U.S. imperialism
The sordid history of US intervention in Iran

The sordid history of US intervention in Iran

This article was originally published by Liberation News on June 26, 2025. The U.S. state has a history of interventions against Iran to set up a pliant regime for imperialist ends. For 26 years the U.S. actually ruled that country. An examination of the period...

Overproduction: The absurdity of suffering amidst surpluses

Overproduction: The absurdity of suffering amidst surpluses

Introduction A popular coal-miner’s riddle from the 1930s summarizes one of capitalism’s most visible and absurd contradictions. After a daughter asks her father why their home is so cold, he tells her they don’t have any money to purchase coal. He explains they don’t...

Israel: Base of western imperialism

Israel: Base of western imperialism

Liberation School introduction The following text was published in a May 1969 pamphlet issued by the “Ad Hoc Committee on the Middle East,” which held its first conference on June 21, 1967, days after the U.S.-Israeli war against Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine. The...

Tiananmen: The massacre that wasn’t

Tiananmen: The massacre that wasn’t

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...