Millions around the world are demanding action and actively seeking solutions to the unfolding climate crisis. The dialogue at the top is confined to solutions that align with the laws of capitalism and unbridled economic growth. But what if we look to solutions...
The housing question (study guide)
Friedrich Engels published "The Housing Question" first in 1872. It is a collection of three articles originally published in Der Volksstaat (The People's State), which was the main newspaper of the German Social Democratic Workers Party. Engels was responding to a...
What is to be done? (study guide)
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 of the party. Written in response to the particularities...
The right of nations to self-determination
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 country composed over around 200 nationalities...
“Left-wing” Communism: Reading and discussion guides
In July-October 2018, the Party for Socialism and Liberation undertook a party-wide study of Lenin's "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder. Here we share our edited materials so other communists and progressives can collectively study this key work. These...
Study guide: Storming the Gates
As the first manifestation of socialism, the Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union are critical topics for revolutionaries and communists to study today. This study has to be engaged not solely for intellectual purposes, but for the purposes of learning from and...
Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism (study guide)
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 "socialists" who, in word or deed,...
Imperialism in the 21st century (study guide)
The following is a list of study and facilitator resources for the PSL book Imperialism in the 21st Century (2015). The resources have been divided into three classes, but each study group and reader should go at whatever pace makes the most sense for them. Click here...