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

May 31, 2024 kites began in 2020 through the collaboration of the late Revolutionary Initiative in Canada and the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries (OCR) in the US. Since then, we’ve published eight issues that have been crucial to training up a new generation of communist cadre, addressing the strategic challenges of making revolution, and plantingContinue reading “kites is over… but its mission will continue in other forms”

kites-journal.org 1 April 2024 After consulting a tarot card reader while on a sojourn to his old stomping grounds in the Bay Area, California for insight into the possible political scenarios that could manifest in the US in November 2024, Bob Avakian has set to work on a new book to be published in theContinue reading “Bob Avakian announces new forthcoming book titled Democracy: We Can’t Do Better Than That”

kites-journal.org 1 April 2024 21st-century abolitionists have long struggled to explain how they would achieve their primary political objective, at best offering some half-baked logic about shifting funding from police to “the community,” with the nonprofit organizations that abolitionists work at receiving that funding on behalf of the community. Angela Davis’s forthcoming book, Achieving AbolitionContinue reading “Book Review: Achieving Abolition through Meditation on Martha’s Vineyard by Angela Davis”

By Cuervo Jones, kites tech reporter kites-journal.org 1 April 2024 Perhaps the most daunting challenge of being a Maoist in imperialist countries today is the struggle to appear more revolutionary than other Leftists on social media. It’s an arduous task to develop slogans, memes, and overly lengthy statements that appear more provocative than everyone else’s.Continue reading “ChatMLM: the new way to write Maoist memes and statements”

kites-journal.org 1 April 2024 kites conducted an extensive social investigation into the workings of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices at colleges and universities across the US and Canada to learn what they are doing to dismantle systematic racism in higher education. After interviewing dozens of DEI office directors, we found that not a singleContinue reading “College DEI offices shift focus to antisemitism on campus”

kites-journal.org 1 April 2024 In what promises to be a stunning comeback from criticism over his handling of the millions of dollars in funding for his Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, Ibram X Kendi announced that his years of antiracist scholarship have culminated in a brilliant theory called “woke white supremacy,” which willContinue reading “Ibram X Kendi announces his magnum opus, Woke White Supremacy”