Editor's note: We're republishing this article, originally posted in 2008, in advance of the 175th anniversary of the publication of the Manifesto of the Communist Party in celebration of Red Books Day. The Communist Manifesto stands among the most well-read books of...
Corporate personhood, monopoly capital, and the precedent that wasn’t: The 1886 “Santa Clara” case
Editor’s note: Beginning with overturning Roe v. Wade, the ultra right-wing Supreme Court continues to attack hard-won and elementary democratic rights in the United States, from affirmative action to the Indian Child Welfare Act. The following article is the third in...
Value, price, and inflation: Immediate and structural causes
Introduction Every working person is keenly aware that prices are up. Nasty surprises and disbelief keep turning up at the register. People are being forced to forgo even the most minor and seemingly harmless comfort purchases, adding to the accumulation of the...
¿Qué es el imperialismo? Una introducción
Nota del equipo editorial: Esta es una traducción del artículo "What is imperialism? An Introduction", puede encontrar la versión original aquí. En el sufrimiento del Sur Global, la brutalidad del capitalismo queda expuesta. En una nota al calce al final de El...
Amílcar Cabral: Liberator, theorist, and educator
Editor's note: We're republishing this article from two years ago to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Amílcar Cabral's assassination on January 20, 1973. Introduction Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral was born September 12, 1924 in Bafatá, Guinea-Bissau, one of...
¿Qué es la clase capitalista? Una introducción
Nota del equipo editorial: Esta es una traducción del artículo “What is the capitalist class? An introduction“, puede encontrar la versión original aquí. Un informe del 2020 del Institute for Policy Studies encontró que "Entre 1990 y el 2020, la riqueza de los...
¿Qué se requiere para ganar una revolución socialista?
Nota del equipo editorial: Esta es una traducción del artículo "What does it take to make a socialist revolution", puede encontrar la versión original aquí. “El paso del poder estatal de una clase a otra es el primero, el principal, el básico rastro de una revolución,...
Islamophobia and imperialism: Nazia Kazi on race and global politics
Editor’s note: The latest installment in our Liberation School interview series focuses on the relationship between Islamophobia and imperialism. Jennifer Ponce de León interviews Nazia Kazi about her work on race and global politics, with a particular focus on how to...
The courage to criticize imperialism: Thomas Sankara on the 1986 Reykjavik summit
Liberation School introduction The contemporary situation in Burkina Faso is quickly changing, and the new Prime Minister, Me Kyelem Apollinaire de Tambela, identifies with the tradition of Thomas Sankara. He has also written an important book on Sankara and the...