Comrade Val There’s a myth that I’m sure a lot of us have heard time and time again: that it gets better. Dan Savage started the It Gets Better project in September of 2010 in response to the deluge of suicides by queer youth that year. I was 16 at the time, struggling with my own gender and sexuality, and I vividly remember reading about each suicide … Continue reading Faerie Fire: On Revolutionary Queer History: Part Two
Anonymous In Spring of 2021, I journeyed to northern California, looking for work on an “outlaw” pot farm. The weed economy in California is quasi-legal, with the federal, state, and local pigs still enforcing draconian laws against marijuana cultivation and distribution. There are no rights for the people who work in the cannabis industry, no legal protections or framework respected by the authorities. Drive around … Continue reading An Account from The Pot Fields of Northern California
I.) On the International Situation US imperialism, the number one threat to continued existence of humanity, continues to sow war and coup plots the world over. This is to be expected, the enemy will remain the enemy. When we speak of imperialism, we of course also speak of what Nkrumah called “the last stage” of imperialism, which is neocolonialism. Lenin defines imperialism as, essentially, the … Continue reading It Won’t Stop Until We Stop It: Joint International Workers’ Day 2021 Statement From 10 FTP Chapters
“When we consider the onslaught of mental illness among the people of our country, we also must conclude that it’s not simply a problem of isolated individuals with faulty brain chemistry; it’s a social problem which is rooted in social conditions. We are not born broken. Capitalism is breaking us.” Continue reading On Mental Health and Revolutionary Discipline
Boston, MA When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the shores of so-called America back in early March 2020, Boston schools threatened to shut down. While school closures were bad because they affected food access and working families who rely on them for childcare, they were also a necessary measure for ensuring the pandemic didn’t spread. This led to a small group of activists from several different … Continue reading SSD Speaks: One Year Later—Our Successes, Failures, and Future
Comrades in FTP-STL (For the People – Saint Louis) read and discussed the Open Letter “The Best of My Life was in the NPA” by Ka Maria Nel of the Cordillera People’s Democratic Front in the Philippines after this week’s general body meeting. Comrades discussed what struck them the most about this piece and what can be learned from it. The responses are below: AU: … Continue reading FTP-STL Speaks: On “The Best Of My Life Was in the NPA”
By: Comrade Toussaint Redditors, many of whom were frequenters of the subreddit r/wallstreetbets, had the financial world all atwitter this week as shares of Gamestop (GME) rose exponentially, closing at $347.51 on Wednesday. On Thursday, shares peaked at $483.00. A week before, it was trading at just under $40. These relatively small actors are being widely discussed and blamed for driving up the price of … Continue reading Retail Investors on Reddit Blamed By Finance Capitalists for Gamestop Short Squeeze – Communists and the Stock Market
PVN Editors We have only just now read the email from Tribune editors. We understand the objections made to our article and would like to extend an apology for our delay in responding. We will rectify our work by improving our internal and external communications as Peoples Voice News, which includes being on top of our emails. The reply by the Tribune was completely unacceptable. … Continue reading A Response to Tribune of the People
By: Comrade Toussaint SAINT LOUIS: The Saint Louis City Board of Aldermen granted more support to the anti-people surveillance program referred to by the masses and those with their ear to the ground simply as the “Spy Plane” program on Friday. Board Bill 200 was passed by the Public Safety Committee of the BOA on January 5 of this year. This program will allow a … Continue reading “Spy Plane” Program Sneaking into Saint Louis: Ruling Class Puppets on Board of Aldermen Give Support
By Kevin ” Rashid” Johnson, Minister of Defense, RIBPP Note: We publish this in solidarity with the comrades of the Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party (RIBPP). We, like many, were shocked and amazed at the level of duplicity and manipulative behavior of Tom Watts and his now exposed record of cultural appropriation (pretending to be Indigenous), meddling in the affairs of New Afrikan revolutionary organizations, … Continue reading SHATTERING THE LOOKING GLASS AND EXPOSING THE SETTLER HIDING BEHIND IT: A Response On Behalf Of The Central Committee Of The RIBPP To “Through The Looking Glass”
By: Khalil Ibrahim At the risk of sounding like a tour guide, New Orleans is a city that lives in the imagination of the world. The influence of this cultural melting pot can be seen everywhere, from the music and food, to the nightlife and tourism, the meeting of Afrikan, Indigenous, Haitian, French, Spanish, and Italian cultures created a place unlike any other. Even before … Continue reading Won’t Bow Down: A Class Analysis of the Greater New Orleans Area
Note: This article and others submitted to People’s Voice News are in no way representative of the views of any particular FTP branch unless the article is described as being written by a particular FTP branch collectively or is signed by FTP branches. Comrade Toussaint The bogeyman of “postmodernism” has been raised by dogmato-revisionists the world over to justify all sorts of reactionary behavior and … Continue reading Opinion: On Incendiary News and its Milieu: Against Dogmato-Revisionist Bogeymen, Sectarianism and Opportunism
Note: This is the redacted version of a resolution passed during the 2020 Conference which dismantled the national structure of the MCP-OC. The national structure which existed up to that point — any future national structure will be dictated by the concrete conditions of the Amerikan situation. The Party as it must exist is built by the work on the ground and line struggle between … Continue reading Public Resolutions from the Second Conference of the Maoist Communist Party – Organizing Committee
By: Huey Dessalines CARMEL, INDIANA: Black physician Dr. Susan Moore died on December 20th, 2020, after making a video exposing the barbaric treatment she received at the hands of colonizer physicians and nurses at IU Health North Hospital. Dr. Moore takes to task the racist “physician”, Bannec, for a variety of objective crimes against the medical profession, namely, denying potentially lifesaving treatment to a patient … Continue reading Rest In Power Dr. Susan Moore: Servant of the People and Exposer of Racist Abuses in American Medicine During COVID-19 Pandemic
By: FTP-Chicago On Monday, December 14th, body cam footage was released on CBS 2 of a pig raid from February 21, 2019, exposing the harassment and abuse of a Black woman by the Chicago pig department. The footage shows twelve pigs approaching a home with semi-automatic rifles, a battering ram, and a crowbar. They yell “search warrant!” and immediately begin knocking down the door. Anjanette … Continue reading On the Anjanette Young Case: State Corruption and Movementism
