Reading List

Liberation Caucus has a list of things that we believe will help deepen comrades' understanding of what socialism is, and what we are fighting for! Follow us to keep up to date with study groups and other theoretical offerings to help improve your knowledge!

Communist Party of India (Maoist):

Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Basic Course

Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement

Urban Perspective

Communist Party of the Philippines:

Activist Study

Rectify Errors And Rebuild the Party

Reaffirm Our Basic Principles and Rectify Errors

The Black Panther Party:

Blood In My Eye

Soldedad Brother

Black Against Empire

The Black Panthers Speak

Revolutionary Suicide (Huey P. Newton)

My People Are Rising (Aaron Dixon)

Decolonial/Anti-Colonial Literature:

Discourse on Colonialism

Decolonial Marxism

The Wretched of the Earth

J. Sakai:

When Race Burns Class

Settlers

Basic Politics of Movement Security

Malcolm X: 

Autobiography of Malcolm X

The Ballot or the Bullet

Message to the Grassroots

The New Afrikan (Black American) Civil Rights/National Liberation Movement:

Negroes with Guns

That Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed

Mao Zedong:

Five Essays on Philosophy 

  • On Practice
  • On Contradiction
  • On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People
  • Speech At The Chinese Communist Party’s National Conference On Propaganda Work
  • Where Do Correct Ideas Come From?

Writings on Organization & Mass Line 

  • On Correcting Mistaken Ideas in the Party
  • Combat Liberalism
  • Reform Our Study
  • Rectify The Party’s Style of Work
  • Oppose Stereotyped Party Writing
  • Some Questions Concerning Methods of Leadership
  • Get Organized!
  • Combat Bureaucracy, Commandism, and Violations of the Law and of Discipline
  • Combat Bourgeois Ideas in the Party
  • Some Experiences in Our Party’s History
  • A Dialectical Approach to Inner-Party Unity
  • Oppose Book Worship
  • On Opposing Bureaucracy

V. I. Lenin:

What Is to Be Done?

The State and Revolution

Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism

Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels:

Manifesto of the Communist Party & Principles of Communism

Critique of the Gotha Programme

Wage Labour and Capital & Wages, Price and Profit

The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

The Holy Family

The German Ideology

Anti-Dühring

The Housing Question


Robert Biel:

Eurocentrism and the Communist Movement

J. Moufawad-Paul:

This Ruthless Criticism of All That Exists: Marxism As Science

The Communist Necessity: Prolegomena to Any Future Radical Theory

Continuity and Rupture: Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain

Demarcation and Demystification: Philosophy and its Limits

Critique of Maoist Reason

Politics In Command: A Taxonomy on Economism

Pao Yu Ching: 

From Victory to Defeat

Rethinking Socialism

Torkil Lauesen:

The Principal Contradiction