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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🎺 CLARION CALL🎺 "Organization Means Commitment" by Grace Lee Boggs⬇️

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"PSL: Systematic Abuse and Silencing of Dissent" A Statement from the Editorial Board ⬇️

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🎺CLARION CALL🎺 "Block the Boat" by Cde. Muriel, Cde. Serj, and The Communist League⬇️

Liberation will not come without collective action that effectively mobilizes the will of the people, whose labor power sustains the economies of genocide we’re fighting against. Participants dragged themselves out of bed before dawn not to work in service of capital, but to march into the frigid and cold Puget Sound autumn.

In the wake of the George Floyd uprisings of 2020, it was uncertain what would unfold or what level of police repression should be expected, and still people came. Unfortunately the tendency to prioritize the symbolic over the material was on display in the false declaration of victory. This left participants visibly distraught at being unable to do more and vocally infuriated at being misled.

The will exists, yet many people remain uncertain where to begin or how to become engaged with more meaningful action. As such, they are easily co-opted into liberal actions that primarily seek symbolic rather than material wins.

Energy and passion such as that seen at the Block the Boat action must be effectively stewarded, organized, and directed. This is best done by a well-organized revolutionary vanguard party with a strategy accounting for regional particularities in culture, material conditions, and needs. Our goal in writing this critique is to contribute to a body of knowledge drawn from direct experience and critical analysis, a body of knowledge which we hope will support the strategic elements of building just such a party.

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🎺 CLARION CALL🎺 "The Eye is Blind That Will Not See" by By Marissa Sanchez ⬇️

Ben told me he worried that Chris would now be upset because Chris himself had once been suspended for over a year over much less severe allegations, whereas Eugene was getting a much lighter response for a full-on assault. I explained to Ben that I told Chris because I needed someone to know what had happened. I needed support. I wasn’t okay. Ben recommended that, if I needed someone to talk to, I speak with Nathalie, another woman on the Central Committee. He called her first to explain the situation, then I was allowed to call her. I remember crying over the phone, telling her how badly I was spiraling, and asking whether she thought all of this was okay. She told me to trust Ben.

In every conversation we had afterward, I was encouraged to accept Ben’s plan for how my assault should be handled. I had hoped she would help me make sense of what had happened and advocate for my wellbeing. Instead, our conversations consistently led back to why I should trust Ben’s judgment and move forward with the plan he had already laid out. Looking back, I don’t think I was being connected with a source of support. I was being directed to someone who reinforced Ben’s approach. A few short weeks later, Eugene was back at work. Comrades working with us, having no reason to suspect that his absence was for any reason sinister, celebrated his return. I told Ben again that I wasn’t alright. That I felt terrible. The day Eugene came back to work, I threw up in one of the office bathrooms.

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🎺 CLARION CALL🎺 "How Translation Mystifies Theory" by Paul Cockshott⬇️

A couple of months ago I was scheduled to debate Frank Engster in Berlin. As preparation, I did the obvious thing: I tried to read him. I had not encountered his work before, so I hunted down what was available in English. What I found was not profound, nor even particularly difficult — it was simply unreadable. Entire passages were so opaque that they defeated any attempt at interpretation. At first I wondered whether Engster’s argument was simply confused. But the more I read, the more I realised the problem was not Engster’s thought but the English itself. The translation was so mangled that it rendered the text unintelligible.

This is not an isolated case. Over the years I have repeatedly run into English translations of continental Marxist theory that seem designed to mystify. They take concepts that were clear in the original language and bury them under layers of pseudo‑technical jargon. The same pattern appears in Engster’s case. His argument leans heavily on the term valorisation, and he repeatedly uses the phrase “the valorisation of value.” In standard economic English this is not a concept — it is a tautology masquerading as theory. It is the linguistic equivalent of fog.
Why does this keep happening? Why do English translations of Marxist theory so often obscure what was originally clear? And what does this tell us about the intellectual culture that produced them?
To answer that, we need to look at the two very different traditions of translating Marxism into English.

