Liberation Audio Podcast
1) 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 why their home is so cold, he tells her they don’t ...Show More
2) 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 1949. We would like to thank Bruno Jaffré and the ed...Show More
3) 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 single issue stands out after the economy,” with al...Show More
4) 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 a certain group can understand. While the contradi...Show More
5) 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 resided in cities instead of rural areas. Because of th...Show More
6) 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 appeal. On March 18, The Cape Verde Supreme Court a...Show More
Extradition of Alex Saab: U.S. takes effort to starve Venezuelans to new lows
08:39 | Oct 18th, 2023
7) 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 left. Attention to debates over what it means to be a...Show More
8) 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 Liberation Movement and the Indian Freedom Struggle, L...Show More
Liu Liangmo: China’s anti-imperialist, anti-racist, Christian revolutionary (pt. 2)
24:31 | Aug 26th, 2023
9) 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...Show More
Liu Liangmo: China’s anti-imperialist, anti-racist, Christian revolutionary (pt. 1)
30:06 | Aug 22nd, 2023
10) 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...Show More