NYC for Abortion Rights organization agrees not to protest new abortion ban due to its inclusive language

By Ramón Mercader

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1 April 2024

At a press conference yesterday, Republican State Senator Chad Whitesmart said he felt confident that his bill before the Florida state legislature, the Protecting the Unborn Children of All Birthing People Act, would pass without much opposition. Whitesmart explained that “the genius of this total abortion ban is its use of inclusive language. It makes clear that abortion won’t just be banned for women, but also for any trans and nonbinary people who can give birth.” In a tactical move that sharply contrasts with Florida’s Governor DeSantis, Whitesmart even requested that members of the Florida state legislature state their preferred gender pronouns before voting on the bill. Whitesmart explained that “I’ve watched these leftist organizations do the whole pronoun circle thing at the beginning of their meetings and then fail to defend the rights of trans people when politicians like me take them away, so I figured doing a pronoun circle in the Florida state legislature could only help my agenda.”

Notably, while most abortion bans have passed along partisan lines in red states, Whitesmart’s bill managed to receive the support of a number of Democrats, especially younger, more woke ones. In fact, some abortion rights groups decided not to protest the bill. In a statement on Instagram, the intersectional, socialist-feminist collective NYC for Abortion Rights explained that “while we oppose abortion bans, inclusivity of language is far more important to us than women’s reproductive rights. Given that Whitesmart’s bill uses inclusive language, we cannot, in good conscience, oppose it. If it had been titled Protecting the Unborn Children of Women, we surely would have, but since it uses the word birthing people instead of women, we have to let this one slide.” Sherry Wolf, formerly of the International Socialist Organization and then part of NYC for Abortion Rights, further clarified that they consider it more important to oppose political organizations that use the word “women” while protesting for abortion rights than to oppose abortion bans themselves.

Report from the 2nd International Conference of Majumdarist Parties and Organizations

1 April 2024

kites-journal.org received the following report:

The 2^nd International Conference of Majumdarist Parties and Organizations (ICMPO) was a glorious achievement for the international proletariat. The conference brought together comrades, mostly from Europe and North America, after much planning through encrypted chat that we think is completely safe from the eyes of the class enemy. The conference was held in a room with large portraits of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Charu Majumdar adorning the walls. It opened with long statements from representatives of each participating party and organization, each of which repeated the same slogans. Most importantly, the conference made several resolutions that can be posted on the internet.

The first resolution was concerning the bankruptcy and revisionism of the International Communist League. The ICMPO resolved that while protracted people’s war is the universal strategy for all countries regardless of concrete conditions, this alone is not an adequate dividing line for the international communist movement (ICM), and that sticking with only this dividing line is backsliding into revisionism. While PPW is the universal strategy, a further dividing line must be that the universal tactic of the ICM is “the supreme tactic of the annihilation of class enemies,” as fought for by comrade Charu Majumdar. Participants of the ICMPO resolved to never actually carry out this tactic, but to talk about it a lot on the internet.

The second resolution of the ICMPO was to affirm that Marxism-Leninism-Maoism was first synthesized by comrade Charu Majumdar when he stated that “China’s chairman is our chairman.” Any other interpretation is contrary to historical fact and revisionist betrayal.

The third resolution of the ICMPO was to never read Sumanta Banerjee’s India’s Simmering Revolution: The Naxalite Uprising (1980) or any other critical, well-researched summation of the Naxalites in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Instead, the ICMPO will focus its study on the most dogmatic statements of the Naxalites from several decades ago and promote these on the internet.

The fourth resolution was to wholeheartedly reject any criticism that says that while Charu Majumdar and the Naxalites were real communist revolutionaries who made mistakes, the ICMPO is a bunch of posturing dogmatists who spend all our time online. We insist that reading stuff on the internet gives us the right to claim historical lineage.

