Liberation Audio · Comrades: Made, Not Born All revolutionary politics are predicated on revolutionary optimism: the belief, rooted in experiences in the struggle, that workers and the oppressed can and will win. Yet revolutionary optimism doesn't just apply to the...
Dual power, base building, and serving the people in the U.S. Revolutionary Movement
The current period is the most favorable for socialists in the United States in decades. Against the backdrop of the Great Recession, waves of activity around the Occupy Movement, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the Bernie Sanders campaign have produced a...
Militant journalism: The role of journalism in class society and revolution
Frank González is the director of Cuba’s Prensa Latina news agency. This article is based on a December 2006 interview with Gloria La Riva. It provides background on Prensa Latina and the theoretical and practical considerations of revolutionary journalism, including...
Why we’re running in the 2020 elections
The Party for Socialism and Liberation is intervening in the 2020 presidential election to offer a genuine socialist alternative, continue to popularize socialism as the only viable alternative to capitalism and its ills, and build the movement for revolution in the...
From allies to comrades
Introduction Despite its association with sovereign nations involved in wartime alliances, the term “ally” has become influential in activist circles on the US left. Attention to debates over what it means to be an ally reveal the limits of the politics of allyship....
More than words: Formulating slogans for the struggle
IntroductionSlogans play a key role in all political activities, whether they be local demonstrations, pickets, strikes, or mass movements. While the fact that slogans are short might make it seem as though they’re of minor importance or a mere matter of semantics,...
Vygotsky’s revolutionary educational psychology
The name Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934) is commonplace in the field of education. Ask any teacher or professor of education about Vygotsky and chances are they will at least recall the name from their child development or educational psychology classes. His theories are...
A handbook of tactics: Some historical context for studying “Left-wing” communism
It would be virtually impossible to over-state the impact of the Russian Revolution which began in February 1917. At the beginning of that year, the world was in a very dismal state. World War I, the first imperialist world war, had been raging in Europe for two and a...
“Left-wing” communism and the movement today
Editor’s note: A Spanish translation of this article is available here. It's essential for Marxists--and anyone on the Left--to firmly grasp the lessons of Lenin's "Left-Wing" Communism and how those lessons relate to our the tasks of party building, mass work, and...