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...
Determination and vigilance: Sankara speaks after the revolution
Liberation School introduction This interview with Thomas Sankara took place mere days after the success of the Burkinabé revolution of August 4, 1983, although the precise date of the interview is unknown. Despite Sankara’s stature within the previous government, a...
Israel: Base of western imperialism
Liberation School introduction The following text was published in a May 1969 pamphlet issued by the “Ad Hoc Committee on the Middle East,” which held its first conference on June 21, 1967, days after the U.S.-Israeli war against Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine. The...
Lenin and the path to revolution: 3-class video course with Brian Becker
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. This 3 part course with Brian Becker focuses on the life, and legacy of...
Harry Haywood’s contributions to the national question and the fight for class unity
In honor of the 126th anniversary of Harry Haywood's birth, we're reposting this article originally published on Liberation School in 2014. Harry Haywood was a long time member and leader of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and other communist organizations from the...