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Queen Mother Audley Moore pt. 2: Harlem, the Black struggle, ...

Derek Ford

January 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: Liberation School continues our Black Communist History series with a transcription of an interview with “Queen Mother Moore,” a legendary figure in the Black liberation struggle. These interviews were conducted over three decades ...

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Romanian workers studying. Source: Tiraspol History Museum. Photo: Liberation School.

Typographers’ revolt: The day Bucharest stood still

Patricia Gorky

January 8, 2019

December 2018 marked the 100-year anniversary of the slaughter of striking typographers and workers of Bucharest, Romania. More than 15,000 men, women and children — workers from all factories –– filled the streets on Dec. ...

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Burning issues today

This Soviet poster, issued for the fifth anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, embodies the revolutionary optimism of the Leninist party.

The actuality of revolution

Jodi Dean

January 1, 2019

Revolution today names more a problem than it does a solution. We know that revolutions happen, but we have a hard time believing in revolution. We have a hard time believing in revolution because we ...

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Capital: Study notes

Derek Ford

December 24, 2018

Course description While there is arguably nothing more fundamental to our everyday lives, in the U.S. the discussion of political economy is regularly mystified and obscured. When it is addressed in schools or the media, ...

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Trump and King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, and the President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, Sunday, May 21, 2017. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead). Source: Wikimedia Commons.

US-Saudi ties: Drenched in blood, oil, and deceit

Joyce Chediac

November 28, 2018

Why do Donald Trump and the CIA disagree about the recent killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Turkey? The CIA concluded that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi ...

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Social media and democratic centralism: Opportunities and challenges

Ben Becker

November 7, 2018

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 Socialism and Liberation in early 2016. The ...

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George Washington, who owned 317 slaves when he died, gives directives before the Battle of Yorktown in the U.S. Revolutionary War.

The U.S. state and the U.S. revolution

Eugene Puryear

November 1, 2018

It is no exaggeration to say that the principal disputes between activists, organizations and political trends in U.S. social movements have hinged on different understandings of, and attitudes toward, the state. What distinguishes a revolutionary ...

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Photo credit: Women Organized to Resist and Defend

Women and socialism: Three revolutionary case studies

Donna Goodman

October 18, 2018

The people of the United States have been taught nonstop for almost 100 years that the socialist revolutions in Russia (1917), China (1949) and Cuba (1959) constituted a danger to the world. Every U.S. president ...

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The Communist Manifesto study guide

Derek Ford

October 9, 2018

Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto as “a complete theoretical and practical party program” for the initially German-based, and then international, Communist League. It was written and published during the heat of revolutionary ...

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Breaking the Chains

Williana Burroughs: Communist housing organizer

Erika Hidalgo

October 4, 2018

Williana Burroughs was a dynamic and dedicated communist in Depression-era Harlem. Bringing her radical politics into the struggles Black Harlemites faced, and vice versa, Burroughs helped establish trust between the Communist Party and the community. ...

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