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# Liberation School

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- [Before Stonewall: The LGBTQ movement behind Compton's Cafeteria riot](https://liberationschool.org/compton-cafeteria-riot/) - in 1966, courageous fighters ushered in a new wave of militant, class-conscious queer organizing.
- [Thomas Sankara: "We didn't import our revolution"](https://liberationschool.org/sankara-we-didnt-import-our-revolution/) - In the opening entry in our series of previously untranslated work by Thomas Sankara, we feature a 1984 interview with "L'Humanité"
- [Thomas Sankara on the founding of the Black Institute](https://liberationschool.org/sankara-the-black-institute/) - The first ever English translation of Sankara's 1986 speech in the capital city of Burkina Faso.
- [Apartheid is a cancer that must be exterminated: Radio Havana Cuba interview with Thomas Sankara](https://liberationschool.org/apartheid-is-a-cancer-that-must-be-exterminated/) - Radio Havana Cuba interviews Thomas Sankara on the 3rd anniversary of the revolution.
- [The courage to criticize imperialism: Thomas Sankara on the 1986 Reykjavik summit](https://liberationschool.org/sankara-the-courage-to-criticize-imperialism/) - The first English translation of an interview with Thomas Sankara on the 1986 Gorbachev-Reagan summit.
- [Two years after the revolution: Thomas Sankara on Franco-African relations](https://liberationschool.org/thomas-sankara-1985-interview-le-matin/) - The first English translation of a 1985 interview with Sankara about Franco-African relations under the French Socialist Party.
- [PSL Course: Marx's "Capital" (vol. 1)](https://liberationschool.org/psl-course-marxs-capital/) - This 9-part video course includes reading guides and video lectures to help readers through one of Marx's most important texts.
- [La resistencia caribeña y el movimiento de liberación Negra](https://liberationschool.org/la-resistencia-caribena/) - Todos los años celebramos el "Agosto Negro" para conmemorar a los y las combatientes caídos del Movimiento de Liberación Negra, para pedir la liberación de las y los presos políticos en Estados Unidos, para condenar las condiciones opresivas de las cárceles estadounidenses y para enfatizar la importancia continua de la lucha de Liberación Negra.
- [Caribbean Resistance and the Movement for Black Liberation](https://liberationschool.org/caribbeanresistance/) - "Caribbean revolutionary history is characterized by an unrelenting pursuit of freedom and justice despite facing severe institutional violence."
- [From racism and anti-communism to global dominance: On the use of ICE's Foreign Policy Provision](https://liberationschool.org/ice-foreign-policy-provision/) - On the history and origins of U.S. immigration law and the Foreign Policy Provision ICE is currently using against immigrants.
- [George Jackson's "Blood in my eye:" A critical appraisal](https://liberationschool.org/george-jackson-blood-in-my-eye/) - Jackson's last book is a unique and inspiring glimpse into his revolutionary theory that remains a key source of study for revolutionaries today.
- [Attica: The making and significance of a heroic prison uprising](https://liberationschool.org/attica-the-making-and-significance-of-a-heroic-prison-uprising/) - 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 no longer consider or respect us as human beings, but rather as domesticated animals selected
- [Walter Rodney: "Marxism and African liberation"](https://liberationschool.org/marxism-and-african-liberation/) - In this speech delivered 50 years ago, Walter Rodney argues African, Black, and other Third World people, have a vested interest in scientific socialism.
- ["George Jackson: Black revolutionary"](https://liberationschool.org/walter-rodney-on-george-jackson/) - Walter Rodney narrates George Jackson and argues he was assassinated because he was spreading Blackness as a banner for uncompromising revolutionary struggle.
- [Dancing in the streets: Boogaloo, salsa, and tools for liberation (pt. 2)](https://liberationschool.org/dancing-in-the-streets-2/) - The revolutionary legacy of Salsa music and other art forms can be useful tools for liberation.
- [Lenin and the path to revolution: A 3-part podcast course](https://liberationschool.org/lenin-and-the-path-to-revolution-3-podcast/) - Brian Becker teaches the life and legacy of Lenin, the formation of Leninism, and the revolutionary paths it generated across the world.
- [Defending the revolution: An Afrique Asie interview with Thomas Sankara](https://liberationschool.org/thomas-sankara-defending-the-revolution/) - The 11th installment in our Thomas Sankara translation project shows Sankara's keen eye for the imperialist world order.
- [The sordid history of US intervention in Iran](https://liberationschool.org/us-intervention-in-iran/) - The U.S. state has a history of interventions against Iran to set up a pliant regime for imperialist ends. An examination reveals that the U.S. state wishes to impose a neo-colonial dictatorship on the Iranian people.
- [Revolution Manifesto](https://liberationschool.org/revolution-manifesto/) - A 6-part class to study "Revolution Manifesto" and "State and Revolution"
- [Blood in my eye (study guide)](https://liberationschool.org/blood-in-my-eye-study-guide/) - Jackson's Blood in My Eye is an intervention into the debate around the class character of the United States and the larger project of racist capitalism from which it emerged.
- [Lebanon: A lesson in continuous and unconditional resistance](https://liberationschool.org/lebanon-history/) - Lebanon bas been betrayed, tortured, and traumatized by Western imperialism. How does it manage to continue fighting back?
- [Sobreproducción: lo absurdo del sufrimiento en medio de excedentes](https://liberationschool.org/sobreproduccion/) - Las crisis de la sobreproducción son rutinarias en cualquier forma de capitalismo, incluido el capitalismo estadounidense.
- [The legacy of the Grenadian Revolution lives on](https://liberationschool.org/the-legacy-of-the-grenadian-revolution-lives-on/) - The following article is republished from Invent the Future with the permission of the author. “The Grenada Revolution was a grasp of joy … that life unfulfilled could and would change, be transformed for a people who had known 400 years of transportation, slavery, colonialism, neocolonial dictatorship and exportation to the cities of Europe
- [The revolutionary origins of Memorial Day and its political hijacking](https://liberationschool.org/the-revolutionary-origins-of-memorial-day-and-its-political-hijacking/) - What we now know as Memorial Day began was a tradition initiated by former slaves to celebrate emancipation and commemorate those who died for that cause.
- [Capitalist contradictions and revolutionary struggle: An introduction](https://liberationschool.org/capitalist-contradictions-and-revolutionary-struggle-an-introduction/) - In this introduction to a new series, we define the contradictions of capital, explain how capitalists try to "solve" them and why it cannot, and provide examples of how they enhance our organizing.
- [Why we are running in the 2024 Presidential race](https://liberationschool.org/why-we-are-running-in-the-2024-presidential-race/) - Elections allow working-class parties to demonstrate that only socialism can meet the scale of the problems facing the majority of people.
- [Socialism an integral part of U.S. labor history](https://liberationschool.org/socialism-an-integral-part-of-us-labor-history/) - May Day offers an opportunity to show how socialism and communism have deep roots in the struggles of exploited and oppressed in the U.S.
- [The colonial roots of Zionism](https://liberationschool.org/colonial-roots-zionism/) - This two-part series of The Socialist Program with Brian Becker explores the history of Israeli apartheid with guest author Richard Becker.
- [The class struggle in every commodity: Use value and exchange value](https://liberationschool.org/use-value-exchange-value/) - While the use value and exchange value of a commodity are distinct, and at the same time inseparable, they also represent the two sides of the internal, irreconcilable antagonism between labor and capital.
- [American inquisition part 1: The origins of the Cold War and McCarthyism](https://liberationschool.org/american-inquisition-part-1-the-origins-of-the-cold-war-and-mccarthyism/) - The history of the Cold War's “American inquisition” after WWII and its connection to the new Cold War is important for anyone seeking to build a better world.
- [Study, fast, train, fight: The roots of Black August](https://liberationschool.org/study-fast-train-fight-the-roots-of-black-august/) - “Black August” is honored every year to commemorate the fallen freedom fighters of the Black Liberation Movement, to call for the release of political prisoners in the United States, to condemn the oppressive conditions of U.S. prisons, and to emphasize the continued importance of the Black Liberation struggle.
- [Overproduction: The absurdity of suffering amidst surpluses](https://liberationschool.org/overproduction/) - "Overproduction occurs when too much is produced compared to how much can be sold at a profit."
- [Studying "Socialist reconstruction in America"](https://liberationschool.org/socialist-reconstruction-study-guide/) - Collectively envision what a socialist future could realistically look like in the United States!
- [Lenin and the path to revolution: 3-class video course with Brian Becker](https://liberationschool.org/lenin-and-the-path-to-revolution-3-part-course-with-brian-becker/) - Brian Becker teaches the life and legacy of Lenin, the formation of Leninism, and the revolutionary paths it generated across the world.
- [Dancing in the streets: When Salsa’s Clave was the pulse of the movement (pt. 1)](https://liberationschool.org/dancing-in-the-streets-when-salsas-clave-was-the-pulse-of-the-movement-pt-1/) - On the 50th anniversary of the famous Fania All-Stars concert, we explore the history and politics of Salsa, in addition to the role culture plays in the broader class struggle.
- [Solidarity is the key to advancing LGBT rights](https://liberationschool.org/06-05-31-solidarity-is-key-to-advancing-l-html/) - This June, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement marks the 37th anniversary of the June 27, 1969 Stonewall Rebellion. Millions of LGBT people, friends and supporters everywhere will be marching, rallying and celebrating the struggle for LGBT liberation.
- [AIDS: Grappling with a global crisis](https://liberationschool.org/06-12-01-aids-grappling-with-global-cris-html/) - Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day, a day focused on remembering the tens of millions of people who have died from AIDS worldwide and the more than 40 million currently infected, many in oppressed countries. AIDS care and prevention programs are still underfunded or nonexistent in many countries.
- [Insuring the rights won by the LGBTQ movement](https://liberationschool.org/insuring-the-rights-won-by-the-lgbtq-movement/) - Despite the period of political reaction in the United States started in the 1980s, the lesbian-gay-bi-transgendered movement has achieved significant gains in winning some measure of equality and dignity for sexual and gender minorities. In the almost 40 years since the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion, 20 states, the District of Columbia and over 140 municipalities and
- [Massive march demands full equality for LGBT people](https://liberationschool.org/09-10-14-massive-march-demands-full-equal-html/) - The Oct. 11 demonstration of 250,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, along with their straight allies, in Washington, D.C., marked a potentially huge turning point in the struggle for equality.
- [Trans people fight back on many fronts](https://liberationschool.org/trans-people-fight-back-on-html/) - The LGBTQ struggle has a basic unity in the fight to overturn oppression based on sexual orientation & patriarchal gender norms. But while “lesbian” “gay” & “bisexual” describe a sexual orientation, “trans” describes a gender identity.
- [Struggle for marriage equality advances](https://liberationschool.org/struggle-for-marriage-equality-advances-2/) - The fight for equal same-sex marriage rights has dominated much of the news and activism of the LGBTQ community over the last decade. In 2004, not a single state allowed for same-sex marriage. Now, same-sex couples can get married in 19 states, the District of Columbia and eight Native tribal jurisdictions. In additional states, federal
- [<small>Resolution of the Party for Socialism and Liberation:</small> Marriage equality and what it means for the LGBTQ struggle](https://liberationschool.org/resolution-of-the-party-for-socialism-and-liberation-marriage-equality-and-what-it-means-for-the-lgbtq-struggle/) - The PSL's position derives not only from the study of Marxism but also accumulated experience over decades in the struggles of the LGBTQ community.
- [The 1969 Stonewall rebellion and lessons for today](https://liberationschool.org/05-06-01-the-1969-stonewall-rebellion-les-html/) - The Stonewall uprising that began on June 27, 1969, in New York City was a shot that rang out around the world. It marked the arrival of the mass movement for equality for lesbians, gay men, transgender and bisexual men and women.
- [30 years after the Dade County struggle for LGBT rights](https://liberationschool.org/07-06-12-30-years-after-dade-county-strug-html/) - Every June, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community celebrates the ongoing struggle for full equality and liberation. It is a time when we assess where we are as a community and movement by looking back and analyzing past struggles to better plan future victories.
- [Harvey Milk's legacy of struggle continues](https://liberationschool.org/08-11-14-harvey-milks-legacy-struggle-co-html/) - Nov. 27 will mark the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay politician elected to public office in the United States. Milk served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in the late 1970s before his untimely death at the hands of a right-wing, racist, anti-gay former city supervisor.
- [The AIDS fight back: Reflections from a revolutionary](https://liberationschool.org/the-aids-fight-back-reflection-from-a-revolutionary/) - Introduction Preston Wood at a rally in the 1980s I remember in the 1980s having to sneak into the hospital to be with my partner, lover, best friend, when he lay dying. Obviously, the hospital administration didn’t consider our life-partner commitment was in any way valid. He was suffering with severe pain, clogged airways, and
- [The Marxist understanding of the roots of LGBTQ oppression](https://liberationschool.org/the-marxist-understanding-of-the-roots-of-lgbtq-oppression/) - Revolutionary struggle and LGBTQ liberation Every ruling class in history declares that their order is the “natural” state of society. According to this sort of history—which is really a denial of history—the prevailing forms of oppression are described as inevitable or even morally justified. This is equally true of the oppression of LGBTQ people, which is
- ["Our armies are rising:" Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson](https://liberationschool.org/our-armies-are-rising-sylvia-rivera-and-marsha-p-johnson/) - In the pantheon of figures in the history of LGBTQ struggles, few stand higher than Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.
- [What can save the environment?](https://liberationschool.org/what-can-save-the-environment/) - Socialist planning or capitalist profits The global environmental crisis is growing. Global warming as a result of human activity, shrinking polar caps, widespread pollution, growing shortages of basic resources like water—all these problems have been confirmed by international teams of scientists time and time again over the last three decades. Global warming as a direct
- [Eradicating the scourge of racism from U.S. society](https://liberationschool.org/eradicating-the-scourge-of-racism-from-u-s-society/) - It will take a revolution In August 2006, an African American student in Jena, La., asked his school principal for permission to sit under what had been known as a “whites only” tree in the center of the school’s courtyard. The following day, three nooses in the school’s colors were found hanging from the tree.
- [A glut of homes in a sea of homelessness](https://liberationschool.org/a-glut-of-homes-in-a-sea-of-homelessness/) - The absurdity of capitalist overproduction Every year in the United States, 3.5 million people experience a period of homelessness, nearly half of them children, according to a 2007 report by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty.1 During the same period, 17.4 million houses stand vacant.2 Another 2 million homeowners with subprime mortgages—over half
- [Socialism and the legacy of the Soviet Union](https://liberationschool.org/socialism-and-the-legacy-of-the-soviet-union/) - The single biggest event that shaped global politics in the 20th century was the Russian Revolution of 1917, which gave birth to the Soviet Union. The first socialist government’s existence was the pivot for world events in history’s most turbulent and dynamic century. The destruction of the Soviet Union 74 years later in 1991 has
- [Anarchism’s track record: What is militancy without a winning program?](https://liberationschool.org/anarchisms-track-record-what-is-militancy-without-a-winning-program/) - In the struggle for a better world, the working-class movement often faces the question: Which way forward? It may be in a strike, where the bosses are threatening to bring in scabs. It may be in a demonstration, when the cops are preparing to disperse the crowd. Or it may be in the heat of
- [Rebellion and the need for organization](https://liberationschool.org/rebellion-and-the-need-for-organization/) - The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” In one sentence, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels captured the essential driving force of class society. Engels later amended the original formulation to account for the discovery of pre-class societies based on communal rather than private property, where class struggle was absent.
- [What difference can a socialist revolution make?](https://liberationschool.org/what-difference-can-a-socialist-revolution-make/) - Between 5,000 and 10,000 years ago, human societies in different parts of the world split into classes. Social classes are defined by social and economic positions in society relative to the creation of wealth in society, as well as the interrelations among these groupings. The emergence of classes corresponded roughly to the development of agricultural
- [How can the working class defend its revolution? Understanding the dictatorship of the proletariat](https://liberationschool.org/how-can-the-working-class-defend-its-revolution/) - The ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ Workers around the world have instinctively understood the need for a union. In the fight against the bosses—whether it is for pay and benefits, better working conditions or to defend the gains they have already won—individual workers standing alone lose, while workers uniting together can win. While today some jobs
- [The goal of socialism: Peace and equality amid plenty](https://liberationschool.org/the-goal-of-socialism-peace-and-equality-amid-plenty/) - What will socialist society look like? The earliest pioneers of scientific socialism—Karl Marx and Frederick Engels—did not philosophize about what socialism and communism would look like in detail. Nor did they discuss how long it would take to transform society from capitalism to socialism. In “The German Ideology,” one of his early writings from 1845,
- [The first modern socialists: their means were utopian, but not their goal](https://liberationschool.org/the-first-modern-socialists-their-means-were-utopian-but-not-their-goal/) - Since the advent of class antagonisms in human society, oppressed people and others angered by injustice have dreamed of a better world. In the face of poverty, disease, humiliation and exploitation, people have counterposed their hopes and aspirations for a life free of sorrows and worry, where the pain and suffering of daily life no
- [Defending Cuba's socialist revolution](https://liberationschool.org/06-07-01-defending-cubas-socialist-revol-html/) - From the first day, the revolutionary leadership relied on the working class in the cities and the peasants in the countryside to defend the revolution and carry it forward.
- [The revolutionary role of women in Cuba](https://liberationschool.org/revolutionary-women-cuba/) - “Revolution within the Revolution.” This is what Cuba calls the struggle for women’s equality.
- [Workers’ democracy in Cuba](https://liberationschool.org/ch-14-workers-democracy-in-cuba/) - In the United States, politicians of all stripes, along with the big-business media, routinely portray Cuba as an oppressive dictatorship. Cuban leader Fidel Castro is said to decide everything in society, supported by a police state where free political expression and participation amongst the Cuban working class is brutally repressed. Of course, like so many
- [A Marxist analysis of Cuba's new economic reforms](https://liberationschool.org/10-09-21-a-marxist-analysis-cubas-new-ec-html/) - It is more important than ever for communists, in general, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, specifically, to state our position on the Cuban Revolution. The capitalist media, the government, legions of academics and think tank policy "experts" are busy at work defining the current stage of the Cuban Revolution, and assessing major political and economic pronouncements made by Cuba and its individual leaders in recent weeks.
- [Cuba: ‘for families free of homophobia’](https://liberationschool.org/cuba-for-families-free-of-homophobia/) - An interview with Mariela Castro The following interview by Dalia González Delgado originally appeared in Granma Internacional. Director of the National Sex Education Center (CENESEX) and editor of the Sexology and Society magazine, a graduate in Education, specializing in Educational Psychology and with a Masters’ in Sexuality, Mariela Castro Espín was awarded the Eureka Prize
- [The U.S. agenda in Cuba remains counter-revolution](https://liberationschool.org/u-s-agenda-cuba-remains-counter-revolution/) - An historic victory for the Cuban people, a new phase in the struggle.
- [Dual power, base building, and serving the people in the U.S. Revolutionary Movement](https://liberationschool.org/dual-power-and-revolution/) - This article responds to recent distortions in the concept of dual power in the movement, providing historical, political, and strategical context to it.
- [China's foreign policy (1949-today): A 9-part podcast series](https://liberationschool.org/chinas-foreign-policy-1949-today/) - This series examines the history of China's foreign policy since the 1949 revolution brought the Communist Party to power.
- [4-part class: From opium wars to trade wars: China’s long path toward socialism](https://liberationschool.org/4-part-china-course/) - Course description: As China’s global rise rivals U.S. hegemony, the number one priority of U.S. foreign policy is to wage a demonization campaign against China. Since the Obama administration announced the Pivot to Asia, the U.S. has spent countless military dollars in the Pacific to encircle China. While the demonization and propaganda campaign against China
- [Reading Capital with Comrades: A  Liberation School podcast series](https://liberationschool.org/reading-capital-with-comrades-podcast/) - Liberation School is proud to release our new podcast series, "Reading Capital with Comrades." The series--which is now available on Spotify, Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, and other platforms--not only makes the first volume of Karl Marx's Capital accessible to a new generation of activists and organizers, but reads the text from the perspective of revolutionary socialist
- [China, Tibet and U.S.-sponsored counterrevolution](https://liberationschool.org/08-04-01-china-tibet-ussponsored-coun-html/) - The following is a statement from the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Many U.S. progressives and liberals are supporting the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan opposition to the People’s Republic of China.
- [For the defense of China against counterrevolution, imperialist intervention and dismemberment](https://liberationschool.org/for-the-defense-of-china-against-counterrevolution-imperialist-intervention-and-dismemberment/) - The following document is the result of almost two years of deliberation and discussion by members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. It was first distributed as part of pre-convention discussion for the party’s 2006 convention. At that convention and then over the next year, it was the basis for party discussion and educational
- [Studying "The program of the PSL"](https://liberationschool.org/program-study-guide/) - Process and discuss the PSL's program!
- [Program of the Party for Socialism and Liberation](https://liberationschool.org/program-of-the-party-for-socialism-and-liberation/) - There are only two choices for humanity today: an increasingly destructive capitalism, or socialism. The only solution to the evils of capitalism is the socialist transformation of society.
- [Paulo Freire's centennial: Political pedagogy for revolutionary organizations](https://liberationschool.org/paulo-freire-and-revolutionary-leadership/) - Freire's pedagogical theories were developed for revolutionary organizations to connect leadership with the broader masses.
- [What is behind the expansion of U.S. prisons?](https://liberationschool.org/what-is-behind-the-expansion-of-u-s-prisons/) - Capitalism, not "crime," is behind skyrocketing incarceration rates.
- [Dismantle the racist prison system!](https://liberationschool.org/dismantle-the-racist-prison-system/) - – The path to abolition is through socialism. Why?
- [PSL Statement on Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine](https://liberationschool.org/psl-statement-on-russias-military-intervention-in-ukraine/) - The conflict currently exploding in Ukraine and rippling throughout the region and the entire world is hugely dangerous. The reckless and provocative actions of the U.S. government and its allies must cease immediately.
- [PSL's response to the ISO's "Twenty years after Tiananmen"](https://liberationschool.org/psls-response-to-the-iso-tiananmen/) - Two decades later, even the U.S. bourgeois press admits the accuracy of the Chinese government's account of the Tiananmen Square protests.
- [Tiananmen: The massacre that wasn't](https://liberationschool.org/tiananmen-the-massacre-that-wasnt/) - Twenty-five years ago today, every U.S. media outlet, along with then President Bush and the U.S. Congress were whipping up a full scale frenzied hysteria and attack against the Chinese government for what was described as the cold-blooded massacre of many thousands of non-violent “pro-democracy” students who had occupied Tiananmen Square for seven weeks. The
- ["Gold Flower:" Socialist revolutions and women's liberation](https://liberationschool.org/gold-flower-china-women-liberation/) - This article first appeared in March 2005's Socialism and Liberation magazine. In 1949, the story of a young woman named "Gold Flower" became known around the world as an example of the path toward liberation taken by millions of Chinese women. Kinhua's story encapsulates the empowerment of women as part of socialist and national liberation struggles.
- [Social media and democratic centralism: Opportunities and challenges](https://liberationschool.org/social-media-and-democratic-centralism-opportunities-and-challenges/) - Liberation Audio · Social media and democratic centralism: Opportunities and challenges Editor's note: 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 document examines the new possibilities and difficulties
- [Study guide: Storming the Gates](https://liberationschool.org/study-guide-storming-the-gates/) - A guide to facilitate a productive reading and discussion to apply the book's insights to today's struggles.
- [Walter Rodney's revolutionary praxis: An interview with D. Musa Springer](https://liberationschool.org/walter-rodneys-revolutionary-praxis-devyn-springer-interview/) - Popular educator Devyn Springer examines Walter Rodney's revolutionary theories, pedagogies, and struggles.
- [Thomas Sankara: Assessing the 3rd year of a revolutionary process](https://liberationschool.org/thomas-sankara-assesses-year-3-of-the-revolution/) - In the first English translation of this unique 1985 interview, Sankara provides an extensive and frank assessment of the revolutionary process.
- [Watts 1965: From spontaneous uprising to revolutionary force](https://liberationschool.org/watts-1965-from-spontaneous-uprising-to-revolutionary-force/) - How did a public protest that began on a small street corner engulf the Watts community for the next six days?
- [American inquisition part 2: What McCarthyism really destroyed](https://liberationschool.org/american-inquisition-part-2-what-mccarthyism-really-destroyed/) - In part 2 of the American inquisition the unpopular goal of undermining organized labor and those who dared to challenge racism and war is discussed in the context of a larger historical trajectory relevant for today's challenges.
- [A chronology of class struggle in China](https://liberationschool.org/08-01-01-a-chronology-class-struggle-in-c-html/) - 1839-42: First Opium War. British imported tea from China, and in return exported opium from India into China. In 1839, the Chinese government destroys 20,000 chests of British opium and prohibits its use.
- [Anniversary of Berlin Wall demise gives workers no reason to cheer](https://liberationschool.org/09-11-14-anniversary-berlin-wall-demise-g-html/) - The results of a BBC poll, released Nov. 9 in the midst of the Berlin Wall media circus, found that only 11 percent of people globally believe free market capitalism "works well." The poll helps get to the truth behind the pageantry and propaganda put forward by the capitalist establishment and its media mouthpieces.
- [From rage to rebellion — to revolution](https://liberationschool.org/from-rage-to-rebellion-to-revolution/) - This statement is being distributed in the streets of Ferguson and St. Louis. All the politicians are calling for calm and peace. Fighting back in the streets, they say, accomplishes nothing. They say the people have to work within the system to bring about change. But what has the system ever accomplished? This is the
- [A time to revive socialism in the United States: report on the PSL’s Third Party Congress](https://liberationschool.org/a-time-to-revive-socialism-in-the-united-states-report-on-the-psls-third-party-congress/) - The tasks of the delegates to the Congress include setting the Party's policy and determining strategy and tactics for the next period.
- [Rebellion and repression: capitalism’s long hot summer begins](https://liberationschool.org/rebellion-and-repression-capitalisms-long-hot-summer-begins/) - To the emerging generation of revolutionaries who are looking to build this type of organization, we offer our experiences building the PSL and our lessons from studying other revolutions.
- [How will the police be abolished? A Marxist perspective](https://liberationschool.org/marxist-perspective-on-police-abolition/) - 12 points on the U.S. state and the necessity of revolution.
- [The history of IWD: Women's power is people's power!](https://liberationschool.org/08-02-22-womens-power-is-peoples-power-html/) - March 8 marks the 99th anniversary of International Women’s Day. The date honors the economic, political and social achievements of working-class women worldwide. The first International Women’s Day was celebrated in the United States on Feb.
- [What is women's oppression and is it inevitable?](https://liberationschool.org/is-womens-oppression-html/) - For the vast majority of human history, archeological and anthropological research indicates that women were not specially oppressed.
- [A socialist perspective on ending women's oppression](https://liberationschool.org/a-socialist-perspective-on-ending-womens-oppression/) - United, anti-capitalist struggle The following is based on a talk presented at the Socialist Women’s Conference in New York City on Feb. 11, 2007, hosted by the Party for Socialism and Liberation. The vital question for us today is: How can the liberation of women and of all working people take place in contemporary society?
- [Shattering the idea of 'women's work'](https://liberationschool.org/shattering-the-idea-of-womens-work/) - Women and the workplace in socialist societies Although politicians might occasionally make hollow statements and enact toothless policies about gender non-discrimination, the historical record of women’s participation in professions under capitalism is dismal. Women have been, despite individual exceptions, systematically excluded from the positions in society that are most influential, well-paying and highly regarded. In
- [Socialism lays basis for a new stage of human history](https://liberationschool.org/socialism-lays-basis-for-a-new-stage-of-human-history/) - The PSL’s program for women’s and LGBTQ liberation Karl Marx, the founder of scientific socialism, once wrote that the socialist stage is the beginning of real “human history.” Right now our existence, our lives, our food, our education and basic survival are not guaranteed. People in capitalist society live under the control or at the
- [Labor needs a class struggle strategy to advance](https://liberationschool.org/04-08-01-labor-needs-class-struggle-strat-html/) - A guiding principle for progressives in the working class movement has been, “If you’re not in a union, fight to get one; if you’re in a union, fight to make it fight.” Those who take up the challenge of “fighting to make the unions fight” are faced sooner or later with the question of how to deal with union leaders who do not want to fight at all.
