Category: Memorials
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Hold Your Own Red Flags High, Until We Retake the Banner of the Commune
By Comrade Kagi Editor’s note: Two days ago on March 18 the global proletariat marked the 153rd anniversary of the foundation of the Paris Commune. In honor of this historic occasion, we have taken a look back on the history of the commune’s most powerful and well known symbol, the red flag. In July 1924, Anna…
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Vigil in Norman to Remember the Life of Nex Benedict
“I know that Owasso isn’t the only school district where queer children suffer, there is an epidemic of violence aimed at queer youth especially in Oklahoma because our state superintendent Ryan Walters and other elected officials perpetuate dangerous rhetoric,” Marley Hutchins said, an Owasso High School Alum.
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Special Release: Lenin Walks Around the World 100 Years After His Death
By Chairwoman Elaine The great revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin passed away on this day in 1924. One of the greatest political leaders of the 20th Century, Lenin led the working and oppressed masses of Russia to a new stage of human development with the 1917 Revolution, wherein the working class seized political power for the…
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Special Release: Lenin
By Langston Hughes Editor’s Note: On the occasion of the centenary of Lenin’s death, we at The Masses have decided to republish this short poem written by Langston Hughes. Lenin walks around the world.Frontiers cannot bar him.Neither barracks nor barricades impede.Nor does barbed wire scar him. Lenin walks around the world.Black, brown, and white receive…
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Celebrating the 130th Anniversary of Chairman Mao’s Birth
By Comrade Ali Our great teacher, Mao Zedong was born on this day one hundred and thirty years ago, in the year 1893. His contributions to Marxism-Leninism are now understood as having raised the science to its third and highest stage, Maoism. He developed his ideas through intense struggle against imperialism, nationalism, and revisionism. These struggles were…
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Memorializing Chairman Gonzalo
By Chairwoman Elaine On this day, two years ago, the great revolutionary Manuel Rubén Abimael Guzmán Reynoso, aka Chairman Gonzalo (Dec. 3, 1934 – Sept. 11, 2021), lost his life while incarcerated by the Peruvian state. The achievements and contributions of Gonzalo are many. Just over two decades after constituting the Communist Party of Peru…