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The screenshots I took are from different parts of the analyst's report. They are meant to highlight some key points and they are not contiguous.

West European Communist hardliners, such as the PCI's Armando Cossutta, have publicly attacked the obsession with elections as the Eurocommunists' Achilles' heel. We find persuasive their argument support Eurocommunists fight on terrain chosen by the enemy, demoralizing the rank and file by forgetting their differences with other parties. We believe that the French and Spanish Communist leaders who have readopted hardline positions in the wake of electoral defeat agree with this analysis. Losing Members Eurocommunist parties, because they mobilized support using traditional democratic means, depended on mass membership drives to underpin their political strategies. They renounced Lenin's preference for small revolutionary parties in favor of large organiza-tions capable of broad public appeal. Thus, we believe, declining party membership-an expressed concern of party leaders is a major indicator of decline.

Instead, Communist politicians were frequently drawn into the sort of standard political maneuvering that had long inspired voter cynicism in countries such as France and Italy. As a result, Eurocommunist participation in democratic institutions tended to blur the distinction between Communist and non-Commu-nist political tactics. PCI leaders, who came to share power in many important Italian cities including Rome-proved as unable as other politicians to solve the chronic ineffi-ciencies and inequities of Italian urban life. Their followers expressed to pollsters and journalists disap-pointment that Communist officeholders seemed sat-isfied to conduct "politics as usual."

Outlook Eurocommunism's central premise that Communist parties can improve their political position by playing the democratic game clearly has proven inadequate as a political strategy. It has not brought power, or an increased popular vote, or a more secure place in the political mainstream to the parties espousing it. It has provided no guidance for coping with the demograph-ic trends that are reducing traditional Communist constituencies, with the new political currents that are attracting young leftists, or with Socialist rivals who started with definite advantages in the traditional political arena and used them well. Moreover, for most Eurocommunist parties, Euro-communism was a concept they arrived at late, and the element of hypocrisy was all too apparent. The main exception in this regard is the PCI, the most successful of the West European parties and the one with the deepest roots in Eurocommunism.

Another declassified CIA document, vindicating anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninists. @redphoenix.bsky.social @socialismforall.bsky.social

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Call to the peoples of the world: Let us oppose American-Israeli aggression against Iran! Israel’s aggression against Iran, which began on June 13 with intensive airstrikes and assassinations, continues. Just as the justification for the attack on Iraq was “Saddam’s we…

US imperialism has launched its plan to redesign the Middle East with the genocidal attack by Israeli forces on Gaza. It has implemented regime change in Syria and targeted Iran, whose influence in the region has been limited by the weakening of its allies.

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Editorial: On keeping up morale in dark times California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers clear protestors who were blocking the 101 freeway on June 08, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Mario Tama, Getty Images) Camilo Lazo | National Chair of t…

We cannot falter now. History and our duty to our cause and our class demands it. For us communists, there is a cure for the hurting spirit and the wavering resolve: The masses.

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National Guard invades Los Angeles: Say no to the fascist war against the people! A man waves a Mexican flag as smoke and flames rise from a burning vehicle during a protest against federal immigration sweeps, near Los Angeles City Hall, in downtown Los Angeles, California on Ju…

When the federal government sends in a militarized police force to kidnap and beat community members and organizers, war has been declared on the people. The Trump administration is committing acts of state terror.

#LosAngelesProtests #LosAngelesRiots #LosAngeles

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Minneapolis Public Housing Authority, City Council unite to attack public housing for real estate profits Organizers with the Defend Glendale Townhomes and Public Housing Coalition give a press conference about the upcoming Minneapolis City Council vote on Thursday, May 15. (Eris Rosenburg/The Red Phoe…

Working-class families in Minneapolis are calling for support this week to defend their public housing community! You can help by joining the phone zap campaign!

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Urban guerilla theory, the role of violence in capitalist crises Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing United Healthcare CEO, was escorted by police from a helicopter to a van on Dec. 19, 2024, in New York. (Pamela Smith/AP) Meir A. | Red Phoenix corre…

If the organs of the working class prove incapable, unwilling, or insufficiently organized to provide an alternative, the people will be reduced to a blind and individualized lashing out.

The masses are reaching for a sincerely revolutionary solution.

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Water shortages and contamination leave Americans thirsty for answers A pipeline under construction will supply Flint, Mich., with water from Lake Huron. Flint’s decision to tap the Flint River, which has highly corrosive water, as an interim source caused lead conta…

As an apprentice plumber in the United States, I was told that my first loyalty in this job should be to the general population. As plumbers our trade is one of a first line defense to the health of the people in our communities.

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Workers weigh in on what it means to be a communist on May Day This May Day, the Labor Commission of the American Party of Labor surveyed its members about two questions: “What does May Day mean to you?” and “Why are you a Communist?” As the world pushes furth…

"The current authorities, systems, and societies disregard or oppose the task of securing common wellbeing now and always. Only the workers can arrest the ongoing descent into barbarism in Palestine and around the world." #MayDay2025

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Chicago! Join members of the APL and Consejo de Resistencia tomorrow at 11am to march from Union Park to Grant Park! International Workers' Day includes ALL workers of all nations.

We are not leaving! No nos vamos!

#InternationalWorkersDay #MayDay2025

The poet and Red Army officer Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky holds the head of a Hitler statue during the liberation of Berlin, May 2, 1945.

80 years ago today, Hitler became a victim of communism.

Opinion: Trump tariffs are economic false flag Port of Seattle, Wash. (Bloomberg News) Leon V. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Florida– In a move that defies nearly all logic, both bourgeois and Marxist, Trump has gone through with his tari…

In a move that defies nearly all logic, both bourgeois and Marxist, Trump has gone through with his tariffs. Labeling it as the great “Liberation Day,” it seems the only thing these tariffs have liberated are shareholders from their portfolios.