The conference ended with an attempt to sing the Internationale, made difficult by the fact that most participants did not know the words or melody, and are tone deaf, as well as attempts to sing Indian revolutionary songs, made difficult by the fact that most participants had a very limited understanding of the culture of the masses. Nevertheless, we believe the 2^nd International Conference of Majumdarist Parties and Organizations to be a great success and glorious step forward for the world revolution.

Long Live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism!

Long Live the Revolutionary Leadership of Charu Majumdar!

Long Live the Supreme Tactic of the Annihilation of Class Enemies!

Signed by the Participants of the 2^nd International Conference of Majumdarist Parties and Organizations:

Communist Party of the Netherlands (MLM-Majumdarist)

Communist Propaganda Committee (Italy) [Marxist-Leninist-Maoist-Memeist]

Majumdarist Communist Group (Britain)

Communist Party of France (MLM-Gonzaloist-Majumdarist-somewhat-Kapakayaist-a-little-Sikdarist)

Montreal Communist Collective (Majumdarist-Instagramist)

Five people in the southwestern United States who are mutuals on Twitter

Someone who lives in their parents’ basement in Aurora, Illinois and runs a discord server

Xi Jinping to publish a new great work of social investigation in 2027 titled Report on an Investigation of the Billionaire Movement in Shenzhen

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1 April 2024

In a centenary homage to Mao Zedong’s landmark 1927 essay Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan, Xi Jinping announced he will be publishing his own essay updating Mao’s political thought for 21^st-century China. Xi’s essay, titled Report on an Investigation of the Billionaire Movement in Shenzhen, is slated for publication in 2027. In an exclusive interview with kites, Xi explained that while Mao identified the poor peasantry as the primary social force for revolutionary change in China, he thinks a concrete analysis of concrete conditions reveals billionaires to be the engine of social change in China today.

To write this essay, Xi spent considerable time talking with billionaires in Shenzhen and learning about their conditions of life in penthouses and mansions. We asked Xi if he had any difficulties gaining access to this exclusive social class, and he explained that “in fact, it was quite easy. Most of these billionaires are good friends of mine! They see me as one of them and appreciate my leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.”

Xi’s essay promises to explain the rise of the contemporary billionaire class in China. Many of them started as princelings (children of Communist Party leaders), and some even shrewdly became Red Guards during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in order to knock down their opponents and boost their revolutionary credentials for careerist purposes. In 1976, they waged an epic rebellion to overthrow the oppressive rule of the proletariat and peasantry in China. After the success of their uprising, they implemented Deng Xiaoping’s dictum that “to get rich is glorious.” They enriched themselves by acquiring privatized state assets and forming a united front with American billionaires to exploit Chinese labor, brutally suppressing resistance from workers and peasants in the process. Then, in the 2000s, the billionaire movement in Shenzhen reached a point of strength that allowed it to break its united front with American billionaires and begin to exploit labor and resources outside as well as inside of China on their own.

Asked by kites whether his celebration of the billionaire movement in Shenzhen contradicts his recent policies aimed at curtailing the unbridled power of Chinese billionaires, Xi Jinping explained that “as Mao taught us, sometimes to right a wrong the masses have to commit excesses. In its movement to overthrow the oppressive rule of the proletariat and peasants, the billionaire class had to go to certain excesses, whether in their opulent lifestyles or in financial speculation that threatened economic stability. Given that the billionaire movement in Shenzhen has now achieved total victory, it is time to curtail some of its excesses.”

Upon its 2027 release, autographed copies of Xi Jinping’s Report on an Investigation of the Billionaire Movement in Shenzhen will be exclusively available for sale in North America at the People’s Forum in New York City. Asked for comment on the upcoming publication of Xi Jinping’s epic work, Manolo De Los Santos, Executive Director of the People’s Forum, exclaimed that “it will be really good for my career!”

