By Ramón Mercader kites-journal.org 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 isContinue reading “NYC for Abortion Rights organization agrees not to protest new abortion ban due to its inclusive language”
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Report from the 2nd International Conference of Majumdarist Parties and Organizations
1 April 2024 kites-journal.org received the following report: The 2nd 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 classContinue reading “Report from the 2nd International Conference of Majumdarist Parties and Organizations”
Xi Jinping to publish a new great work of social investigation in 2027 titled Report on an Investigation of the Billionaire Movement in Shenzhen
kites-journal.org 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 21st-century China. Xi’s essay, titled Report on an Investigation of the Billionaire Movement in Shenzhen, isContinue reading “Xi Jinping to publish a new great work of social investigation in 2027 titled Report on an Investigation of the Billionaire Movement in Shenzhen”
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 afterContinue reading “FRSO solves Biden’s age problem”
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 8th, 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 BeckerContinue reading “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”
VIDEO: An Interview with Jose Maria Sison, “On ‘Foreign Monsters’ and the People’s War that Persists”
This is the interview given by Jose Maria Sison in September 2022 to kites, which was published in transcript form in October 2022 as “On ‘Foreign Monsters’ and the People’s War that Persists.” A version of this video with subtitles is immediately forthcoming.
Key Words: Communist vs. Leftist and Postmodernist Conceptions
Today, when people in North America join protests against injustice, try to understand what’s behind all the oppression in the world, and look for strategies to end it, they soon encounter Leftist and postmodernist politics, especially on social media, and are quickly inculcated in Leftist and postmodernist world outlooks.1 Since Leftist and postmodernist politics andContinue reading “Key Words: Communist vs. Leftist and Postmodernist Conceptions“
“Banish Pessimism and Defeatism”
An Interview with Umberto Corti of the Central Committee of the (new) Italian Communist Party Part 2 of On Granite Conviction: Revolutionary Communism in Italy Today Editorial Introduction from kites In April 2021, the kites Editorial Committee conducted this interview with comrade Umberto Corti of the (new) Italian Communist Party ((n)PCI). The (n)PCI was establishedContinue reading ““Banish Pessimism and Defeatism””
Code Blue: The Living Nightmare of Healthcare Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic
kites received the following submission, which is based on interviews with healthcare workers in a hospital setting during the COVID-19 pandemic, from a reader in a major US city. While this piece is the result of an initial investigation, it gives more than a sense of the possibilities for communists to integrate with the massiveContinue reading “Code Blue: The Living Nightmare of Healthcare Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic”
“There Are More Things in Heaven and Earth…Than Are Dreamt of in Your Philosophy”
Issue #5-6 Editorial1 by the kites Editorial Committee This special double-issue of kites contains the results of social investigations carried out by kites readers in the summer of 2021 in a few regions across the US and a dozen cities and regions across Canada. While these results are only initial, they cover a wide swathContinue reading ““There Are More Things in Heaven and Earth…Than Are Dreamt of in Your Philosophy””
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