Communists of America

John Peterson, Antonio Balmer, and Tom Trottier discuss Trump's war on Iran, and Zohran Mamdani, the self-described socialist, who won the New York City Democratic mayoral primary. ✊Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join 🚩 Donate to build your party: https://communistusa.org/donate 📰 Get The Communist: https://www.marxistbooks.com/collections/the-communist-newspapers/ 📰 Get In Defence of Marxism Magazine: https://www.marxistbooks.com/collections/magazines-in-defence-of-marxism/ #iran #ZohranMamdani #Trump #War #Socialism #NYCPolitics #Imperialism #MiddleEast #DSA #MAGA #ClassStruggle #WallStreet #Revolution

Can revolution happen in the United States? Not just someday, but in our lifetime — and not just spontaneously, but with strategy. ✊Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join Antonio Balmer explains what it actually takes to overthrow capitalism in the U.S. — drawing lessons from Bolshevism, cadre organization, and modern political conditions. From media strategy to building a disciplined force, this is how revolution is made. 📍Recorded at the Second National Congress of the RCA on May 31–June 1 in Philadelphia. 📄 Read our 2025 US perspectives here: https://communistusa.org/where-is-america-going/ 🚩 Donate to build your party: https://communistusa.org/donate 📰 Get The Communist: https://www.marxistbooks.com/collections/the-communist-newspapers/ 📰 Get In Defence of Marxism Magazine: https://www.marxistbooks.com/collections/magazines-in-defence-of-marxism/

🌍 The World Is Shifting Fast — But This Isn’t Random Chaos. It’s Capitalism in Crisis. We're living through a period of deep instability, sharp turns, and global upheaval. In this talk, Fred Weston explains the root of the crisis — and why building a revolutionary organization is the only way forward. 📍 Recorded at the Second National Congress of the Revolutionary Communists of America (RCA) 🗓️ May 31 – June 1, 2025 | Philadelphia 📃Read the recap: https://communistusa.org/rca-second-national-congress/ 🔻 Dig Deeper: 📖 World Perspectives 2025: marxist.com/world-perspectives-2025 📖 U.S. Perspectives 2025: communistusa.org/where-is-america-going ✊ Join the fight: communistusa.org/join 💪Support the struggle: communistusa.org/donate 📰 Read The Communist: marxistbooks.com/the-communist-newspapers 📚 In Defence of Marxism Magazine: marxistbooks.com/magazines-in-defence-of-marxism

John Peterson outlines the revolutionary processes developing in American society—and how we must prepare as communists. Recorded at the Second National Congress of the RCA on May 31–June 1 in Philadelphia. Read our 2025 US perspectives here: https://communistusa.org/where-is-america-going/ ✊Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join 🚩 Donate to build your party: https://communistusa.org/donate 📰 Get The Communist: https://www.marxistbooks.com/collections/the-communist-newspapers/ 📰 Get In Defence of Marxism Magazine: https://www.marxistbooks.com/collections/magazines-in-defence-of-marxism/

What is Trumpism and how do we fight it? Bryce Gordon explains why Trump is not a fascist, but a different kind of class enemy. To beat him, we have to understand his rise and what he represents. To fully understand, we recommend a few readings: The context of Trump 2.0 & Where America is Headed: https://communistusa.org/where-is-america-going/ Bryce's article on Trumpism from 2024: https://communistusa.org/what-is-trumpism/ A brand new episode of the RCI podcast, Spectre of Communism: https://youtu.be/t_TuWkVS8pU?si=0Uq6SmhSreJYHdte ✊Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join 🚩 Donate to build your party: https://communistusa.org/donate 📰 Get The Communist: https://www.marxistbooks.com/collections/the-communist-newspapers/ 📰 Get In Defence of Marxism Magazine: https://www.marxistbooks.com/collections/magazines-in-defence-of-marxism/

With capitalism in its deepest crisis, some have turned to Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump to challenge the status quo. As the two discredit themselves, many of their disillusioned supporters are looking towards communism—and finding the Revolutionary Communists of America. ✊Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join 🚩 Donate to build your party: https://communistusa.org/donate 📰 Get The Communist: https://www.marxistbooks.com/collections/the-communist-newspapers/ 📰 Get In Defence of Marxism Magazine: https://www.marxistbooks.com/collections/magazines-in-defence-of-marxism/

