{"title":"Going Against the Tide","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"going-against-the-tide-7-spring-2026-a-journal-charting-a-path-for-communist-revolution-in-the-us","title":"Going Against the Tide #7 (Spring 2026): A journal charting a path for communist revolution in the US","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"smart-tabs-wrapper Rte\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"smart-tabs-content-wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"smart-tabs-content-block smart-tabs-content-block-active\" id=\"smart-tabs-content-0\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGoing Against the Tide #7 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eFeaturing a\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2026\/06\/12\/this-is-the-way-building-the-vanguard-through-continual-rectification-and-revolutionization\/\"\u003ereport and “shake-up” papers\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efrom the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries on its recent rectification and revolutionization internal campaign, guidance on “\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2026\/03\/10\/mounting-bold-interventions-and-leading-mass-movements\/\"\u003eMounting bold interventions and leading mass movements\u003c\/a\u003e,” and an essay by Kenny Lake on “\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2026\/06\/05\/problems-of-marxism-leninism-maoism\/\"\u003eProblems of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism\u003c\/a\u003e.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2026\/06\/12\/this-is-the-way-building-the-vanguard-through-continual-rectification-and-revolutionization\/\"\u003eThis is the way: Building the vanguard through continual rectification and revolutionization\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOrganization of Communist Revolutionaries\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2026\/03\/10\/mounting-bold-interventions-and-leading-mass-movements\/\"\u003eMounting bold interventions and leading mass movements\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOrganization of Communist Revolutionaries\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2026\/06\/05\/problems-of-marxism-leninism-maoism\/\"\u003eProblems of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKenny Lake\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"jp-post-flair\" class=\"sharedaddy sd-like-enabled\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Small Axe Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43141943394402,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/5050\/1218\/files\/gatt_7_cover_thumbnail_1024x1024_50eca602-fa98-43ec-a180-4556d91c60ae.webp?v=1784839559"},{"product_id":"going-against-the-tide-6-winter-2026-a-journal-charting-a-path-for-communist-revolution-in-the-us","title":"Going Against the Tide #6 (Winter 2026): A journal charting a path for communist revolution in the US","description":"\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eAn extended issue featuring communist analysis of the conflicts raging in society over immigration, state power, and the right to abortion, as well as social investigation reports on immigrant farmworkers, new migrants, the dispossessed former industrial working class, and Indigenous people in the Southwest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"has-medium-font-size\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2026\/01\/29\/hunan-style-what-is-to-be-done-ism\/\"\u003eHunan-style What Is To Be Done?-ism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn introduction to GATT #6\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEditorials\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"has-medium-font-size\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2026\/01\/23\/the-grifter-style-in-american-politics\/\"\u003eThe grifter style in American politics\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGATT editorial\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"has-medium-font-size\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2026\/02\/12\/when-do-we-get-angry-igniting-a-mass-movement-for-abortion-rights-in-a-post-dobbs-world\/\"\u003eWhen do we get angry? Igniting a mass movement for abortion rights in a post-Dobbs world\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOpal Skinnider\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"has-medium-font-size\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2026\/01\/23\/whistles-wont-stop-this-the-immigrant-proletariat-and-state-repression-from-chinese-exclusion-to-the-bovino-boys-terror\/\"\u003eWhistles won’t stop this: The immigrant proletariat and state repression from Chinese exclusion to the Bovino boys’ terror\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePat Grant\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSocial investigation reports\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"has-medium-font-size\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2026\/01\/16\/this-isnt-a-life-migrant-misery-in-the-metropole\/\"\u003e“This isn’t a life”: Migrant misery in the metropole\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"has-medium-font-size\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2026\/02\/20\/doomed-to-dash-forced-to-fight-migrant-delivery-drivers-and-the-three-front-class-war\/\"\u003eDoomed to dash, forced to fight: Migrant delivery drivers and the three-front class war\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"has-medium-font-size\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2026\/02\/09\/caught-on-the-threshold-undocumented-immigrant-workers-in-a-california-farming-town\/\"\u003eCaught on the threshold: Undocumented immigrant workers in a California farming town\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"has-medium-font-size\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/10\/03\/uncertain-future-in-steel-city\/\"\u003eUncertain future in Steel City: