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Shipyard workers leaving on strike, Skinner and Eddy Corp., Seattle, 1919. Photo: Asahel Curtis (public domain).

Workers run the city: The Seattle General Strike

Ken Hammond

July 17, 2019

To justify their rule, capitalists and their politicians tell us that we need them to organize society for us. They tell us that our suffering is not their doing, but the doing of other workers ...

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NATO Targets Yugoslavia: An anti-war documentary

Gloria La Riva

June 18, 2019

Beginning on March 24, 1999, NATO unleashed a ruthless bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for 78 days. Despite the devastation wrought on human lives, it was and still is presented as a ...

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Always watching, always profiting: Fighting digital repression

Chris Garaffa

June 11, 2019

While the lifeblood of capitalism—the pursuit of profit—remains the same, the specific ways capitalist’s pursue profit and protect their rule are constantly changing. Marx and Engels identified this trend in their 1848 Communist Manifesto, writing ...

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A Black Harlem communist speaks: Abner Berry 1-3

Derek Ford

June 3, 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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Illustration of V.I. Lenin set against Reuters photos of New York City, and Mosul in ruins. | Photo: Elliott Gabriel / teleSUR

Study guide: Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism

Derek Ford

May 27, 2019

Lenin’s Imperialism remains as one of the most important works for understanding the political, economic, and social consequences of global capitalism. Written in 1916 and published in 1917, the pamphlet is a polemic against those ...

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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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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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