FRSO solves Biden’s age problem

By Ramón Mercader

kites-journal.org

1 April 2024

During a recent central committee meeting, held via zoom, leaders of Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) discussed how to build off of the great success of their letter-writing campaign thanking pro-Israel Chicago mayor, Brandon Johnson, for his belated support for a nonbinding city council ceasefire resolution passed after more than 25,000 Palestinians had been killed by Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. While very proud of themselves for the letter-writing campaign, along with their advocacy for a toothless civilian police review board and other paltry reforms in Chicago, FRSO leadership was not content to run cover for the bourgeoisie at the local level, and wanted to do so on the national political stage. They saw an opportunity in the widespread frustration with the Democratic Party’s choice of Joe Biden as its 2024 candidate and fear that the far more energetic and popular Republican candidate, Donald Trump, would trounce Biden at the polls in November. In accordance with the mass line—or at least FRSO’s interpretation of it—FRSO leadership decided that the best course of action would be to unite with the broad criticism of Biden as being too old to run for a second term and propose a different candidate, one a year older than Biden and even more decrepit than him, but who would do a much better job steering rebellious Black proletarians and protesters for Palestine back into the fold of bourgeois-democracy: Jesse Jackson.

Putting Jesse Jackson on the ballot was a logical choice for FRSO, as they and their predecessor, the Revolutionary [sic] Workers Headquarters, had been ardent supporters of his 1984 and 1988 presidential runs, with the Jackson campaigns serving as a sort of 1980s after-party to their celebration of the 1976 counterrevolutionary coup that ended socialism in China. With Jackson, FRSO saw in the 1980s and sees today the ideal presidential candidate around whom to build a strategic alliance—of union bureaucrats, nonprofit organization activists, and local Democratic Party politicians—aimed at diverting protest and rebellion into electoral politics. FRSO considers replacing Biden on the ballot with Jackson an urgent task, given that so many people in the US right now have lost faith in bourgeois politics when police brutality remains rampant despite all the calls for and enactment of reforms and with even the most supposedly progressive Democrats in office failing to do anything to stop Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. In a quite good statement issued by its central committee, FRSO proclaimed that “given the present, growing crisis of legitimacy for the bourgeoisie, Jesse Jackson is the right stuff for US imperialism.”

Report from the “Women, Nonbinary, and Trans Folx in the US for Forcible Hijabs in Iran!” International Women’s Day Celebration at the People’s Forum in New York

By Ramón Mercader

kites-journal.org

1 April 2024

On March 8^th, 2024 at the People’s Forum in New York City, the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) held an International Women’s Day celebration titled “Women, Nonbinary, and Trans Folx in the US for Forcible Hijabs in Iran!” In his keynote address to the celebration, Brian Becker explained that “since the Islamic Republic of Iran is at odds with US imperialism, all of its policies must be understood as anti-imperialist. So when the Iranian revolutionary government insists that all women must wear hijabs in public, this is a defiant act of resistance against US imperialism. When the Iranian government imprisons women for not wearing hijabs, this is anti-imperialism. And when women decide they do not want to wear hijabs, it is because the CIA is paying them.”

Another speaker at the event, Gloria La Riva, gave a talk titled “Why the Kurdish people are not an oppressed nation.” La Riva explained that “while the Kurdish people fit the Marxist-Leninist criteria of an oppressed nation, the Kurdish liberation movement does not fit with our analysis of who the good guys and who the bad guys are in the world today, so the Kurdish people are not an oppressed nation.” La Riva also suggested that Mahsa Amini, who was jailed and tortured to death by the Iranian authorities, was likely a CIA plant trying to stir up trouble rather than a defiant Kurdish woman whose hijab happened to be a little crooked on September 13^th, 2022.

Claudia de la Cruz, presidential candidate for the PSL in the 2024 election, also addressed the crowd. She explained that while the PSL did not expect to win the presidential race, or even really compete in it, running for president fit into its strategic conception of revolution as anything other than the armed overthrow of the ruling class. After her rousing words, the PSL’s Manhattan real estate agent pledged a $10,000 campaign donation, saying that he couldn’t wait to see more of the same-style, same-font signs around town that the PSL (and Workers World Party) have been known for for decades.