Lorain, Ohio\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"has-medium-font-size\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2026\/03\/07\/we-fought-the-us-before-and-will-need-to-again-soon-indigenous-people-national-oppression-and-the-struggle-for-culture\/\"\u003e“We fought the US before, and will need to again, soon”: Indigenous people, national oppression, and the struggle for culture\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"jp-post-flair\" class=\"sharedaddy sd-like-enabled\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"sd-title\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Small Axe Books","offers":[{"title":"Default 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more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Table of Contents: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/06\/12\/ice-can-melt-if-summer-gets-hot\/\"\u003eICE can melt if summer gets hot\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGATT editorial\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/06\/19\/the-martyrdom-of-comrade-basavaraj-and-the-indian-governments-war-on-its-own-people\/\"\u003eThe martyrdom of Comrade Basavaraj and the Indian government’s war on its own people\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHinton Alvarez\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/04\/23\/naxalbari-means-revolution-indias-ongoing-peoples-war\/\"\u003eNaxalbari means revolution: India’s ongoing people’s war\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGATT pamphlet series\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMake way for the defiant ones\u003cbr\u003eA revolutionary song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/09\/01\/capitalism-cant-tolerate-trans-people-so-lets-overthrow-it-class-divisions-third-genders-and-proletarian-revolution\/\"\u003eCapitalism can’t tolerate trans people, so let’s overthrow it: Class divisions, third genders, and proletarian revolution\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePat Grant\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/07\/21\/cheering-for-the-good-guys-abroad-or-relying-on-the-masses-to-overthrow-imperialism\/\"\u003eCheering for the “good guys” abroad or relying on the masses to overthrow imperialism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKenny Lake\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/05\/25\/they-not-like-us\/\"\u003eThey not like us: On the (Nostalgic) Communist Party of Canada’s rapid descent into a self-made swamp of economism, sycophantism, Trotskyism, and opportunism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOrganization of Communist Revolutionaries (US), Department of Diss Tracks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"jp-post-flair\" class=\"sharedaddy sd-like-enabled\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"sd-title\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Small Axe Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43141978325090,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/5050\/1218\/files\/GATTgoingagainstthetide5_1024x1024_2de7a0c2-12ee-45fd-8786-fc943ab6048f.webp?v=1784842253"},{"product_id":"going-against-the-tide-4-spring-2025-a-journal-charting-a-path-for-communist-revolution-in-the-us","title":"Going Against the Tide #4 (Spring 2025): A journal charting a path for communist revolution in the US","description":"\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"has-small-font-size\"\u003eGATT Pamphlet Series\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/02\/26\/womens-empowerment-individual-or-collective-bourgeois-or-revolutionary\/\"\u003eWomen’s empowerment: individual or collective, bourgeois or revolutionary?\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/02\/26\/domestic-violence-patriarchy-behind-closed-doors\/\"\u003eDomestic violence: patriarchy behind closed doors\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/02\/26\/revanchist-masculinity-and-the-wannabe-oppressors-trying-to-put-women-back-in-servitude\/\"\u003eRevanchist masculinity and the wannabe oppressors trying to put women back in servitude\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/04\/23\/crashing-out-where-does-crime-come-from\/\"\u003eCrashing out: Where does crime come from?\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/04\/23\/why-is-housing-profitable-for-the-bourgeoisie-and-unaffordable-for-the-masses\/\"\u003eWhy is housing profitable for the bourgeoisie and unaffordable for the masses?\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/04\/23\/revolution-in-the-philippines-the-peoples-war-that-persists\/\"\u003eRevolution in the Philippines: the people’s war that persists\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"has-small-font-size\"\u003eWe don’t have to live like this (a revolutionary song)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"has-small-font-size\"\u003eTraining manuals by the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/05\/30\/leading-through-collectivity-recruiting-cadre-and-building-local-party-branches\/\"\u003eLeading through collectivity, recruiting cadre, and building local Party branches\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/05\/30\/building-the-united-front-under-the-leadership-of-the-proletariat-in-steps-and-leaps\/\"\u003eBuilding the united front under the leadership of the proletariat, in steps and leaps\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"has-small-font-size\"\u003eDocuments from the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries on the occasion of May 1st, 2025\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/04\/30\/join-the-ocr\/\"\u003eJoin the OCR!