https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrsGE9Kcaeg&feature=youtu.be Reds in Ed held a webinar entitled Socialists in the Struggle for Public Education on Aug. 29, 2020. The webinar featured a special report from New York City just before schools were set to reopen in...
Music, not muddle: Re-examining Soviet sounds and the socialist project
A vivid, flourishing, and diverse musical life developed in the Soviet Union. This vibrant culture was built by professional and amateur artists from among and across its many different nationalities, and spanned styles and genres from classical forms like ballets and...
Abolitionist solidarity — Black and white — in the struggle against slavery
Editor's note: This article originally appeared on Liberation News. The full story of the struggle to end chattel slavery in the U.S. has yet to be fully told. History books have always minimized the struggle of enslaved people, who from the beginning in 1619 in North...
PSL Course: Marx’s “Capital” (vol. 1)
Course description: The first volume of Karl Marx's Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, which was originally published in 1867, remains a key resource for understanding the logic of capitalism to this day. Marx wrote the book--which was the only volume of...
Marx’s “Capital:” Class 9 (So-called “Primitive accumulation”)
Class description: In Part 8 of the book, Marx turns to a brief historical analysis and critique of bourgeois political-economy's "origin story" of capital. Throughout the book so far, Marx has assumed that the conditions of...
Marx’s “Capital:” Class 8 (The general law of capitalist accumulation)
Class description: Looking at chapter 25, where Marx synthesizes the previous sections of the book to articulate the general laws (or tendencies) of capitalist accumulation, this class...
Alexandra Kollontai (pt. 2): A historical-materialist approach to the family and love
Editor's note: The following is the second of a two-part article based on a talk the author gave at The People's Forum in July 2020. This second part focuses on Kollontai's writing on the family and love. Part one covers Kollontai's struggle for proletarian feminism...
Marx’s “Capital:” Class 7 (Surplus-value, wages, and simple reproduction)
Class description: This class covers chapters 16-24. We begin with a discussion of "productive labor," highlighting the ways in which capitalism views and changes labor and clarifying the role that this concept plays in...
Alexandra Kollontai (pt. 1): The struggle for proletarian feminism and for women in the party
Editor's note: The following is the first of a two-part article based on a talk the author gave at the People's Forum in July 2020. This first part focuses on Kollontai's struggle for proletarian feminism against bourgeois feminism as well as her struggle to center...