A sharp analysis of the struggle for Palestine--from the division of the Middle East by Western powers and the Zionist settler movement, to the founding of Israel and its role as a watchdog for US interests, to present day conflicts and the prospects for a just resolution. The narrative is firmly rooted in the politics of Palestinian liberation. Here is a neccesary contribution to the heroic efforts of the Palestinian people to achieve justice in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.This book contains a complete index and a timeline of developments in the history of Palestine.

Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire

Politics & Social Sciences

Becker, Richard

Politics & Government

PSL Publications

Socialism and Liberation in the United States is a handbook for understanding the world we live in, and a guide on how to make meaningful change based on workers’ power over the corporate elite and their capitalist system of exploitation.It outlines the basic political and ideological positions of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a revolutionary Marxist party in the United States. The book describes the basis for a united, working-class struggle against imperialism, a system that imperils the lives and livelihoods of the majority of people in the United States and across the globe. Socialism and Liberation in the United States envisions a socialist future based upon principles of workers’ democracy, cooperation, equality, solidarity and sustainability. It argues that the workers who produce all of society’s wealth should own and control it.“The capitalist system has proven to be incapable of meeting the needs of the people—even in the richest capitalist country in history. For the people and planet to live, capitalism must go.” —The Program of the PSL

Socialism and Liberation in the United States: What we are fighting for

Socialism and Liberation, Party for

Wisconsin: From the Front Lines of the Labor Battle

Business & Money

Economics

Richard Becker reveals that democracy in the United States is a myth, that it is the richest shareholders of the global banking conglomerates and other giant corporations that rule over the 99%. These banks were called "too big to fail" in 2008, but today have amassed even greater wealth through bailouts and mergers. Their greedy and predatory practices have resulted in millions unemployed and millions in foreclosure, while they amass record profits and pay out huge bonuses.The case is made for seizing the banks. Not the money of individual depositors, but rather the accumulated super profits that have enabled them to become a critical lever of the modern economy and its political superstructure.In their place could be a People's Bank, publicly owned with a democratically elected leadership. This new entity could then wield its power not for the rule of a tiny clique of bankers and other capitalists, but for the rule of the majority.

The myth of democracy and the rule of the banks

Richard Becker

Following the U.S. invasion of Iraq, why did the United States target governments in Libya and Syria for destruction? Why did some "socialists" support these so-called revolutions that were backed by the Pentagon and NATO? Can the Pentagon ever play a progressive role?Brian Becker and Mazda Majidi make a unique contribution to the debate in Socialists and War. This timely piece answers important questions from a truly socialist perspective. Socialists and war: two opposing trends tackles the issues through current events and historical analysis. Given that wars waged by the United States and NATO are a dominant feature of the contemporary era, this book could not be more important for those who seek to replace the current capitalist and imperialist world order with a new social system, one that is free from the scourge of militarism and endless war.

Socialists and war: Two opposing trends

Mazda Majidi

Brian Becker

Dan Glazebrook

Shackled and Chained, Mass Incarceration in Captalist America is a thorough examination of mass incarceration, its causes and consequences. Eugene Puryear examines the evolution of mass incarceration as a product of the exigencies of U.S. monopoly capitalism as well as bipartisan political fealty to the system’s needs. In addition to detailing its historical origins, Puryear provides a detailed examination of the oppressive reality that reigns inside America’s prison system. This book is a must read for anyone interested in the “how” and “why” of mass incarceration as well as for those seeking a factual account of what it is truly like “inside.”

Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America

Puryear, Eugene

China: Revolution and Counterrevolution features analysis of the Chinese Revolution, the present Chinese economy, the trend towards capitalist restoration and how socialists inside the United States can lend their support to the people of China. China: revolution and counterrevolution is a unique contribution to the left, using a Marxist analysis to identify political and social trends in China 30 years after the introduction of capitalist market reforms.“The 1949 Chinese Revolution placed China squarely on the path toward socialist development. While elements of that revolution remain, the country and the ruling social order have dynamically moved toward the restoration of capitalist property relations.It is our assertion that if the overthrow of the Communist Party of China were carried out by forces of domestic counterrevolution—forces that would be vigorously supported by U.S. imperialism—it would represent a historic setback for China.”—China: revolution and counterrevolution“China: revolution and counterrevolution is a timely short history of modern China that captures all the essential achievements and challenges facing Chinese socialism today. This book captures the drama and excitement of China’s success, the dangers inherent in market socialism, and the contradictions of building a new society in the world’s biggest developing country.”—David Ewing, U.S.-China Peoples Friendship Association, San FranciscoTable of ContentsI. Overview: What do socialists defend in China today? II. China today -- Capitalism and socialism in China -- Is China's foreign policy of appeasement sustainable? -- Independent development vs. imperialist domination -- Behind U.S. smears against China -- Tibet, imperialism, and self-determination -- Tiananmen Square and the threat of counterrevolutionIII. China and socialism -- Lenin and the NEP: Can market methods build socialism? -- China's 'socialist market economy' -- An appeal from within the CPC: 'Precarious is China's socialism!' IV. China's revolutionary legacy -- The Red Army: a new kind of military -- The contributions of Mao Zedong -- The Sino-Soviet split -- Phases of China's socialist revolutionAppendix: PSL Resolution on China

China: Revolution and Counterrevolution

La Riva, Gloria

Becker, Brian

Sloan, Sarah

Posing the question “Why socialism?” today is not dispassionate or academic. The starting point is that for millions of people in the United States and around the world—for the vast majority, in fact—this capitalist system is not working.Why Socialism? It is a question that takes on greater urgency with every passing day in the United States and around the world. This book takes for granted that revolutionary change is needed. In that sense, the starting points for this discussion are the Pentagon’s rule over oppressed people in other countries, mass incarceration and racist police murder here in the United States, and an economic system based on greed and exploitation. The Party for Socialism and Liberation was founded for this purpose: to intervene in a world struggle between the exploiters and the exploited. It is for the liberation of the majority—the workers and oppressed. It is for our future. To build a new society based on cooperation and revolutionary ideology to root out the scourges of capitalism: racism, war and injustice. If this is the type of future you envision, read this book.

Why Socialism?

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