Communists of America
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The Revolutionary Communists of America are a product of this new period in history. We are here for the complete overthrow of capitalism. If you consider yourself a communist, if you’re committed to carrying out a revolution in our lifetime, this is your podcast.Learn more and join the party at communistusa.org.
Episodes
- Iran War Sparks Class Anger in the US
The Communists of America episode "Iran War Sparks Class Anger in the US" addresses the potential for social unrest in the United States. It argues that the working class is facing economic hardship due to the cost of living, while the rul…
- The Decline of MAGA and US Imperialism
This episode of Communists of America covers the decline of MAGA and US imperialism. It references documents and articles available on the Communist USA website, including perspectives on the 2026 American Revolution and Operation Epstein…
- Lessons of the Black Struggle in America
Jaybre Acres reviews the history of racism in the United States and discusses what is required to end the oppression of Black people within this lifetime. The episode was recorded on October 25th, 2025.
- Trump is Losing in Iran — Economic Catastrophe is Coming
This episode of Communists of America discusses the Trump administration's actions in Iran, suggesting it represents a significant miscalculation that could lead to economic disaster and harm US imperialism.
- Will Epstein Spark the Next American Revolution?
This episode of Communists of America explores the possibility of Jeffrey Epstein being a catalyst for a revolution against capitalism.
- Trump's War on Latin America—How Can We End Imperialism?
Trump has attacked Venezuela and is threatening the rest of Latin America. No matter who is president, both parties run the imperialist machine. How can we fight imperialism? ✊Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/joi…
- Capitalist Healthcare Is a Deadly Scam
✊Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join/ 🛜Follow us: 📷https://instagram.com/communistsofamerica 🎵https://tiktok.com/@communistsofamerica 🐦https://x.com/communistsus 🚩 Donate to build your party: https://commu…
- Minneapolis Makes History: Now Spread the General Strike!
Minneapolis has yet again become the epicenter of the class struggle in the United States. It is hard to overstate the significance of what is unfolding in the Twin Cities. Communists must study these events closely, and draw the conclusio…
- ICE Terrorizes Minneapolis: GENERAL STRIKE in the air
Read our article here: https://communistusa.org/anti-ice-rage-surges-in-minnesota-prepare-for-a-general-strike/ Two weeks since the murder of Renee Good, the anti-ICE movement continues to gain momentum. Ordinary people are organizing to s…
- Dialectical Materialism Explained
📍Recorded at the 2025 LA Marxist School ✊Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join/ 🛜Follow us: 📷https://instagram.com/communistsofamerica 🎵https://tiktok.com/@communistsofamerica 🐦https://x.com/communistsus 🚩…
- 2025: Communist Year-in-Review
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- The Anti-Vietnam War Movement: What Communists Should Learn
Recorded at the NY Marxist School🚩November 9, 2025 ✊Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join/ 🛜Follow us: 📷https://instagram.com/communistsofamerica 🎵https://tiktok.com/@communistsofamerica 🐦https://x.com/commu…
- Debunking Stalinist Myths About Lenin and Trotsky
Recorded at the NY Marxist School🚩November 9, 2025 ✊Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join/ 🛜Follow us: 📷https://instagram.com/communistsofamerica 🎵https://tiktok.com/@communistsofamerica 🐦https://x.com/commu…
- What is Dialectical Materialism?
Recorded at the NY Marxist School🚩November 8, 2025 ✊Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join/ 🛜Follow us: 📷https://instagram.com/communistsofamerica 🎵https://tiktok.com/@communistsofamerica 🐦https://x.com/commu…
- Germany 1918-1923: Socialism or Barbarism
Recorded at the Chicago Marxist School🚩https://communistusa.org/2025-marxist-school-series-picks-up-momentum-in-chicago/ ✊Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join/ 🛜Follow us: 📷https://instagram.com/communistsofa…
- What is Fascism?
Recorded at the Chicago Marxist School🚩https://communistusa.org/2025-marxist-school-series-picks-up-momentum-in-chicago/ ✊Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join/ 🛜Follow us: 📷https://instagram.com/communistsofa…
- What Happened in Greece in 2015?
