US Friends of the Soviet People Presents: Victory Day 2024
The People’s School for Marxist-Leninist Studies
Release Date: 01/07/2025
Communism vs Fascism - PSMLS Class
The People’s School for Marxist-Leninist Studies
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, which is the most openly terrorist, chauvinist, and imperialist form of finance capital. The Disney cartoon parodying Nazi Germany can be found here:...
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The Panama Canal and Its Role in Imperialism - PSMLS Class
The People’s School for Marxist-Leninist Studies
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. Visit us at: Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.us Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net New Outlook Publishers: newoutlookpublishers.store Timestamps: 1:03 Panama History: From Pre-Imperialism to US Imperialist Outpost 8:55 Q&A 1 18:55 Panama As US Imperialist...
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The Truth of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - PSMLS Class
The People’s School for Marxist-Leninist Studies
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, the peace loving Americans and the people of the world shall never be duped into supporting nuclear aggression anymore. Visit us at: Peoples School for...
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Fascism and Social Revolution - PSMLS Class
The People’s School for Marxist-Leninist Studies
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 written before the 7th Congress of the Communist International in August 1935, we supplement the text with later documents on the subject to reflect the Popular Front...
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Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact - PSMLS Class
The People’s School for Marxist-Leninist Studies
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 in the decade leading up to WWII. Britain and France as well as their allies refused to sign a collective security agreement and instead opted to a policy of...
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Desegregation of Baseball and the Popular Front - PSMLS Class
The People’s School for Marxist-Leninist Studies
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. Learn about all of the greatest names of baseball-stars of the Negro Baseball League like Jackie Robinson, Satchel Paige, Willard “Homerun” Brown. It was the Communists that made...
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The Life of Harry Bridges - PSMLS Class
The People’s School for Marxist-Leninist Studies
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. Visit us at: Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.us Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net New Outlook Publishers: newoutlookpublishers.store Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 2:00 Section 1 - Early Life 14:00 Q&A 1 19:10 Section 2 - US Arrival, Organizing the...
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Communist Position on the American Revolution - PSMLS Class
The People’s School for Marxist-Leninist Studies
This class will discuss the American Revolution and Declaration of Independence from a Historical Materialist point of view. Visit us at: 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 Start of the American Revolution 52:30 Q&A 3 1:03:50 Polemic Against Ultra-Left Narratives on the Revolution 1:13:50 Q&A 4 and Conclusion
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80th Anniversary of D-Day and Operation Bagration - PSMLS Class
The People’s School for Marxist-Leninist Studies
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 focusing on the Soviet perspective and paying tribute to the overlooked and obfuscated Eastern Theater as we have with previous classes. We will explore the lead-up...
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The Unquiet Death of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg - PSMLS Class
The People’s School for Marxist-Leninist Studies
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." Visit us at: 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&A 1 23:30 Film Clip 2 42:00 Q&A 2 49:30 Film Clip 3 1:00:00 Q&A 3 1:07:00 Conclusion - Ethel and Julius Rosenberg's Last Letter
info_outlineThe 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.
Visit us at:
Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.us
Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net
US Friends of the Soviet People: https://usfriendsofthesovietpeople.info/
New Outlook Publishers: newoutlookpublishers.store
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
14:05 Q&A 1
22:10 Victory Day 1945 Videos
33:40 Q&A 2
45:20 Comparing Victory Day in the Soviet Union to Today
51:25 Q&A 3
58:30 Conclusion