- [Three strikes that changed the balance for labor](https://liberationschool.org/04-12-01-three-strikes-that-changed-balan-html/) - Few progressive people today who are interested in social change look to the leadership of the AFL-CIO for direction. Declining membership and subservience to the political program of the Democratic Party have left the labor federation crippled as it tries to survive in the face of ruthless corporate assaults on workers, both in and out of unions.
- [Why do socialists look to the working class?](https://liberationschool.org/07-05-01-why-do-socialists-look-to-workin-html/) - This article is adapted from a talk given at the April 1 Socialism Conference hosted by the Party for Socialism and Liberation in Washington, D.C. Many of you may have noticed how many times “workers” have been mentioned in this conference.
- [Democracy on the job? Not under capitalism](https://liberationschool.org/ch-13-democracy-on-the-job-not-under-capitalism/) - Imagine you were in a place where you had no rights at all. If you did anything wrong, you would face harsh punishment, including denying you the ability to feed your family. Most of us do not have to imagine. It is the reality of our workplaces. If you arrive at work five minutes late,
- [The challenges and rewards of union organizing](https://liberationschool.org/08-12-12-the-challenges-rewards-union-org-html/) - In September 2007, immediately prior to the organizing drive, my seven co-workers and I were frustrated. We felt we were underpaid and disrespected. Our pay ranged from $9 to $10.50 an hour. We received no paid time off—no sick days, vacation or holiday pay.
- [Socialism an integral part of U.S. labor history](https://liberationschool.org/10-09-14-socialism-integral-part-us-lab-html/) - As the U.S. mid-term elections approach, right-wing Tea Party demagogues have stepped up their attacks on the Obama administration for being "socialist." Their rhetoric builds on the decades of cold war anti-communist propaganda by capitalist politicians and the corporate media claiming that socialism is "anti-American" and "alien.
- [A general strike can lead to victory in Wisconsin](https://liberationschool.org/general-strike-for-victory-html/) - Students, progressive people and unionized workers are looking for the next step to win the struggle in Wisconsin.What will be the most effective tactic that can lead to victory?
- [Seven steps towards power on the job](https://liberationschool.org/seven-steps-towards-power-on-the-job/) - Basics on how to organize a union What do the following workers all have in common? • Greyhound Bus Lines in New York, N.Y. • Aramark in Boston, Mass. • Atmos Energy in Flowood, Miss. • Chestnut Hill Hospital in Philadelphia, Penn. • Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. • Golan’s Moving and Storage in
- [Capital's path to "Janus v. AFSCME:" An obstacle struggle will overcome](https://liberationschool.org/to-and-beyond-janus/) - We reveal the more immediate path capital forged to their victory in "Janus v. AFSCME" before discussing the particularities and arguments of the case. We then retrace its longer historical trajectory and discuss the rulings it overturned, how the labor movement prepared for it, and what impacts it's had on public sector organizing.
- [From an activist movement to an ideological force](https://liberationschool.org/05-11-01-from-activist-movement-to-ideolo-html/) - White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan admitted that the president was “very much aware” of the 300,000 anti-war protestors in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 24. That is an understatement.
- [Don’t stop with reforms! ‘Reaching beyond the existing social order’ to revolution](https://liberationschool.org/dont-stop-with-reforms-reaching-beyond-the-existing-social-order-to-revolution/) - Millions of people in the United States understand the problems of capitalist society: poverty, unemployment, racism, war or any other of the many other social ills that working-class people face. Hundreds of thousands of those, if asked, would sincerely like to see social change to address those problems. Yet communist ideas are still a small
- [The new anti-racist movement: spontaneity, consciousness and organization](https://liberationschool.org/the-new-anti-racist-movement-spontaneity-consciousness-and-organization/) - The last few years has seen the resurgence of anti-racist struggle on a national scale. We had the Jena 6, Troy Davis and Trayvon Martin cases all promoting national activity and marches. Each of these dealt with the criminal justice system in the Deep South, and the national reaction in Black communities reflected the enduring
- [Class unity: a weapon against police violence](https://liberationschool.org/class-unity-a-weapon-against-police-violence/) - Police brutality is one of the sharpest and most widely recognizable reminders that we live in a society dominated by an oppressing class. The cops commit some of the most shocking atrocities against poor and working people on a regular basis, and a broad section of the working class can identify with the experience of
- [Responding to hate crimes: from protest to resistance](https://liberationschool.org/responding-to-hate-crimes-from-protest-to-resistance/) - The killing of Mark Carson, a 32-year-old gay man from Harlem, in the early morning hours of May 18, in the heart of Greenwich Village marks a tragic boiling point in a recent string of anti-LGBTQ bashings in Manhattan that has left the LGBTQ community reeling with anger and fear but also a readiness to
- [The fight over Chelsea Manning with the SF Pride Board](https://liberationschool.org/the-fight-over-chelsea-manning-with-the-sf-pride-board/) - Support for Manning reflects anti-war sentiment Chelsea Manning, a U.S. army soldier and anti-war activist who faces life in prison for exposing war crimes committed by the U.S. military, was elected by the Pride Electoral College to be one of the grand marshals for this year’s San Francisco Pride March. In an unprecedented move, the
- [The movement against racist police terror and the need for revolution](https://liberationschool.org/the-movement-against-racist-police-terror-and-the-need-for-revolution/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZBNfeZrxO0&feature=youtu.be Eugene Puryear of the Party for Socialism and Liberation spoke at a Black History Forum in San Francisco on Feb. 13.
- [More than words: Formulating slogans for the struggle](https://liberationschool.org/formulating-slogans/) - As crystallizations of complex situations and ideas, slogans distill political theory and strategy into concise formulas.
- [From allies to comrades](https://liberationschool.org/from-allies-to-comrades/) - Allyship is anchored in liberal politics. People committed to revolutionary politics need to be comrades.
- [Socialists in the struggle for public education](https://liberationschool.org/socialists-in-the-struggle-for-public-education/) - Reds in Ed held a webinar entitled Socialists in the Struggle for Public Education on Aug. 29, 2020. The webinar featured a special report from New York City just before schools were set to reopen in person without regard for public safety, reports from education workers around the country who are socialists and union activists
- [Marx's pedagogies then and now: Research and presentation](https://liberationschool.org/marx-pedagogies-research-and-presentation/) - This paper draws out two distinct pedagogies Marx articulated and practiced: research and presentation.
- [A weapon against radicalism: Debunking the myth of the conservative Black voter](https://liberationschool.org/myth-of-conservative-black-voter/) - The myth of the Black conservative voter is designed to obscure the fact there is a combative and at times insurrectionary tendency in society today.
- [he U.S. war machine and capitalist ‘democracy’](https://liberationschool.org/ch-12-the-u-s-war-machine-and-capitalist-democracy/) - The threat posed to a formal, functioning democracy by militarism, or what has been called the “military-industrial complex,” is recognized not just by socialists, but by liberals and even some militarists as well. In order to establish some credibility in anti-war circles, liberals frequently quote militarists about the danger of militarism. Most popular is the
- [Propaganda and class rule](https://liberationschool.org/ch-11-propaganda-and-class-rule/) - The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.” Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote those words in their 1846 book, “The German Ideology,” two years before the publication of “The
- [Defending democratic rights under bourgeois ‘democracy’](https://liberationschool.org/defending-democratic-rights-under-bourgeois-democracy/) - U.S. democracy has been poisoned from the start. Schools and media alike preach reverence to “Democracy,” which allegedly makes the United States so great, powerful and the envy of the world. “Democracy is why the United States is so hated by its enemies,” so the story goes. George W. Bush, for example, said that the
- [Unions and the struggle for democratic rights](https://liberationschool.org/unions-and-the-struggle-for-democratic-rights/) - Since when did unions become a special interest? Many people complain about the influence of “special interests” in politics. Reformers claim that lobbying on behalf of these special interests distorts the democratic voting process during elections and in Congress. Of course, the presence of lobbyists representing multi-billion-dollar corporations and business groups or right-wing groups funded
- [Voting rights and disenfranchisement in the United States](https://liberationschool.org/ch-8-voting-rights-and-disenfranchisement-in-the-united-states/) - More than 300 million people live in the United States. Of these, over 10 percent—nearly 30 million people—have no right to vote. The number who will be blocked from voting keeps going up. In April 2008, the Supreme Court upheld Indiana’s voter ID law, which bars registered voters from actually casting their ballot unless they
- [A legacy of U.S. racism: Disenfranchising Black voters](https://liberationschool.org/ch-7-a-legacy-of-u-s-racism-disenfranchising-black-voters/) - This article first appeared in the December 2004 issue of Socialism and Liberation, on the heels of the controversial last presidential election. It has been slightly edited for clarity. About one week prior to the 2004 Presidential election, a conflict in Ohio drew national attention. The State Republican Party was attempting to challenge the validity
- [How the French democratic revolution was won](https://liberationschool.org/ch-4-how-the-french-democratic-revolution-was-won/) - A tale of two classes More than any other revolution before the 1917 Russian Revolution, the French Revolution of 1789 inspired people across the globe to look beyond the societies in which they lived and see the possibility for social change. Even though it came after the U.S. struggle for independence from Britain, the French
- [Ancient Greece and Rome: Democracy for the few, slavery for the many](https://liberationschool.org/ch-3-ancient-greece-and-rome-democracy-for-the-few-slavery-for-the-many/) - Where did the word “democracy” originate? What did it mean to the people who first used the term? Democracy” comes from the fusion of two Greek words, “demos” (the people) and “kratein” (to rule). Athens, the leading city-state of ancient Greece, was home to the first known “democratic” form of government in a class-based society.
- [Ideology and economics in class society: Base and superstructure](https://liberationschool.org/ideology-and-economics-in-class-society-base-and-superstructure/) - One of the many profound contributions that Karl Marx and Frederick Engels made to the cause of socialist revolution was their analysis of the relationship between the economy and other aspects of society, like politics and culture. Beginning with Marx’s 1845 “Theses on Feuerbach” and running all the way through Engels’ 1894 letter to W.
- [Democracy and class society: Introduction](https://liberationschool.org/democracy-and-class-society-introduction/) - November 4, 2008, is Election Day in the United States. Tens of millions of people will cast their vote for the next president of the United States. The 2008 elections have several interesting features. It will most likely be remembered as the one where the leadership of the Democratic Party—a handful of mostly white men
- [The Supreme Court: Last line of defense for the ruling class](https://liberationschool.org/ch-6-the-supreme-court-last-line-of-defense-for-the-ruling-class/) - This article was originally published as Chapter 6 in Democracy and Class Society," a book produced by the PSL in 2008, and is being republished in response to the recent news that the Supreme Court has decided to overturn Roe v. Wade. "I give you, gentlemen, the Supreme Court of the United States—guardian of the
- [Milton Friedman: Ideologue of capitalist 'freedom'](https://liberationschool.org/06-12-01-milton-friedman-ideologue-capit-html/) - Working-class and oppressed people are not likely to mourn the death on Nov. 16 of Milton Friedman (1912-2006). He is acclaimed by the bourgeois media as a brilliant Nobel Prize-winning economist who explained how free markets and free trade, privatization of public services, and unrestrained pursuit of capitalist profit can raise living standards to the maximum extent possible.
- [Capitalist overproduction and the banking crisis](https://liberationschool.org/08-09-30-capitalist-overproduction-bankin-html/) - We have won a victory, but Wall Street profiteers and their political representatives have not given up! Demonstrate against their renewed attempt to ram the bailout legislation through Congress! Gather at the Capitol Building on Thursday, Oct.
- [Understanding the partial nationalization of the banks](https://liberationschool.org/09-03-13-economic-crisis-forces-partial-n-html/) - As the economic crisis deepened over the past year, it became clear that some of the biggest banks were, very likely, bankrupt. As a result of the bursting of the speculative bubbles in housing and in industrial commodities such as oil, copper and aluminum, the assets on the books of the banks plunged in value.
- [Black women, with only $5 to our name](https://liberationschool.org/black-women-with-only-5-to-our-name/) - Explaining the country's shocking disparities A shocking study released in March 2010 revealed that the average median wealth for women of color between the ages of 36-49 is only $5. By comparison, the average median wealth of white women in the same age group is $42,600—still only 61% of their male counterparts. These statistics confirm what
- [Is the culprit just 'crony capitalism'?](https://liberationschool.org/is-the-culprit-just-crony-capitalism-html/) - Reader Kathy recently sent the following comment to Liberation News on our article 'Obama signs "Monsanto Protection Act" into law'
- [Wall Street's fortunes based on millions of unpaid hours](https://liberationschool.org/needs-image-wall-streets-fortunes-based-on-millions-of-unpaid-hours/) - Time is money for the capitalist class The vast majority of the working class sees the money in their bank accounts, wallets and shoeboxes as hard earned. People endure unsatisfying jobs for years, filled with all sorts of daily inconveniences and abuses in order to keep receiving a paycheck. That paycheck is then used to
- [Silicon Valley monopolies conspired against high-tech workers](https://liberationschool.org/silicon-valley-monopolies-html/) - In 2005, Apple’s Steve Jobs arranged a secret and illegal pact with Google’s Eric Schmidt to hold down their workers' wages.
- [Capitalism and Unemployment -- Why Are So Many People Jobless](https://liberationschool.org/capitalism-and-unemployment-why-are-so-many-people-jobless/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF70lMG07tM&feature=youtu.be Featuring Richard Becker
- [Welcome to 'average prosperity'](https://liberationschool.org/welcome-average-prosperity/) - Since mid-2009 until May, the U.S. economy has been mired in a period of stagnation/depression, while an unusually weak recovery got under way.
- [High education, low pay](https://liberationschool.org/high-education-low-pay-what-gives/) - Economics behind abandonment of public education In elementary, middle and high school, students are told to study hard so they can get into college and be able to find a good job. While only a certain percentage move into higher education, the sacrifices involved in attaining a college degree have historically been worth it in terms
- [The real agenda of the Gates Foundation](https://liberationschool.org/real-agenda-gates-foundation/) - In 2009 the self-designated “Good Club” – a gathering of the world’s wealthiest people whose collective net worth then totaled some $125 billion – met behind closed doors in New York City to discuss a coordinated response to threats posed by the global financial crisis.
- [Federal Reserve seeks return to ‘normalcy’](https://liberationschool.org/federal-reserve-seeks-return-to-normalcy/) - A “return to normalcy,” a return to the way of life before World War I, was U.S. presidential candidate Warren G. Harding’s campaign promise in the election of 1920. Republican Harding won the election, and for nearly a decade it seemed that capitalist normality had indeed returned. The “Roaring Twenties” marked a period of relative
- ['Strong dollar' de-stabilizes world economy](https://liberationschool.org/strong-dollar-de-stabilizes-world-economy/) - Two major developments occurred in the global economy in early December that have drawn much commentary and analysis in the financial media.
- [Signs of a renewed general crisis of capitalism](https://liberationschool.org/signs-of-a-renewed-general-crisis-of-capitalism/) - Introduction by author The following article presents a viewpoint on crises and long-term trends of the capitalist economy that differs in important respects from the views of most Marxist economists today. This viewpoint has been developed over some 50 years of study, observation and political activism and is shared with the author of the blog
- [Further data on the role of the money commodity](https://liberationschool.org/further-reading-on-the-role-of-the-money-commodity/) - My earlier article, “Signs of a renewed general crisis of capitalism,” focused on the important role the money commodity gold continues to play in the world capitalist economy—and indirectly in shaping world politics. Understanding that role is therefore crucial to a full appreciation of capitalist economic crises and longer-term political and economic trends. The article
- [Production, overproduction and overproduction crises](https://liberationschool.org/production-overproduction-and-overproduction-crises/) - Author’s note: The following article was mostly written before Donald Trump became president-elect. His electoral victory if anything strengthens the thesis presented that imperialist governments, led by the U.S., will soon shift from a focus on monetary policy toward greater use of “fiscal stimulus” (government deficit spending) to extend the “recovery” from the overproduction crisis
- [The capitalist university: Built on admissions scandals](https://liberationschool.org/the-capitalist-university/) - On March 12, 2019, the public learned that several prominent U.S. universities had admitted at least 50 students based solely on bribes made by their parents. A seven-year investigation by the FBI nicknamed “Operation Varsity Blues” concluded that well-respected institutions such as Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and the University of Southern California all participated in fraudulent
- [A Marxist approach to technology](https://liberationschool.org/a-marxist-approach-to-technology/) - In the last few decades, technological developments--particularly concerning automation--have transformed the economy in such a profound way that many are comparing this era to the Industrial Revolution. Some capitalist economists downplay the resulting loss of jobs, while others predict that such job loss is only temporary and will work itself out through the marketplace over
- [The myth of democracy and the rule of the banks (part two)](https://liberationschool.org/rule-of-the-banks-pt-2/) - That the big banks have engaged in widespread and repeated criminal acts is beyond doubt. But in the country with the biggest prison system in the world—both in absolute and relative terms—none of the cells are occupied by Wall Street bankers. In fact, virtually none of the executives of any big Wall Street bank have even been charged with crimes since the crisis began.
- [The myth of democracy and the rule of the banks (part one)](https://liberationschool.org/rule-of-the-banks-pt-1/) - In October 2008, the U.S. government rescued the big banks at a cost of $700 billion in taxpayers’ money. It was the biggest bailout in history. The government provided trillions of dollars more in loan guarantees and other benefits to the major banks, insurance companies and other corporations.
- [Silvia Federici: The exploitation of women and the development of capitalism](https://liberationschool.org/silvia-federici-women-and-capitalism/) - Critically engaging Federici's claims, this article evaluates the extent to which she departs from, critiques, or builds on Marxism.
- [Engels on the housing question: Wishful thinking vs. real solutions](https://liberationschool.org/engels-capitalism-and-housing/) - During a moment in which millions of workers in the U.S. have been thrown out of work as a result of the intersection of the Covid-19 pandemic and an overdue capitalist economic crisis, Engels’ 1872 pamphlet, “The Housing Question,” bears particular import.
- [Surplus value is the class struggle: An introduction](https://liberationschool.org/03-what-is-surplus-value-html/) - Surplus value isn't an economic concept; it's the real motor of class struggle.
- [Homelessness, public space, and the limits to capital: An interview with Don Mitchell](https://liberationschool.org/homelessness-public-space-and-the-limits-to-capital-an-interview-with-don-mitchell/) - This interview was conducted via e-mail during February-March 2021, in response to Don Mitchell’s latest book--Mean streets: Homelessness, public space, and the limits to capital--and his overall work on space and capitalism, which can provide us with some arguments and conceptual tools for winning the advancing housing struggles such as the Cancel the Rents movement.
- [Fascist plots in the U.S.: Contemporary lessons from the 1934 "Business Plot"](https://liberationschool.org/fascist-plots-in-the-u-s-contemporary-lessons-from-the-1934-business-plot/) - Rockhill details the defeated fascist attempt to overthrow FDR and the New Deal in 1934.
- [Fascism and global class struggle: A 4-part PSL course](https://liberationschool.org/fascism-and-global-class-struggle-course/) - This 4-part video and audio course studies the history of fascism to help us, as organizers, fight it.
- [Relative surplus value: The class struggle intensifies](https://liberationschool.org/relative-surplus-value-the-class-struggle-intensifies/) - With the production of relative surplus value, capitalism as a mode of production comes to stand on its own.
- [Beyond the sprouts of capitalism: China's early capitalist development and contemporary socialist project](https://liberationschool.org/beyond-the-sprouts-of-capitalism-understanding-chinas-contemporary-socialist-project/) - China’s early modern political economy provides a deeper understanding of their current socialist project.
- [Understanding and fighting gentrification: A revolutionary orientation](https://liberationschool.org/gentrification-a-revolutionary-understanding/) - Marxists understand gentrification as a process that is fundamentally caused by capitalism, racism, and other forms of oppression. In this article, we explain the underlying forces that produce gentrification and discuss the practical implications of a revolutionary understanding of gentrification.
- [Clarifying the struggle for socialism: Webinar on Marx's "Capital"](https://liberationschool.org/webinar-marx-capital-struggle-forsocialism/) - This international webinar focuses on the historical and contemporary burdens of misreadings of Capital and, just as importantly, the inspiring revolutionary applications of the text.
- [Value, price, and inflation: Immediate and structural causes](https://liberationschool.org/value-price-and-inflation-immediate-and-structural-causes/) - Placing the immediate inflationary crisis in the broader dynamics of capitalism provides workers with the tools against inflationary pressures and to take the offensive and shift the balance of forces in our favor against the ultra-rich.
- [Clarifying China’s political rhetoric: Xi Jinping’s 20th Party Congress report](https://liberationschool.org/china-political-rhetoric-xi-report/) - As part of the effort to combat the U.S. war drive against China, this article explains the specialized language used by Xi and the Communist Party and provides the context necessary for understanding China's goals and self-evaluation.
- [Free audio book: Palestine, Israel, and the U.S. Empire](https://liberationschool.org/palestine-israel-and-the-u-s-empire-audio-book/) - If you think the Israel-Palestine conflict is too complex to understand, think again. Listen to this free audio book for a partisan yet objective analysis of the struggle!
- [Thomas Sankara to comrade Mongo Beti: "Fatherland or death, we will win!"](https://liberationschool.org/thomas-sankara-mongo-beti-we-will-win/) - Thomas Sankara and Cameroonian writer Mongo Beti address a range of topics pertinent to understanding ongoing anti-imperialist developments in West Africa—from Pan-Africanism and neocolonialism to women's liberation and urbanization.
- [Capitalist urbanization, climate change, and the need for sponge cities](https://liberationschool.org/capitalist-urbanization-sponge-cities/) - Tina Landis, author of "Climate Solutions Beyond Capitalism" discusses the need for sponge cities to mitigate the devastation wrought by capitalist urbanization.
- [A victory for one is a victory for all: Lessons from "Trans Liberation”](https://liberationschool.org/leslie-feinberg-trans-liberation/) - Leslie Feinberg's 1997 collection of speeches offers key lessons for today's revolutionary organizers.
- [On China's revolution and the quest for a socialist future](https://liberationschool.org/china-revolution-socialism-launch/) - Watch a robust conversation on China's ongoing struggle for socialism with Ken Hammond, author of "China's Revolution and the Quest for Socialism" (1804 Books, 2023).
- [The Marxist theory of the state: An introduction](https://liberationschool.org/marxist-state-theory-intro/) - Because our understanding of the state determines our objectives, strategies, program, and tactics, this article introduces the key elements of the state under capitalism and socialism.
- [“Se están levantando nuestros ejércitos:” Sylvia Rivera y Marsha P. Johnson](https://liberationschool.org/rivera-y-marsha-p-johnson/) - “STAR fue parte de la revolución del pueblo y era hora de que le mostráramos al mundo que somos seres humanos”, dijo Sylvia.
- [Thomas Sankara: The Burkinabè revolution is not a replica](https://liberationschool.org/sankara-revolution-not-a-replica/) - Four months before his assassination, Thomas Sarnkara discusses the ongoing Burkinabè revolution with a journalist from Ivoire Dimanche.
- [The “Powell Memo" and the Supreme Court: A counteroffensive against the many](https://liberationschool.org/powell-memo-supreme-court-counteroffensive/) - The story of how the right wing of the capitalist class came to drive a new set of reactionary Supreme Court rulings, government policies, and ideological battles against democracy and the basic democratic rights our class won by focusing on Lewis F. Powell Jr., a tobacco company executive turned Supreme Court Justice.
- [Women’s triple load: The crushing weight of care work under capitalism](https://liberationschool.org/womens-triple-load/) - Care work—which is all work, paid or unpaid, providing the basic services to maintain and reproduce life—is disproportionately the responsibility of women.
- [What to the slave is your 4th of July?](https://liberationschool.org/what-to-the-slave-is-your-4th-of-july/) - The following is the full text of an untitled speech Frederick Douglass delivered to the Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society in Rochester, New York, on July 5, 1852. Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens: He who could address this audience without a quailing sensation, has stronger nerves than I have. I do not remember ever to have
- [Massacres were indispensable to creation of the Israeli state](https://liberationschool.org/massacres-were-indispensable-to-creation-of-the-israeli-state/) - The state of Israel and the Zionist project was based on the attempted genocide of the indigenous Palestinian population, as even its founders openly admitted.
- [The long history of Black and Palestinian solidarity](https://liberationschool.org/the-long-history-of-black-and-palestinian-solidarity/) - As the viciousness of Israeli aggression intensifies, the ongoing practice of Black-Palestinian solidarity is as important as ever. The unity of the Black and Palestinian freedom fighters demonstrates the internationalism on which both liberation struggles thrive.
- ["The people must prepare to win:" Miguel Enríquez at the Caupolicán Theater](https://liberationschool.org/the-people-must-prepare-to-win-miguel-enriquez/) - In this speech, delivered two months before the CIA-backed coup overthrew the Allende government in Chile, the General Secretary of the Chilean Revolutionary Left Movement intervenes in debates around revolutionary strategy and tactics at the time.
- [Framing the Palestinian struggle: The origins of political Zionism](https://liberationschool.org/framing-the-palestinian-struggle-the-origins-of-political-zionism/) - As the Free Palestine movement surges to new heights, all peace-minded people should arm ourselves with the origins of the contemporary struggle for liberation.
- [The life and legacy of Harry Haywood](https://liberationschool.org/life-of-harry-haywood/) - For every Black leader who has been canonized, there is another who is faded into the background: Haywood is one of the latter.
- [Harry Haywood's contributions to the national question and the fight for class unity](https://liberationschool.org/harry-haywoods-contributions-to-the-national-question-and-the-fight-for-class-unity/) - Haywood's theoretical innovations probably did more than any other one individual to frame the terms of the debate about the historical character of the “Black community.”
- [Leila Khaled: Palestinian fighter, Marxist revolutionary](https://liberationschool.org/leila-khaled-palestinian-fighter-marxist-revolutionary/) - This article is part of PSL's revolutionary women series.
- [Determination and vigilance: Sankara speaks after the revolution](https://liberationschool.org/determination-and-vigilance-sankara-interview/) - The 10th installment in our Sankara translation series is the first interview Sankara gave after the Aug. 4, 1984 revolution.
- [La lucha de clases en cada mercancía: Valor de uso y valor de cambio](https://liberationschool.org/valor-de-uso-y-valor-de-cambio/) - Mientras que el valor de uso y el valor de cambio de una mercancía son diferentes, y al mismo tiempo inseparables, también representan los dos lados del antagonismo interno e irreconciliable entre el trabajo y el capital.
- [The "other September 11:" U.S. solidarity against the Chilean Coup](https://liberationschool.org/the-other-september-11-u-s-solidarity-against-the-chilean-coup/) - Discussing the Chilean path toward socialism, this interview explores how U.S. revolutionary and social movements in the U.S. helped maintain the Chilean left after the U.S.-backed coup against Allende's democratically-elected government.
- [Israel: Base of western imperialism](https://liberationschool.org/israel-base-of-western-imperialism/) - This pamphlet provides a detailed breakdown of the material and ideological basis for the Israeli settler-colonial project.
- [Leila Khaled: luchadora palestina, revolucionaria marxista](https://liberationschool.org/leila-khaled-luchadora-palestina-revolucionaria-marxista/) - El perfil internacional de Khaled planteó no solo cuestiones de liberación nacional, sino también el papel clave que desempeñaban las mujeres en el movimiento palestino.
- [The CIA overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah and the struggle against neo-colonialism in West Africa today](https://liberationschool.org/legacy-of-the-cia-overthrow-of-kwame-nkrumah/) - Examining the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president and prime minister, can help us understand how U.S. imperialism may potentially respond to current developments in West Africa.
- [Palestine, Israel and the U.S. empire (study guide)](https://liberationschool.org/palestine-israel-and-the-u-s-empire-study-guide/) - This study guide and the publication of a new, updated edition of Becker's book coincides with the October 7, 2023, Palestinian uprising, and the emergence of a global solidarity movement.
- [What is the capitalist class? An introduction](https://liberationschool.org/01-what-is-capitalist-class-html/) - This article introduces the Marxist understanding of the capitalist class, its relationship to the state, and what prevents workers from overthrowing the capitalists.