\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/04\/30\/religion-spirituality-and-ocr-membership\/\"\u003eReligion, spirituality, and OCR membership\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/04\/30\/a-brief-history-of-the-ocr-and-a-trajectory-for-its-future-development\/\"\u003eA brief history of the OCR and a trajectory for its future development\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/04\/30\/overcoming-our-weaknesses-to-become-a-vanguard\/\"\u003eOvercoming our weaknesses to become a vanguard\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/04\/30\/pageantry-or-plotting-world-proletarian-revolution-on-the-state-of-the-international-communist-movement-today\/\"\u003ePageantry or plotting world proletarian revolution? On the state of the international communist movement today\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"jp-post-flair\" class=\"sharedaddy sd-like-enabled\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Small Axe Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43141983010914,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/5050\/1218\/files\/image.png?v=1784842585"},{"product_id":"going-against-the-tide-3-summer-2025-a-journal-charting-a-path-for-communist-revolution-in-the-us-copy","title":"Going Against the Tide #3 (Summer 2025): A journal charting a path for communist revolution in the US (Copy)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"smart-tabs-wrapper Rte\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"smart-tabs-content-wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"smart-tabs-content-block smart-tabs-content-block-active\" id=\"smart-tabs-content-0\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGATT issue #3 features the third and final installment of Kenny Lake’s “With a few exceptions, colonialism is over,” our post-election editorial, “The reactionary repudiation of a restorationist program and the ongoing tantrums of two reactionary petty-bourgeoisies,” and a funky new revolutionary song.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/11\/13\/the-reactionary-repudiation-of-a-restorationist-program-and-the-ongoing-tantrums-of-two-reactionary-petty-bourgeoisies\/\"\u003eThe reactionary repudiation of a restorationist program and the ongoing tantrums of two reactionary petty-bourgeoisies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe don’t have to live like this – a revolutionary song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 3 of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/with-a-few-exceptions-colonialism-is-over-postmodernist-idiocy-neodevelopmentalist-fantasy-and-the-past-and-present-of-capitalism-imperialism\/\"\u003eWith a few exceptions, colonialism is over: Postmodernist idiocy, neodevelopmentalist fantasy, and the past and present of capitalism-imperialism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e–\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/04\/07\/capitalism-in-triumph-and-trepidation-1975-present\/\"\u003eCapitalism in triumph and trepidation (1975–present)\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Small Axe Books","offers":[{"title":"Default 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colonialism is over” by Kenny Lake.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/12\/02\/proletarian-identity-crisis-blame-the-migrants-or-blame-the-bourgeoisie\/\"\u003eProletarian identity crisis: Blame the migrants or blame the bourgeoisie?\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/12\/02\/conspiracy-theories-cloud-the-enemy-class\/\"\u003eConspiracy theories cloud the enemy class\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/12\/02\/how-the-bourgeoisie-keeps-us-sick\/\"\u003eHow the bourgeoisie keeps us sick\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/10\/06\/deepening-proletarian-class-consciousness-and-addressing-the-key-questions-a-manual-on-propaganda\/\"\u003eDeepening proletarian class-consciousness and addressing the key questions: a manual on propaganda\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow long?\u003cbr\u003ea revolutionary song \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe November deception\u003cbr\u003ea revolutionary song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/06\/19\/self-righteous-woke-capitulation-or-revolutionary-resolve\/\"\u003eSelf-righteous woke capitulation or revolutionary resolve?\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/12\/17\/capitalism-keeps-on-rockin-in-the-free-world-1945-1975\/\"\u003eWith a few exceptions, colonialism is over: postmodernist idiocy, neodevelopmentalist  fantasy, and the past and present of capitalism-imperialism\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003eBy\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eKenny Lake\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/12\/17\/capitalism-keeps-on-rockin-in-the-free-world-1945-1975\/\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 2: Capitalism keeps on rockin’ in the free world (1945–1975)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/11\/13\/the-reactionary-repudiation-of-a-restorationist-program-and-the-ongoing-tantrums-of-two-reactionary-petty-bourgeoisies\/\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Small Axe Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43141985271906,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/5050\/1218\/files\/gatt_iss_2_cover_web.png?v=1784843281"},{"product_id":"going-against-the-tide-1-aug-2024-a-journal-charting-a-path-for-communist-revolution-in-the-us","title":"Going Against the Tide #1 (Aug. 2024): A journal charting a path for communist revolution in the US","description":"\u003cp\u003eGATT Issue #1 features training manuals for communist cadre by the OCR, a revolutionary song and the first installment of “With a few exceptions, colonialism is over: postmodernist idiocy, neodevelopmentalist fantasy, and the past and present of capitalism-imperialism” by Kenny Lake. This first installment traces the history of “capitalism in global conquest” from 1492 to 1945.