Liberation School introduction This is the first English translation of an interview with Thomas Sankara, originally published here in French under the title, “We vote for Le Pen too much in Ouagadougou.” The interview took place on August 5, 1985 and was first...
The history of the “Communist Manifesto”
Travel with The People's Forum through a time machine to when the Communist Manifesto was written! You will learn about the political and economic forces that made writing the Manifesto not only possible, but necessary. This text created international and timeless...
The Communist Manifesto: A working-class guide to changing the world
Editor's note: We're republishing this article, originally posted in 2008, in advance of the 175th anniversary of the publication of the Manifesto of the Communist Party in celebration of Red Books Day. The Communist Manifesto stands among the most well-read books of...
Corporate personhood, monopoly capital, and the precedent that wasn’t: The 1886 “Santa Clara” case
Editor’s note: Beginning with overturning Roe v. Wade, the ultra right-wing Supreme Court continues to attack hard-won and elementary democratic rights in the United States, from affirmative action to the Indian Child Welfare Act. The following article is the third in...
Value, price, and inflation: Immediate and structural causes
Introduction Every working person is keenly aware that prices are up. Nasty surprises and disbelief keep turning up at the register. People are being forced to forgo even the most minor and seemingly harmless comfort purchases, adding to the accumulation of the...
¿Qué es el imperialismo? Una introducción
Nota del equipo editorial: Esta es una traducción del artículo "What is imperialism? An Introduction", puede encontrar la versión original aquí. En el sufrimiento del Sur Global, la brutalidad del capitalismo queda expuesta. En una nota al calce al final de El...
Amílcar Cabral: Liberator, theorist, and educator
Editor's note: We're republishing this article from two years ago to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Amílcar Cabral's assassination on January 20, 1973. Introduction Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral was born September 12, 1924 in Bafatá, Guinea-Bissau, one of...
¿Qué es la clase capitalista? Una introducción
Nota del equipo editorial: Esta es una traducción del artículo “What is the capitalist class? An introduction“, puede encontrar la versión original aquí. Un informe del 2020 del Institute for Policy Studies encontró que "Entre 1990 y el 2020, la riqueza de los...
¿Qué se requiere para ganar una revolución socialista?
Nota del equipo editorial: Esta es una traducción del artículo "What does it take to make a socialist revolution", puede encontrar la versión original aquí. “El paso del poder estatal de una clase a otra es el primero, el principal, el básico rastro de una revolución,...