- [Chongryon: The struggle of Koreans in Japan](https://liberationschool.org/chongryon/) - “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 general public thought was going to be a battery factory in what is now known as West Tokyo, but what
- [Why revolutionaries commemorate Juneteenth](https://liberationschool.org/why-revolutionaries-commemorate-juneteenth/) - My people, shoulder to shoulder with the solidarity of others, liberated ourselves and today we need to liberate ourselves again. No one can do it for us.
- [Assata Shakur: The making of a revolutionary woman](https://liberationschool.org/assata-shakur-the-making-of-a-revolutionary-woman/) - From Assata’s story, we are able to learn what it means to be motivated by a deep love for the people and the struggle for freedom.
- [El socialismo es una parte integral de la historia laboral de EE. UU.](https://liberationschool.org/el-socialismo-es-una-parte-integral-de-la-historia-laboral-de-ee-uu/) - Para revivir el movimiento obrero y un movimiento por los derechos de los trabajadores, es esencial volver a conectarnos con nuestra historia radical.
- [The criminal legacy of Boris Yeltsin](https://liberationschool.org/07-06-01-the-criminal-legacy-boris-yeltsi-html/) - Boris Yeltsin died on April 23 at the age of 76. He was best known for presiding over the 1991 capitalist counterrevolution in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. For that reason, few Russian workers mourned his death.
- [The role of leadership in revolutionary struggle - Lenin's April Theses](https://liberationschool.org/09-04-03-the-role-leadership-in-revolutio-html/) - The article below was first published in Socialism and Liberation in April 2005. The 1917 Russian Revolution was the first time in history that the working class seized and held power, organizing a workers state in the interest of the vast majority of toilers rather than a rich minority elite.
- [From South Africa to Palestine, apartheid will fall](https://liberationschool.org/from-south-africa-to-palestine-apartheid-will-fall/) - What lessons can we learn from the overthrow of apartheid in South Africa in this new era of the struggle against Israeli apartheid within the U.S.?
- [Theory and revolution: Addressing the break of ideological continuity](https://liberationschool.org/theory-and-revolution-addressing-the-break-of-ideological-continuity/) - Editor's note: This document was initially circulated within our Party in advance of our 3rd Party Congress in April 2016 — and publicly released in September 2016. It addresses the historical and contemporary relationship between revolutionary theory and revolutionary practice, the combination of which is referred to in the communist tradition as “praxis.” The primary thesis
- [The Leninist party in history and present](https://liberationschool.org/the-leninist-party-in-history-and-the-present/) - Editor's note: This essay examines the theory and practice of the Leninist party from the time of Lenin until today. We turn to Lenin's key writings and to the history of Bolshevism and the international communist movement to delineate the distinctiveness of the Leninist party. Throughout we pay careful attention to the differences between Lenin's time
- [ALBA Movimientos: 125 years of the Puerto Rican independence struggle](https://liberationschool.org/there-is-no-america-without-the-caribbean/) - An English translation of a newly-released ALBA Movimientos commemorating the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle for Puerto Rican Independence.
- [Liu Liangmo: China's anti-imperialist, anti-racist, Christian revolutionary (pt. 1)](https://liberationschool.org/liu-liangmo-pt-1/) - A prominent Chinese anti-imperialist, religious leader, and revolutionary organizer for "New China," Liu Liangmo significantly contributed to the Chinese people's efforts to build alliances with the Black Liberation movement as part of a broader effort to shape the post-war world.
- [Culture as a weapon of class warfare: An interview with Claudia De La Cruz](https://liberationschool.org/culture-as-a-weapon-of-class-warfare/) - Claudia De La Cruz and Gabriel Rockhill discuss the role of culture in the revolutionary movement.
- [Liu Liangmo: China’s anti-imperialist, anti-racist, Christian revolutionary (pt. 2)](https://liberationschool.org/liu-liangmo-pt-2/) - A prominent Chinese anti-imperialist, religious leader, and revolutionary organizer for “New China,” Liu Liangmo significantly contributed to the Chinese people’s efforts to build alliances with the Black Liberation movement as part of a broader effort to shape the post-war world.
- [Music, not muddle: Re-examining Soviet sounds and the socialist project](https://liberationschool.org/re-examining-soviet-music-and-socialism/) - This article re-examines Soviet music, demonstrating its revolutionary history and legacy, and how both can inform our struggles today.
- [70 years too long: The struggle to end the Korean War](https://liberationschool.org/korean-war-70-years/) - Hear from the People’s Democracy Party on the Korean war and the struggle for peace in this exclusive interview.
- [Still fighting for Korea's liberation: An interview with Ahn Hak-sop](https://liberationschool.org/interview-with-ahn-hak-sop/) - This Liberation School interview features Ahn Hak-sop, an officer in the Korean People’s Army of the DPRK during the Korean War. He served decades as an unconverted political prisoner in South Korea before finally winning release in 1995 and chooses to remain in the south.
- [50 years after the coup against Allende: Lessons from the Chilean revolutionary movement](https://liberationschool.org/50-years-after-the-coup-against-allende-lessons-from-the-chilean-revolutionary-movement/) - What lessons can today's revolutionaries learn from Allende's historic rise to power and counterrevolutionary coup against his government?
- [Liberation School Interview: Dr. Jared Ball on the myth of Black buying power](https://liberationschool.org/dr-jared-ball-on-the-myth-of-black-buying-power/) - Dr. Jared Ball discusses the history of "Black buying power," its impact on the Black freedom struggle, and strategies for combating the myth and redefining power.
- [NYC ruling class targets Black, Latino City University students](https://liberationschool.org/nyc-ruling-class-targets-black-latino-city-university-students/) - The number of African American students at the City University of New York’s main campuses has dropped sharply, according to statistics reported in the Aug. 10 New York Times. Student and faculty activists charge that this is the result of recent efforts to roll back the university’s open admissions policy won in the late 1960s.
- [The battle to save City College of San Francisco](https://liberationschool.org/the-battle-to-save-city-college-of-san-francisco/) - Community, students confront corporate-backed Accrediting Commission In July 2013, the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC), issued a declaration that it would withdraw accreditation from City College of San Francisco (CCSF), a two-year community college with 85,000 students and nine campuses. The declaration is set to go into effect on July 1, 2014.
- [Raul Castro's keynote address to the Union of Young Communists](https://liberationschool.org/10-04-07-rauacutel-castros-keynote-add-html/) - The following speech by Cuban President Raúl Castro was given at the closing session of the 9th congress of the Union of Young Communists, Havana, April 4. The following text is taken from Granma International .
- [Why Are So Many Students Struggling Under Capitalism](https://liberationschool.org/why-are-so-many-students-struggling-under-capitalism/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5QQVOBzTjo&feature=youtu.be featuring PSL member Walter Smolarek
- [Free to agree: Exposing the fallacy of political freedom in America](https://liberationschool.org/free-to-agree-exposing-the-fallacy-of-political-freedom-in-america/) - 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 declaration that white supremacy, misogyny and xenophobia must not be tolerated anywhere in our society. The racist “alt-right”
- [La base-superestructura: Un modelo para el análisis y la acción](https://liberationschool.org/la-base-superestructura-un-modelo-para-el-analisis-y-la-accion/) - Aunque el propio Marx solo mencionó la "base" y la "superestructura" en (según mis cálculos) dos de sus obras, el "problema" de la base-superestructura sigue siendo una fuente de seria controversia para los marxistas, nuestros simpatizantes y nuestros críticos.
- [La teoría marxista del Estado: Una introducción](https://liberationschool.org/la-teoria-marxista-del-estado/) - Debido a que nuestra comprensión del estado determina nuestros objetivos, estrategias, programas y tácticas, este artículo presenta los elementos clave del Estado bajo el capitalismo y el socialismo.
- [From rebellion to revolution](https://liberationschool.org/from-rebellion-to-revolution/) - This article contextualizes and discusses pressing issues facing the current Black Liberation movement, particularly the role of the police and prisons and the demands for reforming, defunding, and abolishing the police.
- [Estudia, ayuna, entrena, lucha: Las raíces del Agosto Negro](https://liberationschool.org/estudia-ayuna-entrena-lucha/) - Cada año se honra el "Agosto Negro" para conmemorar a los combatientes caídos del Movimiento por la Liberación Negra, para pedir la liberación de los presos políticos en Estados Unidos, para condenar las condiciones opresivas de las cárceles estadounidenses y para enfatizar la importancia continua de la lucha por la Liberación Negra.
- ["George Jackson: Revolucionario Negro," por Walter Rodney](https://liberationschool.org/george-jackson-revolucionario-negro/) - Walter Rodney narra "George Jackson: Revolucionario negro" y argumenta que Jackson fue asesinado porque estaba difundiendo la idea de la negritud como bandera para la lucha revolucionaria.
- [The real story of the U.S. occupation of Syria: The historical, political, and geostrategic context](https://liberationschool.org/the-real-story-of-the-u-s-occupation-of-syria-the-historical-political-and-geostrategic-context/) - In this episode episode of The Socialist Program, a podcast providing news and views about the world for those who want to change it, PSL co-founder and Central Committee member Brian Becker gets beneath the tweets and headlines to suss out the real reason the U.S. continues to occupy vast swaths of Syrian territory. Becker
- [Report reveals role of CIA in Libya](https://liberationschool.org/report-reveals-role-of-cia-in-libya/) - A CIA timetable and a report by the Wall Street Journal, both released on Nov. 1, have revealed the extent to which the CIA was involved in responding to the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and the agency’s massive presence in the country. The attack ended in the killing of ambassador
- [Building a new anti-war movement: Background and talking points on Iran](https://liberationschool.org/iran-war-talking-points/) - In order to confront the intense aggression of the U.S. government toward Iran and Iraq, we must build a powerful and large anti-war movement with the broadest possible base of support.
- [What is national oppression?](https://liberationschool.org/10-what-is-national-oppression-html/) - Oppression and exploitation are basic features of capitalist society. Workers are paid wages while the capitalist owners make profits from the products created by those who work. This is the essence of economic exploitation.
- ["Karl Marx:" A biography by Engels](https://liberationschool.org/engels-on-marx/) - Friedrich Engels published the following biography of Karl Marx, who was born on this day 205 years ago, in the weekly German Social-Democratic newspaper, "Die Die Zukunft ("The Future").
- [What is the real legacy of the Soviet Union? An overview](https://liberationschool.org/what-is-the-real-legacy-of-the-soviet-union-an-overview/) - What is most remarkable is not that the USSR fell in 1991 but that it survived through the unimaginable challenges it faced.
- [Antes de Stonewall: El movimiento LGBTQ que provocó el levantamiento de la cafetería de Compton’s](https://liberationschool.org/antes-de-stonewall-el-movimiento-lgbtq-que-provoco-el-levantamiento-de-la-cafeteria-de-comptons/) - En 1966, un grupo de radicales valientes marcaron el comienzo de una nueva ola de organización queer militante con conciencia de clase.
- [Claudia Jones: "International Women's Day and the struggle for peace"](https://liberationschool.org/claudia-jones-1950-iwd-speech/) - In Jones' historic 1950 speech, she links the contemporary moment of the class struggle with the long history of the fight for Black liberation, women's emancipation, peace, and socialism.
- [Corporate personhood, monopoly capital, and the precedent that wasn't: The 1886 "Santa Clara" case](https://liberationschool.org/corporate-personhood-monopoly-capital-and-the-precedent-that-wasnt-the-1866-santa-clara-case/) - Although the 1866 Supreme Court ruling is cited as the first to declare corporations "people," the ruling did no such thing.
- [Thomas Sankara: Transcription of Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda's documentary](https://liberationschool.org/thomas-sankara-a-film-by-balufu-bakupa-kanyinda/) - This transcription of a documentary about Thomas Sankara, leader of the Burkinabè Revolution, provides key details of his life and legacy.
- [Thomas Sankara: Leadership and action that inspires 71 years later](https://liberationschool.org/thomas-sankara-71-years-later/) - On the 71st anniversary of his birth, we honor Sankara's legacy and find inspiration in his actions and leadership.
- [The IMF debt trap in Ukraine](https://liberationschool.org/imf-debt-trap-in-ukraine/) - The role of multilateral institutions like the IMF is an important but under-discussed factor driving the U.S. capitalist class’s support for the war in Ukraine.
- ["Shelby County v. Holder:" How the Supreme Court attacked Black voting rights](https://liberationschool.org/shelby-county-v-holder-how-the-supreme-court-attacked-black-voting-rights/) - A 2013 Supreme Court ruling gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by declaring a key section of the Act unconstitutional, exempting former Jim Crow states from requiring federal approval before implementing changes in voting procedures.
- [Haunted by the ghost of "Marbury v. Madison:" Judicial review and abolishing the Supreme Court](https://liberationschool.org/supreme-court-crimes-marbury-v-madison/) - The first entry in our "Crimes of the Supreme Court" series details how the Court controversially–and without legal grounding–granted itself the power to unilaterally decide the “constitutionality” of laws and statutes.
- [Chairman Fred Hampton: an Exemplary Life](https://liberationschool.org/chairman-fred-hampton-an-exemplary-life/) - This article is based on a talk the author gave in New York City on December 18th, 2015. 46 years after his assassination, it remains important to study the example and life of Fred Hampton, Chairman of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP). Fred was a legend, a pillar of our beautiful
- [Women's struggle for suffrage and liberation: The road to legal equality](https://liberationschool.org/womens-movement-1910-1940/) - The upending of tradition and new modes of social organization created new forms of exploitation and oppression, as well as openings for struggle and independence.
- [La plusvalía es la lucha de clases: Una introducción](https://liberationschool.org/la-plusvalia-es-la-lucha-de-clases/) - Marx fue el primero en descubrir y articular la fuente específica de la desigualdad bajo el capitalismo: la plusvalía.
- [Walter Rodney: A people's professor](https://liberationschool.org/walter-rodney-a-peoples-professor/) - This essay, which complements our new study guide on The Russian Revolution, offers a brief overview of Rodney’s background historical context. Highlighting aspects of Rodney’s individual life demonstrates that his commitments were not just the result of his own individual experiences and conclusions, but were part of and emerged from the revolutionary crisis ripping through the world at the time.
- [Las causas principales de los ataques a los derechos reproductivos: Un análisis Marxista](https://liberationschool.org/las-causas-principales-de-los-ataques-a-los-derechos-reproductivos/) - Nota del editor: Esta es una traducción de un artículo originalmente publicado en la revista Breaking the Chains. Introducción Hace trece años, durante una reunión, un orador hizo hincapié en la importancia de votar por candidatos demócratas porque estaban a favor del derecho al aborto. Se refería a los ataques de la derecha contra los derechos de
- [La historia de la encarcelación estadounidense](https://liberationschool.org/encarcelacion-estadounidense/) - La labor de prisioneros tiene larga historia en el desarrollo de los Estados Unidos. De hecho, personajes de la clase dirigente británica recibieron el empeño colonial temprano con los brazos abiertos como una estrategia de desechar la sobrepoblación. Mientras la expansión de las relaciones capitalistas causó interrupciones sociales enormes, en ambos ciudades y campos británicos,
- [La enfermedad infantil del “izquierdismo” en el comunismo y el movimiento hoy](https://liberationschool.org/la-enfermedad-infantil-del-izquierdismo-en-el-comunismo-y-el-movimiento-hoy/) - Nota del equipo editorial: Esta es una traducción del artículo “'Left-Wing' Communism and the Movement Today“, puede encontrar la versión original aquí. Es imprescindible para los marxistas—y para cualquier persona de la izquierda—comprender firmemente las lecciones de “La enfermedad infantil del “izquierdismo” en el comunismo” de Lenin y su relación con nuestra tarea de desarrollar
- [La triple carga de las mujeres: El peso aplastante del trabajo de cuidado bajo el capitalismo](https://liberationschool.org/la-triple-carga-de-las-mujeres/) - El trabajo doméstico —como limpiar, cocinar y el cuidado de niños y ancianos— y el cuidado de la salud —como la enfermería en hospitales, a domicilio y otras ocupaciones de apoyo en la industria de la salud, se consideran trabajo no calificado.
- [La trampa de la deuda del FMI en Ucrania](https://liberationschool.org/la-trampa-de-la-deuda-del-fmi-en-ucrania/) - El rol de las instituciones como el FMI es un factor importante pero poco discutido que motiva el apoyo de la clase capitalista a la guerra en Ucrania.
- [¿Qué es la ideología? Una introducción a la teoría marxista de la ideología](https://liberationschool.org/que-es-la-ideologia/) - La ideología marxista es una de las armas más potentes que tienen las clases trabajadoras y oprimidas, un arma que nuestra clase puede y ha usado no solo para ganar reformas sino para construir sociedades revolucionarias donde el pueblo, y no las ganancias, tienen el control.
- [El lado no contado de la Segunda Ola del feminismo: Un movimiento multinacional y políticamente diverso](https://liberationschool.org/del-feminismo-un-movimiento-multinacional-1960-1990/) - La Segunda Ola del feminismo fue un verdadero movimiento de masas que incluyó a mujeres de todos los orígenes y comunidades oprimidas, así como de orígenes políticos, desde liberales hasta comunistas.
- [The untold side of second wave feminism: A multinational, politically diverse movement](https://liberationschool.org/feminism-and-the-mass-movements-1960-1990/) - The Second Wave of feminism was a truly mass movement that included women of all backgrounds and oppressed communities, as well as political backgrounds, from liberal to communist.
- [Gabriela Silang: Anti-colonial fighter in the Philippines](https://liberationschool.org/07-04-27-gabriela-silang-anticolonial-f-html/) - Filipino women have a long struggle against oppression, foreign control and male domination.
- ["Left-wing" communism and the movement today](https://liberationschool.org/left-wing-communism-and-the-movement-today/) - Editor’s note: A Spanish translation of this article is available here. It's essential for Marxists--and anyone on the Left--to firmly grasp the lessons of Lenin's "Left-Wing" Communism and how those lessons relate to our the tasks of party building, mass work, and advancing the struggle for social and economic justice overall. In this article, I’ll discuss
- [Marxism, capitalism, and nature-society relations: An introduction](https://liberationschool.org/marxism-and-nature/) - This articles examines the metabolic rift and the production of nature thesis, showing their importance for the environmental justice struggle.
- [The base-superstructure: A model for analysis and action](https://liberationschool.org/base-superstructure-introduction/) - Clarifying the base-superstructure model, this article shows its relevance for understanding and intervening in the class struggle.
- [What is alienation? The development and legacy of Marx's early theory](https://liberationschool.org/13-what-is-alienation-html/) - Tracing the development of Marxist thought from "alienation" to "abstraction," this article contextualizes Marx's early work and the parameters of its later publication and reception.
- [¿Qué es la alienación? El desarrollo y el legado de una de las primeras teorías de Marx](https://liberationschool.org/que-es-la-alienacion/) - En este artículo, presentamos una introducción a los escritos de Marx sobre la alienación, el contexto histórico de su publicación, del pensamiento de Marx desde los manuscritos hasta su obra posterior que está basada en el materialismo dialéctico e histórico.
- [What is imperialism? An introduction](https://liberationschool.org/what-is-imperialism/) - This introductory article examines Marx's analysis of colonialism and the transition from colonialism to imperialism.
- [What is ideology? An introduction to the Marxist theory of ideology](https://liberationschool.org/what-is-ideology/) - By outlining Marx’s understanding of ideology, this article traces his historical-materialist approach to investigating the relationship between ideas, material reality, and modes of production through several of his works.
- [The communist manifesto (study guide)](https://liberationschool.org/the-communist-manifesto-study-guide/) - 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 uprisings in Europe in 1848, and continues to inspire revolutionary struggle across the globe today. We hope this guide, which
- [The Great Railroad Strike of 1877: A militant legacy of workers' struggle](https://liberationschool.org/the-great-railroad-strike-of-1877/) - The largest strike of workers until that time, the railroad strike quickly spread across the country, leading to militant street battles and the dissemination of socialist ideas throughout the labor movement.
- [Whose lessons? Which direction?](https://liberationschool.org/whose-lessons-which-direction/) - A response to left-anticommunists that assume there's no alternative to capitalism and declare that progress depends on abandoning our communist "baggage."
- [Islamophobia and imperialism: Nazia Kazi on race and global politics](https://liberationschool.org/nazia-kazi-on-race-and-global-politics/) - Jennifer Ponce de León interviews Nazia Kazi about her work on race and global politics, with a particular focus on how to understand the so-called 'War on Terror' and its impact on the Muslim Left.
- [¿Qué es el imperialismo? Una introducción](https://liberationschool.org/que-es-el-imperialismo-una-introduccion/) - Marx le prestaba mucha atención a la relación entre el colonialismo y el capitalismo
- [The history of the "Communist Manifesto"](https://liberationschool.org/the-history-of-the-communist-manifesto/) - Learn about the political and economic forces that made writing the Manifesto not only possible, but necessary Learn about the political and economic forces that made writing the Manifesto not only possible, but necessary
- [The Communist Manifesto: A working-class guide to changing the world](https://liberationschool.org/the-communist-manifesto-a-working-class-guide-to-changing-the-world/) - The Communist Manifesto is a working-class guide for changing the world.
- [¿Qué es la clase capitalista? Una introducción](https://liberationschool.org/que-es-la-clase-capitalista/) - ¿Por qué la sociedad está cada vez más polarizada entre los ultrarricos y el resto de nosotros, o como lo expresó Occupy Wall Street, el 1% y el 99%?
- [Ukraine: Right on NATO's doorstep?](https://liberationschool.org/ukraine-right-on-natos-doorstep/) - The Biden administration, Pentagon and NATO allies are conducting a dangerous and reckless campaign against Russia — one that has the potential to turn into a catastrophe for the people of the United States, Russia, Ukraine and the world. The aim is to strengthen the U.S. position as the dominant world superpower, a thoroughly bipartisan
- [¿Qué se requiere para ganar una revolución socialista?](https://liberationschool.org/que-se-requiere-para-ganar-una-revolucion-socialista/) - La revolución socialista está muy en discusión en los Estados Unidos y en todo el mundo.
- [Founding statement of the Party for Socialism and Liberation](https://liberationschool.org/founding-statement-of-the-party-for-socialism-and-liberation/) - (August 1, 2004) We are in a period where the world’s poor and working people are waging heroic struggles against imperialist war and exploitation. Millions of people poured into the streets in the last few years to prevent Bush and Cheney’s rush to war against Iraq, only to find that this imperialist war had the
- [What does it take to make a socialist revolution?](https://liberationschool.org/what-is-socialist-revolution/) - This article introduces the Marxist theory of revolution, articulating the key ingredients required for seizing a revolutionary opening.
- [Amílcar Cabral: Liberator, theorist, and educator](https://liberationschool.org/amilcar-cabral-liberator-theorist-educator/) - On the 50th anniversary of his assassination, we revisit and explore Amílcar Cabral's contributions to revolutionary struggle, theory, and education. On the 50th anniversary of his assassination, we revisit and explore Amílcar Cabral's contributions to revolutionary struggle, theory, and education.
- [The war against Libya in historical perspective](https://liberationschool.org/libya-war-historical-perspective/) - The bombing war against Libya today should be condemned without hesitation by all progressive people.
- [VIDEO: We need your help to build the movement for socialism](https://liberationschool.org/help-build-the-struggle-for-socialism/) - We started the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) with a small handful of members, determined to build a multi-national, multi-generational and large-scale socialist party in a country that seemed to have mostly rejected socialism. The task seemed daunting. We were few in numbers with virtually no resources during a time when socialism was treated
- [Revolutionary Friedrich Engels at 200](https://liberationschool.org/engels-legacy-continues-to-inspire-200-years-after-his-birth/) - On the bicentenary of his birth, Friedrich Engels remains a towering figure in the history of the struggle for socialism.
- [Liberation theology and anti-imperialism across the Americas](https://liberationschool.org/liberation-theology-and-anti-imperialism-across-the-americas/) - Claudia de la Cruz is a popular educator, community organizer and theologian. She is currently the Co-Executive Director of The People’s Forum. This presentation and discussion on "Liberation theology & anti-imperialism across the Americas" took place online on January 27, 2022. It was hosted and co-sponsored by the Critical Theory Workshop, the student groups "Global
- [Marx's writings on Asia: A sober assessment](https://liberationschool.org/marx-on-asia/) - Critically analyzing various comments by Marx on Asia and the "Asiatic Mode of Production," this article showcases the development of Marx's thought and its legacy on the struggle over Marxist theory.
- [Of, by, and for the elite: The class character of the U.S. Constitution](https://liberationschool.org/class-character-of-the-u-s-constitution/) - The U.S. Constitution reflects the founding fathers' fear and hatred of democracy—which they derisively referred to as "tyranny of the majority."
- [Video: "Socialist reconstruction in America"](https://liberationschool.org/socialist-reconstruction-webinar/) - A discussion of the book "Socialist Reconstruction in America," which demonstrates, rather than just declares, that there is an alternative to capitalism in the United States.
- [The housing question (study guide)](https://liberationschool.org/study-guide-the-housing-question/) - 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 series of articles on the housing question that appeared in the newspaper. One set
- [The Marxist Doctrine: An overview by Lenin](https://liberationschool.org/the-marxist-doctrine/) - A clear overview of Marxism, this is part of an encyclopedia entry on Marx that Lenin wrote in 1914.
- [The actuality of revolution](https://liberationschool.org/the-actuality-of-revolution/) - 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 are no longer confident that the revolutionary process leads in an emancipatory egalitarian direction. There are revolutions, but they are
- [Degrowth: An environmental ideology with good intentions, bad politics](https://liberationschool.org/degrowth-a-politics-for-which-class/) - While "degrowth" proponents might be well intentioned, their politics lack class analysis, reproduce anti-poor and racist tropes, and lack any materialist grounding.
- [Clarifying and inspiring revolution for 130 years: Marx's "Critique of the Gotha Programme"](https://liberationschool.org/marx-critique-gotha-programme/) - Published by Engels 130 years ago, Marx's "Critique of the Gotha Programme" is a short and incisive text that continues to clarify and inspire the working-class struggle for power.
- [The root causes of the attacks on reproductive rights: A Marxist analysis](https://liberationschool.org/marxist-analysis-attacks-reproductive-rights/) - Patriarchy operates as a powerful base of capitalism, but it can't be reduced solely to the pursuit of surplus value.
- [Studying society for the working class: Marx's first preface to "Capital"](https://liberationschool.org/marxs-first-preface-to-capital/) - Examining Marx's first preface to "Capital" from 25 July 1867 reveals Marx's purpose and method of studying society.
- [The U.S. state and the U.S. revolution](https://liberationschool.org/the-u-s-state-and-the-u-s-revolution/) - 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 communist perspective from a reformist perspective is not one of momentary tactics, which may range from the most tempered and
- [What is democracy?](https://liberationschool.org/14-what-is-democracy-html/) - The word “democracy” comes from the Greek words “demos”—the people—and “kratos”—rule, and therefore means “rule of the people.” As a political form, it is commonly understood as majority rule.
- [A handbook of tactics: Some historical context for studying "Left-wing" communism](https://liberationschool.org/a-handbook-of-tactics-some-historical-context-for-studying-left-wing-communism/) - It would be virtually impossible to over-state the impact of the Russian Revolution which began in February 1917. At the beginning of that year, the world was in a very dismal state. World War I, the first imperialist world war, had been raging in Europe for two and a half years since August 1914. Millions
- [The racist history of police militarization and mass incarceration](https://liberationschool.org/the-racist-history-of-police-militarization-and-mass-incarceration/) - In August 1971, a lawyer for big tobacco in Richmond, Va., sent a memorandum to an acquaintance at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce with the ominous title: “Attack on American Free Enterprise System.”
- [Afro-Asian solidarity: Building the multinational unity needed for liberation](https://liberationschool.org/afro-asian-multi-national-unity/) - Afro-Asian solidarity is needed urgently as the wars on Black America and China intensify.
- [Reading Kelley's "Hammer and hoe" as organizers today](https://liberationschool.org/hammer-and-hoe-today/) - "Hammer and Hoe" offers a list of lessons reflecting every stage of struggle, from initial community engagement to growth and success to defeat and decline.
