The People’s School for Marxist-Leninist Studies

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Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction

0:45 Claudia Jones

7:45 Q&A 1

13:20 W. E. B. DuBois

23:10 Q&A 2

34:30 Other Black Communists

41:10 Q&A 3 and Conclusion

Join the PSMLS as we watch and discuss the RT documentary "Black in the USSR", which tells the story of African-American immigrants who found a home in the Soviet Union and their experience in the world’s first workers state. This is a presentation from the Black Liberation Commission of the Party of Communists USA along with US Friends of the Soviet People to highlight what it was like for Black people in the USSR, something that isn’t often discussed in American media and political rhetoric.

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Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.us

Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net

US Friends of the Soviet People: usfriendsofthesovietpeople.info

Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction

1:00 Black Bolshevik - Autobiography of Harry Haywood

6:30 Q&A 1

18:25 Blacks in the USSR

31:00 Q&A 2

41:10 Blacks in the USSR, continued

53:50 Q&A 3

1:03:10 Paul Robeson's Speech to HUAC - June 1956

1:14:30 Q&A 4 and Conclusion

The PSMLS presents a class on the 79th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz, featuring Professor Barry Lituchy, Director of the Jasenovac Research Institute.

The Jasenovac Research Institute was founded on the belief that the failure to learn the lessons of the genocide committed against Serbs, Jews and Gypsies during the Second World War rests at the very core of recent events in the Balkans.

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Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.us

Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net

Jasenovac Research Institute: https://www.jasenovac.org/

Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction

6:30 Beginning of video on Auschwitz Concentration Camp

15:20 Q&A with Barry Lituchy

1:21:10 Conclusion

January 27th, 2024 marks 80 years since the infamous Siege of Leningrad came to an end with a Soviet victory that foreshadowed the ultimate Nazi defeat. As we have done before with the 80th Anniversaries of famous parts of the Great Patriotic War such as the Victory at Stalingrad, Battle of Kursk and Liberation of Ukraine, we will hold a class to study this siege and honor those who fought to hold off the fascists from Leningrad for nearly 900 days. Over 1.5 million people lost their lives during this siege. We will be using the “Siege of Leningrad” film from the Soviet Film Archive project of US Friends of the Soviet People for parts of the class.

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Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.us

Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net

Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction

1:25 Background: Poland, Finland, and Operation Barbarossa

15:00 Q&A 1

32:10 Video - The Siege of Leningrad - Soviet Film Project

43:30 Q&A 2

54:40 Video - The Siege of Leningrad, continued

1:07:20 Q&A 3

1:12:30 Video - The Siege of Leningrad, continued

1:23:20 Q&A 4 and Conclusion

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Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.us

Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net

Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction

1:00 Background: The Soviet Constitution of 1977

7:15 Q&A 1

15:55 Film - In the USSR, the Right to Work

34:25 Q&A 2

45:30 Film - In the USSR, the Right to Housing

1:02:10 Q&A 3 and Conclusion

This class is our next installment in this series on the history of U.S. imperialism. With the last class leaving us at the end of the Cold War and the counter-revolution in the Soviet Union, we will now cover the subsequent rise of American unipolarity. This class spans from 1991-2005. First we will address the counter-revolution in the USSR and counter-revolutions across the world at the beginning of the 1990’s, as well as US/NATO intervention in Iraq, Kuwait, Bosnia and more during the decade. The second section will cover the September 11th terrorist attacks and the beginning of the so-called “War on Terror” with the launch of invasions in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as expanded intervention abroad. Lastly we will address the domestic and trade issues of the time, such as NAFTA, the PATRIOT ACT, the Democratic Party change under Clinton and more.

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Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.us

Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net

Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction

2:10 Clinton, Yeltsin, NATO and Transnational Corporations

11:10 Q&A 1

45:35 US in the Middle East: Gulf War, September 11th, and the War on Terror

52:00 Video - General Wesley Clark "We're going to take out seven countries in five years."

56:20 Q&A 2

1:10:00 Domestic and Trade Issues

1:16:20 Q&A 3 and Conclusion

The PSMLS presents a class on "The Popular Front" by Earl Browder, former CPUSA General Secretary. We will be explaining the concept of the Popular Front strategy and how it would be significant in 2024, as well as discussing the Ultraleftist Trotskyite position on the Popular Front.

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Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.us

Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net

Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction

2:30 Background: Earl Browder

8:10 Q&A 1

33:30 The American Tradition

38:10 Q&A 2

50:40 The Popular Front, Democracy, and the Constitution

55:30 Q&A 3

1:17:20 Trotskyism (Ultraleft) Position on the Popular Front

1:25:50 Q&A 4 and Conclusion

This week's class was on Soviet Holiday cartoons along with a short history of the celebrations of the holidays in the USSR. We showed a variety of cartoons from the Soviet Union from the 1920s to the 1970s.

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Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.us

Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net

Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction

1:00 Video - The New Year's Tree - 1948

11:40 Soviet Holiday Celebrations Before the Revolution

13:40 Q&A 1

20:30 Video - Soviet Toys - 1924

31:30 Video - Interplanetary Revolution - 1924

39:30 Q&A 2

43:20 Video - What Hitler Wants - 1941

45:30 Video - A Farce in 3 Acts - 1941

48:55 Video - To You, Moscow - 1941

56:50 Q&A 3

1:00:40 Video - The Nutcracker, 1973

1:07:10 Video - American Imperialist - Millionaire - 1963

1:13:30 Conclusion

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Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.us

Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net

Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction

1:20 The Soviet Union on the Two State Solution

7:50 Q&A 1

38:30 The Ideological Stance of the Soviet Union Towards the Israel-Palestine Issue

49:00 Q&A 2

1:17:20 Soviet Relationships with the Middle East After 1948

1:22:55 Q&A 3 and Conclusion

The Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents chapter 1 of Lenin's monumental work "Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism", addressing the concentration of production and monopolies under imperialism. #Lenin #Leninism #Leninists #Imperialism #Imperialismo #Capitalism #Communism #Socialism #Marxism #MarxismLeninism #PSMLS #PCUSA

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