Introduction Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, more commonly known as Lenin, is a well-loved revolutionary across countries and movements, whose name embodies the spirit of working-class internationalism. Originally produced and distributed in video format, this 3 -part course...
Dancing in the streets: Boogaloo, salsa, and tools for liberation (pt. 2)
Editor's note: This is the second entry in our two-part series on the politics of Salsa, the first of which was published on the 50th anniversary of the famous Fania All-Stars concert, “Live at Yankee Stadium.” Introduction Any discussion of the politics of Salsa has...
Lebanon: A lesson in continuous and unconditional resistance
Introduction Lebanon is an Arab country of 5.5 million in Southwest Asia. Smaller than Connecticut, it is bordered on the north and east by Syria, on the south by occupied Palestine and on the west by the Mediterranean Sea. This tiny country has had its striving for...
Walter Rodney: “Marxism and African liberation”
The following is the text of a speech Walter Rodney delivered 50 years ago at Queens College, New York, USA in 1975. Along with Cheddi Jagan’s article, “Pragmatism and rightist opportunism,” it was published in the 1986 pamphlet, Yes to Marxism! by the People's...
Study, fast, train, fight: The roots of Black August
This article, first published in August 2022, includes some slight edits, updated information, and added citations. Introduction In August 1619, enslaved Africans touched foot in the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States. The...
La lucha de clases en cada mercancía: Valor de uso y valor de cambio
Nota del equipo editorial: Esta es una traducción del artículo “The Class Struggle in Every Commodity: Use Value and Exchange Value“, puede encontrar la versión original aquí. Introducción Cada año, Pew Research publica un estudio sobre las prioridades políticas de la...
Watts 1965: From spontaneous uprising to revolutionary force
With the 60th anniversary of the Watts rebellion upon us, many still point to the arrests of Marquette, Rena and Ronald Frye as the embers that set Watts ablaze in 1965. On Aug. 11, the police pulled over Marquette’s car supposedly responding to reports of drunk...
The colonial roots of Zionism
The following two-part series of The Socialist Program with Brian Becker delves into the real history of the Israeli state. Both episodes feature Richard Becker, author of Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire—a book for which Liberation School has a study and...
The CIA overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah and the struggle against neo-colonialism in West Africa today
This article was first published by Liberation News on April 17, 2024. Introduction One day after his inauguration, Bassirou Diomaye Faye — Senegal’s new self-proclaimed “left Pan-Africanist” president — announced that the new government will conduct an audit of the...