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by Kamryn Stringfield Upon the smoldering ashes and rubble of the Second World War, the World Federation of Democratic Youth was founded in London on November 10th, 1945 by anti-fascists from all over the world. It was at the 1st World Youth Conference that 63 nations, representing around 30,000,000 youth, gathered and formed the World […]
by Zachariah Cobb As new and young comrades enter the sphere of leftist politics, many quickly become familiar with the classic “L’Internationale’, or “The Internationale” in English. This song has served the communist movement as a unifying melody, stressing the international relevance to the class struggle. Born from the struggle of the Paris Commune, this
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by Ryan Poffenbarger With the success of China in the 2022 winter Olympics, ranking 3rd, the Philadelphia Inquirer published an article entitled “The Olympics: Where Communism Wins.” Is this accurate, has the western world failed to win a sports version of the arms race? If so, did this continue after the USSR was dissolved? The
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by Ryan Poffenbarger The now former president of the Seattle Mariners, Kevin Mather, was recently caught manipulating the service time of players. This is done in order to decrease the pay owed, particularly to younger players, while also preventing other teams from signing them. As reported by CBS sports this practice is widespread but very
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by G. L. Worker As part of our inaugural issue, New Masses set out to write stories about revolutionary folk singers and songwriters, what they did, and what they can teach us. We had the pleasure of sitting down with music legend and long-time activist Peggy Seeger to discuss her newest album, First Farewell, as
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by David Chakofsky In the far-eastern region of Russia, there exists a city that was built for the Jewish people by the Soviet Union. It lies about 200 kilometers North of the Amur River, which divides Russia from Northeastern China, and 200 kilometers West from Khabarovsk, a major industrial city in Russia) The very concept
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Nikolay Kolupayev, “The Banner of Victory, 1945” 10.05.2023, Moscow. Philosopher and political scientist, the leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan in his congratulatory address on May 9 congratulated his audience on the day of the Victory of the Soviet Union against Hitler’s Germany-led Nazi coalition. “I congratulate everyone who is watching this broadcast on the
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The 2014 US-NATO coup in Ukraine and subsequent conflict entered a new phase on February 24, 2022, as the Special Military Operation began, directly challenging US imperialist hegemony. A coalition of forces within Russia, which includes Communists, are battling US-NATO imperialism. The SMO began after the Russian Duma, led by an initiative from the Communist
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S. V. Welborn May 9th is the day we remember the Soviet and Ally victory over the scourge of German Nazism and Italian Fascism. We can never forget the immense sacrifices made to gain this victory, several hundred thousand Americans, French and British, 20 million Chinese people and 27 million Soviet citizens all died to
Every year FIR and its member federations remember the anniversaries of the liberation from fascism and war and Victory Day 1945. What looks like ahistorical ritual, proves every year again to be an urgent necessity to keep the legacy of the survivors, the message of the women and men of resistance andpersecution alive in the
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