As 2025 comes to a close and 2026 begins, The Partisan will be highlighting a few struggles and actions that represent and summarize the work of the revolutionary movement in the Unites States over the past year, as part of our column Our Movement In Review. Over the course of the year, revolutionaries around the country grew and developed mass work in the class struggle to modest heights as part of a general move towards deepening our movement’s ties among the class and oppressed nations. As we write in our New Year’s statement: “There are many challenges before us, but we can overcome them – if we are honest and persistent in Marxist methods.” We hope to see 2026 be a Revolutionary New Year which takes this foundation of work to new and greater heights! As always, if you have any suggestions, questions, or criticisms please reach out to us at classpartisan@proton.me!
Workers and Allies Build Neighborhood Defense Around The Country
Over the course of the year, new strides were made in the neighborhood sector. On May 1, the People’s Defense Committee (PDC) was founded. Over the course of the next several months, the PDC continued to grow and develop its presence in the neighborhood struggle. On September 26, the PDC held its 1st National Convention in Oklahoma City, OK, with over 50 class-conscious activists from around the country in attendance. This marked a major step towards the unity of the revolutionary movement in the US, with attendees coming from numerous now-dissolved organizations like the Revolutionary Maoist Coalition and Revolutionary Study Group discarding their sectarian small-group mindset to unite around a new Program and Constitution for the PDC.
Over the latter half of 2025, with the rapid increase in militarization of cities around the country alongside the increase in ICE and CBP operations, neighborhoods around the country mobilized in response. From Los Angeles to Chicago to Charlotte, the masses responded to attacks by the State. In many cities, revolutionaries began to implement long-term solutions to the problems of ICE and militarization, mobilizing the masses to protest, politicizing them with class-conscious political lines, and pushing or forming neighborhood defense units as local organs for the masses to defend themselves against attacks from the State.
New Labor Organizing Committee Establishes New Labor Committees, Unites Around Draft Program
In June, the New Labor Organizing Committee (NLOC) announced the establishment of class-conscious workers’ circles, called New Labor Committees, around the country. The stated purpose of these organizations is to “provide local assistance to the shop organizations, help new organizers with establishing and expanding shop organizations, study and propagate the line of New Labor and trade union literature generally, organize opposition to reactionary labor organizations, as well as investigate local working conditions and provide regular reports to be published in Labor Storm.” The proliferation of these circles of class-conscious workers, primarily in the logistics, manufacturing, education, and service/retail sectors, demonstrates the growing appetite of the multinational working-class for collective organization and class struggle, in both the labor movement and the broader revolutionary movement in the US.
In August, the NLOC announced that its constituent shop organizations and New Labor Committees had united around a draft program of struggle, which it would implement during the current period of expansion of the New Labor movement. It outlined six principles for the NLOC: the necessity of class struggle, anti-opportunism, proletarian independence, democracy, anti-imperialism, and working-class unity. This represents a major new development in the labor movement, with the growing wave of independent and class-conscious trade unionism in the US continuing to advance in the face of attacks from the ruling class and opportunists in the labor movement.
Activists Commemorate International Working Women’s Day and May Day
This year revolutionary forces in the United States worked as one to raise high the red banner of socialism on days dear to our class, such as International Working Women’s Day (IWWD) and International Workers’ Day (May Day).
On March 8, revolutionary organizations and their supporters around the country engaged in united gitation, propaganda, actions, and events to commemorate International Working Women’s Day (IWWD). The importance of women’s liberation was emphasized alongside the necessity to uphold class-conscious political lines within the women’s movement.
On May 1, revolutionary organizations and their supporters around the country embraced the best traditions of the international revolutionary movement by centering the working-class itself during celebrations of International Workers’ Day through taking up the call issued by the NLOC to organize mass meetings of workers. Events, meetings, agitation, and propaganda were done to emphasize the necessity of building an independent, militant, and class-conscious labor movement. The Partisan declared in our May 1st Statement:
May Day is not just a celebration of past struggles but a call to action. It is a day for workers to politicize, mobilize, and organize for revolutionary change. The struggle against capitalism must be at the forefront, linking our daily struggles to the highest goal of socialist revolution. This May Day, we must go among the workers to gather and systematize their grievances: to demand the right to organize free from state control, defend migrant workers, and build independent, militant, class-oriented organizations to combat the capitalist offensive. May Day should be a barometer of the strength of our class; at the same time, it should be a barometer of the effort, however elementary, to retake the red flag of the original 1886 Chicago workers through class struggle. May Day serves as a reminder of the power of the working class in its fight for liberation, and it is time to reignite the flames of this revolutionary struggle. Let it be mark a new stage in the battle for our future!
Revolutionaries Emphasize Importance of Struggle for National Self-Determination
Revolutionaries raised high the banner of the right to self-determination for all oppressed nations and national minorities in the prison-house of nations that is the United States, dealing a blow to those who would ignore and deny the powerful struggle for national liberation in our country.