Fully captioned video on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/oQ78QGVV_vg] ✊Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join/ 🛜Follow us: 📷https://instagram.com/communistsofamerica 🎵https://tiktok.com/@communistsofamerica 🐦ht…
- Why Capitalism Has No Future
Recorded at the LA Marxist School🚩✊Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join/ 🛜Follow us: 📷https://instagram.com/communistsofamerica 🎵https://tiktok.com/@communistsofamerica 🐦https://x.com/communistsus 🚩 Donate…
- How Stalinism Betrayed the Chinese Revolution of 1925
Recorded at the NY Marxist School🚩November 9, 2025 ✊Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join/ 🛜Follow us: 📷https://instagram.com/communistsofamerica 🎵https://tiktok.com/@communistsofamerica 🐦https://x.com/commu…
- How Can Communism Go Mainstream?
Recorded at the NY Marxist School🚩November 9, 2025 ✊Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join/ 🛜Follow us: 📷https://instagram.com/communistsofamerica 🎵https://tiktok.com/@communistsofamerica 🐦https://x.com/commu…
- Where is America Going?
Recorded at the NY Marxist School🚩November 9, 2025 ✊Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join/ 🛜Follow us: 📷https://instagram.com/communistsofamerica 🎵https://tiktok.com/@communistsofamerica 🐦https://x.com/commu…
- The End of the American Century and the Rise of China
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- Communism and Women's Liberation
Recorded at the LA Marxist School🚩 Attend a Marxist School: https://communistusa.org/schools/ ✊Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join/ 🛜Follow us: 📷https://instagram.com/communistsofamerica 🎵https://tiktok.com…
- The Arab Spring: Revolution in the Middle East
Recorded at the LA Marxist School🚩 Attend a Marxist School: https://communistusa.org/schools/ ✊ Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join/ 🛜Follow us: 📷https://instagram.com/communistsofamerica 🎵https://tiktok.co…
- Communism and Film
Recorded at the LA Marxist School🚩Attend a Marxist School: https://communistusa.org/schools/ ✊Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join/ 🛜Follow us: 📷https://instagram.com/communistsofamerica 🎵https://tiktok.com/…
- Where is World Capitalism Going?
Recorded at the LA Marxist School🚩Attend a Marxist School: https://communistusa.org/schools/ ✊Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join/ 🛜Follow us: 📷 instagram.com/communistsofamerica 🎵 tiktok.com/@communistsofa…
- Communists Are Recruiting Gen Z
2,500 prospective new members have signed up across the country since the semester began. But our work is only getting started… Sign up for the 2025 Marxist Schools: https://communistusa.org/schools/ ✊Join the fight against capitalism: htt…
- How Does Capitalism Work?
Tom Trottier explains Marx's Economic theory and how we can understand the current crisis. 📍Recorded at the Central Committee of the RCA on September 6, 2025. ✊Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join 🚩 Donate to…
- US Decline and the Rise of BRICS
Antonio Balmer explains the relative decline of US imperialism and the strengthening of BRICS 📉 📍Recorded at the Central Committee of the RCA on September 6, 2025 ✊Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join 🚩 Donat…
- What do Communists think about Zohran?
Zohran Mamdani, a self-described socialist, won the Democratic mayoral primary in New York City. Since then, the media, Trump, and his own party are attacking him. What is his strategy, and what do communists think about it? ✊Join the figh…
- Trump's Iran War Backfires & Zohran Wins Democratic Primary
John Peterson, Antonio Balmer, and Tom Trottier discuss Trump's war on Iran, and Zohran Mamdani, the self-described socialist, who won the New York City Democratic mayoral primary. ✊Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.o…
- How to Build a Revolution in the U.S. — The Leninist Way
Can revolution happen in the United States? Not just someday, but in our lifetime — and not just spontaneously, but with strategy. ✊Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join Antonio Balmer explains what it actually t…
- World Capitalism Is Collapsing (Marx was Right)
🌍 The World Is Shifting Fast — But This Isn’t Random Chaos. It’s Capitalism in Crisis. We're living through a period of deep instability, sharp turns, and global upheaval. In this talk, Fred Weston explains the root of the crisis — and wh…
- Where is America Going?
