All Roads Lead to Revolution
To accumulate the subjective forces for revolution—the organized forces in society consciously struggling for revolution—the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries (OCR) must initiate and lead a wide variety of vehicles for carrying out agitation and propaganda and developing concentric circles of organization and waves of mass struggle under our leadership. Our Manifesto gives a basic vision…
Leading through collectivity, recruiting cadre, and building local Party branches
We write this manual after the OCR has recruited a number of young cadre who are stepping up to lead, train, and recruit the next wave of cadre, and as the question of organizational expansion—in places where we have units and in places where we do not—is on the agenda. A few, more security-sensitive, aspects…
Drawing Blood: A Guide to Communist Agitation
During his struggle with the economists (those Marxists who restricted their political work to struggles over the immediate conditions of exploitation at the factory), Lenin, in his seminal work What Is to Be Done?, wrote:
A basic condition for the necessary expansion of political agitation is the organization of comprehensive political exposure. In no way except by means of such…
Deepening proletarian class-consciousness and addressing the key questions: a manual on propaganda
In the first few years of the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries’ existence, we have led the production of a significant body of theoretical and analytical writings (published in kites and now in Going Against the Tide), which was crucial to attracting and training an initial wave of new communist cadre and providing strategic guidance to…
Correcting an over-correction
On the weapon of exposure, the role of all-around agitation, and prioritizing recruitment.
In the section “Strategy for Revolution in the US” of the Manifesto of the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries, we outline a multifaceted approach for building the subjective forces for revolution. Building mass organizations under our leadership is presented as a “crucial starting…
Refining our mass organizing methods
The following manual was developed out of a training session in Summer 2023 for several new cadre in the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries (US). The aim of that training session was to synthesize the key lessons from our mass organizing efforts and to help comrades find solutions to the challenges that have come up in…
Building the united front under the leadership of the proletariat, in steps and leaps
We write this training manual after the OCR has made some important, if initial, strides in sinking roots among the proletariat, launching and leading focused mass organizing and broader agitation efforts, mounting a few small but significant political interventions, and recruiting and training cadre. These achievements and their limitations point to the need to cultivate…
Looking Back to Face Forward: The Role of Summation in the Revolutionary Process
The great helmsman of the Chinese Communist Revolution, Mao Zedong, elaborated a four-step method for guiding revolutionary practice:
1. Make a plan. 2. Carry out the plan. 3. Sum up the experience. 4. Make a new plan.
This didn’t just spring from the grand intellect of Mao, but was forged through the tremendous sacrifice of…
Notes on our work among the proletariat
The following is more a beginning synthesis than a detailed summation of the lessons learned through the political work and organizing efforts of the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries (OCR) among the proletariat in the US. Our experience is still quite limited given the small size of our organization, but we felt that synthesizing and sharing…
Going Against the Tide: A journal charting a path for communist revolution in the US 