Announcing Going Against the Tide, a new journal charting a path for communist revolution in the US

By Kenny Lake

Picking up where kites #1–8 left off, Going Against the Tide is a new journal charting a path for communist revolution in the US. The first print issue will be available in the coming months; for now, check out its website, goingagianstthetide.org

The purpose of Going Against the Tide is to train people how to think and act like communists. Towards that end, it will feature training manuals from the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries that will get you thinking strategically and explain the methods of communist political work. It will provide summations of such political work, from the present and from the past. It will analyze the events and processes shaping the world we are seeking to radically transform, as well as the history behind our contemporary conditions. It will feature social investigation and class analysis that keeps our hearts and our minds on the lives of the masses, what they are thinking, and how we can organize them for revolution. It will polemicize against the capitulationist politics of the Left and postmodernism. And it will do all that and more with style, featuring the revolutionary artwork of Ruby Lois and an occasional revolutionary song.

Going Against the Tide will be the platform that publishes statements and documents from the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries (OCR) in the US. While the overall politics of this journal will be informed by the ideology, politics, and strategic direction of the OCR, not every article should be taken as the official political line of the OCR, and there will be some room for individual comrades, inside and outside the OCR, to develop their views, analysis, and expertise on particular questions of importance in the pages of this journal. Going Against the Tide is open to submissions, even some with substantial differences with its politics, so long as those submissions meet its standards and advance its revolutionary objectives. We welcome correspondence and critical feedback, and we especially want to hear from those with a desire to join up with others dedicating their lives to revolution.

Visit goingagianstthetide.org.