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The following letter was shared by some participants in Kasama with the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist at the start of their recent national congress.
This meeting represented a regroupment of revolutionary forces who were previously part of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) — and who are straining to retake the revolutionary road.
From Participants in the Kasama Project
We would like offer our sincere thanks to the people of Nepal and to the Communists of Nepal for their great contributions to the world, to the cause of collective emancipation.
The revolution in Nepal has, from the onset of the people’s war, had a massive impact. It gave cause for the hopes and dreams of millions of the oppressed to take flight. It touched on the deeply felt need of millions of Nepalese people for liberation and an end to the old, well known poverty and isolation. The revolution here has brought hope to millions the world over who feared it may have become impossible to imagine revolution in today’s world. It has profoundly stirred the whole of the South Asian continent — which is vital for our hopes of world revolution.
Your recent difficult period – with your fight against the capitalist road and its representatives in your own party – is a welcome and much needed step.
For Maoists, it is no surprise to discover that there is two line struggle in great communist parties, or that the niceties of (what Mao called) “sugar-coated bullets” can corrupt some people, or that powerful forces can emerge who want to dismantle peoples power and the peoples armed forces. This is the nature of a revolutionary process. But what cannot be assumed is that people will take it up on themselves to oppose that, with the determination to form a new communist core.
Your fight against the capitalist road is extremely important for Nepal’s people – but also for all of us watching around the world.
Mao famously said “Only socialism can save China.”
And yet there were those who after defeating feudalism and making revolution against imperialist occupiers wanted to take that capitalist road – dreaming only of modernization, development and integration into the world imperialist market – and denying that integration on capitalist terms would lead the people to vicious new exploitation, plunder of resources, foreign domination, the horrors of the sex trade, and the deep betrayal of the martyrs who fought for liberation.
Starting over
We in the Kasama Project and communists in the United States have also had to start over. In the US the previous communist movement is exhausted, with little if any life left — politically or theoretically. That well is dry.
We are regrouping ourselves, and hoping to do so on a new, and more creative level — understanding our own history and the very different conditions which face us.
In this we are looking to learning from many forces around the world who are starting over, creatively-who are also making assessments and new analysis.
It is our view in Kasama that revolution in the United States is both possible and necessary. Even in the heart of empire. And we have argued this fiercely.
In our situation the communist project must be re-discovered and creatively transformed by a new generation of revolutionaries. The radical essence of Maoism, of liberatory communism, must be developed, transformed, and fused with the people.
The communist theory of previous generations must be studied critically, and tested independently. Communist understandings from the past must be defended and popularized, but also developed in new ways. And our resulting communist synthesis will involve the transformation that must come with fusing with the most radical sections of the people. We can’t take our communist intellectual legacy as a fixed doctrine or closed orthodoxy – the Maoist movement over the last three decades since Mao, has not been particularly creative and innovative in its thinking. And we need to understand that there is an ongoing need for for ongoing creative rupture, not just for continuity in our theory.
In this regard we have taken some beginning, but important steps.
We have utilized the new digital means to create a 21st century communist press — what we call an Iskra project — for debate and training among communists. We are developing early organizing collectives and projects in cities across the United States. We are working, carefully and deliberately to regroup and develop toward new disciplined organization, analysis, and strategy.
And we are reached out to work with young new revolutionary circles that are forming, to develop connections, common work, and perhaps deepening unity.
Kasama also leapt into the recent Occupy Wall Street movement which involved hundreds of thousands in the most radical and sustained mass disturbances in the US in recent times.
We contributed to that movement by helping to found and edit the Occupied Wall Street Journal, a leading newspaper within the Occupy movement which reached hundreds of thousands.
Many Kasama supporters went into the Occupy movement as activists and organizers, leading through line at the general assemblies, helping to radicalize the movement and help it flourish, to go as far as it could…
Now some of our Kasama supporters, and some of our allies have been hit with legal charges which could put people in jail for months or years. Political police have been unleashed across the country, in large numbers to gather evidence on radicals, anarchists and revolutionary communists, and to try to blackmail people into becoming informants for the police.
In Kasama we have also made a serious priority out of our international solidarity through spreading the word about, politically defending, and learning from revolutions in South Asia and popular uprisings around the globe. We particularly oppose the intrigues of U.S. imperialism — its murderous agents, its wars and threats of wars, its awful bribes intended corrupt leaders into betraying the people.