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🎺 CLARION CALL🎺 "Black Worker Power: Review of Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries" by Cde. Dagger⬇️

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🎺 CLARION CALL🎺 "Stop the Steel: Against Ecocide" by Cde. Dagger⬇️

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

🎺 CLARION CALL🎺 "Murders in the Metropole and International Class Struggle" by Cde. Dog⬇️

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

🎺 CLARION CALL🎺 Oromia & Palestine: United in Struggle Against Twin Zionist Entities Ethiopia and 'israel' by Cde. Caaltu⬇️

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

🎺 CLARION CALL🎺 "The Best Stalin Biography is Not About Stalin" by Cde. Dagger⬇️

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

🎺 CLARION CALL🎺 "Electoralism is the New Opportunism" by Proletarian Polemics⬇️

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

🎺 CLARION CALL🎺 "A Disciplined Exodus: Letters on Leaving the PSL" by Anonymous Contributor⬇️

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🎺 CLARION CALL🎺 "The Gaza Holocaust Hasn't Ended" by the USU Editorial Board⬇️

The official death toll in Gaza has surpassed a staggering 73 thousand people, with an unknown number of additional victims, possibly in the hundreds of thousands, buried under the rubble. The majority of the surviving inhabitants of the Gaza strip today remain in the same tattered refugee tents they were forced into years ago, daily battling brutal inhumane conditions, including exposure, disease, malnutrition, critical shortage of medical supplies, and the pervasive random acts of aggression by the occupation forces. Each rainfall leads to flooding and stagnant water, lack of sewage and waste disposal systems has led to a crisis of unsanitary conditions, and swarms of rats and flies infest the living quarters of the survivors. Occupation forces continuously patrol the coastline, firing indiscriminately on people attempting to fish for food. Only a trickle of aid is allowed into the strip by the occupation. Shortages of machine oils and parts for repairs have led to the breakdown of machinery in bakeries and other vital services. Bread lines are many hours-long and survivors report that there is no guarantee of receiving food, with many leaving empty-handed after standing all day exposed to the elements.

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

🎺 CLARION CALL🎺 "My Letter of Withdrawal from the Party for Socialism and Liberation" by Proletarian Polemics⬇️

"I actively pursued membership with the PSL around April of 2025 and became a candidate in June of the same year. To be clear, I did not finish the candidacy classes necessary to become a “full” member, and this was deliberate because the classes, as I note in my letter, were filled with numerous historical/theoretical errors that sought to guide the conclusions of comrades away from their historical intent. In my repeated attempts to address my concerns about the PSL’s political education, strategies, and structure with various levels of local leadership, those concerns were often repeated back at me as though I had simply “misunderstood” the PSL’s political orientation, as though, because I did not understand it, I had not engaged with it, had not finished the classes, and was therefore incapable of grasping its purpose.

Effectively, regardless of how analytical, precise, and specific my concerns were, I was told by local leadership, in so many words, that it was my own deficiency for not “getting” the purpose of our feckless strategies, rather than that I fundamentally disagreed with them. The PSL is deliberately obscuring the fact that these are not trivial differences or simple 'disagreements,' their behavior is a named ideological-political tendency within the history of revolutionary movements and parties, and that this tendency is inherently antagonistic to the working class."

The focus of my letter is on the tendency of opportunism (namely, right-opportunism) and revisionism within the party which I ground in the theoretical works of Lenin, Mao, and other revolutionaries. Importantly, my critique of this tendency is not purely theoretical, but is also based on the astounding amount of negative feedback from members of my community that have made me realize how dangerous this tendency is to the proletarian movement. The party’s leadership is deeply disconnected from the needs of individual units and the units themselves are disconnected from the masses.

