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Demonstrators protest against police brutality on Times Square in New York's Manhattan district, the United States, May 31, 2020. Daily mass protests have spread across hundreds of US cities, as a justified public response against fascist police brutality in the aftermath of the brazen killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers through the now infamous “knee-on-neck” restraint. [Photo by Xinhua]

On 22 April 2020, all anti-imperialists, socialists and revolutionaries throughout the world commemorated the 150th birth anniversary of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov or Lenin, the great Marxist thinker, leader of the revolutionary proletariat, founder of the first socialist state, and prolific author of books and articles. Tap here for a paper by Prof. Jose Ma. Sison on the life and legacy of the great Lenin. [Photo colorization by Klimbim]

The Covid-19 pandemic, which broke into the world stage in January 2020, has contributed to the socio-economic crisis of global capitalism, already teetering near the edge of another recession, finally falling into the chasm. Worst affected by the twin tsunamis are the billions of impoverished working people both in imperialist countries, in their neocolonies, and the few states assertive of their national independence, Tap here for a paper by Joma Sison summarizing the fast-unfolding international situation. [Illustration based on ILO photo]

In the fall of 1938, the Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth CPC Central Committee was held in Yan'an. This photo shows members of the presidium of the plenary session. Front row from left: Kang Sheng, Mao Zedong, Wang Jiaxiang, Zhu De, Xiang Ying and Wang Ming; back row from left: Chen Yun, Bo Gu, Peng Dehuai, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai and Zhang Wentian. [Photo/The history of the CPC]

Armed workers in Shanghai uprising 1926-27

Between September 1926 and March 1927, the Communist Party of China leads three armed uprisings by the Shanghai working class. Photo shows a formation of armed workers who joined the Shanghai uprising. [Photo/History of the CPC] For more historical photos of events in China's new-democratic revolution (Part 1), tap here.

Following the unsuccessful Autumn Harvest Uprising in September 1927, Mao Zedong led its remaining men to the Jinggang Mountains, founding there the first rural revolutionary base. The picture shows the oil painting "Autumn Harvest Uprising". [Photo/Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution.] For the latest on the "Universality of People's War" debate, tap here.

THIS WEEK’S MAIN STORY

ON U.S. POLICE BRUTALITY AND THE RESULTING MASS PROTESTS

Daily protests are spreading across hundreds of US cities, as a mostly spontaneous but justified response of the people against fascist police brutality. The immediate trigger for the massive protest was the brazen killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers through the now infamous “knee-on-neck” restraint.

As news of the killing spread, people across the US were outraged, and joined mostly peaceful street protests. But when authorities responded with riot police’s violent dispersal tactics and arrests, the protests escalated into more militant forms of resistance.

PRISM posted a statement of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle on the Floyd police killing and the people’s protests (please click on button below). We also posted the first of a two-part commentary on the broader socio-economic and political context of racist violence and police brutality in the US.

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