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/05\/09\/introducing-going-against-the-tide-and-picking-up-where-kites-left-off\/\"\u003eIntroducing Going Against the Tide, and picking up where kites left off\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/05\/19\/make-way-for-the-defiant-ones\/\"\u003eMake way for the defiant ones\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArise – a revolutionary song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/05\/07\/notes-on-our-work-among-the-proletariat\/\"\u003eNotes on our work among the proletariat\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/05\/06\/refining-our-mass-organizing-methods\/\"\u003eRefining our mass organizing methods\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/05\/03\/all-roads-lead-to-revolution\/\"\u003eAll roads lead to revolution\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/05\/02\/correcting-an-over-correction\/\"\u003eCorrecting an over-correction\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/with-a-few-exceptions-colonialism-is-over-postmodernist-idiocy-neodevelopmentalist-fantasy-and-the-past-and-present-of-capitalism-imperialism\/\"\u003eWith a few exceptions, colonialism is over: postmodernist idiocy, neodevelopmentalist fantasy, and the past and present of capitalism-imperialism\u003cbr\u003eBy\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eKenny Lake\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/10\/06\/israel-imperialisms-necessary-aberration-in-a-postcolonial-world\/\"\u003eIntroduction: Israel, imperialism’s necessary aberration in a postcolonial world\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/10\/06\/capitalism-in-global-conquest-1492-1945\/\"\u003ePart 1: Capitalism in global conquest (1492–1945)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"jp-post-flair\" class=\"sharedaddy sd-like-enabled\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"sd-title\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Small Axe Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43142039011426,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/5050\/1218\/files\/gatt_1_front_cover_web_d5a1d456-eeaf-4e19-b338-695c012831b9.webp?v=1785462140"},{"product_id":"continuing-the-revolution-after-the-revolution-socialist-china-1949-1976","title":"Continuing the Revolution After the Revolution: Socialist China, 1949–1976","description":"\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eIf you want to know what the future looks like, read this book. After the communist-led revolution came to victory in 1949, China embarked on the socialist transition to communism. Socialism in China ended centuries of feudal oppression and a century of imperialist domination in a few years, through land reform, self-reliance, suppression and punishment of exploiters, and establishing the beginnings of equality between men and women. Beyond those monumental achievements, the Chinese people further revolutionized their society by creating communes in the countryside; radically transforming education, healthcare, and art to serve the people; whittling away at the division between mental and manual labor; involving the masses of peasants and proletarians in running society; and moving beyond commodity exchange. In doing so, the Chinese people confronted the challenges of the socialist transition period, relying on mass initiative and no shortage of class struggle to prevent a new bourgeoisie, rising from within the leadership of socialist society, from taking China back down the capitalist road. Ultimately, capitalist roaders succeeded in seizing power through a counterrevolutionary coup in 1976. But from 1949 to 1976, socialist China stood as a beacon of hope to exploited and oppressed people around the world hungry for revolution. This book explains why.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eWritten collectively by the Socialist Transition Period Study Group,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eContinuing the Revolution After the Revolution: Socialist China, 1949–1976\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas published on December 26, 2025.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"toc\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2026\/01\/29\/introduction-the-past-is-still-alive\/\"\u003eIntroduction: The Past Is Still Alive\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2026\/01\/29\/part-1-establishing-socialist-china\/\"\u003ePart 1: Establishing Socialist China\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOverthrowing the old order\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConsolidating the revolutionary victory and building socialism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2026\/01\/29\/part-2-blazing-a-new-path-for-the-socialist-transition-to-communism\/\"\u003ePart 2: Blazing a New Path for the Socialist Transition to Communism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFollowing the Soviet model into the contradictions of socialism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSocialist upsurge in the countryside\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReconceptualizing socialism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Great Leap Forward\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe great leap backward\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2026\/01\/29\/part-3-the-great-proletarian-cultural-revolution\/\"\u003ePart 3: The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreparation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOpening salvo and false start\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRebel students storm the stage, along with their careerist and counterrevolutionary classmates\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePutting the proletariat in Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIf it is to be a communist revolution, there must be a communist party leading it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSocialist new things, new relations, and new people\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe two-line struggle continues, in the Party and in society\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2026\/01\/29\/part-4-counterrevolution-and-capitalist-restoration\/\"\u003ePart 4: Counterrevolution and Capitalist Restoration\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCapitalist roaders seize the commanding heights of state