Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies

Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies

Continuing the long line of party-sponsored Marxist-Leninist education! Sponsored by the Party of Communists USA ☭ Classes every Tuesday at 8 pm EST

Episodes

April 2, 2025 60 mins

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 was the polar opposite of fascism, ...

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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.  

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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 atrocities they were. Through education,...

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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 fascism. As the book was initially wri...

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March 11, 2025 54 mins

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 ...

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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. 

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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.

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Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.us
Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net
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This class will discuss the American Revolution and Declaration of Independence from a Historical Materialist point of view.

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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 St...

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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 ...

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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."

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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&am...

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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.

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Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.us
Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net
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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 has united the Palestinian for...

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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 - Ne...

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February 9, 2025 61 mins

Join the Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies, in collaboration with the Irish Commission of the Party of Communists USA, as we look at the Easter Rebellion of 1916. This event was pivotal in the struggle for Irish independence and has important parallels to current events in the world.

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Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.us
Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net
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The Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies, in collaboration with the US Friends of the Soviet People, presents a class on the colossal heroism and remarkable triumph by the Soviet Union and its allies against the barbaric Nazi war machine.

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Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net
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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 has exposed itself as an imperialist...
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May 18, 2024 70 mins
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 from "The Pianist" 33:20 Q&A...
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May 18, 2024 81 mins
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 Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.u...
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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
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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 "Downtown Women" Poem 40:00 Video - Re...
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