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  • | Shelby County v Holder | MR Online

    “Shelby County v. Holder:” How the Supreme Court attacked Black voting rights

    Originally published: Liberation School on December 14, 2022 by Patricia Gorky (more by Liberation School)  | (Posted Dec 29, 2022)

    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. Holder overturned a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) that prevented voter suppression.

  • | Photo Party headquarters of the Sankarist UNIRPS im Quartier 1200 Logements in Ouagadougou Burkina Faso Source Wikicommons | MR Online

    Thomas Sankara: “We didn’t import our revolution”

    Originally published: Liberation School on November 1, 2022 by André Brecourt interviewing Thomas Sankara (more by Liberation School)  | (Posted Nov 22, 2022)

    This is the first English translation of this interview and the opening installment in a Liberation School series of previously untranslated work by Thomas Sankara. This translation series is the result of a collaboration with ThomasSankara.net, an online platform dedicated to archiving work on and by the great African revolutionary. 

  • | First Floor at the Statute of John Marshall in the foreground shadowed quotation from Marbury v Madison written by Marshall engraved into the wall United States Supreme Court Building Image swatgesture Source Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    Haunted by the ghost of “Marbury v. Madison:” Judicial review and abolishing the Supreme Court

    Originally published: Liberation School on November 10, 2022 by Heather Benno (more by Liberation School)  | (Posted Nov 16, 2022)

    In 2022, after a handful of unelected judges serving lifetime terms in the U.S. Supreme Court eviscerated the hard-won and overwhelmingly popular right to abortion, masses of people took to the streets to defend this democratic right to bodily autonomy.

  • | Founding Father George Washington was a rich slave owner who owed his fortune to the stolen labor of kidnapped Africans Image Popular Graphic Arts Source Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    Of, by, and for the elite: The class character of the U.S. Constitution

    Originally published: Liberation School on October 19, 2022 by Crystal Kim (more by Liberation School)  | (Posted Oct 21, 2022)

    In history and civics classrooms all over the United States, students are taught from an early age to revere the “Founding Fathers” for drafting a document that is the bulwark of democracy and freedom—the U.S. Constitution.

  • | A reverse glass export painting of the Thirteen Factories in Guangzhou By Unknown Chinese artist Source Wikimedia | MR Online

    Marx’s writings on Asia: A sober assessment

    Originally published: Liberation School on September 15, 2022 (more by Liberation School)  |

    Throughout most of recorded history, Asia has been the wealthiest region in the world.

  • | Walter Rodney | MR Online

    Walter Rodney: A people’s professor

    Originally published: Liberation School on August 1, 2022 by Curry Malott and Elgin Bailey (more by Liberation School)  | (Posted Aug 11, 2022)

    Rodney’s most recent, posthumously-published text, The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World, offers an important perspective on the time period in which it was written and the internal position of the author. Rodney’s family worked with Robin Kelley in taking Walter’s extensive lecture notes on the Russian revolutionary era and forming them into a complete manuscript.

  • | Photo Black representatives during Reconstruction Source Wikicommons | MR Online

    Toward a third Reconstruction: Lessons from the past for a socialist future

    Originally published: Liberation School on March 17, 2022 by Eugene Puryear (more by Liberation School)  | (Posted Mar 19, 2022)

    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 classes for the “rescue…and reconstruction of a social world.”

  • | George Jacksons Blood In My Eye | MR Online

    George Jackson’s “Blood in my eye:” A critical appraisal

    Originally published: Liberation School on Febrauary 1, 2022 by Curry Malott, Randall Scott, and Elgin Bailey (more by Liberation School)  | (Posted Feb 03, 2022)

    Originally from Chicago, Ill, George L. Jackson grew up in California. In 1961, a young Jackson convicted of armed robbery for allegedly stealing $70 from a gas station. Outrageously, Jackson was sentenced to one year to life, despite assurances from his attorney of a favorable deal if he plead guilty.

  • | Wen Tiejun right and Samir Amin at Southwest University China 2012 | MR Online

    “Ten crises: The political economy of China’s development,” by Wen Tiejun

    Originally published: Liberation School on November 30, 2021 (more by Liberation School)  |

    Wen’s vision is of a China which would be increasingly self-reliant, delinking from the American dominated global capitalism and developing its own key technologies and productive capacities, while at the same time continuing to engage with other emerging economies which share a desire to be free of Western neo-imperial control.

