For 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. Originally published in 2023 as kites #8, this reprint, published in 2025 by Going Against the Tide, features a new layout with art by Ruby Lois.