Walter Rodney: “Marxism and African liberation”
In this speech delivered 50 years ago, Walter Rodney argues African, Black, and other Third World people, have a vested interest in scientific socialism.
Studying “Socialist reconstruction in America”
Preface Discuss the case being made in the opening paragraphs of the Preface for the need to build socialist consciousness in the U.S. Why is it argued that Socialist Reconstruction is an unorthodox text within the Marxist tradition? If the book represents such a...
Overproduction: The absurdity of suffering amidst surpluses
Introduction A popular coal-miner’s riddle from the 1930s summarizes one of capitalism’s most visible and absurd contradictions. After a daughter asks her father why their home is so cold, he tells her they don’t have any money to purchase coal. He explains they don’t...
La resistencia caribeña y el movimiento de liberación Negra
Nota del equipo editorial: Esta es una traducción del artículo “Caribbean resistance and the struggle for Black liberation“, puede encontrar la versión original aquí. El Agosto Negro es un momento para reflexionar sobre la lucha de liberación global que las personas...
Determination and vigilance: Sankara speaks after the revolution
The 10th installment in our Sankara translation series is the first interview Sankara gave after the Aug. 4, 1984 revolution.
Thomas Sankara: Assessing the 3rd year of a revolutionary process
In the first English translation of this unique 1985 interview, Sankara provides an extensive and frank assessment of the revolutionary process.
Thomas Sankara to comrade Mongo Beti: “Fatherland or death, we will win!”
Thomas Sankara and Cameroonian writer Mongo Beti address a range of topics pertinent to understanding ongoing anti-imperialist developments in West Africa—from Pan-Africanism and neocolonialism to women’s liberation and urbanization.
La resistencia caribeña y el movimiento de liberación Negra
Todos los años celebramos el “Agosto Negro” para conmemorar a los y las combatientes caídos del Movimiento de Liberación Negra, para pedir la liberación de las y los presos políticos en Estados Unidos, para condenar las condiciones opresivas de las cárceles estadounidenses y para enfatizar la importancia continua de la lucha de Liberación Negra.
La lucha de clases en cada mercancía: Valor de uso y valor de cambio
Mientras que el valor de uso y el valor de cambio de una mercancía son diferentes, y al mismo tiempo inseparables, también representan los dos lados del antagonismo interno e irreconciliable entre el trabajo y el capital.
El socialismo es una parte integral de la historia laboral de EE. UU.
Para revivir el movimiento obrero y un movimiento por los derechos de los trabajadores, es esencial volver a conectarnos con nuestra historia radical.
Understanding and fighting gentrification: A revolutionary orientation
Introduction Cities across the U.S. are rapidly transforming. “Gentrification-style” luxury developments are replacing neighborhood landmarks and low-income housing. Sky-high rents are pushing poor residents increasingly further from city centers. These trends are...
What is alienation? The development and legacy of Marx’s early theory
Editor’s note: A Spanish translation of this article is available here. Introduction Offering a brief introduction to Marx’s theory of alienation is not a straightforward task. This is due, in part, to conflicting interpretations of key aspects of Marx’s project...
Study, fast, train, fight: The roots of Black August
This article, first published in August 2022, includes some slight edits, updated information, and added citations. Introduction In August 1619, enslaved Africans touched foot in the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States. The...
Watts 1965: From spontaneous uprising to revolutionary force
With the 60th anniversary of the Watts rebellion upon us, many still point to the arrests of Marquette, Rena and Ronald Frye as the embers that set Watts ablaze in 1965. On Aug. 11, the police pulled over Marquette’s car supposedly responding to reports of drunk...
The revolutionary origins of Memorial Day and its political hijacking
A day celebrating Black liberation utilized for white supremacy Editor's note: This article was previously published on Liberation News in 2012. What we now know as Memorial Day began as "Decoration Day" in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. It was a...
Harry Haywood’s contributions to the national question and the fight for class unity
In honor of the 126th anniversary of Harry Haywood's birth, we're reposting this article originally published on Liberation School in 2014. Harry Haywood was a long time member and leader of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and other communist organizations from the...
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The CIA overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah and the struggle against neo-colonialism in West Africa today
Examining the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president and prime minister, can help us understand how U.S. imperialism may potentially respond to current developments in West Africa.
Israel: Base of western imperialism
This pamphlet provides a detailed breakdown of the material and ideological basis for the Israeli settler-colonial project.
Leila Khaled: Palestinian fighter, Marxist revolutionary
This article is part of PSL’s revolutionary women series.
Thomas Sankara: Assessing the 3rd year of a revolutionary process
In the first English translation of this unique 1985 interview, Sankara provides an extensive and frank assessment of the revolutionary process.
Program of the Party for Socialism and Liberation
There are only two choices for humanity today: an increasingly destructive capitalism, or socialism. The only solution to the evils of capitalism is the socialist transformation of society.
PSL Statement on Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine
The conflict currently exploding in Ukraine and rippling throughout the region and the entire world is hugely dangerous. The reckless and provocative actions of the U.S. government and its allies must cease immediately.
Social media and democratic centralism: Opportunities and challenges
Liberation Audio · Social media and democratic centralism: Opportunities and challenges Editor's note: The following is an edited version of an internal document initially written in late 2015 and formed part of the basis for party-wide discussions in the Party for...
From counterrevolution to revival: Communism and the primacy of the international situation
Liberation Audio · From counterrevolution to revival: Communism and the primacy of the international situation Editor's note: Central to our ideology is the idea that in order to understand and prepare for the class struggle in the U.S. we must first take the global...
Leila Khaled: Palestinian fighter, Marxist revolutionary
In celebration of International Women's Day, and in honor of Leila Khaled and all the women who have played a decisive role in the struggle for Palestinian national liberation, we are republishing this article originally published by Liberation School April 17, 2007....
Claudia Jones: “International Women’s Day and the struggle for peace”
Editor's note: The full text of Claudia Jones' famous 1950 speech, "International Women's Day and the Struggle for Peace," delivered at a rally and published in the March 1950 issue of Political Affairs, the monthly magazine of the Communist Party, USA. The...
Women’s triple load: The crushing weight of care work under capitalism
Editor's note: For International Women's Day, Liberation School is pleased to release the following article, which was originally published in the Summer 2022 issue of Breaking the Chains magazine, titled "The Women Worker." A Spanish translation is available here....
The root causes of the attacks on reproductive rights: A Marxist analysis
Editor's introduction: Women’s History Month is a time to recommit ourselves to the unfinished struggle for women’s liberation, and this year it is even more crucial than ever. The conservative leaning Supreme Court is considering gutting or even overturning Roe v....
Walter Rodney: “Marxism and African liberation”
The following is the text of a speech Walter Rodney delivered 50 years ago at Queen's College, New York, USA in 1975. Along with Cheddi Jagan's article, "Pragmatism and rightist opportunism," it was published in the pamphlet 1986 pamphlet, Yes to Marxism! by the...
The CIA overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah and the struggle against neo-colonialism in West Africa today
This article was first published by Liberation News on April 17, 2024. Introduction One day after his inauguration, Bassirou Diomaye Faye — Senegal’s new self-proclaimed “left Pan-Africanist” president — announced that the new government will conduct an audit of the...