Introduction On October 15, 1966, two young Black men in Oakland, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, sat down and drafted a 10-Point political program for the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (later the Black Panther Party). It opened with a centuries-long demand...
This article accompanies our Liberation School study guide for George L. Jackson's Blood in my Eye. Originally from Chicago, Ill, George L. Jackson grew up in California. In 1961, a young Jackson was convicted of armed robbery for allegedly stealing $70 from a gas...
Revolutionary revolt etched in workers' consciousness "We the inmates of Attica Prison, have grown to recognize beyond the shadow of a doubt, that because of our posture as prisoners and branded characters as alleged criminals, the administration and prison employees...
Introduction A foreign national spoke out against a country he accused of killing his family. After fleeing that country to escape persecution, the U.S. government arrested him and tried to deport him. The U.S. government was protective of its relationship with the...
Editor's note: The full text of Claudia Jones' famous 1950 speech, "International Women's Day and the Struggle for Peace," delivered at a rally and published in the March 1950 issue of Political Affairs, the monthly magazine of the Communist Party, USA. The...
Introduction In Joe Biden's statement supporting legislation to force egregious terms on railway workers, he framed his decision as one made in the interests of the country as a whole, as if the country was not overwhelmingly composed of the very working class he was...
This article accompanies Liberation School's new study guide for Robin D.G. Kelley's, Hammer and Hoe. As the re-popularization of socialism continues, the practical lessons today’s organizers can learn from the history of the communist movement in the U.S. become...
“In contradistinction to German fascism, which acts under anti-constitutional slogans, American fascism tries to portray itself as the custodian of the constitution and ‘American democracy.’”- Georgi Dimitrov Introduction Six months ago, on January 6, 2021, a racist...
In the opening weeks of the Trump administration, thousands of progressive students on college campuses in Seattle and Berkeley shut down professional demagogue and Breitbart propagandist Milo Yiannopoulous. Leftists in the United States were unanimous in their...