The Comintern of 1935 tasked all Communists to become the patriots of their countries against fascism. We will focus on the campaign led by the Daily Worker journalist Lester Rodney, under the leadership of the Party to make “Communism 20th century Americanism,” by writing in the press, creating YCL-led picketing, and collecting petitions to integrate Black athletes into the Major Baseball League. Learn about all of the greatest names of baseball-stars of the Negro Baseball League like Jackie Robinson, Satchel Paige, Willard “Homerun” Brown. It was the Communists that made the most vigorous effort in the fight for desegregation in America’s most loved sport. So, “buy some peanuts and some crackerjacks, and root root root for the working class,” and join us at the Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies. The class is on Tuesday, July 16th at 8:00 PM EDT/5:00 PM PDT.
Next week’s class will be a collaboration with the Harry Bridges School of Labor on the Life of Harry Bridges on Tuesday, July 23rd at 8 pm EDT/5 pm PDT.
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If you’re new to PSMLS, the school provides free public collective education every week on Tuesday on a variety of topics from a Marxist-Leninist perspective. You don’t have to be a member of anything or identify as any certain ideology to attend. The PSMLS is a Party of Communists USA initiated and sponsored school, but it is not a party school, which is great because it allows for a wide variety of different perspectives and opinions to be brought forth which don’t necessarily reflect the party line. If you are interested, you can join the PCUSA as an associate member at https://partyofcommunistsusa.net/join-the-pcusa/ or just check them out at partyofcommunistsusa.net.
Help spread the word about the Peoples School by spreading our propaganda! You can find printable flyers, stickers, business cards and brochures at peoplesschool.us/media, and you can post them up, leave them somewhere or hand them out to other working class Americans. Feel free to take a picture of them being distributed show we can show our propaganda being spread across the nation! You can also promote the school AND support us by buying our Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies merchandise from our CafePress store linked at peoplesschool.us/store. You can find PSMLS apparel, phone accessories, magnets, stickers, pins, office supplies, cups and more there and you can also find the storefront of our sponsor, the Party of Communists USA there as well.
As always, be sure to support our partner publishing house, New Outlook Publishers! They have many books on Marxism-Leninism and contributions from fellow travelers of the communist movement as well. They also have texts compiled and published from commissions and other bodies of the Party of Communists USA, and are putting out the new releases of recently continued works of old like The Communist and New Masses. You can find them at newoutlookpublishers.store and when you purchase from New Outlook Publishers, you support the PCUSA and the PSMLS!
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