by Raina McCaslin With the new calendar year barely turned to 2026, the Trump regime has already made significant headway in demonstrating its ongoing hostility towards working class communities. Five key “blue” states– including California, Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Minnesota– are now facing the possible freezing of $10 billion in government assistance to childcare […]
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Self-Development Is Not Individualism Individualism teaches: improve yourself so you can dominate others, escape them, or stand apart from them. Revolutionary self-development teaches: develop yourself so you can be useful, reliable, and effective within collective struggle. These are opposites. A worker who studies theory, improves their communication, maintains physical and mental health, and carries themselves
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Continuation from Part 2 – Raising Reds Review The final chapter before the conclusion “Primers for Revolution” brings up a lot of different communist and socialist children’s literature and how best to teach young children. Its amazing that Communist as early as the 1920’s and 1930s were writing stories that broke racial and cultural barriers decades before the civil rights movement in the USA. I think an interesting point by the author after
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Continuation from Part 1 – Raising Reds Review In chapter 2 Mishler gives account of the preceding theories on child rearing, education, and family life developed by radicals and communist before and during the time of communism. Bebel and their theory of free love is discussed heavily and how his theory was extremely popular among German socialist because its simple language to express their yearning for a better world. Mishler says “The popularity of ‘women under socialism’ points to the strong
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Youth reject U.S. aggression against Venezuela On January 3rd, 2026, after years of sanctions and covert attempts of destabilizing and intimidating the proud and sovereign people Venezuela, US imperialism reared its ugly face with the historic illegal bombing of civilian targets and the kidnapping of democratically-elected president Nicolas Maduro. Nations and youth groups all over
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Against Ascetic Moralism and Liberal Individualism One of the most persistent confusions within contemporary socialist politics concerns the role of the individual. On one side, we are confronted with bourgeois individualism: the ideology that treats society as nothing more than a collection of isolated atoms, each responsible only for their own private success or failure.
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by Brian Nunez For parts 1, 2, and 3 click here, here, and here. From Romanticism to Revolution Despair and romanticizing revolution are both alien to Communist youth. This rejection embodies a future of rising out of the ruins of a decaying economic system. The model youth communist studies like an engineer, organizes like a
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by Brian Nunez Paul Mishler wrote a fascinating book, Raising Reds, about children being brought up by members of the Communist Party in America. This book offers a valuable historical study of how American communist, and the Communist Party (CPUSA) made efforts in the early 20th century to organize and educate working class youth in summer camps, and young people’s organizations. Raising Reds provides us with an opportunity to analyze successes and weaknesses in how we influence young people today. Mishler provides a detailed account of the CPUSA’s social activities. In the Author’s introduction, there was a
by Brian Nunez For parts 1 and 2 click here and here. The Party and the Youth Above all, the model Communist youth understands that without the Party, discipline and study amounts to unfulfilled results. The Party is the highest school of revolutionary development. It is where individual enthusiasm turns into collective power. The Party
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By Cal McCaslin Anyone who has grown up in the U.S. is no stranger to the idea that with hard work and determination, one will surely be rewarded with affluence and luxury. “If you work hard, you can one day be like us” has long been a manipulative tactic on behalf of the oligarchs to
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