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Understanding and fighting gentrification: A revolutionary orientation
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.
Fascist plots in the U.S.: Contemporary lessons from the 1934 “Business Plot”
Editor's note: This article was originally published on Liberation School on July 6, 2021 “In contradistinction to German fascism, which acts under anti-constitutional slogans, American fascism tries to portray itself as the custodian of the constitution and ‘American...
Clarifying and inspiring revolution for 130 years: Marx’s “Critique of the Gotha Programme”
Karl Marx never intended to spell out what the communist future would look like or how we would get there. His writing that comes closest to doing this is a short letter he wrote in 1875, given the title Critique of the Gotha Programme. Published 130 years ago—in...
PSL Course: A Marxist perspective on prison abolition
Marxists fight for the overthrow, dismantling, and complete replacement of the core institutions of the capitalist state, including namely the police, prisons, military, and courts. These elements of the state must be abolished through revolution. Yet can we abolish...
PSL Course: A Marxist perspective on prison abolition
This two-part course provides a Marxist analysis of mass incarceration and prison abolition.
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.
China’s foreign policy (1949-today): A 7-part podcast series
This series examines the history of China’s foreign policy since the 1949 revolution brought the Communist Party to power.
Fascism and global class struggle: A 4-part PSL course
This 4-part video and audio course studies the history of fascism to help us, as organizers, fight it.
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.
Hammer and hoe: Alabama communists during the Great Depression
“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.
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.
The right of nations to self-determination
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.
What is alienation? The development and legacy of Marx’s early theory
Editorial Collective Note: This is a new introduction to alienation that replaces our earlier introduction written in 2006. It’s part of our renovation and expansion of our “Fundamentals of Marxism” series and other articles on Marxist theory and the class struggle....
The base-superstructure: A model for analysis and action
Although Marx himself only mentioned the “base” and “superstructure” in (by my count) two of his works, the base-superstructure “problem” remains a source of serious contention for Marxists, our sympathizers, and our critics. Despite its outsized role in Marxist...
Afro-Asian solidarity: Building the multinational unity needed for liberation
Editor's note: The article was originally published in the Winter '21-'22 issue of Breaking the Chains magazine. During the summer of 2020, tens of millions of people took to the streets to participate in the largest uprising in this country’s history. From the...
Mumia Abu-Jamal: Militant journalism from behind enemy lines
This article accompanies Liberation School's new study guide for Mumia Abu-Jamal's book, Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? Mumia Abu-Jamal has spent nearly 40 years unjustly imprisoned after he was framed and convicted of killing a white police officer in Philadelphia....
Reading Kelley’s “Hammer and hoe” as organizers today
This article accompanies Liberation School's new study guide for Robin D.G. Kelley's, Hammer and Hoe. As the re-popularization of socialism continues, the practical lessons today’s organizers can learn from the history of the communist movement in the U.S. become...
Assata Shakur: The making of a revolutionary woman
In commemorating Black August, we commemorate the struggle of those who have fought before us and faced violent repercussions from the state. We uplift the revolutionary history of the Black working class and its fundamental position in forging and leading the...
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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.
What is imperialism? An introduction
This introductory article examines Marx’s analysis of colonialism and the transition from colonialism to imperialism.
China’s foreign policy (1949-today): A 7-part podcast series
This series examines the history of China’s foreign policy since the 1949 revolution brought the Communist Party to power.
Still fighting for Korea’s liberation: An interview with Ahn Hak-sop
Editor’s Note: Ahn Hak-sop was an officer in the Korean People’s Army of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK, or North Korea) during the Korean War. In 1952, he was captured by the United States and its proxy forces while on his way to a meeting in the...
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!
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.
Social media and democratic centralism: Opportunities and challenges
Liberation Audio · Social media and democratic centralism: Opportunities and challenges 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...
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...
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Assata Shakur: The making of a revolutionary woman
In commemorating Black August, we commemorate the struggle of those who have fought before us and faced violent repercussions from the state. We uplift the revolutionary history of the Black working class and its fundamental position in forging and leading the...
The legacy of Vietnamese women in the national resistance struggle
Editor's note: This article was initially published in Breaking the Chains magazine, a revolutionary feminist, socialist magazine that's produced by revolutionary women organizers in the Party for Socialism and Liberation. “Reduce rents and interest rates! Equal wages...
From abolition to Title IX: Women’s fight for education
Editor's note: The following article was originally published in Breaking the Chains magazine, which you can purchase here. It is not the intelligent woman versus the ignorant woman; nor the white woman versus the [B]lack, the [B]rown, and the [R]ed — it is not even...
Celebrating International Women’s Day
Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952) was a Russian communist organizer. She was exiled for conducting underground political work in 1908, but returned to Russia after the February 1917 revolution. To commemorate International Women’s Day, celebrated on March 8, Liberation...
Thomas Sankara on the founding of the Black Institute
Editorial introduction This is the first English translation of this speech—titled “Blacks must take responsibility for their own history and contribute to universal civilization"—and the second installment in a Liberation School series of previously untranslated work...
Thomas Sankara: “We didn’t import our revolution”
Sign the petition demanding the recording of Sankara's assassination trial! Editorial introduction This is the first English translation of this interview and the opening installment in a Liberation School series of previously untranslated work by Thomas Sankara. This...