Lenin wrote The State and Revolution between August and October of 1917, while he was living and organizing underground, hiding from the police. He pushed through these difficult circumstances to write the pamphlet not in order to intervene in the revolutionary...
Homelessness, public space, and the limits to capital: An interview with Don Mitchell
Editor’s note: 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...
Reading Capital with Comrades: A Liberation School podcast series
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...
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...
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...
How to really avoid a climate disaster: A response to Bill Gates’ deceptive climate book
Bill Gates' new book, How To Avoid A Climate Disaster, is understandably drawing a lot of attention in environmentalist circles. Climate change is one of the most pressing crises of our time and--in the face of extreme weather disasters such as the 2020 California...
Liberation School Interview: Dr. Jared Ball on the myth of Black buying power
The 2nd installment of our Liberation School Interview series features Dr. Jared A. Ball on the topic of his 2020 book, The myth and propaganda of Black buying power (Palgrave Macmillan). Exposing the myth and marketing strategy that the path to freedom lies through...
Surplus value is the class struggle: An introduction
Editor's note: A Spanish translation of this article is available here. Introduction The notion that the rich are rich because they’re frugal, smart, entrepreneurial, and hardworking, and that the poor are poor because they’re wasteful, lazy, stupid, and irresponsible...
The Black struggle, the communist movement, and the role of Black women: An interview with Dr. CBS
Editor's note: The editorial collective is excited to release the first in our new series of Liberation School Interviews. Through video and text, these interviews with leading militant scholars, organizers, and activists, discuss their research and activities,...