power\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDismantling socialism and establishing capitalism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2026\/01\/29\/conclusion-stories-about-not-being-afraid-of-ghosts\/\"\u003eConclusion: Stories about not being afraid of ghosts\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/11\/05\/half-the-sky-womens-liberation-in-red-china\/\"\u003eHalf the Sky: Women’s Liberation in Red China\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA pamphlet to popularize socialist China’s achievements\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Small Axe Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43159152722018,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/5050\/1218\/files\/china_cover_web_final_v1.webp?v=1785273367"},{"product_id":"training-manuals-for-communist-cadre","title":"Training Manuals for Communist Cadre","description":"\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eThe following training manuals were written by the leadership of the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries (US) from 2021 to 2025. They synthesize lessons from the OCR’s collective practice and the broader experience of the communist tradition. Their purpose is to to train up the next generation of communist cadre in the skills, methods, and critical thinking required to develop the proletarian class-consciousness, fighting capacity, and organization of the masses and build the subjective forces for revolution. The manuals on agitation and summation were first published in the journal kites, while the rest of the content in this volume first appeared in print in the journal Going Against the Tide. All content in this volume is available in the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/library\/ocr-training-manuals\/\"\u003elibrary section of goingagainstthetide.org\u003c\/a\u003e. Two items in this volume—“Correcting an over-correction” and “Notes on our work among the proletariat”—are not, formally speaking, training manuals, but they serve a similar purpose and are part of the developing strategic thinking of the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries. Before diving into these training manuals, we recommend you study the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/05\/01\/manifesto-of-the-organization-of-communist-revolutionaries\/\"\u003eManifesto of the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries\u003c\/a\u003e, published in 2020, for an introduction to the OCR’s objectives and strategy. Welcome to the challenges, responsibilities, and joys of dedicating our lives to communist revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/05\/03\/all-roads-lead-to-revolution\/\"\u003eAll roads lead to revolution: On agitprop, organizations, and mass struggles under the leadership of the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/05\/30\/leading-through-collectivity-recruiting-cadre-and-building-local-party-branches\/\"\u003eLeading through collectivity, recruiting cadre, and building local Party branches\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/05\/05\/drawing-blood-a-guide-to-communist-agitation\/\"\u003eDrawing blood: A guide to communist agitation\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/10\/06\/deepening-proletarian-class-consciousness-and-addressing-the-key-questions-a-manual-on-propaganda\/\"\u003eDeepening proletarian class-consciousness and addressing the key questions: A manual on propaganda\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/05\/02\/correcting-an-over-correction\/\"\u003eCorrecting an over-correction: On the weapon of exposure, the role of all-around agitation, and prioritizing recruitment\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/05\/06\/refining-our-mass-organizing-methods\/\"\u003eRefining our mass organizing methods\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/05\/30\/building-the-united-front-under-the-leadership-of-the-proletariat-in-steps-and-leaps\/\"\u003eBuilding the united front under the leadership of the proletariat, in steps and leaps\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/05\/04\/looking-back-to-face-forward-the-role-of-summation-in-the-revolutionary-process\/\"\u003eLooking back to face forward: The role of summation in the revolutionary process\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/05\/07\/notes-on-our-work-among-the-proletariat\/\"\u003eNotes on our work among the proletariat\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Small Axe Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43159156916322,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/5050\/1218\/files\/tm_cover_web.png?v=1785273594"},{"product_id":"the-cp-the-sixties-the-rcp-and-the-crying-need-for-a-communist-vanguard-party-today-a-summation-by-the-organization-of-communist-revolutionaries-of-the-communist-movement-in-the-united-states","title":"The CP, the Sixties, the RCP, and the crying need for a communist vanguard party today: A summation, by the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries, of the communist movement in the United States","description":"\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eFor anyone asking how we can make proletarian revolution in the present, how we can learn from our predecessors on that path, this volume offers rich lessons in revolutionary strategy and tactics—not pat answers, but ways to think through the challenges and avoid repeating past mistakes. It features lengthy summations of the rise and fall of the two previous communist vanguard parties in the US, the Communist Party, USA and the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, and a chapter on the bridge between (and\/or separating) them, the revolutionary movement of the 1960s. Written by the contemporary heir to the communist tradition, the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries (US), it ends with a summation of why no revolutionary movement emerged from the 2010s and a call to build a new communist vanguard party today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eOriginally published in 2023 as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ekites\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e#8, this reprint, published in 2025 by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGoing Against the Tide\u003c\/em\u003e, features a new layout with art by Ruby Lois.