“Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement” – Vladimir Lenin, “What is to be done”, 1902

This Week’s Class

This week’s class will be reading and discussing the Molotov-Ribbentropp Pact and the Cold War misconceptions endemic to the topic.

Please join us August 27 at 8:00 pm EST/5:00 pm PST.

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The Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies is part of a long line of American communist party sponsored schools, such as the Workers Schools, the Jefferson School of Social Science, the Center for Marxist Education and the Peoples School for Marxist Studies. We were founded in 2016, and have come a long way from classes on conference calls to professional weekly virtual classes, and will continue striving to bring Marxist-Leninist education to the masses. The classes cost nothing and the knowledge is worth everything!

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LUEL Southern members went out last week to join the @CWAUnion workers picket at AT&T in Coral Springs, FL. LUEL stands in solidarity with these workers as they are now in their thrid week on strike.
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Members from LUEL Mid-Atlantic Chapter marched today in the Labor Day Parade at @LaborMuseum in Haledon, NJ. The American Labor Museum, aka the Botto House was the meeting place for striking workers during the 1913 Paterson Silk Strike

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30 Aug

“The Unquiet Death of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg” details the events surrounding the trial and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on June 19, 1953. It includes interviews, filmed decades later, from several individuals who were involved in the case.

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