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May Day
May 1, 1886: a strike for the eight-hour working day. “Un pueblo por deber y por amor reunido,” a people united by love and necessity, only to be met with terror and executions. At stake was the question: From where does the value of labour emerge? What is the source of a fair day’s wage
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International Working Women’s Day
March 8 belongs to the working class. It was forged through struggle by socialist women who organized within the international labour movement and the revolutionary parties of the early 20th century. The date itself became historic when women textile workers in Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg) launched strikes on March 8, 1917, helping ignite the Russian
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Iran and the Crisis of the Contemporary Anti-Imperialist “Left”
The U.S. and Israel have begun their imperialist war on Iran, with an inaugural bombing of a school full of children. Iran has, in turn, attacked U.S. imperialist outposts in the region. The Iranian strategy…
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Glory to the Revolution of 1979: The statement of AWAS on the situation in Iran
Iranian Fascism A war is being waged on the people of Iran. Externally through sanctions, economic siege and militarization, and internally through austerity, corruption, and neoliberal capitalism. Alongside this war has emerged a reactionary political…
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Our position on Venezuela
The assault on Venezuela is not merely about Maduro, oil, or democracy. It is a continuation of a long war on socialism. The American empire has never tolerated an undeterred socialist state in its hemisphere,…
About Us
The Ideological Front is a space for rigorous engagement, principled debate, and collective clarity. It is a tool for education and a weapon for struggle. Organize to fight and fight to win.
We are an anti-colonial, anti-imperialist newsletter of the Alliance of Workers and Students (AWAS). We publish statements, reports, and essays that confront empire, expose the settler state, and develop a strategy for struggle. Our focus is on workers, students, and oppressed peoples in Turtle Island, linked to the wider front of resistance across the world.
Our Viewpoint
The deepening crisis of global capitalism and empire has sharpened contradictions here in the imperial core. In settler Canada, the state expands its policing, surveillance, and militarism while universities and workplaces reproduce exploitation and colonial ideology. Liberal reformism and post-modernist trends encourage cynicism, confusion, and the siloing of struggles, leaving the ruling class unchallenged. The result is an ideological climate that normalizes empire and undermines collective resistance. At the same time, new forms of struggle are breaking through. From Indigenous land defence to migrant worker organizing, from student strikes to the global resistance of Palestine, Yemen, and beyond, the fight against imperialism continues to deepen. To make sense of these struggles and sharpen them, concrete analysis of concrete conditions is necessary. As Lenin put it, “The light of theory must be cast upon every separate fact.” The Ideological Front is committed to linking theory with practice, rooting analysis in the struggles of workers, students, and oppressed communities. We gather lessons from mass work, return them to the people, and build clarity and unity against the settler state and global capitalism. In doing so, we aim to help forge the discipline, organization, and vision required for real liberation.
Submission Guidelines
We welcome submissions that sharpen analysis and contribute to the development of revolutionary practice. Articles should broadly align with the following orientation: Anti-imperialist, anti-colonial, and anti-capitalist perspectives. Opposition to liberal reformism, fascism, revisionism, and post-modernist fragmentation. Commitment to connecting theory and practice, and to building organized resistance.
Submissions can address
Local struggles (labour, student, indigenous, migrant, or community-based). International resistance movements, particularly in the Global South. Questions of political education, strategy, and revolutionary theory. Analyses of culture, ideology, and institutions within the imperial core.
What can I submit?
Fully drafted articles. No strict word limit, but keep writing as sharp and concise as possible without losing substance.
Drafts/Proposals: If you have an idea or a partial draft, send it in. The Editorial Team may work with you to develop it into a full article. Reports/Statements: Shorter reflections or dispatches from protests, campaigns, or organizing work are also welcome.
Editorial Principles
The Ideological Front is grounded in Marxist-Leninist politics. Submissions will be evaluated first and foremost on their alignment with our ideological orientation. The Editorial Board will make final decisions on publication. Suggested edits will be discussed with authors, but the Board’s decision on publication is final. We encourage debate and polemics, but expect them to be principled and in service of advancing collective clarity and struggle.
Formatting Guidelines
Left-aligned, Times New Roman, 12pt font. Citations: Use Chicago style (in-text citations + reference list).
Exclusivity: Exclusive submissions are preferred. Previously published work will only be accepted if it is permissible to both the author and the original publisher.
Language: We currently accept submissions in English.
The Ideological Front
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