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/library\/the-cp-the-sixties-the-rcp-and-the-crying-need-for-a-communist-vanguard-party-today\/\"\u003eThe full text is available online at goingagainstthetide.org.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface to the 2025 edition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe CP\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAntecedents\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1917–23: Forming the Party…well…Parties\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1923–25: Grandiose schemes and outmaneuvered maneuvers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1925–28: Bolsheviks gonna bolshevize; factionalists gonna factionalize\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1928–33: The dawn of the red decade\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1933–35: Broadening out\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1935–39: The Popular Front\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1939–41: Soviet diplomatic maneuvers and American dogmatic idiocy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1941–45: Capitulation and liquidation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1945–…: Stuck in the swamp of revisionism, never to escape\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Sixties: A Revolutionary Decade without a Vanguard\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat gave rise to the revolutionary storms?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom revolt to revolutionaries; from sharpening objective contradictions to subjective revolutionary forces\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe paths the Sixties generation of revolutionaries took: an overview\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe bourgeoisie regains the initiative: the regime of preventive counterrevolution in the 1970s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix: Selected Sources on and from the 1960s Revolutionary Movement\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe RCP\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1968–72: Moving mountains – The early RU\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1972–76: Building the Party\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1976–78: Discarding the CP baggage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1978–81: “Better fewer, fewer better” – Taking a bold stand with cold revolutionary politics in command\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1982–88: “Masters of the wharf or slaves to tonnage?” – Hinging revolutionary work on a grand crisis ahead\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1989–91: “The end of a stage, the beginning of a new stage”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1992–2001: Proletarian islands in a petty-bourgeois sea; severing political work from revolutionary objectives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2001–2003: Gaining a mass following, but at what cost?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2004–5: A “cultural revolution” without the masses\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2005–8: Fewer, but not better\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2009–15: The “new communism” in practice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2016–20: “First time as tragedy, second time as farce”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Party’s over\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Crying Need for a Communist Vanguard Party Today\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe 2010s as a decade of revolutionary potential diverted\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat would it take to build a vanguard?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSome particularities that the construction of a new vanguard in the US needs to pay attention to\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Small Axe Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43159161208930,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/5050\/1218\/files\/cp_cover_final_web.png?v=1785273892"},{"product_id":"groundings-in-the-communist-world-outlook","title":"Groundings in the Communist World Outlook","description":"\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eGroundings in the Communist World Outlook\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eoffers readers an introduction to and explanations of the key concepts and ways of thinking that guide communist revolutionaries. Each of the six “sessions” in this volume is presented in outline form for ease of understanding, and includes discussion questions and a list of key terms.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGroundings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis best used in collective settings, as the point of departure for presentations of the material followed by group discussion aimed at collectively developing a basic understanding the communist world outlook.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eMail-order copies of \u003cem\u003eGroundings in the Communist World Outlook\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eare available through \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/groundings-in-the-communist-world-outlook\"\u003ewww.leftwingbooks.net.