Introduction September 11, 2023 marked the 50th anniversary of the coup d’etat in Chile that overthrew socialist President Salvador Allende. Allende was the first president elected with a socialist program in the world and governed the country between 1970 and 1973....
The long history of Black and Palestinian solidarity
International solidarity in the face of racism The acquittal of racist murderer George Zimmerman sparked outrage and demonstrations not only in the United States, but all around the world—including in Palestine. Many Palestinians circulated pictures of themselves...
Massacres were indispensable to creation of the Israeli state
Editor's note: We're republishing this article from 2018 to provide context to the ongoing Israeli massacre against the Palestinian people and their heroic resistance. To make way for the creation of the Israeli settler state, more than half of the Palestinian...
Clarifying China’s political rhetoric: Xi Jinping’s 20th Party Congress report
Ken Hammond is the author of one of 1804 Books’ latest releases, China’s Revolution and the Quest for a Socialist Future. Introduction The Communist Party of China (CPC) was founded in July 1921 in Shanghai, at a meeting which came to be seen as the First Party...
Free audio book: Palestine, Israel, and the U.S. Empire
If you think the Israel-Palestine conflict is too complex to understand, think again. Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire, written without academic jargon by author and activist Richard Becker, provides a solid introduction to key events in the history underlying...
Thomas Sankara to comrade Mongo Beti: “Fatherland or death, we will win!”
Liberation School introduction This is the first English translation of a 1985 interview with Thomas Sankara conducted by Mongo Beti, which remained unpublished until Beti's spouse, Odile Tobner, gave the handwritten notes to Bruno Jaffré, who first published it in...
Capitalist urbanization, climate change, and the need for sponge cities
Tina Landis is the author of the book Climate Solutions Beyond Capitalism, for which Liberation School has a study and discussion guide. Additionally, we host a 4-part video course Landis taught on the relationship between climate change, capitalism, and socialism....
A victory for one is a victory for all: Lessons from “Trans Liberation”
Editorial note: Leslie Feinberg’s pronouns were “she/zie” and “her/hir." Introduction Trans liberation is squarely on the agenda of today’s movements for justice, as over 550 anti-trans bills were already introduced in state legislatures across the country this year....
On China’s revolution and the quest for a socialist future
Watch a remarkably informative, comprehensive, and politically pertinent conversation hosted by The People's Forum about 1804 Books’ newest title, China’s Revolution and the Quest for a Socialist Future, with author Ken Hammond. Long the most prosperous and...