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Africa Under Fire

The former South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, shaking hands with Mr Wang Yi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Peoples Republic of China, after giving opening remarks on the occasion of the Opening Ceremony of the 6th Ministerial Meeting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), 3nd December 2015, Pretoria, South Africa. Photo: DIRCO.

Five imperialist myths about China’s role in Africa

Nino Brown

May 14, 2019

Setting the stage for “great power confrontation” That China is a rising power is undeniable. Since its founding in 1949, the People’s Republic of China has undergone several substantial economic and social policy changes, in ...

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The capitalist university: Built on admissions scandals

Ben Huff

April 23, 2019

On March 12, 2019, the public learned that several prominent U.S. universities had admitted at least 50 students based solely on bribes made by their parents. A seven-year investigation by the FBI nicknamed “Operation Varsity ...

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A Black Harlem communist speaks: Abner Berry 1-2

Derek Ford

April 13, 2019

Editor’s Note: Liberation School continues our Black Communist History series with a transcription of an interview with Abner Berry. Berry edited the Harlem edition of The Daily Worker in the 1940s and 1950s. He was ...

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Lenin and manifestation by Isaak Brodsky. Source: Wikicommons.

Study guide: What is to be done?

Derek Ford

March 28, 2019

Published in 1902, What is to be done? Burning questions of our movement, is Lenin’s argument for a distinct kind of revolutionary organization, and is thus often viewed as the founding text of the Leninist form ...

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The untold side of second wave feminism: a multinational, politically ...

Donna Goodman

March 21, 2019

This article originally appeared as chapter 8 Donna Goodman’s Women Fight Back: The Centuries-Long Struggle for Liberation, published through Liberation Media and available for purchase here. Liberation School has a study and discussion guide for ...

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Vygotsky’s revolutionary educational psychology

Curry Malott

March 9, 2019

The name Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934) is commonplace in the field of education. Ask any teacher or professor of education about Vygotsky and chances are they will at least recall the name from their child development ...

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Black Liberation

The history, present, and future of Black Liberation

Derek Ford

February 27, 2019

As part of a Black History Month event in Salt Lake City, Utah, Eugene Puryear speaks on the history, present, and promise of the Black liberation struggle in the U.S. Puryear is a member of ...

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The right of nations to self-determination study guide

Derek Ford

February 19, 2019

Lenin wrote The Right of Nations to Self-Determination in early 1914 to address the relationship between socialist struggle and national liberation, a key debate among Marxists in Russia at the time. Czarist Russia was a ...

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One of the weekly protests against the Japanese government's repression of Korean schools. Photo: Author.

Chongryon: The struggle of Koreans in Japan

Derek Ford

January 30, 2019

“The history of Chongryon is a history of unity, solidarity, and struggle.” – Chairman of the Yokosuka Chongryon Branch, Jan. 17, 2019 In early 1956, construction was almost complete on what the Japanese authorities and ...

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Jair and Michelle de Paula Firmo Reinaldo pose with Mike and Susan Pompeo in Brazil on Jan. 1, 2019. Source: Public Domain.

Bolsonaro: A danger to Brazil, Latin America, and the whole ...

Silvio Rodrigues

January 23, 2019

The dreaded day has come. Jair Bolsonaro has taken office as President of Brazil. In its first month, the new administration rolled back social progress. Expected increases to the minimum wage were reduced. LGBTQ people ...

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