The overarching thesis of my arguments is that the PSL has wrongfully titled itself the vanguard of the working class while distorting the meaning and function of the vanguard in revolutionary history. “Vanguard” is a relational term, there is no such thing as a vanguard party without the overwhelming support of the working class behind it. That support is not won by presenting the masses with “correct” ideas, it is built by fighting alongside them, by embedding ourselves in the real conditions and struggles of their lives.

The PSL’s work is not organized at the center of the our class’s struggle, it happens at the margins of it, orbiting leaderships own political line, brands, calls to protest or “boycott”, rather than the lived struggles of those exploited by the capitalist system. Because the PSL’s leadership is itself severed from the masses, it can only relate to its own units through top-down command, issuing directives that do not arise from any real struggle of the working class. Nor is there any channel running the other way to surface the needs and conditions of different regions back up to leadership. This is why so many of these commands make no sense on the ground, why, for instance, the PSL can insist on agitating for a nation-wide “general strike” without any of the infrastructure necessary to support one.

As I diagnose in my letter, this is a form of opportunism, called commandism. However, this opportunism cuts in the opposite direction as well, in which the PSL constantly tails after the spontaneous consciousness of the masses, echoing their own sentiments, rather than raising them up. Both of these signal a party that, regardless of how many people show up to our actions or vote for our candidates, is deeply disconnected from the actual daily lives of the people.

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

🎺 CLARION CALL🎺 "The PSL Letters" a statement from the USU Editorial Board⬇️

"Indeed, how could they combat it? After all, PSL embodies one of the main tendencies of petty bourgeois socialism today. Despite their high-flung rhetoric accusing Smolarek of dismissing the possibility of revolution in the US, it is the PSL Central Committee that, through their theory of organizing, dismisses this possibility except as a branding exercise. Read carefully and compare the claims, and it will be apparent that the PSL is thoroughly bankrupt as an organization and serves only to mislead the masses and trap their newly-conscious strata.

This is why the League reiterates the position of our updated Outlook: down with the Four Opportunist Organizations of the PSL, CPUSA, FRSO, and DSA, and let us move forward toward the construction of a real militant vanguard with a proletarian internationalist outlook and an anti-settler standpoint!"

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

🎺CLARION CALL🎺 "God Bless America and Let Daddy Pay the Bills" by Cde. G. Gracchus⬇️

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

🎺CLARION CALL🎺 "God Bless America and Let Daddy Pay the Bills" by Cde. G. Gracchus⬇️

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

🎺 CLARION CALL🎺 "Taking the First Step" by Cde. Oak⬇️

"Even for children growing up in an environment filled with police propaganda, subjected to constant diseducation and adult surveillance, there are moments when the star-spangled banner slips, exposing the true character of the settler police and military. Their violence is classically limited to the exploited nations: the Black nation, the Indigenous nations, Puerto Rico, and the millions of immigrants who came to Occupied North America seeking an escape from their countries even as Amerikan capital attacks them. The law as we know it today is expressly designed to oppress these national groups; not merely for the sadistic pleasure of oppression, but because it allows the white nation and its ruling class to steal more of their labor. "

"The student protester above is correct to say ICE does not care about the law, but they should question what purpose the law serves at all in a settler colony like the US. It is clear that ICE agents are untrained, murderous cowards, but that isn't really what makes them bad. A hypothetical ICE agency that performs the same tasks, but in a respectable and courteous manner, would still be equally reprehensible. Instead of attacking ICE for being law-breakers, we should attack them for breaking up families to sustain the regime of unequal labor that we have here. "

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

🎺 CLARION CALL🎺 "Taking the First Step" by Cde. Oak⬇️

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

🎺 CLARION CALL🎺 "Fuck the 'Stack'" by Cde. G. Gracchus⬇️

"Every meeting has rules, whether they're spelled out or not. When the rules aren't formal and explicit, it's very hard to understand and navigate them, and even harder to get things done, unless you're a member of the clique that's making the decisions. Formal rules ensure that everyone has the chance to learn them and that unappointed cliques don't dominate meetings and, as a result, entire organizations. But the rules of a meeting aren't neutral. The way the rules are structured has a huge impact on the flow of a meeting and, therefore, on how and even whether things are decided. The rules govern the shape of an organization. They become its organizing principles on a basic and fundamental level. Bad rules make for a broken organization. Enter the Stack."