Revolutionary possibilities in the U.S.
In the U.S., revolution is possible because of deep contradictions woven through the very fabric of US society. Even with the relative wealth of US society millions live in poverty, in prison, or under the gun of the police. The US is a deeply stratified society, with many oppressed nations under one state, with one multi-national working class and one imperialist bourgeoisie.
There are unresolved fautlines of potential struggle with revolutionary potential.
The historic oppression of African American people. In 1968 Mao Zedong made a crucial, historic analysis of the nature of revolutionary struggle in the U.S.:
“The struggle of the black people in the United States is bound to merge with the American workers’ movement, and this will eventually end the criminal rule of the U.S. monopoly capitalist class.”
The Black nation in the United States remains in a deeply oppressed condition, and African American liberation is a central reason and focus for any liberatory revolution in the US.
Immigrants are driven into the U.S. from all over the world because of the desperate poverty caused by imperialism. This abuse has given rise to an explosive faultline because tens of millions are kept in a illegal status – as an invisible, state-terrorized lower level of the working class.
It is our view that a united front for revolution in the U.S. will likely have at its core a strategic alliance of the movement for socialism arising from the multiracial working class, with the national liberation of oppressed peoples within the U.S..
The U.S. may have granted legal equality and developed an acceptance of love relations – but large sections of women in the U.S. experience rape in their lives. Advanced development and bourgeois democracy to not produce liberation. As a result: there is a powerful opposition to traditional sex roles and continuing inequality.. There is great anger over fascist legal attempts to suppress women’s rights to birth control and abortion. Gay, lesbian and transgendered people face continued oppression – including the murderous violence of bashing, and the ugly bigotry of the rightwing religious conservatives.
We communists, in Kasama, embrace the view that final revolutionary victory in our epoch is a world victory: We either all get to communism or none of us do. We are internationalists.
Kasama has worked hard to popularize the great revolutionary struggles in Nepal and India – in all their complexity.
And revolutionaries in the U.S. have a particular responsibility to oppose U.S. imperialism and to support those, around the world, who rise up against it. The growth of revolutionary movements in the U.S.] have always been linked to struggles of the oppressed in other parts of the world, whether they were the inspiring anti-colonial struggles of Africa, the Vietnam war,] the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution or the more recent Arab Spring.
Again: The United States appears to be at the heart of modernization and development. Yet there are oppressed classes of tens of million who suffer bitterly here– and their suffering has worsened.
That means the system dominating the United States is outdated and can be overthrown.
Creative reconception and regroupment
The challenging thing, we believe, is how to start over. We have the task of going forward creatively – reconceiving revolutionary strategy based on deep experiences, and regrouping communist forces based on the awakening of new generations and the departure of the old.
We wish you well in the vital process of finding your footing and your road under these new conditions. We look forward to learning from what you decide and what you do.
We are confident that the people of Nepal, South Asia, and the world as a whole don’t want a future defined by sweatshops, imperialist killer drones, deathsquads, caste systems, and the continuing exploitation of the billions of people who labor and create.
The first steps toward a communist world of liberation is becoming possible, and our challenge is fusing communist ideas and organization with the vast numbers of our sisters and brothers who will make that possible.
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Kasama will be sharing a series of statements in solidarity with the congress of the newly reconstituted Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist. Nepal’s Maoist revolutionaries have regrouped into a new revolutionary party. They are fighting to carve out a new revolutionary path in Nepal. This statement comes to Kasama from the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement.
Greetings of Solidarity from the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement to the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist.
The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) salutes you on the occasion of your Party 7th Congress.
The People’s War and the struggle for New Democracy in Nepal stand as one of the most fundamental contributions to world revolution in our time. We are heartened by your commitment to maintain and advance the struggle and not succumb to the illusions of Parliamentary democracy and the confines of the bourgeois state. We are clear, from our own painful struggles with neo-colonialism and comprador traitors, that we must remain vigilant against the dead ends of revisionism in its many guises.
The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) is an organization of people of Afrikan descent fighting for communism and the self-determination of colonized and oppressed peoples’ within the United States settler colonial empire. We are an integral part of the Black Liberation and Revolutionary Movement in the United States today, and have a long history of struggle going back to the 1960’s, with roots directly drawn from the Revolutionary Action Movement, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika, the National Black Human Rights Coalition, and the New Afrikan People’s Organization.