One crisis is layered upon another: Constitutional crisis, recession fears, and tariff chaos. Trump's pro-worker charade won't stand the test of events. The RCA is the only party arguing for consistent, class-independent politics. Our forces are growing, and so is the urgent need for our message. ✊ Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join 🚩 Donate to build your party: https://communistusa.org/donate 📰 Get The Communist: https://www.marxistbooks.com/collections/the-communist-newspapers/ 📰 Get In Defence of Marxism Magazine: https://www.marxistbooks.com/collections/magazines-in-defence-of-marxism/

The widespread sympathy for Luigi Mangione has starkly revealed the enormous amount of working-class anger that has built up in American society. But one thing is necessary to ensure the victory of our struggle: the urgent building of a revolutionary party, armed with the ideas of Marxism. ✊ Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join 🚩 Donate to build your party: https://communistusa.org/donate 📰 Get The Communist: https://www.marxistbooks.com/collections/the-communist-newspapers/ 📰 Get In Defence of Marxism Magazine: https://www.marxistbooks.com/collections/magazines-in-defence-of-marxism/

This week we republish an episode from our international podcast: Against the Stream: Trump’s dramatic return to the White House has thrown the liberals into complete panic and confusion. They have flung whatever insults they can at him: from semi-fascist, to fascist, to neo-fascist. To explain how Marxists should understand and approach these phenomena, Alan Woods, the leading theoretician of the Revolutionary Communist International, joined Hamid Alizadeh for another episode of Against the Stream, the weekly current affairs podcast of the RCI. This episode premiered on YouTube. Tune in every Thursday at 6pm GMT. Books mentioned in the episode can be purchased on: https://www.marxistbooks.com/ ✊ Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join 🚩 Donate to build your party: https://communistusa.org/donate 📰 Get The Communist: https://communistusa.org/subscribe/

Despite the decline of organized religion in recent years, there has also been a concurrent rise in mysticism and “New Age” beliefs. How should communists approach this belief with people that we encounter in our work? Erika Roedl and Laura Brown discuss. ✊ Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join 🚩 Donate to build your party: https://communistusa.org/donate 📰 Get The Communist: https://communistusa.org/subscribe/ 📕 Get all the books here: https://www.marxistbooks.com/

The liberal world order that has been in charge for decades has been put in the back seat by Donald Trump. His rule is accelerating the decline of capitalism and communists must organize for the crises to come and prepare for revolution. ✊ Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join 🚩 Donate to build your party: https://communistusa.org/donate 📰 Get The Communist: https://communistusa.org/subscribe/ 📕 "Colossus: The Rise and Decline of US Imperialism": https://www.marxistbooks.com/collections/books/products/colossus-the-rise-and-decline-of-us-imperialism

The liberals are incapable of stopping Trump, neither party can halt the crisis of capitalism, and both are representatives of the billionaire imperialists. So how do we beat them both? ✊ Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join 🚩 Donate to build your party: https://communistusa.org/donate 📰 Get The Communist: https://communistusa.org/subscribe/ 📕 "Colossus: The Rise and Decline of US Imperialism": https://www.marxistbooks.com/collections/books/products/colossus-the-rise-and-decline-of-us-imperialism

The ferocious blaze that terrorized America’s second largest city is a product of the capitalist system in terminal decline. Private ownership and production for profit put the interests of a tiny capitalist cabal ahead of the interests of humanity as a whole. ✊ Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join 🚩 Donate to build your party: https://communistusa.org/donate 📰 Get The Communist: https://communistusa.org/subscribe/ 📕 Pre-order "Colossus: The Rise and Decline of US Imperialism": https://www.marxistbooks.com/collections/books/products/colossus-the-rise-and-decline-of-us-imperialism