- ["Ten crises: The political economy of China's development," by Wen Tiejun](https://liberationschool.org/ten-crises-wen-tiejun/) - Wen Tiejun’s new book examines China's economic development from 1949-2020 through a series of economic turning points.
- [PSL Course: A Marxist perspective on prison abolition](https://liberationschool.org/psl-course-prison-abolition/) - This two-part course provides a Marxist analysis of mass incarceration and prison abolition.
- [Pedagogy of the oppressed (study guide)](https://liberationschool.org/pedagogy-of-the-oppressed-study-guide/) - This study guide helps comrades read, apply, and extend Paulo Freire's book, which is a bedrock for progressive and revolutionary educators worldwide.
- [Toward a third Reconstruction: Lessons from the past for a socialist future](https://liberationschool.org/reconstruction-in-america/) - “The price...of slavery and civil war was the necessity of quickly assimilating into American democracy a mass of laborers...in whose hands alone for the moment lay the power of preserving the ideals of popular government...and establishing upon it an industry primarily for the profit of the workers. It was this price which in the end
- [Nazis in Ukraine: Seeing through the fog of the information war](https://liberationschool.org/nazis-in-ukraine-seeing-through-the-fog-of-the-information-war/) - There is indeed a deep and expansive history of fascism in Ukraine, which has been aided and abetted by the U.S. government.
- [Video: "Revolutionary education" book launch](https://liberationschool.org/book-launch-revolutionary-education/) - Watch the official launch of the second edition of "Revolutionary Education: Theory and Practice for Socialist Organizers"!
- [The history of class struggle from the Russian Revolution to the Cold War: An interview with Jacques Pauwels](https://liberationschool.org/jacques-pauwels-pt-2/) - Historian Jacques Pauwels provides a general overview of class struggle from the Russian Revolution to the Cold War.
- [The Russian Revolution: a view from the Third World (study guide)](https://liberationschool.org/a-view-from-the-third-world-study-guide/) - Walter Rodney offers an excellent example of basing one’s conclusions and assessments on of all available evidence, data, and contextual information.
- [Nations and Soviets: The National Question in the USSR](https://liberationschool.org/nations-and-soviets-the-national-question-in-the-ussr/) - In recent months, Soviet nationality policy has been thrust into the forefront of public conversation.
- [The history of class struggle from 1789-1917: An interview with Jacques Pauwels](https://liberationschool.org/jacques-pauwels-pt-1/) - Historian Jacques Pauwels provides a general overview of class struggle from the French Revolution of 1789 to the Russian Revolution.
- [The unipolar era of imperialism and its potential undoing](https://liberationschool.org/the-unipolar-era-of-imperialism/) - Analyzing developments in imperialism since the fall of the Soviet Union, this article develops the thesis of the age of U.S.-led unipolar imperialism and the contradictions in that order. Backing this thesis with an examination of the wars against Iraq, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, and Libya, we show how today the era of uncontested U.S. hegemony is
- [PSL response to ISO on China and Tiananmen](https://liberationschool.org/09-06-16-psl-response-to-iso-on-china-tia-html/) - In an article in the ISO’s newspaper, Socialist Worker, dated June 4, 2009, and titled "Twenty Years after Tiananmen Square," Dennis Kosuth treats the epic Chinese Revolution with extreme hostility and polemicizes against what he calls the PSL’s "twisted thinking"on China.
- [Revolution Manifesto Class 4: Revolution in the U.S.](https://liberationschool.org/revolution-manifesto-class-4/) - Introduction: The purpose of this class is to continue developing a Marxist-Leninist understanding of the state and to apply this knowledge to the U.S. context. Learning objectives and outcomes: At the end of class 4, comrades will: Have an understanding of the class character of the U.S. state and the U.S. revolution. Be able to
- [New PSL Publication: 'Revolutionary Education'](https://liberationschool.org/revolutionary-education/) - New book from the Liberation School team Revolutionary Education: Theory and Practice for Socialist Organizers Order a copy Promoting socialist consciousness is one of the central tasks of building a revolutionary movement in the U.S. This requires the organized and intentional efforts of an expansive base of militant organizers equipped to intervene in a
- [Is the United States one nation?](https://liberationschool.org/is-the-united-states-one-nation/) - MOST people outside Chicago had never heard of Barack Obama before July 2004. Since his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, this young, Black politician from Illinois has been widely touted in the bourgeois media as a "rising star" in the Democratic Party. He has quickly gained national prominence. What makes Obama so popular?
- [Black struggle is class struggle: A 4-part PSL course](https://liberationschool.org/black-struggle-is-class-struggle-psl-course/) - This PSL course focuses on Black Revolutionary History in the United States and its central role in the development of U.S. society today.
- [Eight myths about socialism -- and their answers](https://liberationschool.org/10-09-23-eight-myths-about-socialismand-html/) - The word socialism has become more and more common. Usually, it's used negatively and in almost all situations the politician or commentator uttering the word either has no idea what it means or is being intentionally misleading.
- [The state and revolution](https://liberationschool.org/study-guide-the-state-and-revolution/) - For revolutionaries worldwide, The State and Revolution became the “new manifesto of the 20th century.” In the 21st century, the topic remains a pivotal one for revolutionaries, providing crucial theoretical weapons in the movement against racism, white supremacy, and police terror today.
- [How to really avoid a climate disaster: A response to Bill Gates’ deceptive climate book](https://liberationschool.org/how-to-really-avoid-a-climate-disaster/) - Gates' book will be consulted by many who genuinely want to solve the climate crisis, and it's crucial we're able to respond to its inherent deception.
- [The right of nations to self-determination](https://liberationschool.org/the-right-of-nations-to-self-determination-study-guide/) - Lenin wrote "The right of nations to self-determination" to clarify the relationship between the struggles for socialism and national liberation, and his analysis in the book remains crucial for today's movements.
- [Hammer and hoe: Alabama communists during the Great Depression](https://liberationschool.org/hammer-and-hoe-study-guide/) - "Hammer and hoe" analyzes the emergence of the communist movement in Alabama during the 1930s, focusing on the struggles communists faced in organizing unions and anti-racist campaigns and how they were able to synthesize Marxist ideology with southern Black culture.
- [Have Black lives ever mattered?](https://liberationschool.org/study-guide-have-black-lives-ever-mattered/) - Mumia Abu-Jamal's book addresses the long history of racist police and state repression, offering organizers crucial lessons on stopping the war on Black America.
- [Imperialism in the 21st century (study guide)](https://liberationschool.org/study-guide-on-imperialism-in-the-21st-century/) - 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 to order your copy of the Imperialism in
- [Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism (study guide)](https://liberationschool.org/study-guide-imperialism-the-highest-stage-of-capitalism/) - 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, supported their own governments during World War I. Laying bare the expansionary dynamics of
- [What is to be done? (study guide)](https://liberationschool.org/study-guide-what-is-to-be-done/) - 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 of the Marxist movement in Russia at the time, and as
- [Climate solutions beyond capitalism (study guide)](https://liberationschool.org/study-guide-climate-solutions/) - Tina Landis' Climate Solutions Beyond Capitalism makes the case that socialism provides the framework for solving the crisis and demonstrates how capitalism acts as a barrier to a shift in our relationship to each other and the planet, crucial for humanity’s survival.
- [Comrades: Made, not born](https://liberationschool.org/comrades-made-not-born/) - Liberation Audio · Comrades: Made, Not Born All revolutionary politics are predicated on revolutionary optimism: the belief, rooted in experiences in the struggle, that workers and the oppressed can and will win. Yet revolutionary optimism doesn't just apply to the masses as a whole. Revolutionary organizers believe not just in the potential of the masses
- [Amilcar Cabral and the national liberation movement of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde](https://liberationschool.org/amilcar-cabral-and-the-national-liberation-movement-of-guinea-bissau-and-cape-verde/) - For 500 years, Portuguese colonialism was built upon the slave trade and the systematic pillaging of its African colonies: Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Sao Tome e Principe, Angola and Cape Verde. Marxist historian Walter Rodney summarized Portuguese’s colonial rule in Africa: “The Portuguese stand out because they boasted the most and did the least. After close
- [Vygotsky's revolutionary educational psychology](https://liberationschool.org/vygotskys-revolutionary-educational-psychology/) - 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 or educational psychology classes. His theories are still foundational to even mainstream education but, as is the case with so
- [Class: The legacy of Asian American struggle](https://liberationschool.org/class-the-legacy-of-asian-american-struggle/) - This one-hour class focuses on Asian American resistance to oppression, from Ir Won Keun to the struggle to defend the I-hotel.
- [Declaración de fundación del Partido Socialismo y Liberación](https://liberationschool.org/es/declaracion-de-fundacion-del-partido-socialismo-y-liberacion-la-lucha-del-pueblo-y-la-revolucion-socialista/) - 'La lucha del pueblo y la revolución socialista' ESTAMOS en un período donde los pobres y los trabajadores del mundo están participando en una lucha heróica en contra de la explotación y la guerra imperialista. En los últimos años, millones de personas se volcaron a las calles para prevenir que Bush y Cheney se lanzaran
- [A Black Harlem communist speaks: Abner Berry 1-5](https://liberationschool.org/abner-berry/) - Liberation School continues our Black Communist History series with a transcription of an interview with Black Harlem communist Abner Berry.
- [Comrade Class with Jodi Dean pt. 3: We need comrades](https://liberationschool.org/comrade-class-with-jodi-dean-3/) - The third class examines how comradeship facilitates real accountability and discipline to the struggle.
- [Comrade Class with Jodi Dean pt. 2: Four theses on the comrade](https://liberationschool.org/comrade-class-with-jodi-dean-2/) - Part 2 of our Comrade class examines four theses on the relations of comradeship.
- [Comrade Class with Jodi Dean pt. 1: From allies to comrades](https://liberationschool.org/comrade-class-with-jodi-dean/) - There are times when solidarity appears more important than ever. When things are tough, we need comrades who will have our backs. This three-part course examines political solidarity by focusing on comradeship as the relation between those on the same side of a political struggle. Taught by political theorist and organizer Jodi Dean, this course
- [The October Revolution: Workers Take Power](https://liberationschool.org/milestones-in-communist-history-the-october-revolution/) - The Russian Revolution is a vast subject. An exhaustive analysis of it is beyond the scope of this writing. But below, some of the key points will be highlighted. The Russian Revolution took place in the background of World War I, a war between imperialist powers over control of territories and colonies. The war caused
- [The Early Years of the Russian Revolution](https://liberationschool.org/early-years-of-the-russian-revolution/) - For the very same reasons that the Russian Revolution attracted the enthusiastic support of the world’s oppressed, it almost immediately drew the most bitter hostility of the world’s oppressors.
- [Climate Solutions Beyond Capitalism: A 4-part PSL course](https://liberationschool.org/climate-solutions-beyond-capitalism-a-4-part-psl-course/) - As the climate crisis intensifies globally with increasing wildfires, droughts, floods, and extreme weather events, poor and oppressed communities bear the brunt of the crisis. 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
- [The Black struggle, the communist movement, and the role of Black women: An interview with Dr. CBS](https://liberationschool.org/liberation-school-interview-dr-cbs/) - This first Interview, with Dr. CBS, focuses on the historical and contemporary links between the Black and Communist struggles and more.
- [From abolition to Title IX: Women's fight for education](https://liberationschool.org/from-abolition-to-title-ix-womens-fight-for-education/) - As women achieve more educational access, they can use the skills, lessons and tools that they learn to continue the struggle.
- [Mumia Abu-Jamal: Militant journalism from behind enemy lines](https://liberationschool.org/mumia-militant-journalism-from-death-row/) - Mumia Abu-Jamal has spent nearly 40 years unjustly imprisoned after he was framed and convicted of killing a white police officer in Philadelphia.
- [Civil rights and the U.S. revolution](https://liberationschool.org/civil-rights-and-the-u-s-revolution/) - The modern Civil Rights movement burst onto the scene with the year-long bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama that began Dec. 5, 1955. Nine years later, the Civil Rights Act was signed into law. The Voting Rights Act was enacted in 1965, one year later. Legal apartheid in the United States was formally ended. This remarkable
- [It's not that complicated: Malcolm X was a revolutionary](https://liberationschool.org/its-not-that-complicated-malcolm-x-was-a-revolutionary/) - Review of Manning Marable's autobiography of Malcolm X In commemoration of the 49th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, we repost this review by Eugene Puryear, originally published June 11, 2011. The review has also been published in the volume "A Lie of Reinvention: correcting Manning Marable's Malcolm X," edited by Jared Ball and
- [Introducing a New Site for Socialist Education: a 6-minute Video](https://liberationschool.org/introducing-a-new-site-for-socialist-education/)
- [Abolitionist solidarity — Black and white — in the struggle against slavery](https://liberationschool.org/abolitionist-solidarity-in-the-struggle-against-slavery/) - History books have always minimized the struggle of enslaved people, who from the beginning in 1619 in North America, fought slavery at every turn, rebelling, escaping, fighting for the right to fight.
- [Communism and Black resistance in the 1930s South](https://liberationschool.org/communism-and-black-resistance-in-the-1930s-south/) - Book review: "Hammer and Hoe" “Hammer and Hoe,” a 1990 book written by historian Robin D.G. Kelley, chronicles the development of a communist movement in Alabama during the Great Depression. It highlights the struggles communists faced in organizing a sharecroppers’ union and building mass campaigns to free people accused of crimes in political frame-ups like
- [What is capitalism?](https://liberationschool.org/02-what-is-capitalism-html/) - Today, there is an enormous economic gap between the rich and the poor. According to the International Labor Organization, "one billion people are unemployed or underemployed" worldwide.
- [A party of action: Building the people­’s movements  in the streets](https://liberationschool.org/party-action-building-peoples-movements-streets/) - Action is the key to progress, the only way to defeat right-wing policies and win rights, and ultimately to achieve the liberation of humanity through socialism.
- [How can we make a revolution? Lessons of Egypt and Occupy](https://liberationschool.org/can-make-revolution-lessons-egypt-occupy/) - Without mass struggle, there is no hope for real change. But activism and struggle alone are not enough to achieve socialism. What is also essential is a revolutionary communist party.
- [The CPC 100 years on: Understanding China's contemporary political economy](https://liberationschool.org/the-cpc-100-years-on-understanding-chinas-contemporary-political-economy/) - 100 years after the CPC's founding, Hammond examines the history and politics of China's path toward socialism
- [ANSWER's position on unity in the anti-war movement](https://liberationschool.org/06-01-01-answers-position-on-unity-in-an-html/) - On Dec. 12, 2005, the leadership of the United for Peace and Justice coalition announced that it would no longer carry out united actions with the ANSWER Coalition—Act Now to Stop War and End Racism.
- [From counterrevolution to revival: Communism and the primacy of the international situation](https://liberationschool.org/from-counterrevolution-to-revival-communism-and-the-primacy-of-the-international-situation/) - Liberation Audio · From counterrevolution to revival: Communism and the primacy of the international situation Editor's note: Central to our ideology is the idea that in order to understand and prepare for the class struggle in the U.S. we must first take the global situation into account, understanding that the interconnectedness of global and national
- [Remembering the Years of Lead under Brazil’s military rule: AI-5 never again!](https://liberationschool.org/remembering-the-years-of-lead-under-brazils-military-rule-ai-5-never-again/) - Editor's note: Imposed in 1968, Institutional Act No. 5 lifted all restraint on the military dictatorship that came to power in Brazil in the 1964 coup, opening the doors to unbridled repression, the most grotesque forms of torture, and political killings in the hands of state forces. The statement below was published on the website
- [Building democratic centralism: stages of Party growth and internal development](https://liberationschool.org/building-democratic-centralism-stages-party-growth-internal-development/) - For revolutionaries, the organizational question is critically important.
- [Lenin and the right of nations to self-determination](https://liberationschool.org/lenin-and-the-right-of-nations-to-self-determination/) - The formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1922 brought together more than 120 distinct peoples, each with their own language and culture, who had been oppressed under the former Russian Czarist empire. This great achievement grew out of the Russian Revolution of 1917. It would not have been possible without a profound
- [Not just rich people and cafes: Toward a socialist understanding of gentrification](https://liberationschool.org/toward-a-socialist-understanding-of-gentrification-not-just-rich-people-and-cafes/) - Gentrification is the systematic process of displacing poor people from a community and replacing them with more affluent people, all in the interest of profit. It has become a primary local policy of the representatives of the ruling class and is clearly carried out by the state. While it is clearly a policy, it is
- [The legacy of Vietnamese women in the national resistance struggle](https://liberationschool.org/the-legacy-of-vietnamese-women/) - The legacy of revolutionary Vietnamese Women's struggle dates back thousands of years.
- [Reviving the communist movement: Building organization in 2016](https://liberationschool.org/reviving-the-communist-movement-building-organization-in-2016/) - Editor's note: The following is part of an internal document circulated by the Central Committee of the PSL in advance of our 3rd Party Congress in 2016. Here, we focus on ways that communist organizations have historically grown in strength, size, and influence—direct recruitment and organizational mergers. While there are important new openings, there are
- [Vive La Commune! The Paris Commune 150 years later](https://liberationschool.org/vive-la-commune-the-paris-commune-150-years-later/) - The Paris Commune took place 150 years ago this year in France. It was one of the most earth-shaking events in history up to that point, and it’s one that continues to have an impact even today. Marx said about it a few years afterwards that it was the most slandered event in human history,
- [Comrade: A 3-part PSL course](https://liberationschool.org/comrade-a-3-part-psl-course/) - Taught by political theorist and organizer Jodi Dean, this course discusses what it means to be a comrade, the difference between comrades and allies, the importance of comrades for political struggle, and how to maintain comradeship.
- [Revolution Manifesto Class 6: Conclusions and the Cuban Revolution](https://liberationschool.org/revolution-manifesto-class-6-conclusions-and-the-cuban-revolution/) - Introduction: The purpose of this final class is to investigate another concrete example of a workers’ state and how this has developed over time. We will summarize our study of The State and Revolution by using it to discuss revolutionary organizing in the U.S. Learning objectives and outcomes: At the end of class 6, comrades
- [Revolution Manifesto Class 5: From the Paris Commune to the Soviet Union](https://liberationschool.org/revolution-manifesto-class-5-from-the-paris-commune-to-the-soviet-union/) - Introduction: The purpose of this class is to develop a more sophisticated understanding of the withering away of the state as it relates to economics and the mode of production. The class will also focus on the historical experience of the Soviet Union to investigate why the workers’ state was not able to wither away.
- [Revolution Manifesto Class 3: Revolution and the Transformation of Everyday Life](https://liberationschool.org/revolution-manifesto-class-3/) - Introduction: The purpose of this class is to continue our historical-materialist investigation into the nature and significance of the state. In this class we turn to two examples, one general and one specific: pre-class societies and the Paris Commune of 1871. Both of these examples will help us understand how profoundly revolutions transform everyday lives.
- [Revolution Manifesto Class 2: Historical Materialism and Our World](https://liberationschool.org/revolution-manifesto-class-2/) - Introduction: The purpose of this class is to develop a more sophisticated appreciation of the concept of the withering away of the state and to engage the historical evidence that proves the necessity of focusing on questions of state power. Learning objectives and outcomes: At the end of class 2, comrades will: Understand the impact
- [Revolution Manifesto Class 1: Class Society and the State](https://liberationschool.org/revolution-manifesto-class-1/) - Introduction: The purpose of this class is to begin developing a Marxist-Leninist understanding of the state. This introductory framework will serve as the foundation for comprehending, more completely and more specifically, Lenin’s theory of the state. By understanding the state and the problems it poses to workers and the oppressed in our struggle for liberation,
- [Alexandra Kollontai (pt. 1): The struggle for proletarian feminism and for women in the party](https://liberationschool.org/kollontai-socialism-and-feminism-part-one/) - In part one of this study on Kollontai, we look at 1) her struggle for proletarian feminism against bourgeois feminism and 2) her struggle to center gender concerns in the Party program
- [Alexandra Kollontai (pt. 2): A historical-materialist approach to the family and love](https://liberationschool.org/kollontai-socialism-and-feminism-part-two/) - In part two of this study of Kollontai, Jodi Dean examines her writing on the family and love.
- [The U.S. "justice system:" Sanctuaries of sexual abuse](https://liberationschool.org/sanctuaries-of-sexual-abuse/) - Women have long testified to a culture of rampant abuse in jails and prisons, under police custody, that suggests the U.S. justice system as a whole functions as a sanctuary for abuse.
- [In-depth with Jared Ball and Brian Becker: imperialism in Lenin's time and ours](https://liberationschool.org/in-depth-with-jared-ball-and-brian-becker-imperialism-in-lenins-time-and-ours/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-SYAb3Y0ng Dr. Jared Ball of The Real News network interviews author and organizer Brian Becker about the PSL's recent book Imperialism in the 21st Century: Updating Lenin's Theory a Century Later, which can be ordered here. Dr. Ball and Becker talked about Lenin's theory of imperialism and its relationship to the world today, differences between revolutionary and "democratic" socialism, and
- [Brian Becker on Empire Files: What the Russian Revolution proved possible](https://liberationschool.org/brian-becker-on-empire-files-what-the-russian-revolution-proved-possible/) - Nov. 7, 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the seizure of power by workers and peasants in the Russian Revolution, regarded as the most world-altering event in the history of civilization.
- [Interview with ex-CIA collaborator Raúl Capote](https://liberationschool.org/interview-with-ex-cia-html/) - Former CIA collaborator, Cuban Raúl Capote, reveals the strategy of the CIA in Venezuelan universities to create a destabilizing opposition student movement.
- [Interview with Gloria La Riva: 'the fog of anti-communism is lifting'](https://liberationschool.org/interview-with-gloria-la-riva-the-fog-of-anti-communism-is-lifting/) - Republished from Independent Political Report Gloria Estela La Riva, a labor, community, and anti-war activist based in San Francisco, is running for president under the Party for Socialism and Liberation banner. Peter B. Gemma: I appreciate your time for this interview. You have stated that, “By the end of my first year at Brandeis University,
- [What is dialectical materialism? An introduction](https://liberationschool.org/what-is-dialectical-materialism-an-introduction/) - After the deaths of Marx and Engels, socialists began taking up the important task of summarizing their work for popularization. In 1919, for example, Georg Lukács, the Hungarian Marxist, argued that the essence of Marx’s project is not the correctness or incorrectness of his many theses, but rather, his dialectical method. Stressing the significance of
- [The struggle for self-determination in Hawaiʻi](https://liberationschool.org/the-struggle-for-self-determination-in-hawaii/) - Today, July 7th marks the 119th anniversary of President William McKinley and the U.S. government’s annexation of Hawaiʻi. When we hear any mention of Hawaiʻi, we undoubtedly first think of breath-taking beaches, volcanoes and tourism. But what is the class and national realty in Hawaiʻi that lies beyond Waikiki and the tourists’ paradise? The modern
- [What is socialism?](https://liberationschool.org/08-what-is-socialism-html/) - The United States is the wealthiest country in the world. Its Gross National Product is $12 trillion. Yet 45 million people in the United States live without health insurance. Some 33.6 million people are food insecure or hungry.
- [What is the state?](https://liberationschool.org/05-what-is-state-html/) - When people talk about “the state” in day-to-day conversation, they are usually referring to government agencies like civil services or any other service funded by taxes. But what is the state?
- [What is the working class?](https://liberationschool.org/04-what-is-working-class-html/) - The Marxist outlook is based on the irreconcilable conflict between the working class (the proletariat) and the ruling capitalist class (the bourgeoisie). But how do we determine which people belong to which class?
- [China's environmental problems: Beyond the propaganda](https://liberationschool.org/chinas-environment-beyond-the-propaganda/) - Is China really a unique environmental calamity, or is it a source of inspiration for the environmental movement?
- [Nicolás Maduro's speech on Venezuela's new anti-blockade law to resist U.S. imperialism](https://liberationschool.org/nicolas-maduros-anti-blockade-law-speech/) - This English translation of Maduro's anti-blockade law speech provides important background on Venezuela's response to the tightening U.S. blockade to overthrow the government of the Bolivarian Revolution.
- [Antonio Gramsci: A communist revolutionary, organizer, and theorist](https://liberationschool.org/antonio-gramsci/) - Providing an introduction to Gramsci’s life, context, and key ideas for a new emerging layer of “organic intellectuals.”
- [Debunking an illusion inhibiting the Black Struggle: A review of Jared Ball's new book](https://liberationschool.org/debunking-an-illusion-inhibiting-the-black-struggle-a-review-of-jared-balls-new-book/) - Ball's latest book debunks the mythology of Black consumerism as the path to Black liberation.
- [Celebrating International Women's Day](https://liberationschool.org/10-03-08-celebrating-international-women-html/) - To commemorate International Women’s Day, we publishe excerpts from Kollontai’s 1920 article, "International Women’s Day," written just over two years after the October 1917 socialist revolution in Russia.
- [The civil rights and Black Power movements](https://liberationschool.org/the-civil-rights-and-black-power-movements/) - From democratic rights to national liberation The decade of the 1950s is known for the dramatic rise of reactionary politics, especially the virulent anti-communism of the McCarthy era. Amidst and against this period of great reaction emerged the civil rights struggle, initially spearheaded in the southern United States. Witnessing the Brown v. Board of Education
- [Lenin, World War I and the social roots of opportunism](https://liberationschool.org/04-10-01-lenin-social-roots-opportunism-html/) - Leninism became fully recognized as an extension of Marxism after the success of the Russian Revolution in 1917. Throughout the world, the mass socialist parties and working class anarchist trends went through major political convulsions.
- [Typographers' revolt: The day Bucharest stood still](https://liberationschool.org/typographers-revolt-the-day-bucharest-stood-still/) - 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. 13, 1918 in solidarity with the typographers. Their demands: an 8-hour work day, a living wage and recognition of the
- [How "The State and Revolution" changed history](https://liberationschool.org/the-state-and-revolution-changed-history/) - Anyone who aspires to be a real communist or to understand the theory of modern communism must study Lenin’s pamphlet The State and Revolution. Lenin was able to nearly finish this monumental contribution to Marxism and revolution while on the run, living underground and hiding from the police from August to October 1917, just before
- [Social reproduction: A theoretical framework with organizing potential](https://liberationschool.org/social-reproduction-a-theoretical-framework-with-organizing-potential/) - A social reproduction framework helps us to remember that when we talk about class struggle, we must be concerned not only with the relation of workers and owners at the point of production, but also with the social relations that make and remake those workers and owners.
- [Why we're running in the 2020 elections](https://liberationschool.org/why-we-run-in-elections/) - The Party for Socialism and Liberation is running to offer a genuine socialist alternative, continue to popularize socialism as the only viable alternative to capitalism and its ills, and to build the movement for revolution in the United States.
- [Marx's "Capital:" Class 9 (So-called "Primitive accumulation")](https://liberationschool.org/capital-class-9/) - In the final class, we uncover how the prerequisites for capital came to be (theft of land, divorcing peasants from the means of subsistence, repression, slavery, and colonialism).
- [Marx's "Capital:" Class 8 (The general law of capitalist accumulation)](https://liberationschool.org/capital-class-8/) - This class covers different "compositions of capital," how and why they change, and what this means for capitalist accumulation and the lives of workers.
- [Marx's "Capital:" Class 4 (Capital and labor-power)](https://liberationschool.org/capital-class-4/) - In class 4, we get at the first definitions of capital, labor-power, and surplus-value.
- [Marx's "Capital:" Class 3 (Exchange and money)](https://liberationschool.org/capital-class-3/) - In class 3, we take up exchange and money, where the C-M-C circuit makes its first appearance.
- [Marx's "Capital:" Class 2 (Commodities)](https://liberationschool.org/capital-class-2/) - Class 2 covers the first chapter on "commodities," where Marx begins laying the conceptual building blocks for his investigation.
- [Marx's "Capital" Class 6 (Machinery, technology, and class struggle)](https://liberationschool.org/capital-class-6/) - This class examines issues of technology--especially machinery--as they relate to the class struggle.
- [Marx's "Capital:" Class 5 (The working day and relative surplus-value)](https://liberationschool.org/capital-class-5/) - This class covers the struggle over the value of labor-power (and the role of the state) and the production of relative surplus-value.