People’s War is the road to final victory. We applaud your courage, conviction, and clarity in continuing its march.
Down with revisionism!
Forward to victory!
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Kasama will be sharing a series of statements in solidarity with the congress of the newly reconstituted Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist. Nepal’s Maoist revolutionaries have regrouped into a new revolutionary party. They are fighting to carve out a new revolutionary path in Nepal. This statement comes to Kasama from the Revolutionary Initiative of Canada.
Revolutionary Initiative sends warm internationalist greetings to the Communist Party of Nepal – Maoist on the occasion of your 7th Congress.
The CPN-M Party has been a source of great inspiration to us revolutionary communists in Canada and throughout the entire International Communist Movememnt since the launch of the People’s War in Nepal. Your bold and great example in carving out a new power for the people in Nepal stimulated the new vitality of the International Communist Movement throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, when oppressed and exploited peoples of the world were being told that communism was a failure and that capitalist was the “end of history”.
The CPN-M’s’ creative approach to Maoism, your firm basis amongst the masses, your reliance on concrete study of concrete conditions, and the very open manner in which your Party has conducted its two-line struggle has provided an invaluable examples of how revolutionaries around the world can work to break with both dogmatism and revisionism in their many forms and carry the revolution forward. We also recognize the great sacrifices that your Party has had to make and we pay homage to the great comrades and fighters that were martyred or injured during the People’s War.
We have watched for years with profound sorrow and concern as some of your former comrade leaders of the United Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist capitulated to imperialism and Indian expansionism; but we were are greatly inspired by your Party’s ability to reconstitute itself on a revolutionary basis. It is our great hope that your Party will be able to emerge from the current crossroads and lead the transformation of Nepalese society and by doing so greatly advance the cause of revolution in South Asia and around the world.
As this statement is being read here in Nepal today, one of the most significant movements in decades is developing within Canada’s borders right now, a movement spreading as fast as the Occupy movement and the “Arab Spring” before it. This is a movement encompassing the dozens of nations of Indigenous peoples that long preceded the European colonization of the Americas and by any means necessary will long outlive this past five hundred years of European colonization of the Americas up to the present day imperialist world system.
The spontaneous movement that is known as ‘Idle No More’ has captured international headlines since early December 2012, shattering the illusions of Canada as a country of peace, multiculturalism, and opportunity for all. Quite to the contrary, however, Canada has for centuries been a couldron of colonial occupation and genocide against the first nations and peoples of what can be alternatively called Turtle Island [the name by which many nations referred to North America before the arrival of Europeans].
Although this is a spontaneous mass movement, with leadership elements of bureaucrat capitalist “Indian chiefs” very closely tied to Canadian imperialism and colonialism, this movement has set off the long pent-up fury of Indigenous peoples who have suffered decades and centuries of genocidal policies all the way up to the present day. In the past month alone, road and railway blockades, mass protests, and direct actions all across the country have been led by grassroots Indigenous people ready and willing to fight Canadian colonialism head on.
Although the “first nations” within Canada’s colonial borders make up perhaps only a small fraction of the total population, their ancestral lands cover the land mass of the entire country, ancestral lands that many nations are fighting resolutely to defend as their very survival as nations is threatended by Canadian imperialism’s constant and now intensified attempt to eliminate Indigenous peoples.
We firmly believe that the national liberation struggles of indigenous peoples is not only complimentary to the proletarian revolution in Canada, but more importantly, it is necessary for it, and indeed for the advance of proletarian revolution on a world scale.
Since the spectacula financial collapses of 2008 revealed the crisis of capitalism to be endemic and structural to the imperialist world system, Canadian bourgeois politicians have suggested that Canadian economy is exceptional, and that Canadian finance capital is unaffected by the sorts of crises being experienced in the U.S. or Europe. What is not said in these pronouncements is the extent to which Canadian imperialism and monopoly capital is reliant upon the plunder of the world’s natural resources through Canada’s monopoly capitalist extractive industries, much of which comes from the internal colonies encompassing Indigenous peoples ancestral lands.
The struggle of Indigenous peoples’ for genuine self-determination to break Canadian colonialism would not only be a contribution to liberation of struggling peoples everywhere but indeed all humanity. Canada’s spoiliation of the environment and these resources is driving our world closer to, and arguably even beyond, the brink of irreversible ecological collapse; and the Indigenous peoples in Canada are without a doubt on the frontlines of militant struggle against this plunder.
