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...
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...
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,...
The Paris Commune took place 150 years ago this year in France. It was one of the most earth-shaking events in history up to that point, and it’s one that continues to have an impact even today. Marx said about it a few years afterwards that it was the most slandered...
As the climate crisis intensifies globally with increasing wildfires, droughts, floods, and extreme weather events, poor and oppressed communities bear the brunt of the crisis. Millions around the world are demanding action and actively seeking solutions to the...
In this episode episode of The Socialist Program, a podcast providing news and views about the world for those who want to change it, PSL co-founder and Central Committee member Brian Becker gets beneath the tweets and headlines to suss out the real reason the U.S....
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...
Introduction In the wake of the most recent rebellions against racism and police terror, there were widespread calls to “support Black businesses.” These calls were another reiteration of what Jared Ball demystifies in his latest book: The Myth and Propaganda of Black...
Ask any teacher in any setting, and they’ll tell you there’s no “formula” or “recipe” for education. Despite what corporate charter movements assert—like Teach for America’s “I do, you do, we do” rote learning—teaching is always dependent on relationships,...