that will be touched on are Claudia Jones, Anne Braden, Angela Davis, Mariela & Vilma Castro, and more. …

This class is a presentation from the Black Liberation Commission of the PCUSA on Henry Winston’s “Strategy for a Black Agenda.“ The principal focus of the book is a trenchant Marxist-Leninist analysis of neo-Pan-Africanism and Maoism. The similarities of the two ideologies as bourgeois nationalist trends are clearly exposed. Race, instead of class analysis of world events, separatism as opposed t...

This week we continue our series of the History of U.S. Imperialism with a class on the Height of American Unipolarity, covering events from 2005 to 2020. This includes the various wars and interventions under the second term of George W. Bush, and under the presidencies of Barack Obama and Donald Trump. We will touch on Libya, Syria, Yemen, Donbas, and more. We will also address the domestic cond...