Liberation School introduction The original French text, available here, is a transcription of an oral interview, and it is clear that the person doing the transcription was unsure of a few of the formulations. We therefore did our best to render the text as coherent...
Paulo Freire’s centennial: Political pedagogy for revolutionary organizations
All revolutionary processes are educational. From organizing meetings and study groups to writing protest speeches and propaganda before the revolutionary moment to creating new revolutionary educational and cultural institutions and training teachers and specialists...
Nicolás Maduro’s speech on Venezuela’s new anti-blockade law to resist U.S. imperialism
Editor's note: The following speech on the "Anti-Blockade Constitutional Law for National Development and Guarantee of Human Rights" was delivered by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to National Constituent Assembly on September 29, 2020 and was approved just over...
Remembering the Years of Lead under Brazil’s military rule: AI-5 never again!
Editor's note: Imposed in 1968, Institutional Act No. 5 lifted all restraint on the military dictatorship that came to power in Brazil in the 1964 coup, opening the doors to unbridled repression, the most grotesque forms of torture, and political killings in the hands...
Bolsonaro: A danger to Brazil, Latin America, and the whole world
The dreaded day has come. Jair Bolsonaro has taken office as President of Brazil. In its first month, the new administration rolled back social progress. Expected increases to the minimum wage were reduced. LGBTQ people were removed from Brazil's human rights...
Is Venezuela Turning Further Left?
In the wake of Venezuela’s successful election this summer, and with the Chavista movement having clear momentum headed into the October 15th regional elections, the U.S. government is turning the screws on the Bolivarian government of Venezuela. Donald Trump affirmed...
Honoring Juana Ramirez “La Avanzadora”
“The media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” –Malcolm X I am an Afro-Dominican woman from the Bronx, New York and...
Roque Dalton García: Salvadorian Poet, Internationalist and Revolutionary
Forty-one years ago, on May 10, 1975, an assassin’s bullets robbed the world of the brilliance, creativity and unwavering socialist commitment of Roque Dalton. Salvadorian and revolutionary youth the world over stand to learn a great deal from this unsung hero and his...
What does the 27th of February mean to me? Behind the mask of Dominican ‘Independence’
The Dominican Republic is the only oppressed country that celebrates its “independence” from another oppressed, colonized country, Haiti. For generations, the fear-mongering, racist Dominican ruling class has deliberately manipulated the history of the two countries,...