Join the PSMLS as we read passages from "Communism vs Fascism" by former CPUSA General Secretary William Z. Foster. Cold War Propaganda, which began with monopoly media moguls like William Randolph Hearst who knew the American working class hated fascist barbarism, tried to obfuscate the working class and pro-democracy movements by equating Socialism with fascism. In reality, the socialist system was the polar opposite of fascism, which is the most openly terrorist, chauvinist, and imperialist form of finance capital.

The Disney cartoon parodying Nazi Germany can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjNtBi_lzzM&pp=ygUQZG9uYWxkIGR1Y2sgbmF6aQ%3D%3D

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Timestamps:
2:05 On Peace and War
10:00 Q&A 1
15:30 Democracy vs Autocracy
23:40 Q&A 2
26:50 Democracy vs Autocracy - Labor, Women, and Youth
34:30 Q&A 3
38:50 Culture for Whom?
48:30 Q&A 4 and Conclusion

Tonight, we will be working together with the Cervantes Fraternal Society to discuss a brief history of the Panama Canal. We will discuss how and why Panama broke off from Greater Colombia in the late 1800s. We will also discuss how the US used the Panama Canal for its imperialist gains.

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Timestamps:
1:03 Panama History: From Pre-Imperialism to US Imperialist Outpost
8:55 Q&A 1
18:55 Panama As US Imperialist Outpost
24:25 Q&A 2
33:25 Video: The Panama Deception
46:45 Q&A 3 and Conclusion

The US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and August 8th 1945 were the first and only time nuclear weapons were used in on a civilian population. The nuclear bombings have long been pushed as “necessary evils” by the US bourgeois state. Tonight the Peoples School along with the Asian-American Friendship Congress (aafc.us.org) seek to dispel this myth and show these acts for the atrocities they were. Through education, the peace loving Americans and the people of the world shall never be duped into supporting nuclear aggression anymore.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:10 Video - Hiroshima Before the Bombing - 1935
1:15 Video - Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6th, 1945
8:40 Reading - The Decision to Use the Atom Bomb by Gar Alperovitz
11:50 Section 1 - The Manhattan Project
18:10 Reading - The Decision to Use the Atom Bomb by Gar Alperovitz (continued)
22:50 Q&A 1
35:15 Section 2 - Atomic Aftermath and the Present Day Nuclear Threat
41:20 Video - Nuclear War Simulation
45:10 Video - Scene from "The Day After"
52:10 Q&A 2 and Conclusion

In this class, we read excerpts from the book Fascism and Social Revolution by R. Palme Dutt provided to us by New Outlook Publishers. We will discuss the Communist definition of fascism and what its defining features are. We will also discuss Communist strategies for combating fascism via an organized working class and democratic elements of other social classes as allies in the fight against fascism. As the book was initially written before the 7th Congress of the Communist International in August 1935, we supplement the text with later documents on the subject to reflect the Popular Front analysis after 1935. If you would like to read the full text, the book can be purchased from New Outlook Publishers following this link: https://newoutlookpublishers.store/shop/theory/fascism-social-revolution/.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:00 Biography of R. Palme Dutt, Fascism and Social Revolution, and Explanation of the Third Period
2:15 Video - What was the "Third Period" of the International Communist Movement?
4:25 Q&A 1
12:30 What is Fascism?
22:10 Q&A 2
28:20 Lenin (then Fascism) on the Women's Question
34:30 Q&A 3
46:10 Fight Against Fascism and the Popular Front
56:40 Q&A 4 and Conclusion

Bourgeois educational and cultural institutions generally claim that the Molotov-Ribbentrop Non-Aggression Pact was an alliance between Nazi Germany and Soviet Union in their “shared conquest of Europe”. This is categorically false. The Soviet Union understood the threat of Nazism and Fascism early on and spared no effort in building an anti-fascist collective security agreement with the bourgeois democracies of Britain and France in the decade leading up to WWII. Britain and France as well as their allies refused to sign a collective security agreement and instead opted to a policy of appeasement with Hitler. To bide time in order to build up its industrial base, the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact with Germany.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
7:30 Q&A 1
19:00 The Pact Itself
24:30 Q&A 2
31:20 From Grover Furr's "Stalin - Waiting for the Truth"
40:45 From Ekaterina Blinova's "Unveiling the Lies of the Cold War"
45:55 Q&A 3 and Conclusion

The Comintern of 1935 tasked all Communists to become the patriots of their countries against fascism. We will focus on the campaign led by the Daily Worker journalist Lester Rodney, under the leadership of the Party to make “Communism 20th century Americanism,” by writing in the press, creating YCL-led picketing, and collecting petitions to integrate Black athletes into the Major Baseball League.

Learn about all of the greatest names of baseball-stars of the Negro Baseball League like Jackie Robinson, Satchel Paige, Willard “Homerun” Brown.

It was the Communists that made the most vigorous effort in the fight for desegregation in America’s most loved sport. So, “buy some peanuts and some crackerjacks, and root root root for the working class,” and join us at the Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:30 The Party, Sports, and the Popular Front
12:40 Q&A 1
22:00 A Communist in the Press Box?
25:30 Video - Crime of the Big Leagues
35:40 Q&A 2
41:40 The Negro Baseball League, and Breaking the Color Line in Baseball
50:00 The Negro National League
57:45 Q&A 3 and Conclusion

Harry Bridges was an Australian who moved to the US and became one of the most prolific trade unionists in US history. He along with the Communist Party led the Great San Francisco General Strike. In this class, the PSMLS joins with the Harry Bridges School of Labor to explore more of his life in labor.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
2:00 Section 1 - Early Life
14:00 Q&A 1
19:10 Section 2 - US Arrival, Organizing the Longshore Workers
37:50 Q&A 2
45:00 Section 3 - Leader of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union
47:50 Video - Harry Bridges Following His Perjury Conviction
49:20 Video - Harry Bridges 2
59:50 Video - Harry Bridges Speech at the 100th Anniversary of ILWU Local 23
1:07:40 Q&A 3 and Conclusion

This class will discuss the American Revolution and Declaration of Independence from a Historical Materialist point of view.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
14:30 After the Seven Years War
21:10 Q&A 1
28:45 Prelude to the Revolution
39:50 Q&A 2
42:20 Start of the American Revolution
52:30 Q&A 3
1:03:50 Polemic Against Ultra-Left Narratives on the Revolution
1:13:50 Q&A 4 and Conclusion