The People’s School for Marxist-Leninist Studies PSMLS

The PSMLS presents a class on the 79th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz, featuring Professor Barry Lituchy, Director of the Jasenovac Research Institute.

The Jasenovac Research Institute was founded on the belief that the failure to learn the lessons of the genocide committed against Serbs, Jews and Gypsies during the Second World War rests at the very core of recent events in the Balkans.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
6:30 Beginning of video on Auschwitz Concentration Camp
15:20 Q&A with Barry Lituchy
1:21:10 Conclusion

January 27th, 2024 marks 80 years since the infamous Siege of Leningrad came to an end with a Soviet victory that foreshadowed the ultimate Nazi defeat. As we have done before with the 80th Anniversaries of famous parts of the Great Patriotic War such as the Victory at Stalingrad, Battle of Kursk and Liberation of Ukraine, we will hold a class to study this siege and honor those who fought to hold off the fascists from Leningrad for nearly 900 days. Over 1.5 million people lost their lives during this siege. We will be using the “Siege of Leningrad” film from the Soviet Film Archive project of US Friends of the Soviet People for parts of the class.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:25 Background: Poland, Finland, and Operation Barbarossa
15:00 Q&A 1
32:10 Video - The Siege of Leningrad - Soviet Film Project
43:30 Q&A 2
54:40 Video - The Siege of Leningrad, continued
1:07:20 Q&A 3
1:12:30 Video - The Siege of Leningrad, continued
1:23:20 Q&A 4 and Conclusion

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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:00 Background: The Soviet Constitution of 1977
7:15 Q&A 1
15:55 Film - In the USSR, the Right to Work
34:25 Q&A 2
45:30 Film - In the USSR, the Right to Housing
1:02:10 Q&A 3 and Conclusion

This class is our next installment in this series on the history of U.S. imperialism. With the last class leaving us at the end of the Cold War and the counter-revolution in the Soviet Union, we will now cover the subsequent rise of American unipolarity. This class spans from 1991-2005. First we will address the counter-revolution in the USSR and counter-revolutions across the world at the beginning of the 1990’s, as well as US/NATO intervention in Iraq, Kuwait, Bosnia and more during the decade. The second section will cover the September 11th terrorist attacks and the beginning of the so-called “War on Terror” with the launch of invasions in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as expanded intervention abroad. Lastly we will address the domestic and trade issues of the time, such as NAFTA, the PATRIOT ACT, the Democratic Party change under Clinton and more.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
2:10 Clinton, Yeltsin, NATO and Transnational Corporations
11:10 Q&A 1
45:35 US in the Middle East: Gulf War, September 11th, and the War on Terror
52:00 Video - General Wesley Clark "We're going to take out seven countries in five years."
56:20 Q&A 2
1:10:00 Domestic and Trade Issues
1:16:20 Q&A 3 and Conclusion

The PSMLS presents a class on "The Popular Front" by Earl Browder, former CPUSA General Secretary. We will be explaining the concept of the Popular Front strategy and how it would be significant in 2024, as well as discussing the Ultraleftist Trotskyite position on the Popular Front.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
2:30 Background: Earl Browder
8:10 Q&A 1
33:30 The American Tradition
38:10 Q&A 2
50:40 The Popular Front, Democracy, and the Constitution
55:30 Q&A 3
1:17:20 Trotskyism (Ultraleft) Position on the Popular Front
1:25:50 Q&A 4 and Conclusion

This week's class was on Soviet Holiday cartoons along with a short history of the celebrations of the holidays in the USSR. We showed a variety of cartoons from the Soviet Union from the 1920s to the 1970s.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:00 Video - The New Year's Tree - 1948
11:40 Soviet Holiday Celebrations Before the Revolution
13:40 Q&A 1
20:30 Video - Soviet Toys - 1924
31:30 Video - Interplanetary Revolution - 1924
39:30 Q&A 2
43:20 Video - What Hitler Wants - 1941
45:30 Video - A Farce in 3 Acts - 1941
48:55 Video - To You, Moscow - 1941
56:50 Q&A 3
1:00:40 Video - The Nutcracker, 1973
1:07:10 Video - American Imperialist - Millionaire - 1963
1:13:30 Conclusion