- [Marx's "Capital:" Class 7 (Surplus-value, wages, and simple reproduction)](https://liberationschool.org/capital-class-7/) - This class covers chapters 16-24 and includes a discussion of productive and reproductive labor, the different forms wages can take, and the relationship between economic production, the legal system, and ideology.
- [Marx's "Capital:" Class 1](https://liberationschool.org/capital-class-1/) - The first class in our 9-part course
- [A women’s demonstration, two revolutions, and the birth of a socialist state](https://liberationschool.org/women-and-the-russian-revolution/) - We must not underestimate the immense revolutionary power of women to ignite, fight, and win.
- [China class 1: From Imperial China to the Century of Humiliation (1800-1919)](https://liberationschool.org/china-class-1/) - The first class traces the decline of the ancient imperial order in China under the combined attacks of Western imperialism and domestic rebellion.
- [China class 2: National liberation and class struggle (1919-1949)](https://liberationschool.org/china-class-2/) - This second class covers the 30 years of the struggle for national liberation and socialism that took place between 1919 and 1949.
- [China class 3: Twin tasks of the revolution (1949-1979)](https://liberationschool.org/china-class-3/) - The third class covers the first 30 years of the People’s Republic, the period of the initial construction of socialism and the two-line struggle.
- [China class 4: Is China capitalist?](https://liberationschool.org/china-class-4/) - Class description: This week’s class discusses the development and status of China's economy. The first part begins by clarifying the debate over China's economy and emphasizing the historical, material, and international contexts in which it's developed. It covers the debates between Mao Tse-Tung and Deng Xiaoping--how they played out during the "Gang of Four" trial
- [Who really freed the slaves?](https://liberationschool.org/who-really-freed-the-slaves/) - 150 years ago: first Black soldiers recruited into Civil War Exactly 150 years ago, on February 16, 1863, Boston, Mass. residents opened their newspapers to find an unprecedented advertisement in the daily newspaper. It called for “Good men of African descent” to enlist in the 54th Regiment of the Union Army, the first official effort
- [Always watching, always profiting: Fighting digital repression](https://liberationschool.org/always-watching-always-profiting-fighting-digital-repression/) - While the lifeblood of capitalism—the pursuit of profit—remains the same, the specific ways capitalist’s pursue profit and protect their rule are constantly changing. Marx and Engels identified this trend in their 1848 Communist Manifesto, writing that “the bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with
- [NATO Targets Yugoslavia: An anti-war documentary](https://liberationschool.org/nato-targets-yugoslavia/) - https://youtu.be/NET8RS7QiL4 Beginning on March 24, 1999, NATO unleashed a ruthless bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for 78 days. Despite the devastation wrought on human lives, it was and still is presented as a model of a successful “humanitarian intervention.” In the ANSWER Coalition's newly digitized edition of NATO Targets Yugoslavia, which features
- ["Left-wing" Communism: Reading and discussion guides](https://liberationschool.org/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 materials include a reading and discussion guide, as well as answers to each. PDFs of study materials:
- [When justifying imperialist intervention "goes wrong"](https://liberationschool.org/justifying-imperialist-interventionint-html/) - A response to left/liberal justification for imperialist intervention in Libya and Syria.
- [From inter-imperialist war to global class war: Understanding distinct stages of imperialism](https://liberationschool.org/from-inter-imperialist-war-to-global-class-war-understanding-distinct-stages-of-imperialism/) - This article provides an overview and analysis of the significant changes in imperialism that occurred since Lenin published his famous text in 1916, and how these relate to the struggle for socialism. We focus in particular on the period following WWII, when the great wave of socialist and nationalist revolutions swept the globe. This article
- [Leninism, anarchism and petty individualism](https://liberationschool.org/leninism-anarchism-and-petty-individualism/) - “I won’t do what you tell me,” is a sentiment that can seem radical and anti-system when aimed against the social/political/economic structures that oppress us under capitalism. In a society where the values of individualism, authoritarianism, complacency, division, exploitation and hierarchy are instilled in us at young age, it is radical, and at times revolutionary,
- [Five imperialist myths about China's role in Africa](https://liberationschool.org/five-imperialist-myths-about-chinas-role-in-africa/) - Setting the stage for "great power confrontation" That China is a rising power is undeniable. Since its founding in 1949, the People’s Republic of China has undergone several substantial economic and social policy changes, in response to both the evolving domestic situation and international obstacles and challenges. Along the way, China has lifted 800 million
- [Workers run the city: The Seattle General Strike](https://liberationschool.org/workers-run-the-city-the-seattle-general-strike-of-1919/) - To justify their rule, capitalists and their politicians tell us that we need them to organize society for us. They tell us that our suffering is not their doing, but the doing of other workers and oppressed people in the US and elsewhere. From February 6-11, 1919, the workers of Seattle, Washington, staged a general
- [Remembering Samir Amin: A Marxist of the south](https://liberationschool.org/samir-amin/) - On the one year anniversary of Samir Amin’s death, the PSL remembers and honors his legacy as a revolutionary communist intellectual.
- [The Hong Kong protests and imperialism: What the corporate media isn't saying](https://liberationschool.org/hong-kong-and-china/) - As protests in Hong Kong enter their sixth month, Western media and politicians continue to mislead the public.
- [Militant journalism: The role of journalism in class society and revolution](https://liberationschool.org/journalism-in-class-society/) - Frank González, of Prensa Latina, discusses the considerations journalism's role in revolution.
- [Class Society and the History of Women's Oppression](https://liberationschool.org/class-society-and-the-history-of-womens-oppression/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuGuc6rvaHw&feature=youtu.be featuring Nathalie Hrizi
- [Lessons of World War I: Imperialism and the antiwar movement](https://liberationschool.org/04-09-01-imperialism-antiwar-movement-html/) - It is impossible to build a revolutionary movement and a party based on Marxism without the most unflinching struggle against opportunism and chauvinism. The test comes under the duress of war.
- [Oil, imperialism and national conflict in the Caucasus](https://liberationschool.org/04-12-01-oil-imperialism-national-confli-html/) - The September 3 massacre of at least 360 children and adults in the town of Beslan, North Ossetia, in the Caucasus region of Russia, shocked the world and brought the conflict in the area into the public eye again.
- [Zhang Chunqiao: Communist leader of China's Cultural Revolution](https://liberationschool.org/05-06-01-zhang-chunqiao-communist-leader-html/) - Veteran Chinese communist Zhang Chunqiao died of throat cancer on April 21, 2005, at the age of 88. The official New China News Agency announced his death on May 10. Despite Zhang’s distinguished career as a communist theoretician and organizer, his death was given no official fanfare in China.
- [Medicine, the 'pill' and the struggle for reproductive rights](https://liberationschool.org/05-06-01-medicine-pill-struggle-reprod-html/) - Suzanne Richards went to a pharmacy in Laconia, New Hampshire to fill a prescription for emergency contraception and was told that the pharmacist would not fill it, nor would he direct her to a pharmacist who would.
- [Yugoslavia: Nationalist competition opened door to imperialist intervention](https://liberationschool.org/yugoslavia-nationalist-competition-opened-door-to-imperialist-intervention/) - Can different nationalities coexist within a single, multinational state? Many people point to the fracturing of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s as evidence that such a project is impossible. But in the years after World War II, the Yugoslav socialist revolution provided hope to workers around the world that multinational unity was possible without the
- [The anti-war movement and Congressional 'opposition'](https://liberationschool.org/06-01-01-the-antiwar-movement-congressio-html/) - Nearly three years after launching the war on Iraq, the Bush administration has a crisis on its hands. The war has proven to be unwinnable militarily. Bush’s goal of setting up a stable client Iraqi regime remains a distant fantasy.
- [The evolution of the modern capitalist state](https://liberationschool.org/06-04-01-the-evolution-modern-capitalist-html/) - At a meeting in early February, an activist from South Korea told me: “We only wish Bush could run for office a third time. No other political force could have helped the progressive and pro-reunification movement in Korea make so much progress.
- [Raising consciousness in the antiwar movement](https://liberationschool.org/06-05-01-raising-consciousness-in-antiwar-html/) - The following is the full text of the speech prepared for the Left Forum at the Great Hall of Cooper Union in New York City on March 11, 2006. Becker participated in the panel “Debating Strategies in the U.
- [Ernesto 'Che' Guevara: Day of the Heroic Guerrilla](https://liberationschool.org/06-10-08-ernesto-che-guevara-day-heroi-html/) - On Oct. 8, 1967, Ernesto "Che" Guevara—a revolutionary hero—was captured in battle in the jungles of Bolivia. Che was leading Bolivian and Cuban guerrillas in a struggle to free Bolivia from capitalist and imperialist exploitation.
- [Korea crisis: From 1994 until today](https://liberationschool.org/06-10-20-korea-crisis-from-1994-until-to-html/) - In 1994, war between the United States and North Korea was narrowly averted by a high-level diplomatic effort undertaken by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Carter held face-to face talks with North Korean President Kim Il Sung.
- [The United Nations and imperialism](https://liberationschool.org/06-11-01-the-united-nations-imperialism-html/) - On Sept. 20, 2006, Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez gave a speech at the United Nations General Assembly. Unlike most of the diplomats who gave bland speeches about lofty ideals, he argued that the United Nations, in its current state, was no longer useful.
- [The real lessons of the 1956 uprising in Hungary](https://liberationschool.org/06-12-05-the-real-lessons-1956-uprising-i-html/) - This article first appeared in the November 2006 issue of Socialism and Liberation magazine. On June 22, President Bush traveled to Hungary to join a commemoration of an uprising that occurred there 50 years ago, in October-November 1956.
- [Rosa Luxemburg: an example of revolutionary struggle](https://liberationschool.org/07-02-06-rosa-luxemburg-example-revoluti-html/) - Luxemburg, along with her comrade Karl Liebknecht, were leaders of the revolutionary Spartacus League in Germany.
- [Remembering Coretta Scott King](https://liberationschool.org/07-03-01-remembering-coretta-scott-king-html/) - On Jan. 31, Coretta Scott King passed away at age 78. She was a leader within the Civil Rights movement, a woman who fought for economic and social justice for the Black community, the LGBT community and poor and working people.
- [Democratic centralism in the Communist Party of Cuba](https://liberationschool.org/07-03-01-democratic-centralism-in-communi-html/) - The following is an excerpt from a speech given by the author to cadres and officials of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba on May 4, 1973. Raúl Castro was at that time a division commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces.
- [Mother Jones: Union organizer, revolutionary agitator](https://liberationschool.org/07-04-13-mother-jones-union-organizer-r-html/) - West Virginia district attorney Reese Blizzard dubbed Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, "the most dangerous woman in America.
- [Leila Khaled: Palestinian fighter, Marxist revolutionary](https://liberationschool.org/07-04-17-leila-khaled-palestinian-fighte-html/) - This article is part of PSL's revolutionary women series.
- [Harriet Tubman: Liberator of the enslaved](https://liberationschool.org/07-04-20-harriet-tubman-liberator-enslav-html/) - "I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves."
- [What do socialists defend in China today?](https://liberationschool.org/what-do-socialists-defend-in-china-today/) - For almost two years, members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation undertook an internal educational campaign, discussion and review of the current government of the People’s Republic of China from the perspective of the struggle for socialism and the interests of the world working class. This discussion was in preparation for the possibility of
- [The role of a revolutionary Marxist party](https://liberationschool.org/the-role-of-a-revolutionary-marxist-party/) - A revolutionary party is a party of political struggle. It is a party of militant action. It is also much more than that. It is a party that seeks to lead our class—the working class—in the revolutionary struggles ahead, toward the creation of a new society based on the interests of the vast majority. We
- [Vilma Espin: A revolutionary life](https://liberationschool.org/07-06-21-vilma-espin-revolutionary-life-html/) - June 20, 2007 Dear people of Cuba: It was with profound sorrow that we learned of the death of beloved comrade Vilma Espín, who was an exemplary revolutionary not only for Cuba but for the world. Her actions, from an early age, in the clandestine struggle against the Batista tyranny, her outstanding leadership in the continuous campaign for the advancement of women in society, and her total dedication to the Revolution were and always will be examples for us to follow.
- [Why the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki](https://liberationschool.org/07-08-06-why-us-dropped-nuclear-bombs-o-html/) - The following article first appeared in the August 2005 issue of Socialism and Liberation magazine . The 62st anniversaries of the U.S. nuclear bombings of Japan are Aug. 6 and 9 of this year. August 6 and 9 of this year mark the 60th anniversaries of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- [Al Gore, imperialist: some inconvenient truths](https://liberationschool.org/07-10-24-al-gore-imperialist-some-incon-html/) - Former U.S. Vice President and Senator Al Gore has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work against global warming. Gore does have a long history of speaking out on the issue of global warming.
- [Why the U.S. backs Kosovo 'independence'](https://liberationschool.org/07-12-14-why-us-backs-kosovo-independe-html/) - While the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and developments in Venezuela, Pakistan and Palestine have dominated the world news, another crisis has been building in southeastern Europe. There, the U.S.-NATO-backed "independence" of Kosovo, a predominantly Albanian province of Serbia, has the potential to set off a chain reaction of conflict.
- [Can sexism be eliminated under capitalism?](https://liberationschool.org/can-sexism-be-eliminated-under-capitalism/) - How can women be liberated from the many bonds of sexism in U.S. society? For well over a century, powerful women leaders and mass movements have struggled to accomplish that challenge. Yet the situation remains grim. Despite the fanfare of high-profile women candidates during election season, the reality for millions of women is not pretty:
- [Why socialism? A goal and a program for victory](https://liberationschool.org/why-socialism-a-goal-and-a-program-for-victory/) - Revolutionary change is needed. This is clear in the exploitation of workers by bankers and corporate CEOs, the racist cops jailing and killing Black and Latino youth, the million families losing their homes to foreclosure. The starting point is that for millions of people in the United States—for the vast majority, in fact—the system is
- [Moncada: from military defeat to political victory](https://liberationschool.org/08-07-25-moncada-from-military-defeat-to-html/) - First published in Socialism and Liberation magazine, July 2004. Some historians—particularly opponents of the Cuban Revolution—treat the July 26, 1953, Moncada rebellion in Cuba as an impetuous act of 132 idealistic radicals.
- [Russia, Georgia, and independence in the age of imperialism](https://liberationschool.org/08-08-15-russia-georgia-independence-in-html/) - The U.S. government and media have portrayed the latest conflict between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia and Abkhazia as a resumption of Russia’s Soviet-era "domination" over the smaller, beleaguered country of Georgia.
- [Afghanistan: Not a 'good war'](https://liberationschool.org/09-01-27-afghanistan-not-good-war-html/) - United for Peace and Justice—which emerged to counter ANSWER’s popularity in the early days of the anti-Iraq war movement—has shied away from any issues that would signal a definitive break from the Democratic establishment
- [The truth behind China's Charter 08 manifesto](https://liberationschool.org/09-02-10-the-truth-behind-chinas-charter-html/) - U.S. imperialism has begun another effort to overthrow the government of the People’s Republic of China. As it did during the decades-long struggle to overthrow the governments of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the main instruments in the imperialist media apparatus are seeking to discredit or delegitimize the government of China while elevating minuscule counterrevolutionary groups assembled under the banner of “human rights” and “democracy.
- [True and false in Obama's D-Day speech](https://liberationschool.org/09-06-07-true-false-in-obamas-dday-spee-html/) - "So when the ships landed here at Omaha [Beach], an unimaginable hell rained down on the men inside," President Barack Obama said as he spoke in Normandy on June 6th, the 65th anniversary of "D-Day.
- [Behind the Urumqui riots in China](https://liberationschool.org/09-07-24-behind-urumqui-riots-in-china-html/) - Since July 5, the Western corporate media has showcased the "Urumqui riots" and fashioned wealthy businesswoman Rebiyah Kadheer as the champion of the Uyghur. The violence pitting Hans against Uyghurs has been presented with little historical context that might explain the underlying tensions and their origins.
- [Red-lining and the historical roots of housing segregation in New York City](https://liberationschool.org/red-lining-and-the-historical-roots-of-housing-segregation-in-new-york-city/) - According to a recent State University of New York at Stony Brook / Erase Racism survey, the census ranks Long Island as the third most racially segregated suburban region in the country, behind the suburbs of Newark and Cleveland. In 1947, the Federal Housing Administration launched in Long Island the suburb of Levittown, issuing affordable
- [¡Juan Almeida Bosque, Presente!](https://liberationschool.org/09-09-15-juan-almeida-bosque-presente-html/) - Cuban revolutionary hero Juan Almeida Bosque died late Friday, Sept. 11, in Havana, Cuba.
- [Claims of 'women's power' ring hollow under capitalism](https://liberationschool.org/10-03-16-claims-womens-power-ring-holl-html/) - In November 2009, the first lady of California and the Center for American Progress published "The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything.
- [Class struggle intensifies in China](https://liberationschool.org/10-06-11-class-struggle-intensifies-in-ch-html/) - Since mid-May, Japanese automaker Honda has faced a series of strikes in its Chinese operations. These high-profile strikes have started a discussion in the capitalist financial press as to the future of the Chinese economy, the rights of workers, and the attitude of the Chinese Communist Party to both of these.
- [Kyrgyzstan: The national question and imperialism](https://liberationschool.org/10-06-21-kyrgyzstan-national-question-im-html/) - The Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan has been the scene of a bloody conflict since June 10. Estimates of the casualties vary widely, with the country's interim president estimating up to 2,000 deaths.
- [Lolita Lebron: 'I am a Revolutionary'](https://liberationschool.org/10-08-04-lolita-lebron-i-am-revolutiona-html/) - Lolita Lebron, Puerto Rican nationalist leader and revered icon of independence, died on August 1 at age 90. She suffered from a cardiopulmonary condition.
- [Daniel Estulin and the phony 'Bilderberg conspiracy'](https://liberationschool.org/10-09-01-daniel-estulin-phony-bilderberg-html/) - The Bilderberg Group is an annual meeting of corporate executives and government officials from around the world. Until recently, most people probably did not know it existed. In the past week, the group and theories about its real purpose have been featured prominently in the news.
- [Report on the economic and political situation in Cuba](https://liberationschool.org/report-on-the-economic-and-html/) - This report gives context and background to the economic and political challenges facing Cuba and the Cuban Communist Party, many of which have been exacerbated on account of the world economic crisis.
- [Unity is Our Strategic Weapon](https://liberationschool.org/10-09-25-unity-is-our-strategic-weapon-html/) - Speech given by Raúl Castro Ruz, General of the Cuban Army, and President of the Council of State and Ministries, at the Fifth Ordinary Period of Sessions for the Seventh Legislature of the National Assembly of People's Power, at the Convention Center in Havana, August 1, 2010, "The 52nd Year of the Revolution".
- [Why we continue to defend the Soviet Union](https://liberationschool.org/10-11-30-why-we-continue-to-defend-soviet-html/) - Some progressive people argue that given the fact that nearly two decades have passed, the issue of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is now an irrelevancy. We think otherwise.
- [Libya and the united front](https://liberationschool.org/libya-and-the-united-front-html/) - We hope that an explicit articulation of our points of unity about the bombing of Libya will clarify the issues, stimulating the level of mass activity required to build a movement opposing imperialist intervention.
- [Our view on modern Iraq](https://liberationschool.org/our-view-on-modern-iraq-html/) - July 14, 2011 marks the 53rd anniversary of the Iraqi Revolution. The real history of Iraq is distorted or ignored by the corporate media.
- [Behind the defeat in the Walker recall election](https://liberationschool.org/walker-recall-defeat-in-wisconsin-html/) - The role of Big Money in the Wisconsin recall election exposes how capitalist democracy operates. But it is worth analyzing the question being asked by many: Why do people vote against their own interests?
- [Oppose the neocolonial French intervention in Mali!](https://liberationschool.org/french-imperialists-fighting-html/) - “Without Africa, there will be no history of France in the 21st century.”—Former French President Francois Mitterand
- [Why North Korea is developing nuclear weapons](https://liberationschool.org/why-north-korea-is-developing-html/) - Is North Korea’s recent nuclear test, its third, to be welcomed, lamented or condemned? It depends on your perspective.
- [Assata Shakur, woman warrior](https://liberationschool.org/assata-shakur-woman-warrior/) - Understanding the FBI's recent attacks On May 2, the Federal Bureau of Investigation suddenly announced that they had placed Assata Shakur on its “Most Wanted Terrorists” list, making her the first woman to be so designated. The state of New Jersey also raised the bounty on her head to $2 million. These government actions came
- [It was the CIA that helped jail Nelson Mandela](https://liberationschool.org/cia-helped-jail-nelson-mandela-html/) - Today is Nelson Mandela's 95th birthday, but forget the crocodile tears from the U.S. government about his poor health. Imperialist diplomacy with all of its sugar-coated phrases is nothing more than a form of historical perjury.
- [Russia: The struggle against anti-LGBTQ repression](https://liberationschool.org/russia-the-struggle-against-html/) - The attention of the international lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community and its supporters has been fixed on Russia in recent weeks.
- [Remembering Gen. Giap](https://liberationschool.org/remembering-gen-giap-html/) - Vietnamese Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap who helped defeat Japan, then France, then the United States in a 35-year war for national independence, died in Hanoi on Oct. 4 at the age of 102.
- [Nelson Mandela: Armed struggle and communism in the fight for freedom](https://liberationschool.org/nelson-mandela-armed-struggle-and-communism-in-the-fight-for-freedom/) - Nelson Mandela, longtime leader of the African National Congress, and first Black president of South Africa, died quietly in his home December 5, after a long battle with illness. Mandela became the world’s best-known political prisoner in the 1980s, and following his imprisonment gained even more stature as the leading figure in the transition from
- [Imperialism, the Islamic State and the Policy of Endless War](https://liberationschool.org/imperialism-the-islamic-state-and-the-policy-of-endless-war/) - Why we are marching in Washington, D.C., on Saturday March 21, 2015, to say NO to authorization for new war in Iraq and Syria On Saturday, March 21 the ANSWER Coalition is taking a lead role, as part of a broader coalition, in organizing a National March in Washington, D.C., to oppose the policy of
- [Crimea Referendum: the hidden truth behind the U.S.-Russia rivalry](https://liberationschool.org/crimea-referendum-the-hidden-html/) - The same militarists who criminally invaded and bombed sovereign Iraq are now crying very big crocodile tears about respect for sovereignty in Ukraine.
- [What or who will #BringBackOurGirls?](https://liberationschool.org/what-or-who-will-bringbackourgirls/) - Like many of the humanitarian crises in Africa that have become international campaigns, this situation has significant roots which Western military intervention cannot solve and will only exacerbate.
- [Struggle for marriage equality advances](https://liberationschool.org/struggle-for-marriage-equality-advances/) - The fight for equal same-sex marriage rights has dominated much of the news and activism of the LGBTQ community over the last decade. In 2004, not a single state allowed for same-sex marriage. Now, same-sex couples can get married in 19 states, the District of Columbia and eight Native tribal jurisdictions. In additional states, federal
- [Un partido de acción: Creando el movimiento del pueblo en las calles](https://liberationschool.org/es/un-partido-de-accion-creando-el-movimiento-del-pueblo-en-las-calles/) - El Partido para el Socialismo y Liberación se basa en dos premisas esenciales. Una es la teoría Marxista revolucionaria y el análisis sobre todos los asuntos que afectan a la humanidad y el medio ambiente en que vivimos, especialmente los asuntos más apremiantes que enfrentan a los trabajadores y los pueblos oprimidos. Nos esforzamos a
- [¿Cómo podemos hacer una revolución? Las lecciones de Egipto y 'Occupy'](https://liberationschool.org/es/como-podemos-hacer-una-revolucion-las-lecciones-de-egipto-y-occupy/) - Sin una lucha masiva, no hay esperanzas de cambios. Pero activismo y lucha solamente no son suficientes para lograr el socialismo. Es también esencial un partido comunista revolucionario. Esto ha sido probado muchas veces en la historia, a veces con ejemplos positivos, a veces negativos y con frecuencia trágicos. Una revolución sucede cuando una sociedad
- [Capitalist methods can't end the oppression of Third World women](https://liberationschool.org/can-womens-oppression-be-ended-with-capitalist-methods/) - A review of Kristof and WuDunn’s ‘Half the Sky’ In 2010, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn released “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.” Besides her business writing, WuDunn has also functioned as a corporate executive for the New York Times and “private wealth adviser” for Goldman Sachs. Kristof is a darling
- [Dr. King's dream of economic equality—what can make it real?](https://liberationschool.org/dr-king-had-a-dream-of-economic-equality-what-can-make-it-reality/) - A new poor people’s movement and a new system In March 1968, a meeting was held in Atlanta between representatives of 100 people’s organizations committed to building a poor people’s march on Washington under the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr. This effort to challenge the unjust distribution of wealth and power was to be
- [Budget cuts and the war against Native America](https://liberationschool.org/needs-image-budget-cuts-and-the-war-against-native-america/) - Working-class unity to fight back On the rare occasions that ruling-class politicians, media commentators and academics acknowledge the history of genocide committed against Native Americans, this oppression is always presented as a thing of the past. They often take a tone of pity or even remorse. Their false sympathy is easy to expose in their
- [Cops: enforcers for the capitalist class](https://liberationschool.org/cops-enforcers-for-the-capitalist-class/) - Tools of repression For decades, into the 1980s, school districts across the country employed the “Officer Friendly” program that brought local cops into kindergarten and first-grade classrooms. Their point was obvious: to “educate” children with the belief that the police are an indispensable part of society, who not only uphold the law but heroically protect
- [A history of LGBTQ workers' struggles](https://liberationschool.org/a-history-of-lgbtq-workers-struggles/) - Decades of fighting discrimination on the job On February 16, 1991 when Cheryl Summerville was called into the manager’s office, she had already heard that the Cracker Barrel had formalized a policy to fire lesbians and gay men, and were interrogating workers regarding their sexual orientation. She worked and lived in a small town in
- [The UN Climate Summit—words versus deeds](https://liberationschool.org/un-climate-summit-words-versus-deeds/) - Indigenous women lead procession of more than 400,000 demonstrators across Manhattan on Sept.21 in the largest climate march in history. “At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production. ... From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their
- [No more illusions: Missouri cops talked peace, prepared war](https://liberationschool.org/no-more-illusions-missouri-cops-talked-peace-prepared-war/) - Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has just declared a State of Emergency. It includes the creation of a Unified Command of police forces and the activation of the National Guard to “ensure public safety” in the face of new social unrest. This can only mean that an announcement is imminent that the grand jury will not
- [Leslie Feinberg: Revolutionary Communist, Transgender Warrior](https://liberationschool.org/leslie-feinberg-revolutionary-communist-transgender-warrior-2/) - (September 1, 1949 - November 15, 2014) Editor's Note: Because Leslie Feinberg preferred the pronouns "she/zie" and "her/hir" we are using those pronouns in this article. Leslie Feinberg, pioneer transgender revolutionary, author and activist, has died at the age of 65. Hir life-partner of 22 years, Minnie Bruce Pratt, was at hir side in their
- [Exposed: Three USAID plots to destabilize Cuba](https://liberationschool.org/exposed-three-usaid-plots-to-destabilize-cuba/) - 1) ZunZuneo Ever since the people’s victory in 1959, U.S. imperialism has made it a top priority to overthrow the Cuban Revolution and bring back the old elite. The recently-exposed ZunZuneo scandal, the so-called Cuban Twitter, is just the latest chapter in this ongoing effort. ZunZuneo is the name given to a social networking platform
- [What's behind Boko Haram massacre in Nigeria?](https://liberationschool.org/whats-behind-boko-haram-massacre-nigeria/) - While this most recent tragedy did not gain the wattage of the killings at Charlie Hebdo, it does fit into the same narrative of "Islamic" insurgency presenting an existential threat to all people in Western countries.
- [CIA carried out terrorist bombing in Syria's capital — Why are they claiming it now?](https://liberationschool.org/yes-cia-carried-terrorist-car-bombing-nations-capital/) - What's behind the CIA's claims of a 2008 car bombing in Damascus, Syria?
- [The rise of public education and why we're losing it today](https://liberationschool.org/the-rise-of-public-education-and-why-were-losing-it-today/) - If we want to solve the problem of low performing schools we have to deal with the crises of capitalism.