The kites reporting team at this event sought interviews with audience members to understand the appeal of the PSL’s politics. While most people we approached claimed they had social anxiety and were only comfortable interacting with people online, a few agreed to comment. Rhea Al Blockhead ardently defended the celebration’s title: “In the US, challenging gender norms is a revolutionary act. In Iran, it’s completely reactionary and siding with US imperialism.” Blockhead added that “using the event title as a slogan for memes was also a good way to make me feel edgy online.” Edie Josie had little to say about the content of the talks, but appreciated being part of the audience: “I spend a lot of time online, and this event felt like my Twitter feed but in real life.” Jimmy Higgins explained what drew him to the PSL even before this event: “As a member of the PSL, I really don’t have to think that much, I don’t have to talk to people outside my Leftist circle of friends, and I don’t ever have to risk arrest if I don’t want to. It’s the right level of commitment for joining a revolutionary socialist organization.”

Red Salute on the Formation of the (New) Communist Party of Canada and the Publication of Its Program

From the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries (US)

February 2024

We are writing to congratulate the comrades in Canada who have come together to form the most indispensable weapon for making revolution and leading the socialist transition to communism: the communist vanguard party. We have been eyeing the developments towards the formation of the (New) Communist Party of Canada with great enthusiasm, and we thank you comrades for allowing us to observe and participate in this process in the appropriate ways. We have taken many lessons from the moves you comrades have made, and have greatly benefited from the collaborative relationship we have developed with you comrades and the critical exchanges we have had between our organizations.

The Political Program of the (New) Communist Party of Canada

Written, Debated and Adopted in 2023. Released January 31, 2024.

Preamble

The (New) Communist Party of Canada, (N)CPC, pursues two innately linked objectives:

a) Establish working-class rule in the economic and political spheres of Canada; and
b) Usher in a new, non-colonial, equal and fraternal type of relations between all nations which today remain forcefully and unequally united within the Canadian state.

Neither one of these goals is likely to be achieved in a lasting, meaningful way without the other. Working-class power without national liberation and national equality would have to be built on an illegitimate, coercive basis. National liberation without working-class power would mean a mere reform of Canadian law, or else create powerless statelets that would fall prey to any of the multiple imperialist powers contending for domination and survival in the world today.

A New Party is Born

Founding Announcement of the (New) Communist Party of Canada

January 31, 2024

To all those toiling and struggling in Canada who suffer and anger at the worsening of conditions among the people broadly; and

To all those who have no illusions remaining about the supposed benevolence of the Canadian state, who have come to see the naked reality of the monopoly-capitalist ruling class that controls it, and the imperialist state that it has long been and become in order to serve that ruling class; and

To all those who have come to understand and stand in opposition to bankrupt liberalism and the monsters it breeds around the world;¹

And finally, to all the rest who are in search of a real way forward out of the misery and decay of the present world, which is the world imposed by capitalism and imperialism,

We say: Don’t despair! Because a new period has commenced, a new party of the proletariat has been forged!

Refining our mass organizing methods

By OCR Leadership

December 2023

The following manual was developed out of a training session in Summer 2023 for several new cadre in the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries (US). The aim of that training session was to synthesize the key lessons from our mass organizing efforts and to help comrades find solutions to the challenges that have come up in these efforts.

What is meant here by mass organizing methods?

This manual codifies and explains our methods of organizing the proletariat into mass organizations waging class struggle, though these methods could also, to some extent, be applied to efforts among other sections of the people. By mass organizing methods, we are not talking about mass work in general; we are more specifically addressing how to bring forward the mass element of the organized subjective forces for revolution. This is in part a recognition of the fact that making revolution is, to some degree, a numbers game, a matter of the communist vanguard accruing the necessary mass following that puts it in the position to precipitate and seize on opportunities for launching revolutionary warfare. That “numbers game,” however, must be properly, not pragmatically, understood as a quality—namely a revolutionary line—taking expression in a definite quantity. And we must also keep in mind that quantitative developments will not just happen incrementally, but also through leaps when we are able to marshal our forces to seize on sharpening contradictions in society.