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

🎺CLARION CALL 🎺 "Total War and Trans Liberation" by Cde. Juliette⬇️

"As a hyper-exploited population, transgender people are already primed for spontaneous revolutionary consciousness. The luxury of liberal idealism cannot last long when met with the clear headed material analysis necessary for survival. Although this lived experience makes clear the necessity of political struggle, trans youth doubt their own capacity to lead. When they join the Communist struggle, they most often offer their labor to one of the dozen different democratic-socialist organizations (DSA, CPUSA, PSL, FRSO, etc.) in the hopes that they will be educated in the ways and means of revolution. Instead of turning this revolutionary youth into cadres, these organizations work to actively suppress the revolutionary potential of our people by burning them out and exploiting their labor as secretaries, facilitators, propaganda officers, or recruiters."

"What our young comrades do not realize is that this labor makes them the true leadership of the revolutionary masses, not their feckless comrades whose 10-20 years of mass action tailing liberals has only served to prevent socialist revolution.
With reactionary forces bearing down upon us, we, the children of these struggles, must take on this banner and win the war once and for all. To do so, we must develop the means to secure our survival outside of the support from the state or any liberal institution. We must develop cadres that can bring the masses into our joint struggle for liberation, underground communication networks through digital encryption and physical dropbox networks, resource depots to secure the supply of necessities to the people and our revolutionary fighters, basic physical and medical educational programs so cadre are fit to engage struggle they are met with, and we must develop cells within every pore of this country from which we can mount our organized counter-attack."

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

🎺 CLARION CALL🎺 "Marxism & Social Reproduction II" by the All-Empire Worker's League⬇️

"How can we work toward the liberation of the suppressed woman?

We must work toward the organization of women-as-women and bring about the subjective awareness of legitimized women and suppressed women who belong to the non-proletarian classes of the necessity of allying with and supporting their suppressed proletarian sisters.

In order to bring this about, however, we do not begin among the legitimized women, but rather through the organization of suppressed women in the proletarian class while at the same time uniting the proletarian organizations of workers with the organizations of suppressed women. "

"That is to say: we must organize the proletarian women, and in particular the trans proletarian women, as women first. From this base, we must then elevate the subjective awareness of non-proletarian women that they must join with their sisters; that they must annihilate their class to embrace their gender and work toward liberation.

This truth must be laid bare: that one may retain the privileges of class or may liberate oneself from the oppressive structures of gender, but one cannot do both. At the same time, proletarian organizations of workers must be joined to this fight, understanding that the battle for total liberation has many fronts.

Organizing where the contradiction is sharpest gets to the root of the problem."

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

🎺 CLARION CALL🎺 "Reform is Fascism: The Police Murder of Everard Walker" Cde. Oak ⬇️

"To label Connecticut's "Mobile Crisis Intervention Services" as a "policing alternative" would be misinformation. 211 and the services it provides are not law enforcement alternatives; they are law enforcement partnerships. The social workers who receive mental health calls are instructed to work in collaboration with local police. Law enforcement are their partners, as stated by their CEO, and the two groups respond to mental health calls together.

This means that if you call 211 and specifically request social workers - like Everard Walker's family did - several pigs will still respond to the call, ready to arrest or shoot us at their will. The collaboration of social workers, healthcare workers, and the police reveals their character as weapons of the state. "

"This is not to say that social workers and healthcare workers are individually social murderers; rather, the white supremacist system compels them to collaborate with the most violent aspects of that system on all levels. Police lack this nuance.