- [New PSL Publication: 'Imperialism in the 21st Century'](https://liberationschool.org/imperialism-in-the-21st-century/) - Updating Lenin's Theory A Century Later Order Your Copy Today! Over 1,000 military bases in foreign lands. Armed personnel in 130 countries. A military budget larger than the next 10 governments combined. The U.S. rulers maintain an empire, and one that is constantly at war—so much so that the White House and Pentagon now
- [How Vietnam defeated U.S. imperialism](https://liberationschool.org/how-vietnam-defeated-u-s-imperialism/) - On April 30, 2015, Vietnam will celebrate the 40th anniversary of liberation and reunification after a war that itself lasted more than 30 years. In Ho Chi Minh City—formerly known as Saigon—and all over the country, mass events saluted the millions who fought and died to free their country from foreign domination. How did the Vietnamese
- [New PSL Publication: 'Revolution Manifesto'](https://liberationschool.org/new-psl-publication-revolution-manifesto/) - Understanding Marx and Lenin's Theory of Revolution Order Your Copy Today! Whether it is brutal murders by the police, the injustices perpetrated everyday in the legal and prison system, or the military interventions around the globe—the state remains a topic of utmost importance for today's revolutionaries. In the everyday struggles of working class and
- [A Marxist perspective on ending women’s oppression](https://liberationschool.org/a-marxist-perspective-on-ending-womens-oppression/) - Sexism is so endemic today that it can be difficult to imagine a society that does not degrade and devalue women. Modern capitalist society is a form of class society, and in today’s capitalist society women face sexism everywhere we turn — within our own homes and personal relationships, in school and in our professional careers, even as we
- [Strengthening the women’s movement through anti-racism](https://liberationschool.org/strengthening-the-womens-movement-through-anti-racism/) - Centuries of slavery, Jim Crow segregation, and institutionalized discrimination have deepened the divide between Black and white families. When it comes to low-wage work, 64 percent of women are employed in low-wage jobs compared to 34 percent of men. White women are 31 percent of the workforce and 34 percent of low-wage workers, while Black
- [The Bread and Roses strike of 1912](https://liberationschool.org/the-bread-and-roses-strike-of-1912/) - As we come marching, marching in the beauty of the day, A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray, Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses, For the people hear us singing: “Bread and roses! Bread and roses!” — Bread and Roses by James Oppenheim This article was published in
- [Claudia Jones: revolutionary feminist and fighter](https://liberationschool.org/claudia-jones-revolutionary-feminist-and-fighter/) - This article was published in Breaking the Chains, a socialist women's magazine. Get the whole issue here. Claudia Jones was a revolutionary communist and anti-colonial activist. Born Claudia Vera Cumberbatch on Feb. 21, 1915, in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, Jones spent her life fighting for the liberation of the workers of the world. She was outspoken on
- [New Book — Women Fight Back: The centuries-long struggle for liberation](https://liberationschool.org/women-fight-back-the-centuries-long-struggle-for-liberation_3/) - Order Today! The place of women in society has been put into sharp focus by the election of Donald Trump. As a candidate, he called for criminalizing women who have abortions, he was caught on tape bragging about sexual assault, and he referred to women as “nasty,” “pigs,” and more. Now he's in office, but
- [More than survival: the struggle for women's healthcare](https://liberationschool.org/more-than-survival-the-struggle-for-womens-healthcare/) - This article was published as an editorial in Breaking the Chains, a socialist women's magazine. Buy and read the full issue here.Since the somewhat surprising election of Donald Trump, the Trump administration, the Republican Party and other reactionary forces have been salivating over the destruction of the Affordable Care Act. While the ACA is limited
- [La Guerra y la lucha contra el oportunismo](https://liberationschool.org/es/la-guerra-y-la-lucha-contra-el-oportunismo/) - Es imposible construir un movimiento revolucionario y un partido basado en el Marxismo sin una lucha contra el oportunismo y el chauvinismo. La prueba se presenta bajo la coerción de la guerra. El 4 de Agosto del 2004 marca el noventa aniversario de la primera guerra mundial. También marca la victoria, casi completa, del oportunismo
- [No Borders in the Women's Liberation Struggle](https://liberationschool.org/no-borders-in-the-womens-liberation-struggle/) - There are millions of immigrant workers in the United States. The United States economy is entirely dependent on the work of immigrant and U.S.-born workers alike. All workers must work to survive. Workers are not paid the full value of their labor, and that is the source of capitalist profit. But, immigrant and U.S.-born workers
- [Angela Davis on why she's a communist (1972)](https://liberationschool.org/angela-davis-on-why-shes-a-communist/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGQCzP-dBvg&t=10s Angela Davis: And they all ask one main question, which is, "Why is Angela Davis a communist?" It is a very hard question to answer, mainly because I don't feel I've been taught the true meaning of communism. This is one of my reasons for writing you at the time. Rev. Cecil Williams: Hold
- [Bolsonaro: A danger to Brazil, Latin America, and the whole world](https://liberationschool.org/bolsonaro-a-danger-to-brazil-latin-america-and-the-whole-world/) - 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 were removed from Brazil's human rights directives. The demarcation of indigenous lands has been transferred from the National Foundation of
- [The history, present, and future of Black Liberation](https://liberationschool.org/eugene-puryear-on-black-liberation/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnU1dTUGBic 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 the Central Committee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and an organizer with Stop Police Terror Project DC.
- [The Making of the Cuban Revolution](https://liberationschool.org/the-global-significance-of-the-cuban-revolution/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcg6BLhbxAQ&feature=youtu.be featuring PSL leader Gloria La Riva
- [Louise Patterson on her radicalization and introduction to Marxism](https://liberationschool.org/louise-patterson-on-her-introduction-to-marxism-and-radicalization/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpgRXk_pJyE Editor's Note: Louise Thompson Patterson was a key figure in the U.S. communist movement and the Harlem Renaissance. In this video, she speaks about her introduction to Marxism and her radicalization. This interview was conducted over three decades ago and the audio files have been digitized as part of NYU Tamiment Library’s invaluable Oral
- [Louise Patterson on her 1932 visit to the USSR](https://liberationschool.org/louise-patterson-on-her-1932-visit-to-the-ussr/) - https://youtu.be/iAbprNBcZfA Editor's Note: Louise Thompson Patterson was a key figure in the U.S. communist movement and the Harlem Renaissance. Here she speaks about her transformative trip to the USSR from June until November 1932. Patterson helped organize the delegation of African Americans, which included Langston Hughes and Dorothy West. This interview was conducted over three decades
- [Louise Patterson on the Scottsboro struggle](https://liberationschool.org/louise-patterson-on-the-scottsboro-struggle/) - https://youtu.be/z23pq1frphs Editor's Note Louise Thompson Patterson was a key figure in the U.S. communist movement and the Harlem Renaissance, noted as both an activist and a theorist who wrote about intersectionality long before the word came into popular parlance. In this video, she tells of the movement to free the Scottsboro Boys in the 1930s.
- [Fred Hampton on revolution and racism](https://liberationschool.org/fred-hampton-on-revolution-and-racism/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVzbSvWaMkc I'm the Deputy Chairman of the State of Illinois Black Panther Party, Fred Hampton. A lot of people don't understand the Black Panther Party's relationship with white, mother country radicals. A lot of people don't even understand that word that Eldridge uses a lot. What we're saying is that there are white people, in
- [Queen Mother Audley Moore interview pt. 1: The early days](https://liberationschool.org/queen-mother-audley-moore-interview-pt-1-the-early-days/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxJiDjW1M0U 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 ago and the audio files have been digitized as part of NYU Tamiment Library's invaluable Oral History of the
- [Queen Mother Audley Moore pt. 2: Harlem, the Black struggle, and the CPUSA](https://liberationschool.org/queen-mother-audley-moore-2/) - https://youtu.be/1hwGCiwNG_Q 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 ago and the audio files have been digitized as part of NYU Tamiment Library’s invaluable Oral History of the
- [What does the 27th of February mean to me? Behind the mask of Dominican 'Independence'](https://liberationschool.org/what-does-the-27th-of-february-mean-to-me-behind-the-mask-of-dominican-independence/) - The Dominican Republic is the only oppressed country that celebrates its “independence” from another oppressed, colonized country, Haiti. For generations, the fear-mongering, racist Dominican ruling class has deliberately manipulated the history of the two countries, particularly the period between 1822 and 1844, in order to perpetuate el anti-Haitianismo (anti-Haitian racism). The truth is that Haitians
- [Roque Dalton García: Salvadorian Poet, Internationalist and Revolutionary](https://liberationschool.org/roque-dalton-garcia-salvadorian-poet-internationalist-and-revolutionary/) - Forty-one years ago, on May 10, 1975, an assassin’s bullets robbed the world of the brilliance, creativity and unwavering socialist commitment of Roque Dalton. Salvadorian and revolutionary youth the world over stand to learn a great deal from this unsung hero and his political and literary contributions to the revolutionary transformation of society. Rebellious Origins
- [Honoring Juana Ramirez “La Avanzadora”](https://liberationschool.org/honoring-juana-ramirez-la-avanzadora/) - “The media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” –Malcolm X I am an Afro-Dominican woman from the Bronx, New York and trust me Malcolm X’s words are truer than
- [Williana Burroughs: Communist housing organizer](https://liberationschool.org/williana-burroughs-communist-housing-organizer/) - 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. And she fought so that her own comrades would amplify the voices of Black working-class women. Born Williana Jones in
- [Women and socialism: Three revolutionary case studies](https://liberationschool.org/women-and-socialism-three-revolutionary-case-studies/) - 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 has demonized each country and its leadership. As such it is understandable that most people here possess little factual knowledge
- [US-Saudi ties: Drenched in blood, oil, and deceit](https://liberationschool.org/us-saudi-ties-drenched-in-blood-oil-and-deceit/) - 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 Arabia’s de facto ruler, personally ordered the murder and dismemberment of Khashoggi. In an extraordinary statement for a U.S. president,
- [Cuba's state in revolution](https://liberationschool.org/cubas-state-in-revolution/) - "Nobody can deny that we made an army and that from the beginning we have inculcated gentlemanly and humane principles to that army. … The armed institutions should offer services in peace, services to the people, services of a technical order. What we will not have is soldiers useless in barracks, nor with a “machete
- [Is Venezuela Turning Further Left?](https://liberationschool.org/is-venezuela-turning-left/) - In the wake of Venezuela’s successful election this summer, and with the Chavista movement having clear momentum headed into the October 15th regional elections, the U.S. government is turning the screws on the Bolivarian government of Venezuela. Donald Trump affirmed the sanctions leveled on Venezuela in August by making the country the centerpiece of a
- [Black Bolsheviks and white lies](https://liberationschool.org/black-bolsheviks-and-white-lies/) - A lot of nonsense has been written about the role of Putin’s Russia in subverting “our democracy.” As though our democracy had been functioning perfectly (even reasonably) well, until these shadowy Russian forces purchased a few Facebook ads that sent us all into the streets. It’s a laughable concept. I’m sorry, did Putin acquit George
- [The plight of the Rohingya: sorting through the propaganda](https://liberationschool.org/the-plight-of-the-rohingya-sorting-through-the-propaganda/) - In recent weeks, the international corporate media has acutely focused on the Rohingya crisis and has propagated condemnations of Myanmar's leader, Aung Saan Suu Ky. Yet, it remains silent on the decades long plight of the Palestinians, the Eelam Tamils of Sri Lanka, and the suffering of the Yemeni people who are being subject to
- [Winning the battle against anti-communism](https://liberationschool.org/winning-the-battle-against-anti-communism/) - The capitalists’ ideological weapon against the working class In 2012, the dictionary site Merriam-Webster announced that the words most looked up that year were “socialism” and “capitalism.” This was undoubtedly because the Republican Party had spent so much time calling President Obama and his health insurance program “socialist.” This was false propaganda – both Obama
- [The roots of fascism in Ukraine: From Nazi collaboration to Maidan](https://liberationschool.org/the-roots-of-fascism-in-ukraine/) - In recent years Ukraine has popped up in the mainstream media due to explosive political developments. Starting with the “Orange Revolution” in November of 2004, to the Euromaidan coup d'etat that was carried out by multiple fascists organizations and was propped up and propagated by the US government. With the recent surge in Ukrainian ultra-nationalism
- [Mung Lao: A Portrait of The Lao People’s Democratic Republic](https://liberationschool.org/mung-lao-a-portrait-of-the-lao-peoples-democratic-republic/) - The Pathet Lao, antecedent of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and the architect of a successful decades-long struggle for socialism, celebrated its 67th anniversary last month. In August 1950, the Laotian section of the Indochinese Communist Party, led by Souphanouvong, formed a separate organization to struggle on behalf of Laotian independence and socialism. The fruit
- [“Get up, Stand Up!” Peter Tosh: A revolutionary life](https://liberationschool.org/get-up-stand-up-peter-tosh-a-revolutionary-life/) - On September 11, 1987, unidentified assailants ambushed and assassinated the Rasta musician and revolutionary Peter Tosh in Kingston, Jamaica. The very poverty and violence Tosh dedicated his life to speaking out against ultimately claimed his life. Armed with a guitar in the shape of a M16 rifle, Tosh’s revolutionary lyrics and fearless defiance—against what he
- [The forgotten story behind Watergate: Lessons for the resistance](https://liberationschool.org/the-forgotten-story-behind-watergate-lessons-for-the-resistance/) - After Donald Trump fired FBI director James Comey--whom he had praised during his presidential campaign--the Richard Nixon Watergate scandal re-entered public discourse in a serious way. Parts of the political establishment who are opposed to Trump are comparing Trump's actions to Watergate because they have impeachment on the agenda. Of course, they don't want to impeach
- [Palestinian women: the backbone of resistance](https://liberationschool.org/palestinian-women-the-backbone-of-resistance/) - Based on a talk delivered by Eman Khaleq at a meeting of the Union of Palestinian American Women on Nov. 7 Lately we’ve been seeing a lot of images of women and girls, both old and young participating in protests and clashes with the Israeli Occupation Forces. A lot of people including myself, inspired by
- [Nadezhda Krupskaya: Revolutionary woman and educator](https://liberationschool.org/nadezhda-krupskaya-revolutionary-woman-and-educator/) - ­­­Nadezhda Krupskaya was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary. A feminist who contributed to the women's question, Krupskaya was also involved in establishing International Women’s Day. Her contributions to educational policy and theory were so immense that the Soviet Union, from 1970-1992, sponsored UNESCO Nadezhda K. Krupskaya literacy prize in her honor. Krupskaya was born in St.
- [Tupac Amaru II: Condor of fire](https://liberationschool.org/tupac-amaru-ii-condor-of-fire/) - As a Peruvian American born and raised in New Jersey, I grew up hearing heroic stories of our Incan roots and our Quechua names. For most, the name Tupac invokes the memory of arguably the greatest rapper of all time, but few in this country outside of the Peruvian American community know who Tupac was
- [50 years since the Panthers formed,  Capitalism + Drugs still = Genocide](https://liberationschool.org/50-years-since-the-panthers-formed-capitalism-drugs-still-genocide/) - “Trapped in a vicious cycle of ignorance, poverty, disease, sickness and death, and there seems no way out. There seems to be no way of escape. And because there seems to be no hope, no way out, no means of escape, we turn to wine, we turn to whiskey, heroin, morphine, cocaine, opium, poison, nothing
- [Train wreck exposes role of imperialism in Cameroon](https://liberationschool.org/cameroon-train-wreck-exposes-ongoing-legacy-of-imperialism/) - On October 21, 2016, a train derailed in Cameroon killing at least 79 and injuring over 500 people. Heavy rain had washed out the road between Douala and Yaounde. Extra cars had been added to the train, but it was still over crowded. In the immediate aftermath, there was no coordinated response. There had been
- [Newton Knight – abolitionist guerilla leader in Mississippi A hidden history of the anti-slavery struggle](https://liberationschool.org/newton-knight-abolitionist-guerilla-leader-in-mississippi-a-hidden-history-of-the-anti-slavery-struggle/) - Ever hear the name Newton Knight, or the First Alabama Calvary? Not likely. The capitalist media, books, movies & TV, has always promoted stories of “former Confederate soldiers” who loyally served the Confederacy, just loved Gen. Robert E. Lee, had no issue with slavery, and so on. But there is another story, a hidden history,
- [The World Federation of Trade Unions 17th Congress: A report on the global state of the class struggle](https://liberationschool.org/the-world-federation-of-trade-unions-17th-congress-a-report-on-the-global-state-of-the-class-struggle/) - The Party for Socialism and Liberation was honored to attend and participate in The World Federation of Trade Unions 17th Congress in Durban, South Africa, in October 2016. Below is an extensive report on the congress by our delegate, Jeff Bigelow. The report provides a glimpse of who and what organizations came, and the struggles
- [What is national oppression?](https://liberationschool.org/what-is-national-oppression/) - Oppression and exploitation are basic features of capitalist society. Workers are paid wages while the capitalist owners make profits from the products created by those who work. This is the essence of economic exploitation. Almost every worker, even if they do not use the word “exploitation,” is aware of it nonetheless. All workers under capitalism—no
- [Honoring the people’s champion: Muhammad Ali](https://liberationschool.org/honoring-the-peoples-champion-muhammad-ali/) - Honoring the People’s Champion: Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali was more than just the three time heavyweight boxing champion of the world. Muhammad Ali was a champion of the Black freedom movement and of all the downtrodden; he defied the status quo and stood up against imperialism. He defended the rights of the forgotten and of
- [System Change not Climate Change ](https://liberationschool.org/system-change-not-climate-change/) - As humanity teeters on the brink of irreversible climate change, world leaders joined the COP21 UN Climate Change Conference in Paris in December 2015. But are international conferences like these really capable of resolving the issue? The two-week long conference hosted 40,000 delegates from 195 countries and assessed global progress and set new goals. The
- [Puerto Rico will never cower before U.S. colonialism:  A tribute to Vidal Santiago Díaz](https://liberationschool.org/puerto-rico-will-never-cower-before-u-s-colonialism-a-tribute-to-vidal-santiago-diaz/) - Puerto Ricans, both in the homeland and in the diaspora, stand on the shoulders of anti-colonial giants. The colonial education system continues to use everything in its power to delete our heroes from our national memory. October 31st, 1950 gave birth to one such hero and is a date that will forever be emblazoned into
- [Margaret Thatcher: imperialism personified](https://liberationschool.org/margaret-thatcher-imperialism-personified/) - While the ruling class mourns the death of one of their most loyal politicians and mouthpieces, the British and Irish working classes and oppressed peoples the world over are certainly not mourning Margaret Thatcher’s passing. From the streets of Belfast to the streets of Brixton, we are seeing a different response from working-class communities who
- [April 1965 and the Unfinished Dominican Revolution](https://liberationschool.org/april-1965-and-the-unfinished-dominican-revolution/) - On April 28, 1965, 42,000 U.S. troops poured into the Dominican Republic to put down the beginnings of a democratic revolution in the Caribbean country. That invasion and the repression that followed continue to shape the Dominican people’s struggle for true sovereignty. In 1965, the people of the Dominican Republic found themselves at the center
- [Afghanistan and the struggle against imperialism](https://liberationschool.org/afghanistan-and-the-struggle-against-imperialism/) - For 10 long years, the people of Afghanistan have been living under a brutal U.S./NATO occupation. Is the brutality and destruction of the last decade really in response to the September 2001 attack, or about killing “terrorists,” or about “democracy,” or some other humanitarian reason? No. How could any of those spins by Washington and
- [Don't blame hip-hop for urban crime](https://liberationschool.org/dont-blame-hip-hop-for-urban-crime/) - Despite claims by police agencies of lower national crime rates, high murder rates still plague U.S. urban centers. In 2006, killings increased significantly in Atlanta, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., to name a few. Shooting deaths in cities like Oakland, Calif., and Newark, N.J., have left few residents untouched. Families have lost loved ones, many
- [The real legacy of Christopher Columbus: slavery and genocide](https://liberationschool.org/the-legacy-of-christopher-columbus/) - The second Monday of October is Columbus Day, celebrated as a federal holiday in the U.S. since 1971. This day marks the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's 1492 landing in the Americas, his "discovery of the New World" for the benefit of the Spanish monarchy. Columbus Day is a day of parades, pageants and retail shopping
- [Celia Sánchez: Icon of the Cuban Revolution](https://liberationschool.org/celia-sanchez-icon-of-the-cuban-revolution/) - Review of “One Day in December: Celia Sánchez and the Cuban Revolution” Nancy Stout’s biography of Celia Sánchez, “One Day in December: Celia Sánchez and the Cuban Revolution” is difficult to put down, and hard to part with after reading. It gives an inside look into her strategic role in the planning and logistics that
- [6 ways socialism is superior to capitalism](https://liberationschool.org/6-ways-socialism-is-superior-to-capitalism/) - How would socialism address the terrible problems of capitalist society? The following is an edited version of a talk given by Brian Becker, a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s Executive Committee, at an East Coast PSL membership conference. We consider socialism to be a better economic system and a more democratic system
- [Dennis Banks: 'We AIM not to please'](https://liberationschool.org/dennis-banks-we-aim-not-to-please/) - The birth of a radical Native movement [Editor: The American Indian Movement was started in Minneapolis in 1968, by co-founders Dennis Banks and Clyde Bellecourt. In the sixth chapter of his book “Ojibwa Warrior,” Banks recounts the founding of that radical organization in resistance to the oppression of the Native community in Minneapolis. AIM would
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- [Re-segregation, Black liberation and revolutionary unity](https://liberationschool.org/re-segregation-black-liberation-and-revolutionary-unity/) - Fighting and defeating racist oppression 2014 is a significant year for civil rights anniversaries: The 60th for Brown v. Board of Education, and 50th for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Anniversaries like these are bound to inspire significant discussion on how to carry through the unfulfilled goals of the civil rights era. Despite the
- [Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Ed](https://liberationschool.org/sixty-years-after-brown-v-board-of-ed/) - What is the legacy of this historic civil rights victory? Nearly sixty years ago, on May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, declaring segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional, after an intense three-year battle by the NAACP and other advocates in Kansas and nationally. It
- [Cambridge, Md. 1963: when the civil rights movement hit back](https://liberationschool.org/cambridge-md-1963-when-the-civil-rights-movement-hit-back/) - This year marks the 50th anniversary of the historic and militant struggle of the Second Ward residents of Dorchester County, Maryland in 1963. The residents of the Second Ward launched a community-based effort against racist politicians and business owners in their county, leading to a year-long stand-off between white racists and the Black residents of
- [The Greensboro sit-ins: how students invigorated the movement](https://liberationschool.org/the-greensboro-sit-ins-how-students-invigorated-the-movement/) - On Feb. 1, 1960, Ezell A. Blair Jr., David Leinhail Richmond, Joseph Alfred McNeil, and Franklin Eugene McCain entered their local Woolworths store in Greensboro, N.C. The four students at North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical University purchased some school supplies, then sat down at the lunch counter to order coffee. They stayed until closing time,
- [Women's leadership and the Black liberation struggle](https://liberationschool.org/womens-leadership-and-the-black-liberation-struggle/) - Review of "Want to Start a Revolution?" (NYU Press, 2009) For centuries, history was taught as the history of great, powerful, elite men. While historical writing has become far more diverse in recent years—entire fields focus on cultural and social transformations, as well as the history of women and oppressed communities—on certain subjects the “Great
- [The revolutionary role of Black soldiers in the Civil War](https://liberationschool.org/the-revolutionary-role-of-black-soldiers-in-the-civil-war/) - A Black History Month tribute On the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, it is obligatory to pay a special tribute to the Black soldiers who served in the Union Army. When the war first started, it seemed as if Black soldiers would never be allowed to fight in the Union Army. And yet ultimately,
- [How can police brutality be stopped?](https://liberationschool.org/how-can-police-brutality-be-stopped/) - On June 23, another case of police brutality in Los Angeles made national headlines. Police were caught on videotape viciously beating an unarmed 36-year-old Black man, Stanley Miller, with a large metal flashlight. Police claim Miller caused his own beating by running a stoplight and leading them on a 30-minute car chase through Compton, a
- [Still marching for jobs and freedom](https://liberationschool.org/still-marching-for-jobs-and-freedom/) - Lessons from the 1963 March on Washington and the movement we need today On Aug. 28, 1963, hundreds of thousands participated in the massive March on Washington, which many call the high point of the Civil Rights Movement. The movement radically transformed society, but any honest appraisal will admit that we still have not achieved
- ['Hustling' and the problems of daily life: Individual or collective solutions?](https://liberationschool.org/hustling-and-the-problems-of-daily-life/) - In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, thousands had to fend for themselves to find water, food and ice. Your mayor ain’t your friend, he’s your enemy Just to get your vote, a saint’s what he pretend to be If you don’t hustle, don’t use your energy You gonna be a cellmate or wind up as