Over the course of the past year, the Borikén Liberation Front (BLF) in Chicago demanded for Justice for Nate Fejerang as well as all Puerto Ricans murdered by the State. Several actions and demonstrations were held to demand that justice be served, and that Nate’s murder on May 29 not go unresolved. The BLF maintains that the Puerto Rican struggle is one of national liberation. On August 31, it held a march in Humboldt Park, Chicago, against the 127-year long colonial rule of the island by the US.
In July, Black/New Afrikan revolutionaries relaunched their publication The Crusader in a new quarterly format. They emphasized the importance and continued relevance of the 1928 and 1930 Comintern resolutions on the Black national question in the US, and pushed for class-conscious struggle against the class enemy as the only way to advance the Black national struggle in this country.
Over the course of August, revolutionaries around the country commemorated Black August, an important holiday for the Black Liberation movement that commemorates the Black/New Afrikan political prisoners and important events and rebellions in the long struggle for national liberation. In cities including Chicago, Charlotte, and Washington, D.C., revolutionaries held events to emphasize the importance of the Black national struggle to the working and oppressed struggles of the US as a whole, and to emphasize the relevance of the national question in the present day.
Youth Join With Working-Class In Struggle Against Repression and Rising Fascism
This year the progressive students, lead by the Revolutionary Student Union (RSU), deepened their integration and connection with the class-conscious workers and oppressed masses through popular educational events and campaigns of struggle. In March RSU united around and promulgated their new program, in which they highlight principles such as support for socialist revolution led by the multinational working class, opposing imperialism, opportunism, and revisionism, and upholding democratic centralism as their organizational basis and practice as their main teacher.
The students fought for their own progressive demands, such as with the rallies and campaigns at University of Michigan, North Carolina Central University (NCCU), or Johnson & Wales University, and joined with the workers to serve as auxiliaries in their struggle for demands at place like American University.
The ongoing process of fascistization has led to broader State repression of revolutionaries around the country over the last year. Denton Student Union, a chapter of the RSU, was named by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton as promoting “violent radical leftist rhetoric.” This came only months after DSU held a candlelight vigil in August in rememberance of Denton local Jon Ruff, who was murdered in broad daylight, and whose murder case was met with apathy by the local police. Despite the threats from the State, DSU reaffirmed its commitment to “continue to serve as a bulwark against the fear, isolation, and atomization which the ruling class and their guard dogs seek to impose upon us and our communities.”
Workers and Allies Carry Out International Solidarity Work
Amidst the intensifying conflicts and crisis of international imperialism, in particular American imperialism, revolutionary organizations worked throughout the year to carry out their duty as proletarian internationalists inside the belly of the beast.
In June, revolutionaries from several cities held actions condemning the May 21 massacre of Indian Maoists. In Washington, D.C., this call was heeded through an action held at the Indian Embassy. In July, revolutionaries in Columbus, OH, held an education event about the Indian revolution. In September, revolutionary students and supporters with the New York City chapter of RSU held a protest in front of the Indian Consulate in Manhattan, calling to “Stop Operation Kagar.” At The Partisan, several articles were published in service of proletarian internationalism. On May 31, an article was published outlining the history of the Indian Revolution. On November 20, an article calling to “Learn from Comrade Hidma!” was published, highlighting how the comrade never surrendered in the face of brutal attacks from the class enemy.
The Partisan also stood in solidarity with the ongoing revolution in the Philippines, issuing a message of condolence on the passing of revolutionary leader Luis Jalandoni and reporting on the progress of the anti-feudal, anti-colonial struggle.
Revolutionaries pushed for solidarity with the national liberation movements across the world. On March 8 in Columbus, OH, comrades honored the then-recently deceased Brazilian revolutionary Fausto Arruda, founder of the important newspaper A Nova Democracia. Comrades at The Crusader also emphasized the importance of the struggle in Brazil and its relevance to the US in their article “Revolution in Brazil, Revolution Here,” originally published on July 11. On August 31, the RSU staged a solidarity action with Affan Kurniawan, a 21-year-old delivery driver murdered by the Indonesian State, and called for support to the People’s Struggle Front (FPR) of Indonesia leading an agrarian revolution. Likewise, in August, the New York City chapter of RSU joined revolutionary Korean organizations such as the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and Nodutdol in demanding an end to US interference in the Korean peninsula.
Over 2025, the continued importance of Palestine was emphasized around the country. The RSU pushed forwards a campaign to defend Palestinian-American student and activist Tarek Bazrouk, who was arrested by the FBI in New York City on May 7 as part of the ongoing offensive against the pro-Palestinian movement. On October 7, the PDC, RSU, The Crusader, and NLOC, all signed a joint statement on the second anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Flood, extending proletarian internationalist solidarity to the ongoing armed national liberation struggle of the Palestinian people in the face of brutal genocide. Revolutionaries in several cities, including Providence, RI, held large-scale walkouts of students on this date.