  • | Darwin Peacock Maklaan | MR Online

    The base-superstructure: a model for analysis and action

    Originally published: Liberation School on November 22, 2021 by Derek Ford (more by Liberation School)  | (Posted Nov 29, 2021)

    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.

  • | Mumia Abu Jamal | MR Online

    Mumia Abu-Jamal: Militant journalism from behind enemy lines

    Originally published: Liberation School on October 20, 2021 by Curry Malott, Elgin Bailey, and Randall Scott (more by Liberation School)  | (Posted Oct 23, 2021)

    Mumia Abu-Jamal has spent nearly 40 years unjustly imprisoned after he was framed and convicted of killing a white police officer in Philadelphia.

  • | Comparison of Africa in the years 1880 and 1913 during the Scramble for Africa Photo Wikicommons | MR Online

    What is imperialism? An introduction

    Originally published: Liberation School on September 20, 2021 by Summer Pappachen (more by Liberation School)  | (Posted Oct 04, 2021)

    Imperialism began when the colonizing powers had already divided the world between themselves. The only way to expand from that point on was to re-divide the colonial territories, which inevitably meant war. Such redivisions were at the roots of the First and Second World Wars.

  • | Paulo Freire | MR Online

    Paulo Freire’s centennial: Political pedagogy for revolutionary organizations

    Originally published: Liberation School on September 17, 2021 by Derek Ford (more by Liberation School)  | (Posted Sep 21, 2021)

    All revolutionary processes are educational.

  • | Vaccination of youth in Cuba | MR Online

    Cuba: The first country in the world to vaccinate children under 12

    Originally published: Liberation School on September 3, 2021 by Gloria La Riva (more by Liberation School)  | (Posted Sep 08, 2021)

    Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel announced Aug. 31–in a special meeting of scientists and health professionals–that by November, 92.6% of Cuba’s entire population will be fully vaccinated with the three-shot process.

  • | Amílcar Cabral painting in Bafatá | MR Online

    How Amilcar Cabral shaped Paulo Freire’s pedagogy

    Originally published: Liberation School on January 20, 2021 by Curry Malott (more by Liberation School)  | (Posted Sep 03, 2021)

    Frantz Fanon’s influence on Paulo Freire’s thought is well known, but the Brazilian educator also drew considerably from Amílcar Cabral, the revolutionary intellectual from Guinea-Bissau.

  • | Assata Shakur | MR Online

    Assata Shakur: The making of a revolutionary woman

    Originally published: Liberation School on August 23, 2021 by Rachel Domond (more by Liberation School)  | (Posted Aug 31, 2021)

    From Assata’s story, we are able to learn what it means to be motivated by a deep love for the people and the struggle for freedom—and what it means to embody a determined and unbreakable spirit in the face of crackdowns and government repression designed to stifle and destroy the movement.

  • | Shimbashi Factory of the Japan National Railways The Machinery Hall From the Meiji Mura village museum Japan Source Wikicommons | MR Online

    Relative surplus value: The class struggle intensifies

    Originally published: Liberation School on August 18, 2021 by Mazda Majidi (more by Liberation School)  | (Posted Aug 19, 2021)

    For any working period—whether it be a day, an hour, or five minutes—part of the period is “necessary labor” and another part is “surplus labor.”

  • | Amílcar Cabral painting in Bafatá | MR Online

    Amílcar Cabral: Liberator, theorist, and educator

    Originally published: Liberation School on January 20, 2021 by Curry Marlott (more by Liberation School)  | (Posted Jul 20, 2021)

    Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral was born September 12, 1924 in Bafatá, Guinea-Bissau, one of Portugal’s African colonies. On January 20, 1973–48 years ago today–Cabral was murdered by fascist Portuguese assassins just months before the national liberation movement in which he played a central role won the independence of Guinea-Bissau.

  • | Vygotsky Book | MR Online

    Vygotsky’s revolutionary educational psychology

    Originally published: Liberation School on March 9, 2021 by Curry Malott (more by Liberation School)  | (Posted Jul 16, 2021)

    Vygotsky’s revolutionary theory of development is one that recognizes the many forms of capacity, intelligence, and potential in all beings.

  • | Citizens celebrate CPCs 100th annivesary Photo Yang Hui Global Times | MR Online

    The CPC 100 years on: Understanding China’s contemporary political economy

    Originally published: Liberation School on July 1, 2021 (more by Liberation School)  |

    Today, July 1, 2021, is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. Celebrations throughout China and commemorations worldwide are taking place today in recognition of the Party’s leadership and its incredible legacy.

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