- [Tactics and fighting slogans for the anti-police brutality movement](https://liberationschool.org/tactics-and-fighting-slogans-for-the-anti-police-brutality-movement/) - An updated study by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement revealed that every 28 hours, on average, law enforcement officers in the United States killed a Black person in 2012. The pandemic of police violence is largely concentrated against Black communities, but the increase in aggressive, militarized policing has spilled over into other communities as well,
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- [the state](https://liberationschool.org/tag/the-state-2/)
- [Jamaica](https://liberationschool.org/tag/jamaica/)
- [Reggae](https://liberationschool.org/tag/reggae/)
- [Peter Tosh](https://liberationschool.org/tag/peter-tosh/)
- [democratic centralism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/democratic-centralism-2/)
- [party building](https://liberationschool.org/tag/party-building/)
- [international communist movement](https://liberationschool.org/tag/international-communist-movement/)
- [capitalist crisis](https://liberationschool.org/tag/capitalist-crisis/)
- [overproduction](https://liberationschool.org/tag/overproduction/)
- [maroons](https://liberationschool.org/tag/maroons/)
- [Newton Knight](https://liberationschool.org/tag/newton-knight/)
- [anti-slavery](https://liberationschool.org/tag/anti-slavery/)
- [Free State of Jones](https://liberationschool.org/tag/free-state-of-jones/)
- [Cameroon](https://liberationschool.org/tag/cameroon/)
- [Chad](https://liberationschool.org/tag/chad/)
- [colonialism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/colonialism/)
- [Paulo Freire](https://liberationschool.org/tag/paulo-freire/)
- [pedagogy](https://liberationschool.org/tag/pedagogy/)
- [resistance](https://liberationschool.org/tag/resistance/)
- [agitation](https://liberationschool.org/tag/agitation/)
- [propaganda](https://liberationschool.org/tag/propaganda/)
- [Peru](https://liberationschool.org/tag/peru/)
- [Tupac Amaru II](https://liberationschool.org/tag/tupac-amaru-ii/)
- [McCarthyism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/mccarthyism/)
- [censorship](https://liberationschool.org/tag/censorship/)
- [free speech](https://liberationschool.org/tag/free-speech/)
- [International Women's Day](https://liberationschool.org/tag/international-womens-day/)
- [Women's Oppression](https://liberationschool.org/tag/womens-oppression/)
- [Trump](https://liberationschool.org/tag/trump/)
- [US history](https://liberationschool.org/tag/us-history/)
- [Watergate](https://liberationschool.org/tag/watergate/)
- [Hawaii](https://liberationschool.org/tag/hawaii/)
- [Laos](https://liberationschool.org/tag/laos/)
- [Vietnam War](https://liberationschool.org/tag/vietnam-war/)
- [Rohingya](https://liberationschool.org/tag/rohingya/)
- [Myanmar](https://liberationschool.org/tag/myanmar/)
- [Burma](https://liberationschool.org/tag/burma/)
- [Paul Robeson](https://liberationschool.org/tag/paul-robeson/)
- [Langston Hughes](https://liberationschool.org/tag/langston-hughes/)
- [Women's Liberation](https://liberationschool.org/tag/womens-liberation/)
- [Soviet Union](https://liberationschool.org/tag/soviet-union/)
- [Ireland](https://liberationschool.org/tag/ireland/)
- [fascism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/fascism/)
- [Donbass](https://liberationschool.org/tag/donbass/)
- [workers' democracy](https://liberationschool.org/tag/workers-democracy/)
- [data](https://liberationschool.org/tag/data/)
- [surveillance](https://liberationschool.org/tag/surveillance/)
- [whistleblowers](https://liberationschool.org/tag/whistleblowers/)
- [Yugoslavia](https://liberationschool.org/tag/yugoslavia/)
- [NATO](https://liberationschool.org/tag/nato/)
- [humanitarian intervention](https://liberationschool.org/tag/humanitarian-intervention/)
- [humanitarian imperialism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/humanitarian-imperialism/)
- [labor history](https://liberationschool.org/tag/labor-history/)
- [general strike](https://liberationschool.org/tag/general-strike/)
- [worker power](https://liberationschool.org/tag/worker-power/)
- [slogans](https://liberationschool.org/tag/slogans/)
- [activism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/activism/)
- [tactics](https://liberationschool.org/tag/tactics/)
- [strategy](https://liberationschool.org/tag/strategy/)
- [praxis](https://liberationschool.org/tag/praxis/)
- [Samir Amin](https://liberationschool.org/tag/samir-amin/)
- [historical materialism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/historical-materialism/)
- [Eurocentrism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/eurocentrism/)
- [George Jackson](https://liberationschool.org/tag/george-jackson/)
- [Political prisoners](https://liberationschool.org/tag/political-prisoners/)
- [prison strikes](https://liberationschool.org/tag/prison-strikes/)
- [allies](https://liberationschool.org/tag/allies/)
- [allyship](https://liberationschool.org/tag/allyship/)
- [comrade](https://liberationschool.org/tag/comrade/)
- [political organization](https://liberationschool.org/tag/political-organization/)
- [identity](https://liberationschool.org/tag/identity/)
- [2020 elections](https://liberationschool.org/tag/2020-elections/)
- [reform and revolution](https://liberationschool.org/tag/reform-and-revolution/)
- [bourgeois democracy](https://liberationschool.org/tag/bourgeois-democracy/)
- [social reproduction](https://liberationschool.org/tag/social-reproduction/)
- [Silvia Federici](https://liberationschool.org/tag/silvia-federici/)
- [primitive accumulation](https://liberationschool.org/tag/primitive-accumulation/)
- [Abner Berry](https://liberationschool.org/tag/abner-berry/)
- [Communist history](https://liberationschool.org/tag/communist-history/)
- [National question](https://liberationschool.org/tag/national-question/)
- [militant journalism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/militant-journalism/)
- [Presna Latina](https://liberationschool.org/tag/presna-latina/)
- [technology](https://liberationschool.org/tag/technology/)
- [automation](https://liberationschool.org/tag/automation/)
- [Brazil](https://liberationschool.org/tag/brazil/)
- [Bolsonaro](https://liberationschool.org/tag/bolsonaro/)
- [military dictatorship](https://liberationschool.org/tag/military-dictatorship/)
- [Years of Lead](https://liberationschool.org/tag/years-of-lead/)
- [DPRK](https://liberationschool.org/tag/dprk/)
- [Korea](https://liberationschool.org/tag/korea/)
- [anti-imperialism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/anti-imperialism/)
- [dual power](https://liberationschool.org/tag/dual-power/)
- [serve the people](https://liberationschool.org/tag/serve-the-people/)
- [base building](https://liberationschool.org/tag/base-building/)
- [Russian Revolution](https://liberationschool.org/tag/russian-revolution/)
- [Bolsheviks](https://liberationschool.org/tag/bolsheviks/)
- [women and socialism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/women-and-socialism/)
- [revolutionary optimism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/revolutionary-optimism/)
- [educational psychology](https://liberationschool.org/tag/educational-psychology/)
- [learning theories](https://liberationschool.org/tag/learning-theories/)
- [housing question](https://liberationschool.org/tag/housing-question/)
- [gentrification](https://liberationschool.org/tag/gentrification/)
- [housing struggles](https://liberationschool.org/tag/housing-struggles/)
- [dialectics](https://liberationschool.org/tag/dialectics/)
- [class struggle](https://liberationschool.org/tag/class-struggle/)
- [COVID-19](https://liberationschool.org/tag/covid-19/)
- [Coronavirus](https://liberationschool.org/tag/coronavirus/)
- [bank bail outs](https://liberationschool.org/tag/bank-bail-outs/)
- [opium war](https://liberationschool.org/tag/opium-war/)
- [industrial revolution](https://liberationschool.org/tag/industrial-revolution/)
- [Qing dynasty](https://liberationschool.org/tag/qing-dynasty/)
- [national liberation](https://liberationschool.org/tag/national-liberation/)
- [Chinese Revolution](https://liberationschool.org/tag/chinese-revolution/)
- [Chinese Communist Party](https://liberationschool.org/tag/chinese-communist-party/)
- [history](https://liberationschool.org/tag/history/)
- [Jiangxi Soviet](https://liberationschool.org/tag/jiangxi-soviet/)
- [The Long March](https://liberationschool.org/tag/the-long-march/)
- [twin tasks](https://liberationschool.org/tag/twin-tasks/)
- [socialist construction](https://liberationschool.org/tag/socialist-construction/)
- [sino-soviet split](https://liberationschool.org/tag/sino-soviet-split/)
- [Mao](https://liberationschool.org/tag/mao/)
- [Cultural Revolution](https://liberationschool.org/tag/cultural-revolution/)
- [Great Leap Forward](https://liberationschool.org/tag/great-leap-forward/)
- [global warming](https://liberationschool.org/tag/global-warming/)
- [environmental movement](https://liberationschool.org/tag/environmental-movement/)
- [global climate strike](https://liberationschool.org/tag/global-climate-strike/)
- [anti-racism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/anti-racism/)
- [one-child policy](https://liberationschool.org/tag/one-child-policy/)
- [labor unions](https://liberationschool.org/tag/labor-unions/)
- [Deng Xiaoping](https://liberationschool.org/tag/deng-xiaoping/)
- [Xi Jinping](https://liberationschool.org/tag/xi-jinping/)
- [four modernizations](https://liberationschool.org/tag/four-modernizations/)
- [socialism with chinese characteristics](https://liberationschool.org/tag/socialism-with-chinese-characteristics/)
- [Taiwan](https://liberationschool.org/tag/taiwan/)
- [Hong Kong](https://liberationschool.org/tag/hong-kong/)
- [Xinjiang](https://liberationschool.org/tag/xinjiang/)
- [South China Sea](https://liberationschool.org/tag/south-china-sea/)
- [internationalism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/internationalism/)
- [Pivot to Asia](https://liberationschool.org/tag/pivot-to-asia/)
- [self-determination](https://liberationschool.org/tag/self-determination/)
- [market socialism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/market-socialism/)
- [New Cold War](https://liberationschool.org/tag/new-cold-war/)
- [Korean War](https://liberationschool.org/tag/korean-war/)
- [international solidarity](https://liberationschool.org/tag/international-solidarity/)
- [commodities](https://liberationschool.org/tag/commodities/)
- [socially necessary labor-time](https://liberationschool.org/tag/socially-necessary-labor-time/)
- [value](https://liberationschool.org/tag/value/)
- [commodity exchange](https://liberationschool.org/tag/commodity-exchange/)
- [money](https://liberationschool.org/tag/money/)
- [functions of money](https://liberationschool.org/tag/functions-of-money/)
- [labor-power](https://liberationschool.org/tag/labor-power/)
- [police abolition](https://liberationschool.org/tag/police-abolition/)
- [exploitation](https://liberationschool.org/tag/exploitation/)
- [relative surplus-value](https://liberationschool.org/tag/relative-surplus-value/)
- [surplus-value](https://liberationschool.org/tag/surplus-value/)
- [formal subjection](https://liberationschool.org/tag/formal-subjection/)
- [real subjection](https://liberationschool.org/tag/real-subjection/)
- [slavery](https://liberationschool.org/tag/slavery/)
- [Alexandra Kollontai](https://liberationschool.org/tag/alexandra-kollontai/)
- [borgeois feminism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/borgeois-feminism/)
- [socialist feminism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/socialist-feminism/)
- [machinery](https://liberationschool.org/tag/machinery/)
- [wages](https://liberationschool.org/tag/wages/)
- [simple reproduction](https://liberationschool.org/tag/simple-reproduction/)
- [base and superstructure](https://liberationschool.org/tag/base-and-superstructure/)
- [the family](https://liberationschool.org/tag/the-family/)
- [love](https://liberationschool.org/tag/love/)
- [solidarity](https://liberationschool.org/tag/solidarity/)
- [industrial reserve army](https://liberationschool.org/tag/industrial-reserve-army/)
- [dangerous classes](https://liberationschool.org/tag/dangerous-classes/)
- [composition of capital](https://liberationschool.org/tag/composition-of-capital/)
- [the working class](https://liberationschool.org/tag/the-working-class/)
- [discipline](https://liberationschool.org/tag/discipline/)
- [Capital](https://liberationschool.org/tag/capital/)
- [expropriation](https://liberationschool.org/tag/expropriation/)
- [socialist aesthetics](https://liberationschool.org/tag/socialist-aesthetics/)
- [soviet music](https://liberationschool.org/tag/soviet-music/)
- [abolition](https://liberationschool.org/tag/abolition/)
- [civil war](https://liberationschool.org/tag/civil-war/)
- [black-white solidarity](https://liberationschool.org/tag/black-white-solidarity/)
- [public education](https://liberationschool.org/tag/public-education/)
- [prisons](https://liberationschool.org/tag/prisons/)
- [Trans liberation](https://liberationschool.org/tag/trans-liberation/)
- [Sylvia Rivera](https://liberationschool.org/tag/sylvia-rivera/)
- [Marsha P. Johnson](https://liberationschool.org/tag/marsha-p-johnson/)
- [STAR](https://liberationschool.org/tag/star/)
- [LGBTQ liberation](https://liberationschool.org/tag/lgbtq-liberation/)
- [Caliban and the Witch](https://liberationschool.org/tag/caliban-and-the-witch/)
- [marxist feminism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/marxist-feminism/)
- [class unity](https://liberationschool.org/tag/class-unity/)
- [alternative energy](https://liberationschool.org/tag/alternative-energy/)
- [reforestation](https://liberationschool.org/tag/reforestation/)
- [Blockade](https://liberationschool.org/tag/blockade/)
- [Regime change](https://liberationschool.org/tag/regime-change/)
- [economic warfare](https://liberationschool.org/tag/economic-warfare/)
- [National Constituent Assembly](https://liberationschool.org/tag/national-constituent-assembly/)
- [Bolivarian Revolution](https://liberationschool.org/tag/bolivarian-revolution/)
- [revolutionary psychology](https://liberationschool.org/tag/revolutionary-psychology/)
- [Antonio Gramsci](https://liberationschool.org/tag/antonio-gramsci/)
- [hegemony](https://liberationschool.org/tag/hegemony/)
- [organic intellectual](https://liberationschool.org/tag/organic-intellectual/)
- [Leninist Party](https://liberationschool.org/tag/leninist-party/)
- [The Party](https://liberationschool.org/tag/the-party/)
- [Thomas Sankara](https://liberationschool.org/tag/thomas-sankara/)
- [Burkina Faso](https://liberationschool.org/tag/burkina-faso/)
- [Burkinabe](https://liberationschool.org/tag/burkinabe/)
- [Pan-Africanism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/pan-africanism/)
- [revolutionaries](https://liberationschool.org/tag/revolutionaries/)
- [African Revolutions](https://liberationschool.org/tag/african-revolutions/)
- [decolonialism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/decolonialism/)
- [anti-colonialism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/anti-colonialism/)
- [education](https://liberationschool.org/tag/education/)
- [Grundrisse](https://liberationschool.org/tag/grundrisse/)
- [Black buying power](https://liberationschool.org/tag/black-buying-power/)
- [Black capitalism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/black-capitalism/)
- [wolfowitz doctrine](https://liberationschool.org/tag/wolfowitz-doctrine/)
- [imperialist strategies](https://liberationschool.org/tag/imperialist-strategies/)
- [socialism and the environment](https://liberationschool.org/tag/socialism-and-the-environment/)
- [audio available](https://liberationschool.org/tag/audio-available/)
- [price and value](https://liberationschool.org/tag/price-and-value/)
- [surplus value and profit](https://liberationschool.org/tag/surplus-value-and-profit/)
- [absolute surplus value](https://liberationschool.org/tag/absolute-surplus-value/)
- [Marxist education](https://liberationschool.org/tag/marxist-education/)
- [bill gates](https://liberationschool.org/tag/bill-gates/)
- [how to avoid a climate disaster](https://liberationschool.org/tag/how-to-avoid-a-climate-disaster/)
- [Anna Julia Cooper](https://liberationschool.org/tag/anna-julia-cooper/)
- [educational history](https://liberationschool.org/tag/educational-history/)
- [suffrage](https://liberationschool.org/tag/suffrage/)
- [title ix](https://liberationschool.org/tag/title-ix/)
- [civil rights movement](https://liberationschool.org/tag/civil-rights-movement/)
- [homelessness](https://liberationschool.org/tag/homelessness/)
- [cancel the rents](https://liberationschool.org/tag/cancel-the-rents/)
- [capitalism and cities](https://liberationschool.org/tag/capitalism-and-cities/)
- [Karl Marx](https://liberationschool.org/tag/karl-marx/)
- [Jodi Dean](https://liberationschool.org/tag/jodi-dean/)
- [Vietnamese Revolution](https://liberationschool.org/tag/vietnamese-revolution/)
- [Dien Bien Phu](https://liberationschool.org/tag/dien-bien-phu/)
- [Trung sisters](https://liberationschool.org/tag/trung-sisters/)
- [Indochinese Communist Party](https://liberationschool.org/tag/indochinese-communist-party/)
- [Black communists](https://liberationschool.org/tag/black-communists/)
- [multinational unity](https://liberationschool.org/tag/multinational-unity/)
- [Tacoma Method](https://liberationschool.org/tag/tacoma-method/)
- [Japanese internment](https://liberationschool.org/tag/japanese-internment/)
- [Ir Wor Keun](https://liberationschool.org/tag/ir-wor-keun/)
- [settler-colonialism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/settler-colonialism/)
- [Israel](https://liberationschool.org/tag/israel/)
- [apartheid](https://liberationschool.org/tag/apartheid/)
- [degrowth](https://liberationschool.org/tag/degrowth/)
- [green technology](https://liberationschool.org/tag/green-technology/)
- [capitalist class](https://liberationschool.org/tag/capitalist-class/)
- [class composition](https://liberationschool.org/tag/class-composition/)
- [Business Plot](https://liberationschool.org/tag/business-plot/)
- [Smedley Butler](https://liberationschool.org/tag/smedley-butler/)
- [Bonus Army](https://liberationschool.org/tag/bonus-army/)
- [New Deal](https://liberationschool.org/tag/new-deal/)
- [FDR](https://liberationschool.org/tag/fdr/)
- [captitalism and cities](https://liberationschool.org/tag/captitalism-and-cities/)
- [urbanism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/urbanism/)
- [Giorgos Kallis](https://liberationschool.org/tag/giorgos-kallis/)
- [accumulation](https://liberationschool.org/tag/accumulation/)
- [industrial farming](https://liberationschool.org/tag/industrial-farming/)
- [agriculture](https://liberationschool.org/tag/agriculture/)
- [food production](https://liberationschool.org/tag/food-production/)
- [dialectical materialism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/dialectical-materialism/)
- [police state](https://liberationschool.org/tag/police-state/)
- [history of fascism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/history-of-fascism/)
- [PSL course](https://liberationschool.org/tag/psl-course/)
- [National Security Law](https://liberationschool.org/tag/national-security-law/)
- [Compton Cafeteria Riot](https://liberationschool.org/tag/compton-cafeteria-riot/)
- [Harry Benjamin](https://liberationschool.org/tag/harry-benjamin/)
- [Vanguard](https://liberationschool.org/tag/vanguard/)
- [Walter Rodney](https://liberationschool.org/tag/walter-rodney/)
- [Black August](https://liberationschool.org/tag/black-august/)
- [Chinese history](https://liberationschool.org/tag/chinese-history/)
- [market economies](https://liberationschool.org/tag/market-economies/)
- [Asiatic Mode of Production](https://liberationschool.org/tag/asiatic-mode-of-production/)
- [Eastern capitalist development](https://liberationschool.org/tag/eastern-capitalist-development/)
- [People's Republic of China](https://liberationschool.org/tag/peoples-republic-of-china/)
- [Groundings](https://liberationschool.org/tag/groundings/)
- [neocolonialism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/neocolonialism/)
- [Black Power](https://liberationschool.org/tag/black-power/)
- [capitalist development](https://liberationschool.org/tag/capitalist-development/)
- [Assata Shakur](https://liberationschool.org/tag/assata-shakur/)
- [Black Liberation Army](https://liberationschool.org/tag/black-liberation-army/)
- [Black Panther Party](https://liberationschool.org/tag/black-panther-party/)
- [COINTELPRO](https://liberationschool.org/tag/cointelpro/)
- [Robin D.G. Kelley](https://liberationschool.org/tag/robin-d-g-kelley/)
- [Hammer and Hoe](https://liberationschool.org/tag/hammer-and-hoe/)
- [Great Depression](https://liberationschool.org/tag/great-depression/)
- [Scottsboro Boys](https://liberationschool.org/tag/scottsboro-boys/)
- [ideology](https://liberationschool.org/tag/ideology/)
- [commodity fetishism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/commodity-fetishism/)
- [The German Ideology](https://liberationschool.org/tag/the-german-ideology/)
- [consciousness](https://liberationschool.org/tag/consciousness/)
- [collective worker](https://liberationschool.org/tag/collective-worker/)
- [Asian American history](https://liberationschool.org/tag/asian-american-history/)
- [imperialism and racism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/imperialism-and-racism/)
- [Asian American resistance](https://liberationschool.org/tag/asian-american-resistance/)
- [Afro-Asian unity](https://liberationschool.org/tag/afro-asian-unity/)
- [Black Lives Matter](https://liberationschool.org/tag/black-lives-matter/)
- [book review](https://liberationschool.org/tag/book-review/)
- [comprador bourgeoisie](https://liberationschool.org/tag/comprador-bourgeoisie/)
- [Defund the Police](https://liberationschool.org/tag/defund-the-police/)
- [economic development](https://liberationschool.org/tag/economic-development/)
- [Friedrich Engels](https://liberationschool.org/tag/friedrich-engels/)
- [Kwame Nkrumah](https://liberationschool.org/tag/kwame-nkrumah/)
- [metabolic rift](https://liberationschool.org/tag/metabolic-rift/)
- [Montly Review](https://liberationschool.org/tag/montly-review/)
- [Mumia Abu-Jamal](https://liberationschool.org/tag/mumia-abu-jamal/)
- [Pedagogy of the Oppressed](https://liberationschool.org/tag/pedagogy-of-the-oppressed/)
- [political economy](https://liberationschool.org/tag/political-economy/)
- [production of nature](https://liberationschool.org/tag/production-of-nature/)
- [proletarian internationalism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/proletarian-internationalism/)
- [revolutionary education](https://liberationschool.org/tag/revolutionary-education/)
- [revolutionary leadership](https://liberationschool.org/tag/revolutionary-leadership/)
- [revolutionary movements](https://liberationschool.org/tag/revolutionary-movements/)
- [revolutionary theory](https://liberationschool.org/tag/revolutionary-theory/)
- [Scramble for Africa](https://liberationschool.org/tag/scramble-for-africa/)
- [Ten Crises](https://liberationschool.org/tag/ten-crises/)
- [Upper Volta](https://liberationschool.org/tag/upper-volta/)
- [Wen Tiejun](https://liberationschool.org/tag/wen-tiejun/)
- [abstraction](https://liberationschool.org/tag/abstraction/)
- [alienation](https://liberationschool.org/tag/alienation/)
- [humanism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/humanism/)
- [African Marxism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/african-marxism/)
- [Aimé Césaire](https://liberationschool.org/tag/aime-cesaire/)
- [Black Institute](https://liberationschool.org/tag/black-institute/)
- [Cheikh Anta Diop](https://liberationschool.org/tag/cheikh-anta-diop/)
- [prison abolition](https://liberationschool.org/tag/prison-abolition/)
- [mass incarceration](https://liberationschool.org/tag/mass-incarceration/)
- [national oppression](https://liberationschool.org/tag/national-oppression/)
- [dictatorship of the proletariat](https://liberationschool.org/tag/dictatorship-of-the-proletariat/)
- [revolution](https://liberationschool.org/tag/revolution/)
- [Social Democratic Party](https://liberationschool.org/tag/social-democratic-party/)
- [Ferdinand Lassalle](https://liberationschool.org/tag/ferdinand-lassalle/)
- [W.E.B. Du Bois](https://liberationschool.org/tag/w-e-b-du-bois/)
- [rent](https://liberationschool.org/tag/rent/)
- [rent gap](https://liberationschool.org/tag/rent-gap/)
- [broken windows policing](https://liberationschool.org/tag/broken-windows-policing/)
- [Neil Smith](https://liberationschool.org/tag/neil-smith/)
- [redevelopment](https://liberationschool.org/tag/redevelopment/)
- [Blood in my Eye](https://liberationschool.org/tag/blood-in-my-eye/)
- [Soledad Brothers](https://liberationschool.org/tag/soledad-brothers/)
- [geopolitics](https://liberationschool.org/tag/geopolitics/)
- [ussr](https://liberationschool.org/tag/ussr/)
- [black struggle](https://liberationschool.org/tag/black-struggle/)
- [voting](https://liberationschool.org/tag/voting/)
- [2020](https://liberationschool.org/tag/2020/)
- [uprising](https://liberationschool.org/tag/uprising/)
- [insurrection](https://liberationschool.org/tag/insurrection/)
- [politics](https://liberationschool.org/tag/politics/)
- [polling](https://liberationschool.org/tag/polling/)
- [dialogic pedagogy](https://liberationschool.org/tag/dialogic-pedagogy/)
- [Black Reconstruction in America](https://liberationschool.org/tag/black-reconstruction-in-america/)
- [white supremacy](https://liberationschool.org/tag/white-supremacy/)
- [reproductive rights](https://liberationschool.org/tag/reproductive-rights/)
- [patriarchy](https://liberationschool.org/tag/patriarchy/)
- [aborton](https://liberationschool.org/tag/aborton/)
- [superstructure](https://liberationschool.org/tag/superstructure/)
- [gender and class society](https://liberationschool.org/tag/gender-and-class-society/)
- [The "New Right"](https://liberationschool.org/tag/the-new-right/)
- [Marx](https://liberationschool.org/tag/marx/)
- [falling rate of profit](https://liberationschool.org/tag/falling-rate-of-profit/)
- [Marxist economics](https://liberationschool.org/tag/marxist-economics/)
- [Marxist political economy](https://liberationschool.org/tag/marxist-political-economy/)
- [socialist struggle](https://liberationschool.org/tag/socialist-struggle/)
- [critical theory industry](https://liberationschool.org/tag/critical-theory-industry/)
- [socialist consciousness](https://liberationschool.org/tag/socialist-consciousness/)
- [Vygotsky](https://liberationschool.org/tag/vygotsky/)
- [Nazism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/nazism/)
- [Azov Battalion](https://liberationschool.org/tag/azov-battalion/)
- [Right Sector](https://liberationschool.org/tag/right-sector/)
- [Jacques Pauwels](https://liberationschool.org/tag/jacques-pauwels/)
- [French Revolution](https://liberationschool.org/tag/french-revolution/)
- [Paris Commune](https://liberationschool.org/tag/paris-commune/)
- [Bolshevik Revolution](https://liberationschool.org/tag/bolshevik-revolution/)
- [methodology](https://liberationschool.org/tag/methodology/)
- [social formations](https://liberationschool.org/tag/social-formations/)
- [Party for Socialism and Liberation](https://liberationschool.org/tag/party-for-socialism-and-liberation/)
- [PSL](https://liberationschool.org/tag/psl/)
- [socialist movement today](https://liberationschool.org/tag/socialist-movement-today/)
- [Radio Havana Cuba](https://liberationschool.org/tag/radio-havana-cuba/)
- [African National Congress](https://liberationschool.org/tag/african-national-congress/)
- [Nelson Mandela](https://liberationschool.org/tag/nelson-mandela/)
- [liberation theology](https://liberationschool.org/tag/liberation-theology/)
- [marxism and religion](https://liberationschool.org/tag/marxism-and-religion/)
- [religion](https://liberationschool.org/tag/religion/)
- [Chinese Marxism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/chinese-marxism/)
- [Karl Radek](https://liberationschool.org/tag/karl-radek/)
- [socialist revolution](https://liberationschool.org/tag/socialist-revolution/)
- [Ho Chi Minh](https://liberationschool.org/tag/ho-chi-minh/)
- [political revolutions](https://liberationschool.org/tag/political-revolutions/)
- [social revolutions](https://liberationschool.org/tag/social-revolutions/)
- [Black Studies](https://liberationschool.org/tag/black-studies/)
- [police](https://liberationschool.org/tag/police/)
- [democracy](https://liberationschool.org/tag/democracy/)
- [Jim Crow](https://liberationschool.org/tag/jim-crow/)
- [U.S. Revolution](https://liberationschool.org/tag/u-s-revolution/)
- [U.S. history](https://liberationschool.org/tag/u-s-history/)
- [U.S. Constitution](https://liberationschool.org/tag/u-s-constitution/)
- [Constitutional Conventions](https://liberationschool.org/tag/constitutional-conventions/)
- [American Revolution](https://liberationschool.org/tag/american-revolution/)
- [Socialist Reconstruction in America](https://liberationschool.org/tag/socialist-reconstruction-in-america/)
- [PSL publications](https://liberationschool.org/tag/psl-publications/)
- [socialist movements today](https://liberationschool.org/tag/socialist-movements-today/)
- [actuality of revolution](https://liberationschool.org/tag/actuality-of-revolution/)
- [Supreme Court](https://liberationschool.org/tag/supreme-court/)
- [Marbury v. Madison](https://liberationschool.org/tag/marbury-v-madison/)
- [judicial review](https://liberationschool.org/tag/judicial-review/)
- [Crimes of the Supreme Court](https://liberationschool.org/tag/crimes-of-the-supreme-court/)
- [Marxist legal theory](https://liberationschool.org/tag/marxist-legal-theory/)
- [Great Railroad Strike of 1877](https://liberationschool.org/tag/great-railroad-strike-of-1877/)