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eBookstores and distros: reach out to us by email at goingagainstthetide AT proton.me if you’re interested in carrying \u003cem\u003eGoing Against the Tide\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTable of Contents:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/09\/19\/how-to-use-groundings-in-the-communist-world-outlook\/\"\u003eHow to use\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGroundings in the Communist World Outlook\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/09\/19\/what-is-capitalism-imperialism-part-1-history-and-economic-concepts\/\"\u003eWhat is capitalism-imperialism? Part 1: history and economic concepts\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/09\/19\/what-is-capitalism-imperialism-part-2-up-to-the-present\/\"\u003eWhat is capitalism-imperialism? 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Until it fell apart in the mid 2000s, the RIM functioned as the embryonic center of the international communist movement, inspiring an impressive journal,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA World To Win\u003c\/em\u003e, that was translated into multiple languages, and supporting revolutionary struggles around the world. Participant organizations in the RIM led revolutionary people’s wars in Peru and Nepal that became serious threats to bourgeois rule. Unfortunately, the RIM collapsed without any public statements explaining the reasons for its demise. This collection aims to popularize the political line and achievements of the RIM, upholding its revolutionary legacy and promoting the essential lessons we can learn from its history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eTable of contents:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/04\/18\/declaration-of-the-revolutionary-internationalist-movement-1984\/\"\u003eDeclaration of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/09\/16\/exceptionally-serious-responsibility-some-notes-on-the-history-of-the-revolutionary-internationalist-movement-and-prospects-for-unity-in-the-international-communist-movement-today\/\"\u003eExceptionally Serious Responsibility: Some notes on the history of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement and prospects for unity in the international communist movement today\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby Hinton Alvarez\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/09\/16\/against-the-tide-of-counterrevolution-an-interview-with-comrade-kiran-mohan-baidya-general-secretary-of-the-communist-party-of-nepal-revolutionary-maoist\/\"\u003eAgainst the Tide of Counterrevolution: An Interview with Comrade Kiran (Mohan Baidya)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ekites\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eeditorial committee\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/09\/16\/chairman-gonzalos-legacy-of-steadfast-revolutionary-principle-and-strategic-innovations\/\"\u003eChairman Gonzalo’s Legacy of Steadfast Revolutionary Principle and Strategic Innovations\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ekites\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eeditorial committee\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/09\/16\/on-infantile-internet-disorders-and-real-questions-of-revolutionary-strategy-a-response-to-the-debate-over-the-universality-of-protracted-peoples-war\/\"\u003eOn Infantile Internet Disorders and Real Questions of Revolutionary Strategy: A response to the “debate” over the universality of protracted people’s war\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby Kenny Lake\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eExcept for the RIM Declaration, all items in this collection were first published by the journal\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ekites\u003c\/em\u003e. The predecessor of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGoing Against the Tide\u003c\/em\u003e, the journal\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ekites\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas a collaboration between communists in the US and Canada and published eight issues from 2020 to 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Small Axe Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43159164321890,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/5050\/1218\/files\/image-2_1.png?v=1785274148"},{"product_id":"revolution-has-vanished-malcolm-x-didnt-dish-out-free-bean-pies","title":"Revolution Has Vanished \u0026 Malcolm X Didn't Dish Out Free Bean Pies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis reprint, published in 2024 by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGoing Against the Tide\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, features two essays by Kenny Lake on questions of revolutionary strategy and state power. “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/09\/16\/malcolm-x-didnt-dish-out-free-bean-pies-distinguishing-charity-and-social-work-from-revolutionary-strategy\/\"\u003eMalcolm X Didn’t Dish Out Free Bean Pies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e” was originally published in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ekites\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e #3 (2021). It exposes the way “mutual aid” has been used to cover charity work in revolutionary posturing, and draws lessons from past revolutionary movements to argue for the pivotal role of agitation and class struggle in the revolutionary process and for treating the masses as the makers of history rather than as grateful receivers of charity. “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/09\/16\/revolution-has-vanished-replaced-with-fantasies-of-dual-power-counterpower-base-areas-abolition-and-other-bottom-up-bourgeois-democratic-illusions\/\"\u003eRevolution Has Vanished\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e” was orignally published in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ekites\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e #5\/6 (2022). It takes on “Pac-Man” politics of various stripes that imagine you can eat away at bourgeois state power bite by bite rather than decisively overthrowing it. It critically engages with “Maoist,” anarchist, electoral, and other strains of Pac-Man politics and theoretical rationales for political projects ranging from Cooperation Jackson to Rojava to Venezuelan social movements and governments.