Episodes
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In this class, we will dive into the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the problems therein. We’ll learn about this history of NATO during the Cold War, and how the alliance postured itself against the USSR and the Warsaw Pact. Lastly, we will explore the history of NATO during the period of American Unipolarity in the wake of the counter-revolution in the USSR, and how NATO has exposed itself as an imperialist, pro-fascist organization.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:20 Origins and Creation of NATO
4:30 Text - Vital Problems of Our Time - The Evolution of NATO
7:50 Aftermath of World War 2
10:00 Q&A 1
19:10 History of NATO: Cold War
22:00 Text - Vital Problems of Our Time, continued
27:15 Early Years of NATO
32:00 Q&A 2
38:10 History of NATO: Unipolar World
41:40 PCUSA Statement on the 25th Anniversary of the NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia
47:00 NATO Since 1991
52:00 Q&A 3 and Conclusion -
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:30 On the Peoples Schule
4:00 The Spirit of the Warsaw Ghetto and Passover
9:00 Nazi Germany's Invasion of Poland
11:10 Video - The Warsaw Ghetto - US Holocaust Memorial Museum
18:15 Q&A 1
27:00 April 19 1943 - May 16 1943
31:00 Video - Clip from "The Pianist"
33:20 Q&A 2
46:00 Resistance
49:20 Was the Soviet Union a Passive Witness to Nazi Crimes in the Warsaw Ghetto?
54:50 The Gaza Ghetto - A Modern-Day Warsaw Ghetto
56:00 Q&A 3 and Conclusion -
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The PSMLS presents a long-awaited class on the Spanish Civil War, with an overview of the entire war itself and the different forces involved as well as the contribution of American communists to the Republican forces. We will also highlight the reactions and involvement of powers internationally, including a section on the USSR’s anti-fascist foreign policy.
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Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:30 Background and 1936
13:20 Video - The Siege of Madrid & Arrival of the Brigades
21:10 Q&A 1
34:30 1937
48:50 Q&A 2
56:45 Late War 1938-39
1:15:50 Conclusion -
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Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:00 Video - I Love My Land - Tribute to Women
14:30 Q&A 1
24:30 Video, continued
40:30 Q&A 2
48:45 Clara Zetkin - Lenin on the Woman Question
57:30 Q&A 3
1:07:00 Conclusion -
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:10 Video - History of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and Aftermath
10:00 Background of the Incident
13:20 Q&A 1
22:00 Second Video on Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
30:40 Women for Racial and Economic Equality Article on the Fire
36:00 "Downtown Women" Poem
40:00 Video - Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire 100 Years Later
45:50 Q&A 2
53:40 Video - Bangladesh - The Rana Plaza Tragedy
58:40 Formation of the ILGWU
1:01:20 Commemorations Video
1:08:10 Q&A 3 and Conclusion -
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Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction - History and Background of the 2024 World Youth Festival
7:00 Video - UN Press Conference from the American Delegation to the WFY
18:30 Q&A 1
27:30 Video - PCUSA International Secretary Interview with Russia Today's Don Courter
34:00 Video - American Communists Address Putin and Lavrov at Youth Festival in Sochi
44:00 Video - PCUSA International Secretary Asks a Question of Dmitry Peskov at the WFY
52:30 Q&A 2
1:08:00 Bilateral Meetings and Photos Between Groups at the World Youth Festival
1:15:00 Q&A 3 and Conclusion -
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Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:50 Video - Women's International Democratic Federation 1981 Congress
16:15 Q&A 1
20:10 Video - Women's International Democratic Federation, continued
35:20 Q&A 2
38:30 Video - Rude Awakening - Soviet Film Project (Soviet Jews and Israel)
48:30 Q&A 3
1:10:15 Scott Ritter - Israel is Reaping the Whirlwind
1:16:45 Q&A 4 and Conclusion -
This class is the SERIES FINALE in our series on the History of U.S. Imperialism, with a class on the Fall of American Unipolarity! This covers events and developments from 2020 to the present day. It focuses on the failure of American Imperialism abroad and the return of multipolarity in the world. This is an incredible milestone for our PSMLS as we complete a nine class series on U.S. Imperialism, starting from the very origins of it in the late 19th Century all the way up to the present moment.
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Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.us
Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net
New Outlook Publishers: newoutlookpublishers.store
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
2:00 2020-2021: Trump, Biden, and the Pandemic
12:30 Q&A 1
23:35 2022-2024: War. Genocide, and Nuclear Brinksmanship
33:00 Q&A 2
45:00 Rise of Multipolarity, Other Domestic Events
54:30 Q&A 3
1:11:40 Conclusion -
This class is a presentation from the Women’s Commission of the PCUSA on Women Communists: Then and Now, looking at women primarily from the latter half of the 20th century and who were Communists, or fellow travelers heavily involved with the Communist movement. Some women that will be touched on are Claudia Jones, Anne Braden, Angela Davis, Mariela & Vilma Castro, and more. …
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This class is a presentation from the Black Liberation Commission of the PCUSA on Henry Winston’s “Strategy for a Black Agenda.“ The principal focus of the book is a trenchant Marxist-Leninist analysis of neo-Pan-Africanism and Maoism. The similarities of the two ideologies as bourgeois nationalist trends are clearly exposed. Race, instead of class analysis of world events, separatism as opposed to unity, and fanatical anti-Sovietism, are the hallmarks revealing their reactionary essence.
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Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net
New Outlook Publishers: newoutlookpublishers.store
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:40 The Crisis of the Black Panthers
7:50 Q&A 1
13:10 Maoism and Black Liberation
15:00 The Meaning of San Rafael
23:20 Q&A 2
36:55 The Meaning of San Rafael Continued
44:00 Q&A 3
58:40 Conclusion -
This week we continue our series of the History of U.S. Imperialism with a class on the Height of American Unipolarity, covering events from 2005 to 2020. This includes the various wars and interventions under the second term of George W. Bush, and under the presidencies of Barack Obama and Donald Trump. We will touch on Libya, Syria, Yemen, Donbas, and more. We will also address the domestic conditions during this time, such as the repression against whistleblowers like Julian Assange, the 2008 financial crisis, the immigration crisis, civil rights struggles and more. This class is the second to last in our nine class series on U.S. Imperialism.
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Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies: peoplesschool.us
Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
3:30 Bush, Obama, and the "Global War on Terror" 2005-2016
6:40 Video - Libya's slave trade: 'They sell Africans over there'
13:40 Video - Victoria Nuland Leaked Phonecall
19:20 Q&A 1
29:50 Trump and the Unraveling of American Unipolarity 2016-2020
31:20 Video - Mother of All Bombs
41:15 Video - Trump and Stoltenberg get into tense exchange at NATO summit
44:30 Q&A 2
53:30 Domestic Conditions in Late 2000's and 2010's America
1:02:10 Q&A 3 and Conclusion -
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Party of Communists USA: partyofcommunistsusa.net
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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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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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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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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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 - Show more