Donald Trump is back in the White House promising to end the decline of America. His promises will fall flat, spelling further decline for the U.S. and further discontent of the working class. ✊ Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join 🚩 Donate to build your party: https://communistusa.org/donate 📕 Pre-order "Colossus: The Rise and Decline of US Imperialism": https://www.marxistbooks.com/collections/books/products/colossus-the-rise-and-decline-of-us-imperialism 📰 Get The Communist issue 9: https://www.marxistbooks.com/collections/magazines/products/the-communist-issue-9-december-2024

Welcome to 2025. The world is on fire, war rages in the middle east and Ukraine, and there is increasing instability in the social fabric of the United States. There is a desperate need for a mass communist party, and there has never been a more favorable time to build one. ✊ Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join 🚩 Donate to build your party: https://communistusa.org/donate 📕 Pre-order "Colossus: The Rise and Decline of US Imperialism": https://www.marxistbooks.com/collections/books/products/colossus-the-rise-and-decline-of-us-imperialism 📰 Get The Communist issue 9: https://www.marxistbooks.com/collections/magazines/products/the-communist-issue-9-december-2024

Republished from the podcast of the RCI "Against the Stream" — With just two weeks before Trump re-enters the White House, the outgoing Democrats are doing everything they can to undermine the next president. In Ukraine in particular, where they fear a drastic change of course in the policy of US imperialism, they are funneling in as much money as they can get away with, as well as escalating the war by allowing Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with US bombs. This clash at the top of the worlds strongest imperialist power has huge consequences for the whole planet. To break it down from a Marxist perspective, as well as to discuss the turbulent political, economic and military situation on all continents, Alan Woods joins Against the Stream for a special episode. This episode was streamed live on YouTube on Thursday 9th at 3pm GMT. Watch the Show here: https://marxist.com/trump-biden-and-the-crisis-of-the-american-regime-against-the-stream-live-with-alan-woods-at-3pm-gmt-tomorrow.htm

Huge numbers of the population feel sympathy for the action for which Luigi Mangione has been charged. The mass sympathy elicited by this act speaks volumes about the political vacuum in the US. The class-war methods we advocate for are mass action that harnesses the strength of the united working class, rather than individual targeted actions such as the assassination of CEOS. ✊ Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join 🚩 Donate to build your party: https://communistusa.org/donate 📕 Pre-order "Colossus: The Rise and Decline of US Imperialism": https://www.marxistbooks.com/collections/books/products/colossus-the-rise-and-decline-of-us-imperialism 📰 Get The Communist issue 9: https://www.marxistbooks.com/collections/magazines/products/the-communist-issue-9-december-2024

With no stability in the world at the end of 2024, what can we expect from 2025? Our comrade, Fred Weston answers at the Central Committee of the RCA. ✊ Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join 🚩 Donate to build your party: https://communistusa.org/donate 📕 Pre-order "Colossus: The Rise and Decline of US Imperialism": https://www.marxistbooks.com/collections/books/products/colossus-the-rise-and-decline-of-us-imperialism 📰 Get The Communist issue 8: https://www.marxistbooks.com/products/the-communist-issue-8-november-2024

A discussion on pragmatism with our comrades in NYC. As Trotsky put it, “pragmatism . . . is the greatest curse of American thought. You must inoculate younger comrades against its infection.” This philosophy can creep into our work if we do not consciously fight it with Marxist theory. 📕 Pre-order "Colossus: The Rise and Decline of US Imperialism": https://www.marxistbooks.com/collections/books/products/colossus-the-rise-and-decline-of-us-imperialism ✊ Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join/ 🚩 Donate to build your party: https://communistusa.org/donate/ 📰 Get The Communist issue 8: https://www.marxistbooks.com/products/the-communist-issue-8-november-2024

What is imperialism? NYC communists of the RCA discuss different angles of this topic, from Lenin's time to today. 📕 Pre-order Colossus: The Rise and Decline of US Imperialism: https://www.marxistbooks.com/collections/books/products/colossus-the-rise-and-decline-of-us-imperialism ✊ Join the fight against imperialism: https://communistusa.org/join/ 🚩 More analysis on imperialism from the RCI: https://www.youtube.com/@AgainsttheStream 🚩 Donate to build your party: https://communistusa.org/donate/ 📰 Get The Communist issue 8: https://www.marxistbooks.com/products/the-communist-issue-8-november-2024