Yet, as significant as the Idle No More movement is – and we believe that we are only seeing the beginning of this upsurge – it comes not even a year after another one of the greatest upsurges in Canadian history, the great student strike of Quebec, which as you may know brought hundreds of thousands of students and popular masses into the streets every week for months and months. Every single day there were between one and three rallies running into the thousands somewhere in Montreal alone. At its height, the mobilization reached 400,000 people. This student strike approached insurrectionary proportions at certain points, with thousands of people facing off with heavily-armed officers who are among the most brutal in North America. Not only did this upsurge refuse to be quelled through violence and draconian emergency laws (Law 79), it was ultimately victorious in halting the tuition fee increases that sparked this movement to begin with. This makes it one of the few struggles in the imperialist countries in recent years to halt an “austerity” attack. Yet, all throughout the strike and especially as it grew, a growing proportion of the striking students began taking up anti-capitalist and anti-colonial slogans and recognized that the strike amounted to so much more than the economistic struggle of tuition fees.
These two events in the past year in Canada are mere signals that not only is Canada fully embroiled in the crisis of the imperialist world system, but more importantly, the people are beginning to fight back.
While being humbled by and sometimes even overwhelmed by the power of the people’s struggles, our task, like yours, is to give the greatest possible unity to all the just struggles of the people through the consolidation of a genuine proletarian revolutionary vanguard Party. We hope and are planning for this event in the immediate years.
Without being self-satisfied we can claim with confidence that our efforts at party-building are making strides towards the constitution of a new revolutionary party guided by Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. Although there is currently at least two Marxist-Leninist-Maoists currents within Canada, we are confident that the force of history will unite all possible revolutionary communist forces within Canada along correct lines in the coming future.
The task of Revolutionary Initiative in the coming three years is to meet all possible necessary preconditions for the foundation of a genuine revolutionary communist party in Canada, including a sufficient basis amongst the proletarian masses, with representation from the many nations within Canada and across the many sectors of oppressed and expoited people; and finally, with a draft Party program based upon a comprehensive historical materialist summation of Canadian history, society, and the subjective conditions of the revolutionary struggle, past and present.
We cannot have made it as far as we have without the example and guidance of the people’s wars in countries like Nepal, India, Philippines, and elsewhere. More importantly, the masses in the imperialist countries will not be able to make revolution unless the most exploited and oppressed peoples of the world hasten and intensify the crisis of the imperialist world system, while inspiring us with a living example of a much better world awaits us all, a world beyond capitalism and imperialism, a world of socialism on the path to communism.
There’s much more that can be said about Canadian imperialism and its place in the world today, this country that is the most vocal supporter of Zionist Israel in the world today, that is unabashedly enthusiastic about its part in bombing Libya and the new wars brewing that menace the world, such as in Syria and Iran. There’s much more than can be said about this country where so many migrant workers from around world come to in order to find a better life only to meet intensified exploitation, racism, precariousness, and often a worse future for their children. Much more can be said, but we know that you comrades have much work to do; and our time here is limited and your tasks are many.
Long the Communist Party of Nepal – Maoist!
Long live the revolution!
J. Cabral – Chairperson Joseph Mackenzie – Vice-Secretary, Education
Members of the Central Committee of Revolutionary Initiative (Canada)
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People’s Volunteers march through Kathmandu, 2012
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Nepal remains gripped in a profound constitutional crisis. Its ruling parties have failed to re-establish a stable peace. Those who betrayed the revolution’s aspirations have instituted even more oppressive measures than existed in the old regime, selling the whole society to Indian capital and chaining Nepal to the world imperialist system.
On January 9th, 2012, the 7th Congress of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist will take place. A historic regroupment of Nepal’s communists, aimed at continuing Nepal’s revolution, has taken place. Already, they have begun militant factory seizures, and formed a new revolutionary force, the People’s Volunteers. New art and cultural movements are springing up, transforming the ideas of the society and preparing people for a new stage of revolutionary struggle. Nepal’s revolutionaries are struggling and charting out a new course to revolution in a country like Nepal.
