Liberation School Course description: The U.S. economy is experiencing an intense economic crash. Despite what mainstream pundits say, the crash isn’t just the result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this course, we’ll get at some of the root causes of the crisis by collectively studying the first volume of Karl Marx’s Capital: A Critique of…
Category: Communism
When Race Burns Class: Settlers Revisited (An Interview with J. Sakai)
Kersplebedeb, October 28, 2000 EC: Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat is a book which had a major impact on many North American anti-imperialists. How did this book come about, and what was so new about its way of looking at things? JS: Settlers completely came about by accident, not design. And what was so…
Alexandra Kollontai: A Historical-Materialist Approach to the Family and Love
Jodi Dean Liberation School Editor’s note: The following is the second of a two-part article based on a talk the author gave at The People’s Forum in July 2020. This second part focuses on Kollontai’s writing on the family and love. Part one covers Kollontai’s struggle for proletarian feminism against bourgeois feminism as well as…
Alexandra Kollontai: The Struggle for Proletarian Feminism and for Women in the Party
Jodi Dean Editor’s note: The following is the first of a two-part article based on a talk the author gave at the People’s Forum in July 2020. This first part focuses on Kollontai’s struggle for proletarian feminism against bourgeois feminism as well as her struggle to center gender equality within the party’s platform. Part two,…
The Weapon of Theory
Amilcar Cabral Address delivered to the first Tricontinental Conference of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America held in Havana in January, 1966. If any of us came to Cuba with doubts in our mind about the solidity, strength, maturity and vitality of the Cuban Revolution, these doubts have been removed by what we…
Marxism and African Liberation
Speech by Walter Rodney At Queen’s College, New York, USA in 1975 Written:1975 First Published:1975 Source: From Yes to Marxism!, People’s Progressive Party, Georgetown, Guyana, 1986 Translated: Unknown Transcription/Markup:Susan Campbell, Steve Palmer Proofread: Unknown Copyleft:Permission is granted to copy and/or distribute this document under the terms of the Creative Commons License First of all, we must understand…
Lenin: The Leader, the Reality, the People
Luis Toledo Sande Work by Mario Sandoval, courtesy of José Martí National Library. Photo: Granma On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of V.I. Lenin’s birth, Granma features an essay about the Russian revolutionary’s ideas in Cuba The arrival of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s ideas to Cuba has a history, inseparable from socialist ideals and the…
A New Era in World History
Vladimir Ilich Lenin Work by Miguel Ángel Nin, courtesy of José Martí National Library On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Granma shares several quotes from the Russian revolutionary’s seminal works: We have created a Soviet type of state and by that we have ushered in a…
Lenin, 150 Years After His Birth
Atilio Borón Vladimir Illich Ulyanov was born in 1870 in Simbirsk, Russia. He was the founder of the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik), the undisputed leader of the first triumphant worker-peasant insurrection on a national scale in the history of humanity: the October Revolution in Russia (which brought to an end that which the heroic Paris…
Lenin 150: What He Can Teach Us About This Historic Moment
Greg Butterfield ‘Comrade Lenin cleans the world of filth’ by Viktor Nikolayevich Deni (1920). For a major anniversary like the 150th birthday of V.I. Lenin on April 22, 2020, it’s tempting to try and write some overarching summary of his enormous revolutionary contributions: building a revolutionary party, imperialism and national oppression, the state and revolution,…
A Women’s Demonstration, Two Revolutions, and the Birth of a Socialist State
Lia Ferrante The following first appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of Breaking the Chains magazine, which you can purchase here. We must not underestimate the immense revolutionary power of women to ignite, fight, and win. The 1917 Russian Revolution that established the first socialist state in the world had two revolutions: one in February…
“It Was Like Each Edition of the Communist Manifesto Called Out to the Other”
Brasil de FatoThe Plebeu Gabinete de Leitura, a social library in the Northeast of Brazil, has 201 editions of the Communist Manifesto. Photo: Romário Bastos Adelaide Gonçalves is a professor at the History Department of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) and the driving force behind the Plebeu Gabinete de Leitura, a social library located…
