As humanity teeters on the brink of irreversible climate change, world leaders joined the COP21 UN Climate Change Conference in Paris in December 2015. But are international conferences like these really capable of resolving the issue? The two-week long conference...
Introduction by author The following article presents a viewpoint on crises and long-term trends of the capitalist economy that differs in important respects from the views of most Marxist economists today. This viewpoint has been developed over some 50 years of...
The Dominican Republic is the only oppressed country that celebrates its “independence” from another oppressed, colonized country, Haiti. For generations, the fear-mongering, racist Dominican ruling class has deliberately manipulated the history of the two countries,...
“Trapped in a vicious cycle of ignorance, poverty, disease, sickness and death, and there seems no way out. There seems to be no way of escape. And because there seems to be no hope, no way out, no means of escape, we turn to wine, we turn to whiskey, heroin,...
Dr. Jared Ball of The Real News network interviews author and organizer Brian Becker about the PSL's recent book Imperialism in the 21st Century: Updating Lenin's Theory a Century Later, which can be ordered here. Dr. Ball...
Puerto Ricans, both in the homeland and in the diaspora, stand on the shoulders of anti-colonial giants. The colonial education system continues to use everything in its power to delete our heroes from our national memory. October 31st, 1950 gave birth to one such...
Introduction: The purpose of this final class is to investigate another concrete example of a workers’ state and how this has developed over time. We will summarize our study of The State and Revolution by using it to discuss revolutionary organizing in the U.S....
Introduction: The purpose of this class is to develop a more sophisticated understanding of the withering away of the state as it relates to economics and the mode of production. The class will also focus on the historical experience of the Soviet Union to investigate...
Introduction: The purpose of this class is to continue developing a Marxist-Leninist understanding of the state and to apply this knowledge to the U.S. context. Learning objectives and outcomes: At the end of class 4, comrades will: Have an understanding of the class...