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FBI Documents Reveal Secret Nationwide Occupy Monitoring
FBI documents just obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) pursuant to the PCJF’s Freedom of Information Act demands reveal that from its inception, the FBI treated the Occupy movement as a potential criminal and terrorist threat even though the agency acknowledges in documents that organizers explicitly called for peaceful protest and did “not condone the use of violence” at occupy protests.
The PCJF has obtained heavily redacted documents showing that FBI offices and agents around the country were in high gear conducting surveillance against the movement even as early as August 2011, a month prior to the establishment of the OWS encampment in Zuccotti Park and other Occupy actions around the country.
“This production, which we believe is just the tip of the iceberg, is a window into the nationwide scope of the FBI’s surveillance, monitoring, and reporting on peaceful protestors organizing with the Occupy movement,” stated Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, Executive Director of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF). “These documents show that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are treating protests against the corporate and banking structure of America as potential criminal and terrorist activity. These documents also show these federal agencies functioning as a de facto intelligence arm of Wall Street and Corporate America.”
“The documents are heavily redacted, and it is clear from the production that the FBI is withholding far more material. We are filing an appeal challenging this response and demanding full disclosure to the public of the records of this operation,” stated Heather Benno, staff attorney with the PCJF.
- As early as August 19, 2011, the FBI in New York was meeting with the New York Stock Exchange to discuss the Occupy Wall Street protests that wouldn’t start for another month. By September, prior to the start of the OWS, the FBI was notifying businesses that they might be the focus of an OWS protest.
- The FBI’s Indianapolis division released a “Potential Criminal Activity Alert” on September 15, 2011, even though they acknowledged that no specific protest date had been scheduled in Indiana. The documents show that the Indianapolis division of the FBI was coordinating with “All Indiana State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies,” as well as the “Indiana Intelligence Fusion Center,” the FBI “Directorate of Intelligence” and other national FBI coordinating mechanisms.
- Documents show the spying abuses of the FBI’s “Campus Liaison Program” in which the FBI in Albany and the Syracuse Joint Terrorism Task Force disseminated information to “sixteen (16) different campus police officials,” and then “six (6) additional campus police officials.” Campus officials were in contact with the FBI for information on OWS. A representative of the State University of New York at Oswego contacted the FBI for information on the OWS protests and reported to the FBI on the SUNY-Oswego Occupy encampment made up of students and professors.
- Documents released show coordination between the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and corporate America. They include a report by the Domestic Security Alliance Council (DSAC), described by the federal government as “a strategic partnership between the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the private sector,” discussing the OWS protests at the West Coast ports to “raise awareness concerning this type of criminal activity.” The DSAC report shows the nature of secret collaboration between American intelligence agencies and their corporate clients – the document contains a “handling notice” that the information is “meant for use primarily within the corporate security community. Such messages shall not be released in either written or oral form to the media, the general public or other personnel…” (The DSAC document was also obtained by the Northern California ACLU which has sought local FBI surveillance files.)
- Naval Criminal Investigative Services (NCIS) reported to the DSAC on the relationship between OWS and organized labor for the port actions. The NCIS describes itself as “an elite worldwide federal law enforcement organization” whose “mission is to investigate and defeat criminal, terrorist, and foreign intelligence threats to the United States Navy and Marine Corps ashore, afloat and in cyberspace.” The NCIS also assists with the transport of Guantanamo prisoners.
- DSAC issued several tips to its corporate clients on “civil unrest” which it defines as ranging from “small, organized rallies to large-scale demonstrations and rioting.” It advised to dress conservatively, avoid political discussions and “avoid all large gatherings related to civil issues. Even seemingly peaceful rallies can spur violent activity or be met with resistance by security forces. Bystanders may be arrested or harmed by security forces using water cannons, tear gas or other measures to control crowds.”
- The FBI in Anchorage reported from a Joint Terrorism Task Force meeting of November 3, 2011, about Occupy activities in Anchorage.
- A port Facility Security Officer in Anchorage coordinated with the FBI to attend the meeting of protestors and gain intelligence on the planning of the port actions. He was advised to request the presence of an Anchorage Police Department official to also attend the event. The FBI Special Agent told the undercover private operative that he would notify the Joint Terrorism Task Force and that he would provide a point of contact at the Anchorage Police Department.
- The Jacksonville, Florida FBI prepared a Domestic Terrorism briefing on the “spread of the Occupy Wall Street Movement” in October 2011. The intelligence meeting discussed Occupy venues identifying “Daytona, Gainesville and Ocala Resident Agency territories as portions …where some of the highest unemployment rates in Florida continue to exist.”
