Join us as we look at the East Palestine Rail Disaster that occurred on February 3rd, 2023, and analyze why it happened and what happened after the event. This class is being presented by the Railway Action Committee of the Labor Commission of the Party of Communists USA!

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Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction

1:30 1980 Staggers Rail Act

5:10 Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR)

7:40 Video: ECP Braking Could've Mitigated Disaster

10:15 Q&A 1

18:15 The Derailment

23:00 Video from More Perfect Union

28:45 Second Video from More Perfect Union

31:35 Q&A 2

39:00 The Aftermath

45:05 Q&A 3

51:35 The Aftermath, continued

55:10 Q&A 4 and Conclusion

1:11:00 Song: JP Wright - Railroad Man

Join us as we read from V. I. Lenin, W. Z. Foster, Earl Browder, and others on the necessity of building broad coalitions in the fight against fascism. This is a very important class that we want all our comrades to pay close attention to and implement in their work.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction

1:05 Sectarianism and its Consequences

2:15 Reading from Lenin's "Left-Wing Communism", chapter 6

3:35 The CPUSA and the LaFollette Movement

4:40 Reading from W. Z. Foster's "History of the CPUSA", chapter 15

6:35 Q&A 1

15:15 Coalition Building - The People's Front Against Fascism

16:45 Reading from Browder's "The People's Front", chapter 10

18:40 The French Communist Party's "Outstretched Hand"

21:15 Q&A 2

34:45 The Popular Front in Practice

35:05 Reading from "The Communist International, Volume III"

37:55 Q&A 3

50:25 Conclusion

Join us for the second half of our class on the last year of war in Ukraine! We will be covering events from the Nordstream 2 sabotage up to the present day, as well as presenting vital maps and statistics on the conflict so we can better understand how this war is going for everyone involved.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Sacred War

2:40 Introduction

5:50 Phase 3: September 12 - November 9

7:50 Phase 4: November 10 - Present

8:50 November & December 2022

10:35 January 2023

11:50 Q&A 1

35:30 February 2023

37:30 Video: Biden Addresses NATO Allies in Poland

42:25 "They Started the War" - Putin's Annual Address to the Nation

46:30 March 2023

48:30 Article in The Worker - "Ukraine and the 'Revolutionary' Phrasemakers"

1:01:25 Q&A 2

1:06:30 Statistics

1:12:50 Q&A 3 and Conclusion

To end off Black History Month here in the United States, the Black Liberation Commission of the Party of Communists USA (PCUSA) presents a class on Black Communists of the 20th Century. Please join us and learn about the wonderful contributions of these comrades to our movement.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction

0:55 The Age of Proletarian Revolution

2:20 Harry Haywood

3:35 The Scottsboro Boys

4:40 Angelo Herndon

5:40 James W. Ford

6:35 Q&A 1

20:05 The Anti-Fascist Period

22:15 The Post-War McCarthy Period

22:50 Paul Robeson Testifying At the House Un-American Activities Committee

34:30 Claudia Jones

35:10 Esther Cooper Jackson

35:40 Rosa Parks

36:10 W. E. B. DuBois

37:10 Q&A 2

55:45 Civil Rights Era

56:15 Henry Winston

58:20 Paul Robeson

59:25 Conclusion

This class gives an overview of events in the first year of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine. We touch on important flashpoints, such as the US sabotage of the Nordstream 2 pipeline.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction

1:50 Pre-Conflict

9:15 - Q&A 1

26:50 - February 2022

27:55 Putin Announces the Special Military Operation

32:45 First stage: February to April 2022

34:35 Second stage: April to September 2022

36:15 Q&A 2

59:50 The US Sabotage of the Nordstream 2 Pipeline

1:05:05 "How America Took Out the Nordstream 2 Pipeline" by Seymour Hersh

1:17:15 Q&A3 and Conclusion

1:25:00 "Donbass is Behind Us" song

Comrade Kayla Popuchet of the PCUSA speaks on Midwestern Marx with an analysis of contemporary fascism in Ukraine.

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Professor Barry Lituchy speaks at the Left Forum in 2015 on the history of fascism in Ukraine up to the present day.

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The Multipolar World II - PSMLS Class by PSMLS

Join us for a class presented by the Peace and Solidarity Commission of the Party of Communists USA on the emerging Multipolar World. This first class will focus on current developments in Europe and East Asia.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction

1:40 BRICS

2:50 Shanghai Cooperation Organization

4:30 Q&A 1

15:00 Europe: From Gladio to Ukraine

15:30 Operation Gladio

17:20 NATO's Drive Eastward

19:00 US-backed Coup in Ukraine

22:30 Mass Demonstrations

23:20 Pyotr Simonenko

24:50 Ukraine's Attempt to Provoke NATO

26:00 Q&A 2

38:30 China and Taiwan

41:00 Xinjiang and the "Uyghur Genocide"

46:25 DPRK and South Korea

48:20 India

49:45 The Peasant Movement

51:25 Final Q&A

59:25 Conclusion

The Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents a reading of "The Crisis of the Black Panther Party" wrote by comrade Henry Winston in 1973 as part of his work entitled "Strategy for a Black Agenda: A Critique of New Theories of Liberation in the United States and Africa." Included as well is a preface to this writing by Jake Fund.

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