The sordid history of US intervention in Iran
The U.S. state has a history of interventions against Iran to set up a pliant regime for imperialist ends. An examination reveals that the U.S. state wishes to impose a neo-colonial dictatorship on the Iranian people.
Dancing in the streets: Boogaloo, salsa, and tools for liberation (pt. 2)
Editor's note: This is the second entry in our two-part series on the politics of Salsa, the first of which was published on the 50th anniversary of the famous Fania All-Stars concert, “Live at Yankee Stadium.” Introduction Any discussion of the politics of Salsa has...
Thomas Sankara: The Burkinabè revolution is not a replica
Four months before his assassination, Thomas Sarnkara discusses the ongoing Burkinabè revolution with a journalist from Ivoire Dimanche.
Two years after the revolution: Thomas Sankara on Franco-African relations
The first English translation of a 1985 interview with Sankara about French-African relations under the Socialist Party.
The courage to criticize imperialism: Thomas Sankara on the 1986 Reykjavik summit
The first English translation of an interview with Thomas Sankara on the 1986 Gorbachev-Reagan summit.
El socialismo es una parte integral de la historia laboral de EE. UU.
Para revivir el movimiento obrero y un movimiento por los derechos de los trabajadores, es esencial volver a conectarnos con nuestra historia radical.
Leila Khaled: luchadora palestina, revolucionaria marxista
El perfil internacional de Khaled planteó no solo cuestiones de liberación nacional, sino también el papel clave que desempeñaban las mujeres en el movimiento palestino.
La base-superestructura: Un modelo para el análisis y la acción
Aunque el propio Marx solo mencionó la “base” y la “superestructura” en (según mis cálculos) dos de sus obras, el “problema” de la base-superestructura sigue siendo una fuente de seria controversia para los marxistas, nuestros simpatizantes y nuestros críticos.
The base-superstructure: A model for analysis and action
Introduction Although Marx himself only mentioned the “base” and “superstructure” in (by my count) two of his works, the base-superstructure “problem” remains a source of serious contention for Marxists, our sympathizers, and our critics. Despite its outsized role in...
Marxism, capitalism, and nature-society relations: An introduction
Introduction Environmentalists have long stressed limits to human interaction with nature. It’s commonly argued that transgressing “natural limits” caused the environmental crises we face today. While this sentiment might direct our attention to the severity and scale...
“George Jackson: Black revolutionary”
Editor's note The following article was written by Walter Rodney for a 1971 issue of Maji Maji, the quarterly journal of the youth wing of the Tanganyika African National Union. The text is held at the Robert W. Woodruff Library in Atlanta, Georgia, under the...
Study, fast, train, fight: The roots of Black August
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...
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...
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...
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Thomas Sankara: Assessing the 3rd year of a revolutionary process
In the first English translation of this unique 1985 interview, Sankara provides an extensive and frank assessment of the revolutionary process.
From South Africa to Palestine, apartheid will fall
What lessons can we learn from the overthrow of apartheid in South Africa in this new era of the struggle against Israeli apartheid within the U.S.?
Framing the Palestinian struggle: The origins of political Zionism
As the Free Palestine movement surges to new heights, all peace-minded people should arm ourselves with the origins of the contemporary struggle for liberation.
Free audio book: Palestine, Israel, and the U.S. Empire
If you think the Israel-Palestine conflict is too complex to understand, think again. Listen to this free audio book for a partisan yet objective analysis of the struggle!
The Leninist party in history and present
Editor's note: This essay examines the theory and practice of the Leninist party from the time of Lenin until today. We turn to Lenin's key writings and to the history of Bolshevism and the international communist movement to delineate the distinctiveness of the...
Theory and revolution: Addressing the break of ideological continuity
Editor's note: This document was initially circulated within our Party in advance of our 3rd Party Congress in April 2016 — and publicly released in September 2016. It addresses the historical and contemporary relationship between revolutionary theory and...
A time to revive socialism in the United States: report on the PSL’s Third Party Congress
The tasks of the delegates to the Congress include setting the Party’s policy and determining strategy and tactics for the next period.
Reviving the communist movement: Building organization in 2016
Editor's note: The following is part of an internal document circulated by the Central Committee of the PSL in advance of our 3rd Party Congress in 2016. Here, we focus on ways that communist organizations have historically grown in strength, size, and...
- Lies, damned lies and statistics: Trump’s ‘anti-crime’ campaign
- Western imperialists are the real drug traffickers, not Venezuela
- 20 years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is still fighting for justice
- Americans with Disabilities Act, a product of militant struggle, turns 35
- Illinois: Trump attacks cash bail reform in latest escalation against immigrants
- PSL Statement: Hands off Venezuela! Hands off Latin America!
Women’s struggle for suffrage and liberation: The road to legal equality
This article originally appeared as the fifth chapter in Donna Goodman’s Women Fight Back: The Centuries-Long Struggle for Liberation, published through Liberation Media and available for purchase here. Liberation School has a study and discussion guide for the book...
Assata Shakur: The making of a revolutionary woman
In commemorating Black August, we commemorate the struggle of those who have fought before us and faced violent repercussions from the state. We uplift the revolutionary history of the Black working class and its fundamental position in forging and leading the...
The legacy of Vietnamese women in the national resistance struggle
Editor's note: This article was initially published in Breaking the Chains magazine, a revolutionary feminist, socialist magazine that's produced by revolutionary women organizers in the Party for Socialism and Liberation. “Reduce rents and interest rates! Equal wages...
From abolition to Title IX: Women’s fight for education
Editor's note: The following article was originally published in Breaking the Chains magazine, which you can purchase here. It is not the intelligent woman versus the ignorant woman; nor the white woman versus the [B]lack, the [B]rown, and the [R]ed — it is not even...
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...
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...