IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS

1. Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (New York: International Publishers, 1993, 127 pages) / (Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1975, 157 pages)
   
   (Note: Read the entire book to get the most out of the topic of the first day as well as of all the succeeding topics. Barest minimum is to read chapters 9 and 10 amounting to 19 pages in the US edition.
   
   http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/index.htm
   
2. Lenin, "Imperialism and the Split in Socialism", 26 pages. [Pamphlet, Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1979].
   
   http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/oct/x01.htm
   
3. Workers’ Party of Belgium, 7^th Congress, Imperialism and Socialism: the 20^th Century Points the Way to Victory in the 21^st Century, theses on globalization adopted by the 7^th Congress, March 2002.
   
   http://www.wpb.be/congress/globalization.pdf
   
4. Jose Maria Sison, "The People’s Struggle Against War", contribution to the 8^th Brussels seminar, May 1999. 14 pages a4
   
   http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/5504/maysem.htm
   
   http://www.wpb.be/icm/99en/sem_en99/B3PhilippSison-EN.htm
   
5. Jose Maria Sison, "Contradictions in the World Capitalist System and the Necessity of the Socialist Revolution", contribution to the 8^th Brussels seminar, 3 May 2001 21 pages a4
   
   http://www.inps-sison.freewebspace.com/Contradictions%20in%20the%20World%20Capitalist%20System.htm
   
6. Jose Maria Sison, "Imperialist Globalization and Terrorism", speech, 18 February 2002. 6 pages a4
   
   http://www.inps-sison.freewebspace.com/Impegloboandterrorism.htm
   
   http://www.geocities.com/ilps2000/globalterror.htm
   
   http://www.bulatlat.com/news/2-8/2-8-reader-joma.html

1. Lenin, "The Vulgarisation of Marxism by the Opportunists", chapter 6 of State and Revolution, pp125-146. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1976.
   
   http://web.infinito.it/utenti/c/communism/classici/lenin/en/starev/ch06.htm
   
2. Lenin, "How Kautsky Transformed Marx into an Ordinary Liberal", pp. 5-18. chapter 1 of The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1965.
   
   http://www.marx2mao.org/Lenin/RK18.html#C1
   
3. Lenin, "Bourgeois Pacifism and Socialist Pacifism", pp. 177-194, Collected works, vol. 23, August 1916-March 1917. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1977.
   
   http://www.marx2mao.org/Lenin/BPSP17.html
   
4. Stalin, "International character of the October Revolution", pp.266-77. Problems of Leninism. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1976.
   
   http://www.marx2mao.org/Stalin/ICOR27.html
   
5. Stalin, "Two Specific Features of the October Revolution or October and Trotsky’s Theory of ‘permanent revolution’", chapter 2 pp. 121-39. The October Revolution and the Tactics of the Russian Communists, from Problems of Leninism, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1976 
   
   http://www.marx2mao.org/Stalin/OR24.html#c2
   
6. Stalin, "The Question of ‘Permanent’ Revolution", chapter 3, pp. 165-78. Concerning questions of Leninism, from Problems of Leninism, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1976
   
   http://www.marx2mao.org//Stalin/CQL26.html#c3
   
7. "Trotskyism or Leninism?", Part III, November 26, 1924,16 pages.
   
   http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/11_19.htm
   
8. Karl Kautsky, Imperialism and the War. Source: International Socialist Review, November 1914
   
   http://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/works/1910s/war.html
   
9. Karl Kautsky, "Democracy and Dictatorship", Marxism and Bolshevism –Democracy and Dictatorship in Socialism, Fascism, Communism, ed. Joseph Shaplen and David Shub. (New York: American League for Demorcratic Socialism, 1934)
   
   http://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/works/1930s/bolsh.htm
   
10. Leon Trotsky, Preface to The War and the International (The Bolsheviks and World Peace)
    
    http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1914-war/part1.htm#AUTHOR'S%20PREFACE
    
11. Leon Trotsky, "What is the Permanent Revolution? Basic Postulates" The Permanent Revolution & Results and Prospects, 1931
    
    http://www.ex.ac.uk/Projects/meia/Trotsky/Archive/1931-TPV/pr10.htm

1. Marx & Engels, Communist Manifesto. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1965
   Read the Manifesto and identify the passages that indicate armed revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat. Also read the 1872 preface and pay attention to the passage pertaining to the question of laying hold of the bourgeois state
   
   http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm
   
2. Marx "Summary", Chapter 7, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louie Bonaparte (1852), New York: International Publishers, 1963. pp. 118-35.
   
   http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/ch07.htm
   
3. Marx, Letter to J. Weydemeyer, in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louie Bonaparte, Ibid., p 136-40
   
   http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/letters/52_03_05.htm
   
4. Marx, "The Paris Commune", Chapter 5, The Civil War in France
   
   http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/ch05.htm
   
5. Marx, Letter to Dr. Kugelman, appendix to The Civil War in France
   
   http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/letters/71_04_17.htm
   
6. Marx & Engels, 1872 Preface to the German edition of The Communist Manifesto, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1965, pp 4-6.
   
   http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/preface.htm
   
7. Lenin, chapters 1-3 of State and revolution, pp. 7-66. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1976.
   
   http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/sep/staterev/
   
8. Lenin, "The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution", Collected Works, Vol. 23, pp. 77-87, Moscow: Publishers, 1977.
   
   http://www.msrxists.org.archive/lenin/works/1916/sep/pro;/mil/imdex.htm
   
9. Lenin, "The Question of Peace", pp. 290-294, Collected Works, vol. 21, August 1914-December 1915. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1980.
   
10. Lenin, chapter 1, "Socialism and War", pp. 299-316, Ibid.
    
    http://www.marx2mao.org/Lenin/SW15.html
    
11. Lenin, "War and Revolution", Collected Works, Volume 24, April-June 1917 pp. 398-41. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1977.
    
    http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/may/14.htm
    
12. Communist Party of China, "Two Different Lines on the Question of War and Peace", 5^th comment on the open letter of the Central Committee of the CPSU (November 19, 1963), The Polemic on the General Line of the International Communist Movement. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1965 pp. 221-58.
    
    http://www.marx2mao.org/Other/PGLtc.html#t4
    
    http://www.maoism.org/msw/polemic/twolines.htm
    

13. Jose Maria Sison, "On the Question of Revolutionary Violence, speech prepared for the lectures on Crisis and Revolution sponsored by the League of Filipino Students, February, 1993.
    
    http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/5504/reviol/reviol.htm
    
    http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section=A3ABBGAB&object_id=7147