Editorial note: As the global movement to Free Palestine continues surging to new heights, it is critical that activists, organizers, and peace-minded people arm ourselves with some of the fundamental historical developments and key features of current events in...
Thomas Sankara to comrade Mongo Beti: “Fatherland or death, we will win!”
Liberation School introduction This is the first English translation of a 1985 interview with Thomas Sankara conducted by Mongo Beti, which remained unpublished until Beti's spouse, Odile Tobner, gave the handwritten notes to Bruno Jaffré, who first published it in...
Of, by, and for the elite: The class character of the U.S. Constitution
Contrary to the mythology we learn in school, the founding fathers feared and hated the concept of democracy—which they derisively referred to as "tyranny of the majority." The constitution that they wrote reflects this, and seeks to restrict and prohibit involvement...
Thomas Sankara: “We didn’t import our revolution”
Sign the petition demanding the recording of Sankara's assassination trial! Liberation School introduction This is the first English translation of this interview and the opening installment in a Liberation School series of previously untranslated work by Thomas...
What is imperialism? An introduction
Editor's note: A Spanish translation of this article is available here. In the suffering of the Global South, the brutality of capitalism lies bare. In a footnote toward the end of Capital, Marx wrote that the colonized subject reveals “what the bourgeois makes of...
Marx’s “Capital:” Class 9 (So-called “Primitive accumulation”)
Class description: In Part 8 of the book, Marx turns to a brief historical analysis and critique of bourgeois political-economy's "origin story" of capital. Throughout the book so far, Marx has assumed that the conditions of...
70 years too long: The struggle to end the Korean War
Editor’s note For the 70th anniversary of the official beginning of the Korean War, Liberation School interviewed the People’s Democracy Party, a revolutionary workers’ party in South Korea, to get their perspective on the war and the prospects for peace. The voices...
The struggle for self-determination in Hawaiʻi
Today, July 7th marks the 119th anniversary of President William McKinley and the U.S. government’s annexation of Hawaiʻi. When we hear any mention of Hawaiʻi, we undoubtedly first think of breath-taking beaches, volcanoes and tourism. But what is the class and...
Tupac Amaru II: Condor of fire
As a Peruvian American born and raised in New Jersey, I grew up hearing heroic stories of our Incan roots and our Quechua names. For most, the name Tupac invokes the memory of arguably the greatest rapper of all time, but few in this country outside of the Peruvian...