- The Tampa, Florida FBI “Domestic Terrorism” liaison participated with the Tampa Police Department’s monthly intelligence meeting in which Occupy Lakeland, Occupy Polk County and Occupy St. Petersburg were discussed. They reported on an individual “leading the Occupy Tampa” and plans for travel to Gainesville for a protest planning meeting, as well as on Veterans for Peace plans to protest at MacDill Air Force Base.
- The Federal Reserve in Richmond appears to have had personnel surveilling OWS planning. They were in contact with the FBI in Richmond to “pass on information regarding the movement known as occupy Wall Street.” There were repeated communications “to pass on updates of the events and decisions made during the small rallies and the following information received from the Capital Police Intelligence Unit through JTTF (Joint Terrorism Task Force).”
- The Virginia FBI was collecting intelligence on the OWS movement for dissemination to the Virginia Fusion Center and other Intelligence divisions.
- The Milwaukee division of the FBI was coordinating with the Ashwaubenon Public Safety division in Green Bay Wisconsin regarding Occupy.
- The Memphis FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force met to discuss “domestic terrorism” threats, including, “Aryan Nations, Occupy Wall Street, and Anonymous.”
- The Birmingham, AL division of the FBI sent communications to HAZMAT teams regarding the Occupy Wall Street movement.
- The Jackson, Mississippi division of the FBI attended a meeting of the Bank Security Group in Biloxi, MS with multiple private banks and the Biloxi Police Department, in which they discussed an announced protest for “National Bad Bank Sit-In-Day” on December 7, 2011.
- The Denver, CO FBI and its Bank Fraud Working Group met and were briefed on Occupy Wall Street in November 2011. Members of the Working Group include private financial institutions and local area law enforcement.
- Jackson, MS Joint Terrorism Task Force issued a “Counterterrorism Preparedness” alert. This heavily redacted document includes the description, “To document…the Occupy Wall Street Movement.”
You can read the FBI – OWS documents below where we have uploaded them in searchable format for public viewing.
The PCJF filed Freedom of Information Act demands with multiple federal law enforcement agencies in the fall of 2011 as the Occupy crackdown began. The FBI initially attempted to limit its search to only one limited record keeping index. Recognizing this as a common tactic used by the FBI to conduct an inadequate search, the PCJF pressed forward demanding searches be performed of the FBI headquarters as well as FBI field offices nationwide.
The PCJF will continue to push for public disclosure of the government’s spy files and will release documents as they are obtained.
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Two tigers are better than one.
Kasama began as a simple blog in December 2007, publishing Nine Letters to Our Comrades, and initiating a conversation over how to overcome two great absences: the absence of a revolutionary movement and organization, and the absence of a revolutionary strategy.
Five years and 5.6 million unique page views later, Kasama has developed an organizational network separate from this website, along with projects and collectives of many kinds and unities throughout the country.
Just after our five year anniversary, we will be launching a new, completely re-vamped site. Kasama has long out-grown the simple blog format, and it is time to experiment with something new.
It will launch as a beta, and some things will still be a work in progress. The old Kasama site will continue to live on archive.kasamaproject.org. The new Kasama site will revolve around three distinct spheres, aimed at contributing to the reconception of communist theory and strategy, and the regroupment of revolutionaries into future serious revolutionary organization:
1. Kasama Main: A radically redesigned magazine style communist publication that will both be more fun to read, and will aim at featuring higher levels of discussion and debate.
2. Kasama Threads: An open blogging platform aiming to allow participants on the Kasama site to do their own blogging and participation, while at the same time fostering the culture of principled and comradely struggle that has come to characterize Kasama.
3. Kasama Social: An independent revolutionary social network built into all aspects of the site, aiming to allow networking, parallel communication, real-time chat, a platform for study groups and organizing, and a lot more. We’ll also be looking at ways to have integration with existing social networks in ways the protect security.
To make all of this happen, we’ll need a new layer of moderators, authors, participants, contributors, and donors (shit is seriously expensive, total costs were about $8,000 plus $2,000 a year for our server). Hit us up and volunteer. Hit that donate button in the top right corner.
In the meantime, the current Kasama site will be slowing down as we prepare for launch.
Here we go! Lal salaam.
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