This article was originally published in Liberation News, July 5th, 2024. The ghost of “Tail-Gunner Joe” McCarthy is haunting the U.S. Congress. Republicans, in particular, during their various TikTok hearings, have resurrected some of his hallmarks in their...
Toward a third Reconstruction: Lessons from the past for a socialist future
“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...
Black struggle is class struggle: A 4-part PSL course
This four-part digital course focuses on Black Revolutionary History in the United States and its central role in the development of U.S. society today. Last summer, tens of millions of people took to the streets in an unprecedented revolt against racism and police...
Why revolutionaries commemorate Juneteenth
Editor's note: This article is based on a talk given by Telijah Patterson in Harlem on June 3rd, 2016, and was published on Liberation School shortly afterwards. Born into struggle I would first like to introduce myself and talk about where I come from. I am an...