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Liberation Audio
Socialist news and analysis from the front lines of struggle. Project of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
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Overproduction: The absurdity of suffering amidst surpluses
A popular coal-miner’s riddle from the 1930s summarizes one of capitalism’s most visible and absurd contradictions. After a daughter asks her father w...
Thomas Sankara: Assessing the 3rd year of a revolutionary process
The eighth installment in Liberation School’s series of previously untranslated works by Thomas Sankara is published on the day Sankara was born in 19...
The class struggle in every commodity: Use value and exchange value
Every year, Pew Research publishes a study on the U.S. population’s political priorities. Their 2024 report shows that, like the previous years, “no s...
Capitalist contradictions and revolutionary struggle: An introduction
Hearing or reading about the “contradictions of capitalism” in an article or at a rally might be intimidating, like a foreign language or a term only...
Capitalist urbanization, climate change, and the need for sponge cities
According to the United Nations Population Fund’s 2009 report, 2008 was the first time in history that over 50 percent of the world’s population resid...
Extradition of Alex Saab: U.S. takes effort to starve Venezuelans to new lows
Note: Following the original publication of this article, Alex Saab was extradited to Miami on October 16th 2021, and remains in prison awaiting an ap...
From allies to comrades
Despite its association with sovereign nations involved in wartime alliances, the term “ally” has become influential in activist circles on the US lef...
Liu Liangmo: China’s anti-imperialist, anti-racist, Christian revolutionary (pt. 2)
Liu Liangmo’s story is as remarkable as it is unknown. An anti-imperialist, pro-Communist Christian, with a significant relationship to the Black Libe...
Liu Liangmo: China’s anti-imperialist, anti-racist, Christian revolutionary (pt. 1)
Liu Liangmo (1909-1988) was a prominent Chinese anti-imperialist, religious leader and, from 1942-1945, columnist for the Pittsburgh Courier—at that t...
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 uplif...
Chongryon: The struggle of Koreans in Japan
In early 1956, construction was almost complete on what the Japanese authorities and general public thought was going to be a battery factory in what...
The Marxist theory of the state: An introduction
Our understanding of the state lies at the heart of our struggle to create a new society and fundamentally eliminate the oppression, exploitation, war...
Supermajority of Cubans vote for revolutionary ‘Families Code’
The Cuban people voted by supermajority on Sept. 25 to approve the Families Code, a revolutionary law that modernizes, recognizes and legalizes all ma...
Corporate personhood, monopoly capital, and the precedent that wasn’t: The 1886 “Santa Clara” case
How do the actual people in charge of corporations manage to remain protected from the consequences of the countless crimes they commit year after yea...
The “Powell Memo” and the Supreme Court: A counteroffensive against the many
By the early 1970s, the global revolutionary tide of socialist and national liberation struggles was at its apex, and the tide was washing over the U....
Claudia Jones: “International Women’s Day and the struggle for peace”
In an article published this year for International Women’s Day, Maddie Dery summarizes the various experiences of the women’s liberation movement sin...
Value, price, and inflation: Immediate and structural causes
Every working person is keenly aware that prices are up. Nasty surprises and disbelief keep turning up at the register. People are being forced to for...
Walter Rodney: A people’s professor
In a recent book on the ongoing relevance of Walter Rodney’s work, Karim F. Hirji notes that, “as with scores of progressive intellectuals and activis...
A party of action: Building the people’s movements in the streets
The Party for Socialism and Liberation is built on two essential premises. One is revolutionary Marxist theory and analysis on all issues affecting hu...
Founding statement of the Party for Socialism and Liberation
We are in a period where the world’s poor and working people are waging heroic struggles against imperialist war and exploitation.
Millio...
“Shelby County v. Holder:” How the Supreme Court attacked Black voting rights
In 2013, five unelected judges gutted the right to vote for tens of millions of African Americans and others. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Shelby v....
PSL statement: Justice for Tyre Nichols — Take to the streets!
Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, was mercilessly beaten to death earlier this month during a traffic stop by five Memphis Police Department offi...
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 “tyr...
What does it take to make a socialist revolution?
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the U.S. and other imperialist countries have repeatedly declared that history is over, meaning that humanity cann...
PSL Statement: The right wing’s program is deeply unpopular. So why are the elections so close?
The corporate media is on a nonstop campaign asserting that the U.S. electorate is turning to the right and rejecting progressive policies. It is clea...
Studying society for the working class: Marx’s first preface to “Capital”
In the preface to the first edition of volume one of Capital, dated July 25, 1867, Marx introduces the book’s “ultimate aim”: “to lay bare the economi...
Walter Rodney’s revolutionary praxis: An interview with Devyn Springer
The following interview, facilitated by Derek Ford, took place via e-mail during June and July in preparation for Black August, when progressive organ...
Thomas Sankara: “We didn’t import our revolution”
This is the first English translation of this interview and the opening installment in a Liberation School series of previously untranslated work by T...
Afro-Asian solidarity: Building the multinational unity needed for liberation
During the summer of 2020, tens of millions of people took to the streets to participate in the largest uprising in this country’s history. From the s...
Understanding and fighting gentrification: A revolutionary orientation
Cities across the U.S. are rapidly transforming. “Gentrification-style” luxury developments are replacing neighborhood landmarks and low-income housin...
PSL National Webinar: What’s Next In the Struggle For Abortion Rights?
Following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v Wade, many tens of thousands of people have taken to the street in protest — some for the first tim...
Nations and Soviets: The National Question in the USSR
The past, as they say, is never truly past. In recent months, Soviet nationality policy, a topic many thought consigned to academic backwaters and com...
The root causes of the attacks on reproductive rights: A Marxist analysis
Women’s History Month is a time to recommit ourselves to the unfinished struggle for women’s liberation, and this year it is even more crucial than ev...
The Unipolar Era of Imperialism and its Potential Undoing
The overthrow of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War restructured global imperialism and all of world politics. Without an understanding of t...
Nazis in Ukraine: Seeing through the fog of the information war
On Feb. 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin undertook what he referred to as a “special military operation…to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine.” W...
Defeat of Women’s Health Protection Act shows Democrats playing politics with abortion rights
On May 11, the U.S. Senate voted down the Women’s Health Protection Act, 49-51. The WHPA would have made abortion legal, eliminating the role of the S...
PSL Statement: Supreme Court declares war on women and abortion rights — Take to the streets!
The Supreme court has declared war against women and our basic rights to control our own bodies. Now is the time to fight back. Millions of people goi...
Brian Becker - The Lessons of Lenin's State and Revolution
Brian Becker gives a virtual lecture on the importance of V.I. Lenin's State and Revolution, and how important it is to understand and maintain the re...
Toward a third Reconstruction: Lessons from the past for a socialist future
Karl Marx wrote to Lincoln in 1864 that he was sure that the “American anti-slavery war” would initiate a “new era of ascendancy” for the working clas...
Richard Becker Discusses the Crisis in Ukraine
Richard Becker speaks at the Party for Socialism and Liberation's forum "Crisis in Ukraine & Anti-war Analysis", discussing the latest events in Europ...