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Small Axe Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43159173070946,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/5050\/1218\/files\/image-3309110367-e1733192608872.png?v=1785274366"},{"product_id":"the-specter-that-still-haunts","title":"The Specter That Still Haunts","description":"\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eKenny Lake’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/library\/selected-articles-from-kites\/the-specter-that-still-haunts-locating-a-revolutionary-class-within-contemporary-capitalism-imperialism\/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Specter That Still Haunts: Locating a Revolutionary Class within Contemporary Capitalism-Imperialism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003efirst appeared on the website of Revolutionary Initiative and was published as a series in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ekites\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e#1–4 (2020–2021). This 2024 edition is published by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGoing Against the Tide\u003c\/em\u003e, with only minor edits and an added preface from the author. Here is an excerpt from that preface:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eAnyone seeking to make revolution must figure out the primary social forces on which revolution in their circumstances must be based and the antagonistic contradictions in society that can propel those social forces into motion. In the communist movement in general, a rather static notion of the proletariat as the industrial working-class has continued to hold considerable sway. While genuine communists understood the revolutionary potential of the peasantry in the oppressed countries and the need to go “lower and deeper” to the more exploited and oppressed sections of the proletariat in the imperialist countries, our theoretical understanding had not advanced much beyond those correct propositions while the workings of capitalism had given rise to radical social transformations and new class configurations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eLocating a revolutionary class within contemporary capitalism-imperialism requires a rupture with dogmatic understandings of the proletariat as a class, and with mechanical conceptions of class in general. The latter fail to deal with the greater fluidity of class under capitalism in comparison with previous modes of production in which class was a more fixed, hereditary position from generation to generation. 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Part 4 applies the theoretical concepts and analytical insights gained through this work to the contemporary US, with the aim of understanding their strategic implications for making revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Small Axe Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43159174807650,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/5050\/1218\/files\/image-1-174262421-e1733192560227.png?v=1785274962"},{"product_id":"the-struggle-against-police-brutality","title":"The Struggle Against Police Brutality","description":"\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eThis collection, published in 2024 by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGoing Against the Tide\u003c\/em\u003e, brings together articles, coming from a communist perspective, on the struggle against police brutality that were published in the journal\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ekites\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eand on its website from 2020–23.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ekites\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ejournal was a collaboration between communists in the US and Canada, and was the predecessor of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGoing Against the Tide\u003c\/em\u003e, a journal charting a path for communist revolution in the US.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/09\/16\/from-the-masses-to-the-masses-a-summation-of-the-october-22nd-coalitions-resistance-to-police-brutality-in-the-late-1990s\/\"\u003eFrom the masses, to the masses: a summation of the October 22nd Coalition’s \u003cbr\u003eresistance to police brutality in the late 1990s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eKilmore and John Albert, 2020\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2025\/01\/26\/nothing-is-hard-in-this-world-if-you-dare-to-scale-the-heights\/\"\u003eNothing is hard in this world if you dare to scale the heights\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ekites editorial committee, 2020\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/09\/16\/defund-abolish-but-what-about-overthrow\/\"\u003eDefund, abolish…but what about overthrow?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ekites editorial committee, US section, 2020\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/09\/16\/everythings-changed-nothings-changed-minneapolis-a-year-after-the-rebellion\/\"\u003eEverything’s changed\/nothing’s changed: Minneapolis a year after the rebellion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ekites readers, 2021\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goingagainstthetide.org\/2024\/09\/16\/some-orientation-to-our-readers-on-the-continued-struggle-against-police-killings\/\"\u003eSome orientation to our readers on the continued struggle against police killings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ekites editorial committee, 2023\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Small Axe Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43159176544354,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/5050\/1218\/files\/reprint_pb_cover_web.webp?v=1785275210"}],"url":"https:\/\/smallaxebooks.com\/collections\/going-against-the-tide.oembed","provider":"Small Axe Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}