Key Documents

What You Do Counts 1986

Italy is a mountainous and hilly country. Most of Italy looks like one long string of peaks. During World War II, the U.S. and British armies invaded Italy. The allied armies numbered each hill in...

ROAD TO REVOLUTION IV: A Communist Manifesto (1982)

ROAD TO REVOLUTION IV: A Communist Manifesto (1982) Despite the bosses' whining denials, communism thrives today in the Progressive Labor Party. In 1848, Karl Marx wrote in the Communist Manifesto,...

ROAD TO REVOLUTION III: The Continuing Struggle Against Revisionism (1970)

A scientific evaluation of history must have as its core the study of revolutionary movements. We seek to draw upon what is positive in these experiences and to learn from the negative. Four great...

BUILD A BASE IN THE WORKING CLASS

 Build a Revolutionary Political Base If our party is to continue to make slow but steady progress there are several things we must curb and eventually defeat. Sectarianism, the main way revisionism appears in...

ON DEMOCRATIC CENTRALISM (1982)

We communists are bitterly opposed to the democracy practiced in capitalist countries, that is, to "bourgeois democracy" based on periodic elections with secret ballots for presidents and...

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution & the Reversal of Worker's Power in China - 1971

from PL Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 3, November, 1971 The accepted view among Marxist-Leninists is that the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (GCPR) was a struggle of the masses, led by Chairman Mao, to...

REFORM AND REVOLUTION (1976)

Ever since the founding of our Party, PLP has put forward communist revolution, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the working class--led by a communist party--seizing state power. There have been...

CRITICISM AND SELF-CRITICISM (1966)

DEEPING ROOTS CRITICISM AND SELF-CRITICISM The seed of revolution has been sown again in our land, and our Party can feel some sense of achievement in the part we have taken in this planting. We are...

For Communist Economics and Communist Power Under the Proletarian Dictatorship

For Communist Three questions seem to define the essence of Road to Revolution IV. It is not surprising that those three questions have been the most controversial. Can we move to communist economic...

Jailbreak! Dialectical Materialism: The Key To Freedom and Communism

This pamphlet is based on the experience of leaders and members of the Progressive Labor Party over the last 50 years. It reflects the struggle to learn from but not repeat the mistakes of the old...

Why We Fight For Communism!

---A PLP PAMPHLET--- "I agree with a lot of your ideas. But why do you have to call it communism? If you would just use a different word, you could get more people to support the PLP."Many people...

Communist Parties are the Custodians of the Future (1982)

The lively debate that will surely take place in the wake of Road to Revolution IV should help propel the party forward. Ideological struggle that leads to sharper class struggle and sharper...

Fighting Racism: A Key Struggle (1982)

The fight against racism is one of the major aspects of the fight for an egalitarian society, and should be seen as central to the struggle for communism. Racism is not an "accidental ' or...

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