John Peterson outlines the revolutionary processes developing in American society—and how we must prepare as communists. Recorded at the Second National Congress of the RCA on May 31–June 1 in Philadelphia. Read our 2025 US perspectives he…
- Trump isn't a Fascist—Here's Why
What is Trumpism and how do we fight it? In this talk, originally titled "Fascism, Bonapartism, and right-wing populism," Bryce Gordon explains the Marxist theory of the state, and why Trump is not a fascist but a different kind of class e…
- Bernie and Trump Supporters Turn to Communism
With capitalism in its deepest crisis, some turned to Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump to challenge the status quo. As the two discredit themselves, many of their disillusioned supporters are now looking towards communism—and finding the Re…
- Trump's "Golden Age" off to a Rough Start
One crisis is layered upon another: Constitutional crisis, recession fears, and tariff chaos. Trump's pro-worker charade won't stand the test of events. The RCA is the only party arguing for consistent, class-independent politics. Our forc…
- What Luigi Mangione Shows Us about Mass Consciousness
The widespread sympathy for Luigi Mangione has starkly revealed the enormous amount of working-class anger that has built up in American society. But one thing is necessary to ensure the victory of our struggle: the urgent building of a re…
- What is Trumpism? w/ Alan Woods
This week we republish an episode from our international podcast: Against the Stream: Trump’s dramatic return to the White House has thrown the liberals into complete panic and confusion. They have flung whatever insults they can at him: f…
- Marxism VS Mysticism
Despite the decline of organized religion in recent years, there has also been a concurrent rise in mysticism and “New Age” beliefs. How should communists approach this belief with people that we encounter in our work? 📖 Lenin "The Attitu…
- The Method to Trump’s Madness and the Meltdown of Liberalism
The liberal world order that has been in charge for decades has been put in the back seat by Donald Trump. His rule is accelerating the decline of capitalism and communists must organize for the crises to come and prepare for revolution. ✊…
- We Need to Fight Trump AND the Liberals
The liberals are incapable of stopping Trump, neither party can halt the crisis of capitalism, and both are representatives of the billionaire imperialists. So how do we beat them both? ✊ Join the fight against capitalism: https://communis…
- Los Angeles Goes Up in Flames
The ferocious blaze that terrorized America’s second largest city is a product of the capitalist system in terminal decline. Private ownership and production for profit put the interests of a tiny capitalist cabal ahead of the interests of…
- Trump's Billionaire Government
Donald Trump is back in the White House promising to end the decline of America. His promises will fall flat, spelling further decline for the U.S. and further discontent of the working class. ✊ Join the fight against capitalism: https://c…
- The World Can't Wait: Join the Communists in 2025
Welcome to 2025. The world is on fire, war rages in the middle east and Ukraine, and there is increasing instability in the social fabric of the United States. There is a desperate need for a mass communist party, and there has never been…
- Trump, Biden and the crisis of the American regime — Against the Stream
Republished from the podcast of the RCI "Against the Stream" — With just two weeks before Trump re-enters the White House, the outgoing Democrats are doing everything they can to undermine the next president. In Ukraine in particular, wher…
- Do you support Luigi?
Huge numbers of the population feel sympathy for the action for which Luigi Mangione has been charged. The mass sympathy elicited by this act speaks volumes about the political vacuum in the US. The class-war methods we advocate for are ma…
- Communist Perspectives going into 2025
With no stability in the world at the end of 2024, what can we expect from 2025? Our comrade, Fred Weston answers at the Central Committee of the RCA. ✊ Join the fight against capitalism: https://communistusa.org/join 🚩 Donate to build yo…
- Should Communists be "Pragmatic"?
A discussion on pragmatism with our comrades in NYC. As Trotsky put it, “pragmatism . . . is the greatest curse of American thought. You must inoculate younger comrades against its infection.” This philosophy can creep into our work if we…
- What is Imperialism?
What is imperialism? NYC communists of the RCA discuss different angles of this topic, from Lenin's time to today. 📕 Pre-order Colossus: The Rise and Decline of US Imperialism: https://www.marxistbooks.com/collections/books/products/colos…