The People’s School for Marxist-Leninist Studies

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The People’s School for Marxist-Leninist Studies

The Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies is sponsored by the Party of Communists USA (PCUSA). If you want to learn more about the PCUSA, you can visit our website at https://partyofcommunistsusa.net/.

  1. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact - PSMLS Class

    1 DAY AGO

    The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact - PSMLS Class

    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 democracies of Britain and France in the decade leading up to WWII. Britain and France as well as their allies refused to sign a collective security agreement and instead opted to a policy of appeasement with Hitler. To bide time in order to build up its industrial base, the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact with Germany. 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 7:30 Q&A 1 19:00 The Pact Itself 24:30 Q&A 2 31:20 From Grover Furr's "Stalin - Waiting for the Truth" 40:45 From Ekaterina Blinova's "Unveiling the Lies of the Cold War" 45:55 Q&A 3 and Conclusion

    55 min
  2. Desegregation of Baseball and the Popular Front - PSMLS Class

    3 DAYS AGO

    Desegregation of Baseball and the Popular Front - PSMLS Class

    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. Learn about all of the greatest names of baseball-stars of the Negro Baseball League like Jackie Robinson, Satchel Paige, Willard “Homerun” Brown. It was the Communists that made the most vigorous effort in the fight for desegregation in America’s most loved sport. So, “buy some peanuts and some crackerjacks, and root root root for the working class,” and join us at the Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies. 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 1:30 The Party, Sports, and the Popular Front 12:40 Q&A 1 22:00 A Communist in the Press Box? 25:30 Video - Crime of the Big Leagues 35:40 Q&A 2 41:40 The Negro Baseball League, and Breaking the Color Line in Baseball 50:00 The Negro National League 57:45 Q&A 3 and Conclusion

    1h 4m
  3. The Life of Harry Bridges - PSMLS Class

    3 DAYS AGO

    The Life of Harry Bridges - PSMLS Class

    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 USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net New Outlook Publishers: newoutlookpublishers.store Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 2:00 Section 1 - Early Life 14:00 Q&A 1 19:10 Section 2 - US Arrival, Organizing the Longshore Workers 37:50 Q&A 2 45:00 Section 3 - Leader of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union 47:50 Video - Harry Bridges Following His Perjury Conviction 49:20 Video - Harry Bridges 2 59:50 Video - Harry Bridges Speech at the 100th Anniversary of ILWU Local 23 1:07:40 Q&A 3 and Conclusion

    1h 14m
  4. Communist Position on the American Revolution - PSMLS Class

    6 DAYS AGO

    Communist Position on the American Revolution - PSMLS Class

    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 Revolution 39:50 Q&A 2 42:20 Start of the American Revolution 52:30 Q&A 3 1:03:50 Polemic Against Ultra-Left Narratives on the Revolution 1:13:50 Q&A 4 and Conclusion

    1h 18m
  5. 80th Anniversary of D-Day and Operation Bagration - PSMLS Class

    JAN 16

    80th Anniversary of D-Day and Operation Bagration - PSMLS Class

    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 American military campaign, while also focusing on the Soviet perspective and paying tribute to the overlooked and obfuscated Eastern Theater as we have with previous classes. We will explore the lead-up to D-Day and US intervention in WW2 leading up to D-Day. 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 1:40 Lead Up to D-Day and Soviet Perspective 10:30 Q&A 1 23:45 Operation Bagration 32:30 Video - March of the Vanquished in Moscow 36:30 Q&A 2 45:30 Waffen-SS Das Reich and D-Day / Operation Overlord 58:30 Q&A 3 and Conclusion

    1h 15m
  6. The Unquiet Death of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg - PSMLS Class

    JAN 15

    The Unquiet Death of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg - PSMLS Class

    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 Introduction 1:30 Film Clip 1 18:00 Q&A 1 23:30 Film Clip 2 42:00 Q&A 2 49:30 Film Clip 3 1:00:00 Q&A 3 1:07:00 Conclusion - Ethel and Julius Rosenberg's Last Letter

    1h 10m
  7. Communists and the LGBT+ Struggle - PSMLS Class

    JAN 14

    Communists and the LGBT+ Struggle - PSMLS Class

    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: partyofcommunistsusa.net New Outlook Publishers: newoutlookpublishers.store Peoples LGBT+ United Society: peopleslgbt.org Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 0:30 Opening Remarks from Party of Communists USA General Secretary 2:00 Beginning of Slides 8:30 Preface to "Communists and the LGBT+ Struggle" 15:40 Q&A 1 26:05 Communism vs Fascism - Two Lines on the Gay Question, by Bob McCubbin 29:40 Excerpts from Interview with Fidel Castro 37:40 New Advances in the LGBT+ Rights Movement in Vietnam, by Samuel Welborn 43:20 Lavender and Red, by Leslie Feinberg 46:10 Q&A 2 1:00:00 1940s-1950s: Lavender Scare 1:10:00 Stonewall 1969: Night of Rage 1:12:00 Today: Peoples LGBT+ United Society 1:13:00 Q&A 3 and Conclusion

    1h 18m
  8. Protests Against The Vietnam War - PSMLS Class

    JAN 13

    Protests Against The Vietnam War - PSMLS Class

    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 War in Vietnam 38:00 Video - Newsreel covering (and mocking) October 1967 March on the Pentagon 39:40 Q&A 2 48:40 Peak of Protests - 1968 to 1971 51:15 Video - Newsreel with commentary on the 1968 Columbia University Revolt 53:00 Video - NBC Newsreel on the 1968 Democratic National Convention Protests 1:01:30 Video - CBS Newsreel on the 1970 Kent State Shootings 1:06:20 Video - Gus Hall CPUSA 1972 Campaign Ad "Peace" 1:11:40 Aftermath: the Left 1:15:45 Q&A 3 and Conclusion

    1h 26m
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The Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies is sponsored by the Party of Communists USA (PCUSA). If you want to learn more about the PCUSA, you can visit our website at https://partyofcommunistsusa.net/.

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