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Feminism and the mass movements: 1960-1990

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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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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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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