- [militancy](https://liberationschool.org/tag/militancy/)
- [Railway workers](https://liberationschool.org/tag/railway-workers/)
- [labor struggles](https://liberationschool.org/tag/labor-struggles/)
- [Shelby v. Holder](https://liberationschool.org/tag/shelby-v-holder/)
- [Shelby County](https://liberationschool.org/tag/shelby-county/)
- [Voting Rights Act](https://liberationschool.org/tag/voting-rights-act/)
- [gerrymandering](https://liberationschool.org/tag/gerrymandering/)
- [War on Black America](https://liberationschool.org/tag/war-on-black-america/)
- [anti-communism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/anti-communism/)
- [Jonah Birch](https://liberationschool.org/tag/jonah-birch/)
- [anti-fascism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/anti-fascism/)
- [Gary Gerstle](https://liberationschool.org/tag/gary-gerstle/)
- [neoliberalism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/neoliberalism/)
- [Islamaphobia](https://liberationschool.org/tag/islamaphobia/)
- [interviews](https://liberationschool.org/tag/interviews/)
- [revolución socialista](https://liberationschool.org/tag/revolucion-socialista/)
- [revolución social](https://liberationschool.org/tag/revolucion-social/)
- [la Comuna de París](https://liberationschool.org/tag/la-comuna-de-paris/)
- [Marx y Engels](https://liberationschool.org/tag/marx-y-engels/)
- [partido político](https://liberationschool.org/tag/partido-politico/)
- [Imperialismo](https://liberationschool.org/tag/imperialismo/)
- [colonialismo](https://liberationschool.org/tag/colonialismo/)
- [la teoría marxista](https://liberationschool.org/tag/la-teoria-marxista/)
- [Internacionalismo proletario](https://liberationschool.org/tag/internacionalismo-proletario/)
- [Amílcar Cabral](https://liberationschool.org/tag/amilcar-cabral/)
- [PAIGC](https://liberationschool.org/tag/paigc/)
- [Guinea-Bissau](https://liberationschool.org/tag/guinea-bissau/)
- [Cape Verde](https://liberationschool.org/tag/cape-verde/)
- [inflation](https://liberationschool.org/tag/inflation/)
- [recession](https://liberationschool.org/tag/recession/)
- [Federal Reserve](https://liberationschool.org/tag/federal-reserve/)
- [interest rates](https://liberationschool.org/tag/interest-rates/)
- [monopoly](https://liberationschool.org/tag/monopoly/)
- [profit motive](https://liberationschool.org/tag/profit-motive/)
- [centralization](https://liberationschool.org/tag/centralization/)
- [corporate personhood](https://liberationschool.org/tag/corporate-personhood/)
- [Santa Clara County](https://liberationschool.org/tag/santa-clara-county/)
- [Southern Pacific Railroad](https://liberationschool.org/tag/southern-pacific-railroad/)
- [monopoly capital](https://liberationschool.org/tag/monopoly-capital/)
- [14th amendment](https://liberationschool.org/tag/14th-amendment/)
- [Equal Protection Clause](https://liberationschool.org/tag/equal-protection-clause/)
- [Slaughterhouse Cases](https://liberationschool.org/tag/slaughterhouse-cases/)
- [French Socliast Party](https://liberationschool.org/tag/french-socliast-party/)
- [Le Matin de Paris](https://liberationschool.org/tag/le-matin-de-paris/)
- [abstracción](https://liberationschool.org/tag/abstraccion/)
- [alienación](https://liberationschool.org/tag/alienacion/)
- [humanismo](https://liberationschool.org/tag/humanismo/)
- [care work](https://liberationschool.org/tag/care-work/)
- [mutual aid](https://liberationschool.org/tag/mutual-aid/)
- [El trabajo doméstico](https://liberationschool.org/tag/el-trabajo-domestico/)
- [guerra](https://liberationschool.org/tag/guerra/)
- [Ucrania](https://liberationschool.org/tag/ucrania/)
- [neoliberalismo](https://liberationschool.org/tag/neoliberalismo/)
- [el capitalismo](https://liberationschool.org/tag/el-capitalismo/)
- [la clase capitalista](https://liberationschool.org/tag/la-clase-capitalista/)
- [la composición de las clases](https://liberationschool.org/tag/la-composicion-de-las-clases/)
- [el estado](https://liberationschool.org/tag/el-estado/)
- [La ideología alemana](https://liberationschool.org/tag/la-ideologia-alemana/)
- [trabajador colectivo](https://liberationschool.org/tag/trabajador-colectivo/)
- [fetichismo de la mercancía](https://liberationschool.org/tag/fetichismo-de-la-mercancia/)
- [conciencia](https://liberationschool.org/tag/conciencia/)
- [materialismo histórico](https://liberationschool.org/tag/materialismo-historico/)
- [ideología](https://liberationschool.org/tag/ideologia/)
- [teoría marxista](https://liberationschool.org/tag/teoria-marxista/)
- [John Bellamy Foster](https://liberationschool.org/tag/john-bellamy-foster/)
- [Uneven Development](https://liberationschool.org/tag/uneven-development/)
- [Dialectics of Nature](https://liberationschool.org/tag/dialectics-of-nature/)
- [Liu Liangmo](https://liberationschool.org/tag/liu-liangmo/)
- [Chiang Kai-Shek](https://liberationschool.org/tag/chiang-kai-shek/)
- [Afro-Asian Solidarity](https://liberationschool.org/tag/afro-asian-solidarity/)
- [Cold War](https://liberationschool.org/tag/cold-war/)
- [cultural workers](https://liberationschool.org/tag/cultural-workers/)
- [La Segunda Ola del feminismo](https://liberationschool.org/tag/la-segunda-ola-del-feminismo/)
- [NOW](https://liberationschool.org/tag/now/)
- [Combahee River Collective](https://liberationschool.org/tag/combahee-river-collective/)
- [El feminismo asiáticoamericano](https://liberationschool.org/tag/el-feminismo-asiaticoamericano/)
- [El feminismo negro](https://liberationschool.org/tag/el-feminismo-negro/)
- [El feminismo socialista](https://liberationschool.org/tag/el-feminismo-socialista/)
- [El feminismo marxista](https://liberationschool.org/tag/el-feminismo-marxista/)
- [El feminismo liberal](https://liberationschool.org/tag/el-feminismo-liberal/)
- [Claudia Jones](https://liberationschool.org/tag/claudia-jones/)
- [Cultrual Revolution](https://liberationschool.org/tag/cultrual-revolution/)
- [China Speaks](https://liberationschool.org/tag/china-speaks/)
- [Pittsburgh Courier](https://liberationschool.org/tag/pittsburgh-courier/)
- [CPUSA](https://liberationschool.org/tag/cpusa/)
- [super-exploitation](https://liberationschool.org/tag/super-exploitation/)
- [Powell Memo](https://liberationschool.org/tag/powell-memo/)
- [Lewis F. Powell Jr.](https://liberationschool.org/tag/lewis-f-powell-jr/)
- [tobacco corporations](https://liberationschool.org/tag/tobacco-corporations/)
- [U.S. Chamber of Commerce](https://liberationschool.org/tag/u-s-chamber-of-commerce/)
- [plusvalía absoluta](https://liberationschool.org/tag/plusvalia-absoluta/)
- [lucha de clases](https://liberationschool.org/tag/lucha-de-clases/)
- [explotación](https://liberationschool.org/tag/explotacion/)
- [precio y valor](https://liberationschool.org/tag/precio-y-valor/)
- [plusvalía y ganancia](https://liberationschool.org/tag/plusvalia-y-ganancia/)
- [plusvalía](https://liberationschool.org/tag/plusvalia/)
- [counterrevolution](https://liberationschool.org/tag/counterrevolution/)
- [corporate speech](https://liberationschool.org/tag/corporate-speech/)
- [Janus v. AFSCME](https://liberationschool.org/tag/janus-v-afscme/)
- [Abood v. Detroit Board of Education](https://liberationschool.org/tag/abood-v-detroit-board-of-education/)
- [Taft-Hartley Act](https://liberationschool.org/tag/taft-hartley-act/)
- [unions](https://liberationschool.org/tag/unions/)
- [organized labor](https://liberationschool.org/tag/organized-labor/)
- [Bruce Rauner](https://liberationschool.org/tag/bruce-rauner/)
- [Illinois Policy Institute](https://liberationschool.org/tag/illinois-policy-institute/)
- [Liberty Justice Center](https://liberationschool.org/tag/liberty-justice-center/)
- [labor struggle](https://liberationschool.org/tag/labor-struggle/)
- [biography](https://liberationschool.org/tag/biography/)
- [Die Zukunft](https://liberationschool.org/tag/die-zukunft/)
- [history of Marxism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/history-of-marxism/)
- [working-class struggle](https://liberationschool.org/tag/working-class-struggle/)
- [Black history](https://liberationschool.org/tag/black-history/)
- [radical reconstruction](https://liberationschool.org/tag/radical-reconstruction/)
- [decoration day](https://liberationschool.org/tag/decoration-day/)
- [Burkinabè revolution](https://liberationschool.org/tag/burkinabe-revolution/)
- [African liberation](https://liberationschool.org/tag/african-liberation/)
- [revolutionary process](https://liberationschool.org/tag/revolutionary-process/)
- [Ivory Coast](https://liberationschool.org/tag/ivory-coast/)
- [Organization of African Unity](https://liberationschool.org/tag/organization-of-african-unity/)
- [levantamiento de la cafetería Compton’s](https://liberationschool.org/tag/levantamiento-de-la-cafeteria-comptons/)
- [Liberación LGBTQ](https://liberationschool.org/tag/liberacion-lgbtq/)
- [Susan Stryker](https://liberationschool.org/tag/susan-stryker/)
- [public space](https://liberationschool.org/tag/public-space/)
- [vanguardia](https://liberationschool.org/tag/vanguardia/)
- [Young Lords](https://liberationschool.org/tag/young-lords/)
- [State and revolution](https://liberationschool.org/tag/state-and-revolution/)
- [the Paris commune](https://liberationschool.org/tag/the-paris-commune/)
- [marx and engels on the state](https://liberationschool.org/tag/marx-and-engels-on-the-state/)
- [The Communist Manifesto](https://liberationschool.org/tag/the-communist-manifesto/)
- [The Bolshevik Revolution](https://liberationschool.org/tag/the-bolshevik-revolution/)
- [foundations of marxism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/foundations-of-marxism/)
- [capitalist states](https://liberationschool.org/tag/capitalist-states/)
- [socialist states](https://liberationschool.org/tag/socialist-states/)
- [ideological state apparatuses](https://liberationschool.org/tag/ideological-state-apparatuses/)
- [schooling](https://liberationschool.org/tag/schooling/)
- [weak points in capitalist rule](https://liberationschool.org/tag/weak-points-in-capitalist-rule/)
- [schoolng](https://liberationschool.org/tag/schoolng/)
- [peace movement](https://liberationschool.org/tag/peace-movement/)
- [1804 books](https://liberationschool.org/tag/1804-books/)
- [Leslie Feinberg](https://liberationschool.org/tag/leslie-feinberg/)
- [Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue](https://liberationschool.org/tag/trans-liberation-beyond-pink-or-blue/)
- [LGBTQ oppression](https://liberationschool.org/tag/lgbtq-oppression/)
- [LGBTQ resistance](https://liberationschool.org/tag/lgbtq-resistance/)
- [transgender oppression](https://liberationschool.org/tag/transgender-oppression/)
- [transgender liberation](https://liberationschool.org/tag/transgender-liberation/)
- [LGBTQ heroes](https://liberationschool.org/tag/lgbtq-heroes/)
- [working-class unity](https://liberationschool.org/tag/working-class-unity/)
- [Stonewall Rebellion](https://liberationschool.org/tag/stonewall-rebellion/)
- [bigotry](https://liberationschool.org/tag/bigotry/)
- [working-clas history](https://liberationschool.org/tag/working-clas-history/)
- [CeCe McDonald](https://liberationschool.org/tag/cece-mcdonald/)
- [Stone Butch Blues](https://liberationschool.org/tag/stone-butch-blues/)
- [comradeship](https://liberationschool.org/tag/comradeship/)
- [unity](https://liberationschool.org/tag/unity/)
- [Clara Zetkin](https://liberationschool.org/tag/clara-zetkin/)
- [white privilege](https://liberationschool.org/tag/white-privilege/)
- [online activism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/online-activism/)
- [limits to allyship](https://liberationschool.org/tag/limits-to-allyship/)
- [revolutionary politics](https://liberationschool.org/tag/revolutionary-politics/)
- [collectivity](https://liberationschool.org/tag/collectivity/)
- [individualism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/individualism/)
- [The Romance of American Communism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/the-romance-of-american-communism/)
- [tovarish](https://liberationschool.org/tag/tovarish/)
- [gender](https://liberationschool.org/tag/gender/)
- [Liu Shaoqi](https://liberationschool.org/tag/liu-shaoqi/)
- [subbotniks](https://liberationschool.org/tag/subbotniks/)
- [alliances](https://liberationschool.org/tag/alliances/)
- [Black Freedom Movement](https://liberationschool.org/tag/black-freedom-movement/)
- [Liberación Negra](https://liberationschool.org/es/tag/liberacion-negra/)
- [huelgas carcelarias](https://liberationschool.org/tag/huelgas-carcelarias-en/)
- [Liberación Negra](https://liberationschool.org/tag/liberacion-negra-en/)
- [Preso políticos](https://liberationschool.org/tag/preso-politicos-en/)
- [antiimperialismo](https://liberationschool.org/tag/antiimperialismo/)
- [Agosto Negro](https://liberationschool.org/tag/agosto-negro/)
- [Movimiento por la Liberación Negra](https://liberationschool.org/tag/movimiento-por-la-liberacion-negra/)
- [las Panteras Negras](https://liberationschool.org/tag/las-panteras-negras/)
- [internacionalismo](https://liberationschool.org/tag/internacionalismo/)
- [Panafricanismo](https://liberationschool.org/tag/panafricanismo/)
- [Presos politícos](https://liberationschool.org/tag/presos-politicos/)
- [anti-capitalism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/anti-capitalism/)
- [Ahn Hak-sop](https://liberationschool.org/tag/ahn-hak-sop/)
- [prisoners of conscience](https://liberationschool.org/tag/prisoners-of-conscience/)
- [Republic of Korea](https://liberationschool.org/tag/republic-of-korea/)
- [reunification](https://liberationschool.org/tag/reunification/)
- [rebellion](https://liberationschool.org/tag/rebellion/)
- [racism and capitalism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/racism-and-capitalism/)
- [carceral logic](https://liberationschool.org/tag/carceral-logic/)
- [Revolutionary Cuba](https://liberationschool.org/tag/revolutionary-cuba/)
- [sponge cities](https://liberationschool.org/tag/sponge-cities/)
- [heat cities](https://liberationschool.org/tag/heat-cities/)
- [heat island](https://liberationschool.org/tag/heat-island/)
- [Marxism and nature](https://liberationschool.org/tag/marxism-and-nature/)
- [capitalist urbanization](https://liberationschool.org/tag/capitalist-urbanization/)
- [socialist planning](https://liberationschool.org/tag/socialist-planning/)
- [socialist reconstruction](https://liberationschool.org/tag/socialist-reconstruction/)
- [hardscapes](https://liberationschool.org/tag/hardscapes/)
- [Kongjian Yu](https://liberationschool.org/tag/kongjian-yu/)
- [estados capitalistas](https://liberationschool.org/tag/estados-capitalistas/)
- [fundamentos del marxismo](https://liberationschool.org/tag/fundamentos-del-marxismo/)
- [aparatos ideológicos del estado](https://liberationschool.org/tag/aparatos-ideologicos-del-estado/)
- [Lenin Marx y Engels y el estado](https://liberationschool.org/tag/lenin-marx-y-engels-y-el-estado/)
- [teoría revolucionaria](https://liberationschool.org/tag/teoria-revolucionaria/)
- [escolarización](https://liberationschool.org/tag/escolarizacion/)
- [socialismo](https://liberationschool.org/tag/socialismo/)
- [conciencia socialista](https://liberationschool.org/tag/conciencia-socialista/)
- [estados socialistas](https://liberationschool.org/tag/estados-socialistas/)
- [el estado y la revolución](https://liberationschool.org/tag/el-estado-y-la-revolucion/)
- [La Revolución Bolchevique](https://liberationschool.org/tag/la-revolucion-bolchevique/)
- [El Manifiesto Comunista](https://liberationschool.org/tag/el-manifiesto-comunista/)
- [puntos débiles en el dominio capitalista](https://liberationschool.org/tag/puntos-debiles-en-el-dominio-capitalista/)
- [legal system](https://liberationschool.org/tag/legal-system/)
- [culture](https://liberationschool.org/tag/culture/)
- [economism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/economism/)
- [Engels](https://liberationschool.org/tag/engels/)
- [economic determinism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/economic-determinism/)
- [Walter Borgius](https://liberationschool.org/tag/walter-borgius/)
- [The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte](https://liberationschool.org/tag/the-eighteenth-brumaire-of-louis-bonaparte/)
- [base y superestructura](https://liberationschool.org/tag/base-y-superestructura/)
- [economía política](https://liberationschool.org/tag/economia-politica/)
- [Mongo Beti](https://liberationschool.org/tag/mongo-beti/)
- [French imperialism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/french-imperialism/)
- [Odile Tobner](https://liberationschool.org/tag/odile-tobner/)
- [Patrice Lumumba](https://liberationschool.org/tag/patrice-lumumba/)
- [African independence](https://liberationschool.org/tag/african-independence/)
- [African history](https://liberationschool.org/tag/african-history/)
- [African socialism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/african-socialism/)
- [ACT-UP](https://liberationschool.org/tag/act-up/)
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- [history of the LGBTQ struggle](https://liberationschool.org/tag/history-of-the-lgbtq-struggle/)
- [pandemic](https://liberationschool.org/tag/pandemic/)
- [Jared A. Ball](https://liberationschool.org/tag/jared-a-ball/)
- [Dr. Jared Ball](https://liberationschool.org/tag/dr-jared-ball/)
- [Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power](https://liberationschool.org/tag/myth-and-propaganda-of-black-buying-power/)
- [Black Oppressoin](https://liberationschool.org/tag/black-oppressoin/)
- [British colonialism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/british-colonialism/)
- [Gaza](https://liberationschool.org/tag/gaza/)
- [Palestinian liberation](https://liberationschool.org/tag/palestinian-liberation/)
- [Zionism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/zionism/)
- [Ben-Gurion](https://liberationschool.org/tag/ben-gurion/)
- [ethnic cleansing](https://liberationschool.org/tag/ethnic-cleansing/)
- [massacres](https://liberationschool.org/tag/massacres/)
- [Lifta](https://liberationschool.org/tag/lifta/)
- [Romena](https://liberationschool.org/tag/romena/)
- [Plan Dalet](https://liberationschool.org/tag/plan-dalet/)
- [Deir Yassin massacre](https://liberationschool.org/tag/deir-yassin-massacre/)
- [Black Palestinian Solidarity](https://liberationschool.org/tag/black-palestinian-solidarity/)
- [Malcolm X](https://liberationschool.org/tag/malcolm-x/)
- [Black internationalism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/black-internationalism/)
- [The Black Panther](https://liberationschool.org/tag/the-black-panther/)
- [Committee of Black Americans for Truth in the Middle East](https://liberationschool.org/tag/committee-of-black-americans-for-truth-in-the-middle-east/)
- [Huey P. Newton](https://liberationschool.org/tag/huey-p-newton/)
- [League of Revolutionary Black Workers](https://liberationschool.org/tag/league-of-revolutionary-black-workers/)
- [Chile](https://liberationschool.org/tag/chile/)
- [Salvador Allende](https://liberationschool.org/tag/salvador-allende/)
- [Augusto Pinochet](https://liberationschool.org/tag/augusto-pinochet/)
- [Popular Unity](https://liberationschool.org/tag/popular-unity/)
- [land reform](https://liberationschool.org/tag/land-reform/)
- [CIA](https://liberationschool.org/tag/cia/)
- [Latin American socialism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/latin-american-socialism/)
- [Communist Party of Chile](https://liberationschool.org/tag/communist-party-of-chile/)
- [Socialist Party of Chile](https://liberationschool.org/tag/socialist-party-of-chile/)
- [shock doctrine](https://liberationschool.org/tag/shock-doctrine/)
- [Chilean Social Democracy Party](https://liberationschool.org/tag/chilean-social-democracy-party/)
- [Radical Left Party](https://liberationschool.org/tag/radical-left-party/)
- [MIR](https://liberationschool.org/tag/mir/)
- [the other September 11](https://liberationschool.org/tag/the-other-september-11/)
- [Chilean socialism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/chilean-socialism/)
- [internationalist solidarity](https://liberationschool.org/tag/internationalist-solidarity/)
- [Salsa](https://liberationschool.org/tag/salsa/)
- [Tito Puente](https://liberationschool.org/tag/tito-puente/)
- [Izzy Sanabria](https://liberationschool.org/tag/izzy-sanabria/)
- [colonization](https://liberationschool.org/tag/colonization/)
- [decolonization](https://liberationschool.org/tag/decolonization/)
- [music and politics](https://liberationschool.org/tag/music-and-politics/)
- [US imperialism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/us-imperialism/)
- [cross-bronx expressway](https://liberationschool.org/tag/cross-bronx-expressway/)
- [segregation](https://liberationschool.org/tag/segregation/)
- [contradictions](https://liberationschool.org/tag/contradictions/)
- [theory and practice](https://liberationschool.org/tag/theory-and-practice/)
- [intelligence](https://liberationschool.org/tag/intelligence/)
- [philosophy](https://liberationschool.org/tag/philosophy/)
- [meritocracy](https://liberationschool.org/tag/meritocracy/)
- [paradox](https://liberationschool.org/tag/paradox/)
- [economic crises](https://liberationschool.org/tag/economic-crises/)
- [Free Palestine](https://liberationschool.org/tag/free-palestine/)
- [Political Zionism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/political-zionism/)
- [Theodore Herzl](https://liberationschool.org/tag/theodore-herzl/)
- [Balfour Declaration](https://liberationschool.org/tag/balfour-declaration/)
- [Israeli aggression](https://liberationschool.org/tag/israeli-aggression/)
- [Indigenous resistance](https://liberationschool.org/tag/indigenous-resistance/)
- [organizing](https://liberationschool.org/tag/organizing/)
- [Harry Haywood](https://liberationschool.org/tag/harry-haywood/)
- [Black Belt](https://liberationschool.org/tag/black-belt/)
- [white chauvinism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/white-chauvinism/)
- [Leninism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/leninism/)
- [bourgeois nationalism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/bourgeois-nationalism/)
- [class and race](https://liberationschool.org/tag/class-and-race/)
- [capitalism and racism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/capitalism-and-racism/)
- [Brian Becker](https://liberationschool.org/tag/brian-becker/)
- [communism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/communism/)
- [working class](https://liberationschool.org/tag/working-class/)
- [U.S. presidential election](https://liberationschool.org/tag/u-s-presidential-election/)
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- [votesocialist2024.com](https://liberationschool.org/tag/votesocialist2024-com/)
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- [Karina Garcia](https://liberationschool.org/tag/karina-garcia/)
- [Vote Socialist 2024](https://liberationschool.org/tag/vote-socialist-2024/)
- [Boris Yeltsin](https://liberationschool.org/tag/boris-yeltsin/)
- [Former Soviet Union](https://liberationschool.org/tag/former-soviet-union/)
- [Abdel el-Messiri](https://liberationschool.org/tag/abdel-el-messiri/)
- [anti-Zionism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/anti-zionism/)
- [U.S.-Israeli relations](https://liberationschool.org/tag/u-s-israeli-relations/)
- [U.S. imperialism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/u-s-imperialism/)
- [origins of Zionism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/origins-of-zionism/)
- [Pan-African Press Agency](https://liberationschool.org/tag/pan-african-press-agency/)
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- [revolutionart process](https://liberationschool.org/tag/revolutionart-process/)
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- [artículo destacado](https://liberationschool.org/tag/articulo-destacado/)
- [Oriente Medio](https://liberationschool.org/tag/oriente-medio/)
- [Liberación Palestina](https://liberationschool.org/tag/liberacion-palestina/)
- [Heroínas Radicales](https://liberationschool.org/tag/heroinas-radicales/)
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- [arte y cultura](https://liberationschool.org/tag/arte-y-cultura/)
- [palestina](https://liberationschool.org/tag/palestina/)
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- [International Workers' Day](https://liberationschool.org/tag/international-workers-day/)
- [John L. Lewis](https://liberationschool.org/tag/john-l-lewis/)
- [Chicago Unemployed Council](https://liberationschool.org/tag/chicago-unemployed-council/)
- [Haymarket](https://liberationschool.org/tag/haymarket/)
- [Bud Simons](https://liberationschool.org/tag/bud-simons/)
- [neo-colonialism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/neo-colonialism/)
- [Ghana](https://liberationschool.org/tag/ghana/)
- [reforma y revolución](https://liberationschool.org/tag/reforma-y-revolucion/)
- [lucha obrera sindicatos](https://liberationschool.org/tag/lucha-obrera-sindicatos/)
- [trabajo clase obrera estadounidense](https://liberationschool.org/tag/trabajo-clase-obrera-estadounidense/)
- [study guide](https://liberationschool.org/tag/study-guide/)
- [contradictions of capitalism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/contradictions-of-capitalism/)
- [Richard Becker](https://liberationschool.org/tag/richard-becker/)
- [the Socialist Program](https://liberationschool.org/tag/the-socialist-program/)
- [Frederick Douglass](https://liberationschool.org/tag/frederick-douglass/)
- [Fourth of July](https://liberationschool.org/tag/fourth-of-july/)
- [use value](https://liberationschool.org/tag/use-value/)
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- [general formula for capitalist production](https://liberationschool.org/tag/general-formula-for-capitalist-production/)
- [Contradicciones del Capitalismo](https://liberationschool.org/tag/contradicciones-del-capitalismo/)
- [capitalismo](https://liberationschool.org/tag/capitalismo-en/)
- [fórmula general para la producción capitalista](https://liberationschool.org/tag/formula-general-para-la-produccion-capitalista-en/)
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- [American capitalism](https://liberationschool.org/tag/american-capitalism/)
- [civil rights-labor coalition](https://liberationschool.org/tag/civil-rights-labor-coalition/)
- [General Electric](https://liberationschool.org/tag/general-electric/)
- [labor movement](https://liberationschool.org/tag/labor-movement/)
- [anti-segregation](https://liberationschool.org/tag/anti-segregation/)
- [red bating](https://liberationschool.org/tag/red-bating/)
- [Civil Rights Congress](https://liberationschool.org/tag/civil-rights-congress/)
- [Leila Khaled](https://liberationschool.org/tag/leila-khaled/)
- [maroon](https://liberationschool.org/tag/maroon/)
- [Taino](https://liberationschool.org/tag/taino/)
- [Dutty Boukman](https://liberationschool.org/tag/dutty-boukman/)
- [Toussaint L'Ouverture](https://liberationschool.org/tag/toussaint-louverture/)
- [Jean-Jacques Dessalines](https://liberationschool.org/tag/jean-jacques-dessalines/)
- [Haitian Revolution](https://liberationschool.org/tag/haitian-revolution/)
- [Canboulay Riots](https://liberationschool.org/tag/canboulay-riots/)
- [Marcus Garvey](https://liberationschool.org/tag/marcus-garvey/)
- [Universal Negro Improvement Association](https://liberationschool.org/tag/universal-negro-improvement-association/)
- [West Indian Gazette](https://liberationschool.org/tag/west-indian-gazette/)
- [Notting Hill Carnival](https://liberationschool.org/tag/notting-hill-carnival/)
- [C.L.R. James](https://liberationschool.org/tag/c-l-r-james/)
- [Clement Payne](https://liberationschool.org/tag/clement-payne/)
- [Ponce Massacre](https://liberationschool.org/tag/ponce-massacre/)
- [Fidel Castro](https://liberationschool.org/tag/fidel-castro/)
- [Che Guevara](https://liberationschool.org/tag/che-guevara/)
- [Haydée Santamaría](https://liberationschool.org/tag/haydee-santamaria/)
- [Michael Manley](https://liberationschool.org/tag/michael-manley/)
- [June 14 Movement](https://liberationschool.org/tag/june-14-movement/)
- [Juan Bosch](https://liberationschool.org/tag/juan-bosch/)
- [Maurice Bishop](https://liberationschool.org/tag/maurice-bishop/)
- [Disturbios de Canboulay Caribe](https://liberationschool.org/tag/disturbios-de-canboulay-caribe/)
- [Clemente Payne](https://liberationschool.org/tag/clemente-payne/)
- [Revolución haitiana](https://liberationschool.org/tag/revolucion-haitiana/)
- [Haydée Santamaría Ciudad](https://liberationschool.org/tag/haydee-santamaria-ciudad/)
- [Movimiento 14 de Junio](https://liberationschool.org/tag/movimiento-14-de-junio/)
- [granate Maurice Obispo](https://liberationschool.org/tag/granate-maurice-obispo/)
- [Carnaval de Notting Hill](https://liberationschool.org/tag/carnaval-de-notting-hill/)
- [Masacre de Ponce](https://liberationschool.org/tag/masacre-de-ponce/)
- [Asociación Universal de Mejoramiento Negro](https://liberationschool.org/tag/asociacion-universal-de-mejoramiento-negro/)
- [Gaceta de las Indias Occidentales](https://liberationschool.org/tag/gaceta-de-las-indias-occidentales/)
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- [Tiananmen Square](https://liberationschool.org/tag/tiananmen-square/)
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- [US propaganda](https://liberationschool.org/tag/us-propaganda/)
- [Dennis Kosuth](https://liberationschool.org/tag/dennis-kosuth/)
- [polemics](https://liberationschool.org/tag/polemics/)
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- [Pete “El Conde” Rodríguez](https://liberationschool.org/tag/pete-el-conde-rodriguez/)
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