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 time the nation’s widest circulating Black newspape...
22 Aug 202330min
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 c...
17 Aug 202311min
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 is now known as West Tokyo, but what at the time w...
27 Juli 202328min
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, and environmental destruction characteristic of ...
16 Juli 202333min
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 manifestations of families in Cuba. The previous 19...
24 Juni 202313min
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 year? How is it that when CEOs make clear and obvious...
22 Juni 202320min
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.S., with expanding and increasingly militant socia...
2 Juni 202322min
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 since the early 20th century: “The history of Interna...
15 Maj 202353min
