This special session features dialogue between our 2025 NPC candidates. Take a listen to see what we're looking forward to, what we've learned from our time on the NPC already, and what Red Star is bringing to the NPC in 2025.

This is a reading of Marta Harnecker's "Ideas for the Struggle", read by Red Star member Megan Romer.

Red Star member Zoe interviews outgoing NPC members Jenbo and Jen M along with Red Star NPC candidates Megan R and John L about the past two NPC terms, what they've learned and what they've accomplished, and what our hopes are for the upcoming DSA convention and NPC term.

Red Star member Matt interviews EWOC volunteer and Communist Caucus member Matthew about EWOC, local EWOC, and different approaches to labor organizing in DSA.

00:00 - LeftRoots, "Protagonism, Socialist Leadership, and Socialist Organizing"

49:12 - Harnecker, "Ideas for the Struggle: Convince, Not Impose"

53:50 - Michael Lebowitz, "Protagonism and Productivity"

An audio recording for the 6/21 RED START reading hosted by @hanginoutonline Sam Heft-Luthy.

Timestamps:

0:28 - "Dialectical Materialism" from Constructive Criticism

12:30 - Afterword to the Second German Edition of Capital — by Karl Marx

20:15 - Fragments on Dialectics - from "Dialectics of Nature" by Frederick Engels

41:43 - The Principal Contradiction and the Principal Aspects of a Contradiction — From “On Contradiction” by Mao Zedong

This is a book reading of excerpts from Marta Harnecker's "Rebuilding the Left."

An edited live recording of comrade Michael's Red Start session on the second half of Lenin's "Imperialism: Highest Stage of Capitalism" (recorded September 7, 2022). In this session, comrade Michael explains Venture Capitalism from a socialist perspective and extends Lenin's theory to more modern economic developments.

An edited live recording of comrade Joseph's Red Start session on the first half of Lenin's "Imperialism: Highest Stage of Capitalism" (recorded August 31, 2022).

An edited live recording of comrade Greg's Red Start session on George Jackson's "Blood In My Eye" (recorded August, 2022).