They are taught that there are three types of people in the world: Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs. Sheep are those who want to go about their lives with as few problems as possible. They are weak and needing of protection. Wolves are the Bad people, those who would do harm to Sheep. And police themselves are the Sheepdogs, who corral Sheep and look out for Wolves. This is the lens through which police view us. You are either a Sheep needing direction and authority or a Wolf that needs to be put down. We know how they view Black and Brown people. These national oppressors cannot be reformed. "

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

🎺 CLARION CALL🎺 "To Arms! Louisiana v. Callais" by the USU Editorial Board

"We have six months to contemplate and prepare for the right-fascist assaults that are coming in November. Between now and then the left-fascists in the Democratic Party will be tearing their hair and howling in outrage, demanding Black and other marginalized communities across the South and the country start furious campaigns of letter-writing to their representatives and prepare to vote even harder in the 2028 presidential elections.

We need to discredit the left-fascist approach while at the same time anticipating the tactics that the right-fascists will deploy in November. We should use the rollback of the VRA to agitate against these tactics in advance and prepare our organizations to take action."

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

🎺 CLARION CALL🎺 "To Arms! Louisiana v. Callais" by the USU Editorial Board

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

🎺CLARION CALL🎺 "Ruling Class Conflict: the Voting Rights Act" by Cde. G. Gracchus⬇️

The fate of the VRA is a bellwether for the degree of decay of the old US imperialist system that prevailed from 1991 until today as well as the balance of power between the left- (Democratic/Progressive) and right- (GOP and MAGA) fascist cliques within the ruling class. If the VRA is struck down, Democratic Party operatives will ceaselessly and breathlessly fund raise and proclaim their old doctrines about emergency organization in the face of “Trumpist” fascism and the need to permit people from both sides of the color line to participate in and enjoy the capitalist system. In private, of course, they will signal more cynically that it’s just good strategy to give the nationally oppressed the illusion of democracy. After all, they will say to their donors in closed-door dinners, it’s not as if the masses of Black people — or for that matter, any working-class voters — actually have any way to influence the important policies of the US state.

If the VRA is struck down, it signals the right-fascists are extremely advanced on their path toward carrying out the genocide of the nationally oppressed that they have been preparing for Black and Indigenous people in the US.6 Striking down the VRA would remove entire layers and battlefields of intra-bourgeois political struggle — layers that are “wasteful” in the eyes of the ruling class, just like the “waste” of the administrative state that they are dismantling — but would also strip away the illusion that the US state can be altered by the oppressed voting in any meaningful way. It will be clear to many that there are no self-correcting measures available. With the open and legal disenfranchisement of Black voters in the South and other right-fascist strongholds, the layer of mystification that promised government responsiveness to the people will be gone.

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

🎺 CLARION CALL🎺 "Combat Hobbyism" by Cde. nails

"Doing one activity or another in your free time does not make that activity a hobby; the distinction lies in your prioritization of different free time tasks or activities. It is still important to make time for hobbies and interests, as they are vital to our own individual well-being, and thus allows us to have the capacity to do important organizing work. But rather than being viewed as an enjoyable, feel-good activity (i.e. a hobby), revolutionary organizing must be prioritized on the same plane as that of your own survival, and the survival of your family and community."

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

🎺CLARION CALL 🎺 "Red Aid" by Cde. G. Gracchus⬇️

"Red Aid differs from mutual aid in a few critical respects. Mutual aid is a way of organizing a community to meet its own needs; it is a kind of labor exchange where members contribute what they are able and take what they need. In a certain sense, it is an attempt to establish the political economy of communism in miniature. While mutual aid is often run by small(ish) anarchist circles, there’s no necessity that it be organized by the politically advanced or class conscious elements at all.

Red Aid, in contrast, is an explicitly communist strategy. Red Aid has to be run by a Communist organization."

