Long Live the Universal Contributions of Comrade Joseph Stalin

December 21, 2009 marks the 130th anniversary of the birth of Comrade Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin and working and oppressed people around the world will celebrate this historic date. To commemorate the birth of this outstanding proletarian revolutionary here are some quotes highlighting his achievements and contributions to Marxist-Leninist theory and to the cause of socialism.

Celebrate the 130th anniversary of the birth of Comrade Stalin!

This month, on December 21st, 2009, revolutionaries around the world will mark the 130th anniversary of the birth of Comrade J. V. Stalin, who along with Lenin, led the Great October Socialist Revolution to victory. After Lenin’s death, Stalin consolidated the victory of the USSR and strengthened the Soviet Party, beat back the counter-revolutionary Trotskyites and Bukharinites, paved [...]

Harry Haywood at the Marxists Internet Archive

Following the development of the Harry Haywood Internet Archive here at The Marxist-Leninist, the archive is now available at the Marxists Internet Archive (MIA). The material that is there now is from the MIA project, Encyclopedia of anti-Revisionism On-Line (EROL).
Most of the material hasn’t yet made it over to MIA, but thanks to the collaborative efforts [...]

Harry Haywood: For a Revolutionary Position on the Negro Question

The following important polemical 1958 pamphlet on the African American National Question by Harry Haywood is now available online thanks to the Encyclopedia of Antirevisionism Online (for context see Harry Haywood’s “The Degeneration of the CPUSA in the 1950s” which sums up the political struggles that this document was a part of):
The attention of the entire [...]

92nd Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution: Lenin and Stalin as Mass Leaders

To mark the 92nd anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution on November 7th 2009, I am posting the following article by William Z. Foster from 1939, “Lenin and Stalin as Mass Leaders“:
The great revolution of October, 1917, which abolished Russian capitalism and landlordism and set up the Soviet government, resulted in the establishment of socialism [...]

CPGB-ML: Study of Mao Zedong’s “On Contradiction”

The following is from the website of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist):
Theory: Mao’s ‘On contradiction’
A masterly exposition of how to use dialectics to change the world by the leader of the Chinese revolution.
Mao wrote the article ‘On contradiction’ in 1937 to explain the dialectical method of analysis. He did this to counter the [...]

Revolution in the Philippines and Marxist-Leninist Study

I have put together a comprensive study guide, broken up by subject, and shorter list of ten essential classics of Marxism-Leninism, all with the intention of making Marxist theory accessible, comprehensible, and practical, so that it may be used as weapon in the class struggle. In the same vein, here is an excerpt from Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought [...]

Celebrate the 90th Anniversary of China’s May 4th Movement

Today marks the 90th Anniversary of China’s May Fourth Movement, the movement of anti-feudal and anti-imperialist revolutionary students and youth out of which the Communist Party of China was born. In honor of this day, I am posting here two article by Mao Zedong from May 4th, 1939, “The May 4th Movement” and “The Orientation of the Youth [...]

Celebrate the Birthday of Comrade Lenin

To commemorate the 139th anniversary of the birth of Comrade Lenin, founder and leader of the Bolshevik Party, the Soviet Union, and the 3rd International (the Comintern), I’m posting this speech by Comrade Stalin, from January 28, 1924:
Lenin: A Speech Delivered at a Memorial Meeting of the Kremlin Military School
Comrades, I am told that you [...]

Norman Bethune: “Wounds”

The following article, “Wounds”, is by the Canadian communist and medical doctor, Norman Bethune, who died in China serving the revolution. It is a scathing critique of imperialist war.
The kerosene lamp overhead makes a steady buzzing sound like an incandescent hive of bees. Mud walls. Mud floor. Mud bed. White paper windows. Smell of blood and [...]

Two Articles by Mao Zedong on the African American National Question

The following two articles by Mao Zedong deal with the African American national liberation struggle and how it relates to the class struggle and the international revolutionary struggle against U.S. imperialism. I am posting them here, on December 26, 2008, to honor the 115th anniversary of the birth of Chairman Mao Zedong.

Mao Zedong’s Five Essays on Philosophy: Reading Notes

This is a collection of a series of reading notes as I work my way through Mao’s book, Five Essays on Philosophy. Some of this will expand upon material I’ve touched on in my article, Some Points on Stalin (and Mao). As I work through the book, I’ll add to this as time goes on. I’m doing this for two [...]