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Kasama Project (Revolutionary Organization Existing from c. 2007-2015)

Documents and Publications

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Pamphlet Series:

• 2007:
  • “Nine Letters to Our Comrades”, by Mike Ely, a critique of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, which served as the foundation document for the Kasama website and the Kasama Project organization. December 2007, 72 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,312 KB]
• 2008:
  • “Eyes on the Maobadi—4 Reasons Nepal’s Revolution Matters”, by Mike Ely, n.d. (but probably 2008), 4 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [176 KB]
  • “At a Fork in the Road: A Debriefing on the RCP”, by Bill Martin, September/October 2008, 52 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,097 KB]
  • “Avakian’s Assessment of Thomas Jefferson: A Critical Reading”, by Pavel Andreyev, October 2008, 16 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [1,615 KB]
  • “Avakian’s Away With All Gods!: Critiquing Religion Without Understanding It”, by Pavel Andreyev, October 2008, 20 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,453 KB]
  • “Costs of Empire: ‘Time-bombs,’ Anarchy, Guns and the New Depression”, by Eddie Laing, Nov. 2008, 20 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [645 KB]
• 2009:
  • “The Historical Failure of Anarchism—Implications for the Future of the Revolutionary Project”, by Christopher Day. Written in 1996 as an internal critique of the anarchist movement, but republished as a Kasama pamphlet in 2009, 20 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [865 KB]
  • “Five Letters from the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA”, 2005-2009, representing two different lines around the Maoist revolution in Nepal, 80 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [1,087 KB]
  • “Slipping into Darkness: The Communist Party's Last Revolutionary Years (1929-1935)”, by Mike Ely, originally written and published in Revolution (the RCP theoretical journal) in 1980, and republished as a Kasama pamphlet in January 2009, 24 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,740 KB]
  • “Shaping the Kasama Project—Contributing to Revolution’s Long March”, by Enzo Rhyner, J.B. Connors, John Steele, Kobayashi Maru, Mike Ely, Rita Stephan and Rosa Harris, Feb. 2009, 12 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [198 KB]
  • “Where’s Our Mississippi? Memories of the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964”, by John Steele, Feb. 2009, 12 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [1,393 KB]
  • “Kasama Articles: On the Maobadi and the Crisis in Nepal”, 12 articles posted on the Kasama website combined into a single pamphlet on May 6, 2009, 56 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [910 KB]
  • “Open Letter to the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) from the Politbureau of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), May 20, 2009”, 28 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [387 KB]
  • “Revolution in India: Lalgarh’s Hopeful Spark”, by Sam Shell, July 2009, 12 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [1,299 KB]
  • “Ambush at Keystone No. 1: Inside the Coal Miners'GreatGasProtestOf1974”, by Mike Ely, July 2009, 28 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [493 KB]
• 2010:
  • “Into the Wild: Badiou, Actually Existing Maoism, and the ‘Vital Mix’ of Yesterday and Tomorrow”, by Bill Martin, March 2010, 60 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [1,133 KB]
  • “Walking with the Comrades: Report from Maoist Political Base Areas in India’s DK Forest”, by Arundhati Roy, March 2010, 40 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [4,601 KB]
  • “A Letter from Kathmandu”, by Jed Brandt, March 2010, 4 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [414 KB]
  • “May First—High Noon in Nepal”, by Jed Brandt, April 21, 2010, 8 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [557 KB]
• 2011:
  • “Greece’s Communist Organization: Learning to Swim in Stormy Weather”, by Eric Ribellarsi, July 2011. Also includes: “The Influence of the Chinese Revolution on the Communist Movement of Greece” by the Communist Organization of Greece (KOE), 2006. Total pamphlet is 20 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,249 KB]
• 2012:
  • “Out of the Red Closet: Gay and Lesbian Experiences in the Previous Communist Movement”, by people posting comments to the Kasama website, January 2012, 56 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [625 KB]
• 2013:
  • “Sites of a Communist Beginning”, by Mike Ely, Spring 2013, 24 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [10,387 KB]

Internet Postings:

• 2010:
  • “Relying On the People: Untapped While Capitalism Gushes Oil”, postings on the Kasama website by Mike Ely, “J. Scott”, and others, June 2010, 10 pages.   MS Doc format   [94 KB]

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