"Although it can incorporate a labor exchange element as part of its overall strategy of organizing, there doesn’t need to be any such element for it to accomplish its primary goals. Red Aid can very easily be a unilateral form of aid directly from a Communist organization to a community. Unlike mutual aid programs, Red Aid is not performed primarily with community self-sufficiency as a goal. It doesn’t “develop dual power” or challenge the state system of distribution directly. Red Aid also differs from charity in that its goal isn’t merely to provide material necessities to make a difference in underserved communities by meeting their needs."

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

🎺CLARION CALL 🎺 "Red Aid" by Cde. G. Gracchus⬇️

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

🎺CLARION CALL 🎺 "The Social Reproduction of the Revisionist Party" By 大戈同志 (Cde. Dagger) ⬇️

"In clear terms, this blurb outlined CPUSA's tactic.

It was a baby's first workshop for those who wanted to exercise their bourgeois-democratic rights of voting, make petitions, and have meetings with elected officials. It promised to teach the most basic skills of doing so, all within a liberal framework of the free competition of ideas. In that sense the ideological content matched the label on the box.

But why would the ostensible Communist Party be engaging in this type of activity of liberal miseducation? And why host it at a white church (a tellingly white church) instead of at one of the numerous Black churches in segregated Peoria?"

"Because essentially the CPUSA has no interest in uniting the revolutionary masses of the US Empire. CPUSA has all the interest in the world, however, in reproducing its membership of radical-liberals, and securing the greater white networks of support that make that reproduction of the activist-organizer caste possible. In no stage of this process does the leadership have an interest in actually making revolution.

Whether this idea of hosting a liberal workshop was stochastically generated by Peoria CPUSA's own reformist-minded members, or if a directive came down from a higher body, it makes no difference in so far as the results are the same: a counter-revolutionary tactic for a counter-revolutionary strategy wielded by a revisionist and settler-chauvinist organization whose sole purpose is to reproduce the conditions of its own existence."

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

🎺CLARION CALL 🎺 "The Social Reproduction of the Revisionist Party" By 大戈同志 (Cde. Dagger) ⬇️

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

🎺 CLARION CALL🎺 "Iran's Fight is Ours, Too" by the USU Editorial Board⬇️

"You may not know much about the Islamic Republic of Iran. If you listen to the propaganda rags of the ruling class, your idea of the Islamic Republic is probably one where the people despise their government, where despotic theocrats oppress women and LGBTQ+ people, and where the average Iranian yearns for the freedom of US bombs and missiles. You should never let anyone tell you who your enemy is without looking into the matter yourself.

You see, the ruling class of the US empire benefit from you believing these things. That ruling class that was so recently exposed as a nest of pedophiles, eugenicists, white and Jewish supremacists, and influence-peddling monsters, control the messages coming out of the news media because they own the news media. They badly want you to support the wanton annihilation of school girls, universities, bridges, power plants, and medical research centers. "

"Make no mistake, the US ruling class has no interest in the "rights" of Iranians. The extent of US military solidarity with the people of Iran is simply this: the US capitalists want better access to oil, the US capitalists want to protect their crumbling vassal state in Palestine, and the US ruling class will use any justification it can cook up to permit it to re-establish hegemony over West Asia.

What are the facts of the US war against the Iranian people? First, you should know a little bit about the history of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its relations with the US; the Iranians certainly do. Public memory in the US usually begins with the 1979 hostage crisis. Iranian memory goes back quite a bit further."

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USU Press @redclarion.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🎺 CLARION CALL🎺 "The Settler Regime Targets Trans Children" by Cde. Winter⬇️

$"The fundamental human right to bodily autonomy is stripped away, and the cultural norms of cispatriarchal dominance are forcibly asserted onto the bodies of children. That this is a historic blow to transgender rights within the legal structures of the U.S. empire should, for our readers, go without saying. What needs to be explicated here is the function of this ruling, in material and ideological terms. Why is the ruling class so deeply concerned with transgender issues? Why, when we’re such a minute fraction of the population, when most of us just want to be left alone to live our lives, are we so often the target of history’s most powerful empire? "$