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155 years ago today, #VladimirLenin was born. Wherever resistance movements struggle against imperialism, wherever communities buckle under the weight of police violence and gentrification, wherever workers and tenants unite, we say: Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live.

#MarxismLeninism

Zapata riding on a horse.

Today, in 1919, Emiliano #Zapata was murdered after being betrayed by a Mexican government attempting to appear "tough" on "extremists" for American interests. As ever, US imperialism is the gravest threat to the Americas, and the chief architect of division and hate.

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On the efficiency of launching fascists into the sun Allison P. | Red Phoenix international correspondent– The increasing upwelling of fascist momentum has led to an influx of calls to launch such people into the sun. This is a particularly dif…

Rather than dropping fascists into the sun directly they are first sent to the frozen wastes of the Sol system, far from her warming light. At its furthest point a small burn is performed, followed by generations of darkness as they plunge towards incineration.

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Solidarity with the workers and people of Turkey! Resignation of Erdogan’s one-man government! Turkish police have detained more than 1,100 people since the arrest of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s main rival sparked the country&#821…

The rapid and massive proliferation of social protests is due to discontent accumulated of the workers with the government, due to the accelerated deterioration of their living conditions, to the accentuated antidemocratic and repressive profile of the regime.

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Emboldened xenophobia, violent deportations under Trump Immigration detainees are moved in secure groups back to a housing unit on the Krome detention facility campus in Miami, FL. (Jack Gruber/ USA TODAY) Devin B. and R. Nesbitt | Red Phoenix correspon…

The capitalist class seeks to make examples of the most vulnerable, isolated, and scapegoated strata of the working class to terrorize and intimidate as well as to divide. In this way, Trump’s war on immigration is a war on us all.

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Mahmoud Khalil and the anti-popular war of the capitalists Not long at all after Donald Trump announced that pro-Palestinian protestors would be deported if they were immigrants or expelled if they were citizens, Mahmoud Khalil — a Syrian national of…

Immigrants are hardworking proletarians who are vital to the economic function of this country and hyper-exploited by US capitalists. #MahmoudKhalil has lent his voice and energy to the just cause of resisting Israeli colonialism and US imperialism.

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The ADA is far from perfect, but its passage is invaluable for improving the quality of life for disabled people under capitalism, and it has been used as a model for disability rights and accessibility worldwide.

#DisabilityRights #DisabilityJustice

Much like the infamous 504 Sit-in of 1977, the 1990 Capitol Crawl was a dramatic & powerful demonstration by disabled people who refused to be ignored. Their relentless efforts successfully pressured legislative action & the long-awaited ADA was finally signed into law that year.

Disabled activists crawl up the cement steps of the US Capitol building, surrounded by family, friends, allies, and journalists.

35 years ago today, dozens of disabled people threw down their mobility aids and physically struggled up the steps of the US Capitol to demonstrate the inaccessibility of public spaces, and to demand the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

#CapitolCrawl 🧵👇🏼

Queerphobic, anti-science Trump regime freezes HIV/AIDS research and resources Marchers during the 21st annual Gay Pride Parade hold a banner that reads “The AIDS crisis is not over,” June 25, 1990. (AP Photo/Joseph F. Major) Marina S. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Kansas&#82…

The Trump regime’s assault on LGBTQIA+ people and the scientific community reached new levels on Jan. 31, 2025, when the NIH ordered researchers to freeze an adolescent HIV research and prevention program.

This order has coincided with the removal of many HIV resources from federal websites.

International Working Women’s Day: A Revolutionary History, A Liberated Future! By the Women’s Commission of the American Party of Labor– “Our International Women’s Day this year must become a giant recruiting of the broad masses to Communism and it must be an irresistib…

“Our International Women’s Day this year must become a giant recruiting of the broad masses to Communism and it must be an irresistible battle-cry against the bourgeois order and for the seizure of power by the proletariat."

-Clara Zetkin

#WomensDay #IWWD

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The people do not bow to threats and blackmail! Pro-Palestine protesters clashed with California Highway Patrol officers at the University of California, Los Angeles, in Apr. 2024. (Philip Cheung / The New York Times) On March 4, 2025, U.S. Pres…

This threat to cut federal funding to education is a direct assault on the political expression of working-class students.

This administration has given nearly $12B to Israel in just six weeks. Trump and his regime are moving proactively to undermine the resurgence of a spontaneous upsurge.

Parallels of Tyranny: MAGA and Nazism Devin B. | Red Phoenix correspondent | New York– First they came for the CommunistsAnd I did not speak outBecause I was not a Communist Then they came for the SocialistsAnd I did not speak ou…

It cannot become cyclical or habitual to mobilize but never to organize. The greatest detriment to our potential as a class is our inability to organize ourselves like a fist against the forces of capital, of reaction, of fascism.

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Black History Month and the Black radical tradition Devin B. | Red Phoenix correspondent | New York– Black folks and people of color are under attack in Trump’s America. Through a number of anti-DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) Executive…

With the threat of fascism lurking over our shoulders, we must remind ourselves that socialism, communism, and so-called radicalism are central to the Black experience, particularly in the United States.

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The most fascistic section of law enforcement begins its rather predictable evolution into the role of secret police

Interview with People’s March organizer on standing together with “imperfect friends” Thomas K. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Ohio– The weekend before Trump’s inauguration, the working masses and oppressed peoples — women, people of color, queer community members, …

"One challenge I’ve encountered is finding the fighters: those ready to dedicate themselves to this work long-term. The enormity of the fight can feel isolating, but events like this remind me that our numbers are growing."

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