Communist Voice
a magazine of revolutionary theory
Communist Voice -- the successor to the Workers' Advocate -- works for the rebirth of
communism by fighting for anti-revisionist Marxism-Leninism. It opposes both market
capitalism and the state-capitalist regimes (such as Cuba or China today or Russia and most of
Eastern Europe yesterday) which falsely call themselves socialist or communist. It deals with the
world crisis of revolutionary theory, analyzes what happened to the revolutionary movements of
the past, and opposes Stalinism, Trotskyism, anarchism and reformism. The day will come when
revolutionary communism is once again the banner of the militant proletariat in struggle for its
liberation.
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What's new
- The August 20, 2008 issue of Communist Voice has now appeared, and the full text of all its
articles is posted here.
- On the elections: against the free-market agendas of McCain and Obama -- Detroit Workers'
Voice #75, August 12, 2008
- CVO's Frank Arango and FSP's Kathleen Merrigan continue the debate over whether to
support the Iraqi people against both imperialism and fundamentalism, or to follow the FSP's
stand of allying with fundamentalism in the name of backing the Iraqi resistance. Frank
Arango exposes FSP's attempt to "have it both ways in the class struggle" -- "to support
valiant women and working class organizers in Iraq, and at the same time support forces that
suppress and murder them". Read Arango's statement of July 11 and Merrigan's of April 30.
- New historical articles have been added to the site under the new subject headings "History of
the CPUSA", "Militant united front tactics vs. the 7th Congress of the Comintern", and "The
black national question in the U.S." See under "Past articles by subject".
- Shame on the UAW leadership! The American Axle strike is over. The workers struck
against outrageous wage cuts and other concessions demanded by AAM management. They
held out defiantly for three months, but the sell-out UAW leadership had agreed to most of
AAM's demands from the start. A wage-cutting contract was forced on the workers by the
collaboration of the UAW national leadership and AAM. Despite this conclusion, the
sacrifices of the AAM strikers has not been for naught. They will be remembered. But the
outcome of the strike shows the need for workers to have independent rank-and-file
organization, committed to the class struggle, that can stand up to the sell-out business
unionism of the dominant leadership of the present-day unions. For the issues in the strike,
see:
--reject the wage-cutting contract! (Detroit Workers' Voice #74, May 17, 2008)
--Support the American Axle strikers! Detroit Workers' Voice #72, March 20, 2008.
For more about how the UAW leadership has been bowing down to the auto companies, see
--The sellout unionism of the UAW leadership and the class strugle alternative (Communist
Voice, February, 2008).
- But it's not just today that the UAW national leadership sabotages strikes, they were also
doing it back in the days of its formation. It was not the business unionist leaders, but the
combination of a mass upsurge and rank-and-file organization that led to the successful
sit-down strikes of the 1930s. See:
--The CPUSA'S work in auto and the change in line of the mid-1930's
- Workers of all nationalities, support full rights for all immigrant workers! (Detroit Workers'
Voice #73, May 1, 2008)
- More on the cooperative anarchism of Ben Seattle, planning,
and the role of the proletarian party:
Eric replies to Ben Seattle, April 14, 2008.
- The full text of the February 20, 2008 issue of Communist Voice is posted here, with articles
on health care; Al Gore and the fiascos of corporate environmentalism; the anti-war
movement; the Trotskyist FSP glorifies fundamentalism in Iraq; on the tasks of Leninism on
the 90th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution; and a reply to Ben Seattle on his proposal to
replace "socialism" with "proletarism".
- Detroit Workers' Voice #71: Presidential candidates in the pocket of the private health
insurers: private insurance can't bring universal coverage (January 15, 2008)
- Keep on demonstrating! On the role of protests in building the anti-war movement, leaflet by
the Seattle Anti-Imperialist Committee, Nov. 16, 2007.
- Mobilize against bipartisan imperialism! US out of Iraq now! -- leaflet by the CVO, October
27, 2007.
- While Bush and the Democrats squabble over war strategies, we say: Down with the imperialist
occupation of Iraq! -- leaflet of the Seattle Anti-Imperialist Committee, October 4, 2007
- The Swedish Marxist-Leninists of the Red Dawn Working Group have published the first
issue of Rod Gryning (Red Dawn). The introduction to this issue as well as some key
resolutions of the RDWG are available in English.
Where we stand
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Past articles by subject
--- THE FREE MARKET VS. THE ENVIRONMENT ---
Global warming, pollution, mass welfare, and the failure of market-based solutions such as
carbon trading
--- AROUND THE WORLD: capitalism, imperialism, and the class struggle ---
--- HEALTH CARE IS A RIGHT! ---
--- STRIKES AND UNIONS ---
--- AGAINST RACISM AND IN DEFENSE OF FULL RIGHTS FOR IMMIGRANTS ---
--- ON STATE-CAPITALIST REGIMES ---
--- SOME PRINCIPLES OF MARXISM-LENINISM ---
--- THE FIGHT AGAINST REVISIONISM ---
--- THE ANARCHIST DEAD-END ---
--- MISCELLANEOUS ---
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Tables of contents and many articles from
past issues
Detroit Workers' Voice leaflets
- Issue #75 August 12, 2008. McCain and Obama side with the rich. Workers! We need our
own class movement against the corporations and their political servants!
- Issue #74 May 17, 2008. American Axle strikers -- reject the wage-cutting contract!
- Issue #71 Jan. 15, 2008. Presidential candidates campaign for private insurance profits
- Issue #68 September 27, 2007: Postal management tries to steal injured workers' jobs,
pensions, and benefits
- Issue #67 September 3, 2007.
(1) The surge won't work and the occupation can't be fixed -- US imperialism, get out of Iraq!
(2) For national health care, not private insurance!/Sicko portrays the many tragedies under
marketplace medicine
- Issue #64 May 1, 2007. Full rights for all immigrant workers, now!
- Issue #61 September 29, 2006. For a working-class struggle against US imperialism's attacks
on the peoples of the Middle East
- Issue #59 July 22, 2006. Down with Israel's murderous attacks on the Lebanese and
Palestinian peoples!
- Issue #53 Oct. 17, 2005. Survival of the richest: the Gulf Hurricanes crisis.
- Issue #48. May 13, 2005. The question facing the Million Worker March national conference
of May 14-15 in Detroit: What path toward an independent workers' movement -- building the
rank-and-file struggle or illusions in the liberal Democrats?
- More links to DWV leaflets
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