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Revolutionary United Front (U.S.A.)
Documents and Publications
The Revolutionary United Front was a small American revolutionary organization formed in 2018 and disbanded early in 2021. Its members engaged in political work in several urban regions in the U.S., including Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, and New York City.
RUF still has a website at: https://RevolutionaryUnitedFront.com It published a very interesting magazine, named Red Star, focused on the revolutionary education of the American working class and masses. These issues are available below and are also still available on their website.
If you know of other documents and publications of the Revolutionary United Front which should be made available here, please contact us at: freespeech@bannedthought.net
Documents
- Most are available on the RUF website (see above).
- “On the Dissolution of the Revolutionary United Front and the Way Forward”, 1 page. PDF format [32 KB]
Red Star
- [Note: A new magazine (which in some respects continues the work of Red Star), named The Uprising, began in 2021, and is available at: https://readtheuprisingmagazine.wordpress.com
- Issue #5 — Fall-Winter 2019, 90 pages. Searchable PDF format [16,631 KB] Articles:
- “RUF Stops Another Eviction Attempt in West Oakland”, by Zumbi
- “Boston University Students Protest Far-Right Talking Head Ben Shapiro”, by Khalil
- “What is Fascism?”, by Zumbi & Rodney
- “Capitalist Crises: Symptoms of a Sick Economic System”, by Nadia & Katya
- “History of the Black Panther Party, Part 5”, by Smith
- “Puerto Rican People’s Power Shakes Colonial Government”, by Khalil
- “Class Struggles in Hong Kong and their Relation to Mainland China”, by Smith & Alan
- “The Deadlock in Israeli Elections”, by Khalil & Joe
- Issue #4 — Summer 2019, 106 pages. Searchable PDF format [19,297 KB] Articles:
- “RUF Member Arrested at Protest”
- “The Founding of the NYC RUF Chapter”
- “The U.S.-Iran Conflict”
- “Organize Against a U.S. War with Iran”
- “Struggling in the Homeless Encampments in the Bay Area”
- “The 2019 Indian Elections and the Rise of Hindu Fascism”
- “The Siege of Kashmir and the International Protest Movement”
- “Mass Rebellion and Inter-Imperialist Competition in Serbia”
- “The Revolution in Sudan”
- “The Easter Bombings and U.S.-China Competition in Sri Lanka”
- “History of the Black Panther Party: Part 4”
- “The 2020 Presidential Elections”
- “Climate Change and Capitalism”
- “Defend Brandon Lee: A Working-class Internationalist”
- Issue #3 — Spring 2019, 100 pages. Searchable PDF format [7,913 KB] Articles:
- Poem: “The Wretched of the Earth are Rising”, by John
- “The Mueller Report: A Two-Year Capitalist Con Job”, by Altan D.
- “U.S. Imperialism at the Border”, by Khalil
- “U.S. and Chinese Imperialists Struggle for Supremacy”, by Art
- “Venezuela, Chinese and Russian Imperialism, and the U.S. Coup”, by Smith
- “Anti-Imperialist Struggles in haiti and Around the World”, by Earl
- “The Great March of Return and Palestinian Liberation”, by Khalil
- “Exposing Imperialism at Universities and Rebuilding the Anti-War Movement”, by Khalil, Lena C., & Altan D.
- “The Anti-Imperialist Movement at MIT”, by Smith
- “Two Years Since Standing Rock: Reflections on the Struggle”, by Zumbi
- “History of the Black Panther Party: Part 3”, by Charles
- “Update on the Struggle Against Homelessness and Displacement”, by Zumbi and Smith
- Issue #2 — Winter 2019, 76 pages. Searchable PDF format [16,851 KB] Articles:
- Poem: “The Wretched of the Earth are Rising”, by John
- “The Genocidal War in Yemen”, by John
- “Class Struggle in France: The Yellow Vest Movement”, by Sarah
- “Gentrification and Class Struggle”, by Darren
- “Visit to an Oakland Encampment”, by John
- “Organizing Among Homeless Emcampments in the Bay Area”, by Earl
- “Black Liberation and Revolution”, by Jen
- “History of the Black Panther Party: Part 2: The Growth and Development of the Party”, by John
- “Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court: Two Tools of Ruling Class Reaction”, by Charles
- “Naxalbari: The Birth of the Revolutionary Movement in India”, by Sarah
- Editorial: “Americans Must Oppose the War in Yemen”, by John
- Issue #1 — September 2018, 56 pages. Searchable PDF format [31,557 KB] Articles:
- “U.S. Senator John McCain is Dead: Good!”, by Nadia
- “The Crisis in Turkey and its Relation to U.S. Imperialism”, by Jack Reed
- “The Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar”, by Zuri Allen
- “History of the Black Panther Party—Part 1: The Founding”, by John Brown
- “Drowning in the ‘Blue Wave’: Why the Democrats Are Not the Solution”, by Joaquin Murrieta
- “Classes and Class Struggle”, by Joe Hill
- “Wages and Exploitation Under Capitalism: The Low Down”, by Vachey Hammer
- “Professor G.N. Saibaba and the Revolutionary Movement in India”, by Nadia
- “Letters to the Editor: Conversation and Routine: On Workplace Organizing”, by C.R.
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